Scottish preacher and reformer whose ministry helped shape the Reformed Church in Scotland. His historical and confessional writings document the Scottish Reformation and its developing doctrine and church order.
Knox's defence, delivered at Newcastle on 4 April 1550 before the Council of the North and Bishop Tunstall, of his teaching that the Mass is idolatry, argued by two syllogisms from Scripture against worship devised by human beings.
The Scottish reformers’ program for doctrine, worship, ministry, education, poor relief, discipline, and church government is presented as a distinct corporate document.
John Knox’s four-book account of the Scottish Reformation combines eyewitness narrative, documents, and theological interpretation in Cuthbert Lennox’s 1905 edition.
The 1560 confession adopted by the Scottish Parliament presents twenty-five chapters on God, Christ, Scripture, the church, the sacraments, and civil authority.
