Voice of Nonconformity

With degrees from London Bible College and London School of Theology, Keith Ives' main career was in Education, teaching in secondary schools, until he took early retirement in 1997 and became the Pastor of Emerson Park Evangelical church in 2000. After resigning in 2004 his main focus has been travelling and preaching abroad.

• 1.CHILDHOOD IN MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY ABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND: 1851-1870.2.MINISTERIAL TRAINING AND MINISTRIAL CAREER IN THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND: 1870-1885.3.NICOLL AS A JOURNALIST AND EDITOR AT HODDER & STOUGHTON.4.NICOLL BECOMES ESTABLISHED IN ENGLAND AND HIS HALCYON YEARS: 1885-1914.5.NICOLL: RELATIONSHIPS WITH CHURCH FRIENDS AND PERSONALITIES - Some English Connections, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Robert F Horton, Joseph Parker, John Clifford, John Henry Jowett, Arthur Samuel Peake, R J Campbell.6. NICOLL: RELATIONSHIP WITH CHURCH FRIENDS AND PERSONALITIES - Some Scottish Connections: A B Davidson, Alexander Whyte, Marcus Dods, Henry Drummond, Alexander Maclaren, James Denney, James Stalker, P T Forsyth, George Adam Smith, David Smith, James Moffatt.7. NICOLL: CULTURE and BIOGRAPHY, THE BOOKMAN and 'CLAUDIUS CLEAR'.8. NICOLL: PREACHING AND APOLOGETICS.9. NICOLL: POLITICS, THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE PEACE: 1899 - 1920.10. NICOLL THE MAN AND HIS FINAL YEARS: 1920 -1923.11.SUMMARY, OVERVIEW and ASSESSMENTS.Appendixes.Bibliography

Ive's book is based on extensive archival research and captures the multifaceted nature of Nicoll's contributions [...] Keith Ives has given us a well-written, balanced and engaging biography, which is especially good on the context of the Nonconformist conscience. As Ives demonstrates, Nicoll's efforts to bring Nonconformity into the cultural mainstream of British life contributed to the waning of a distinctive Nonconformist identity and may have ultimately diminished religious influence.