John Knox and the Reformation
Andrew Lang turns his formidable critical eye on one of history's most formidable firebrands: John Knox, the Scottish Reformation's iron-willed architect. Rather than producing hagiography or blanket condemnation, Lang excavates the man behind the myth, examining how Knox shaped and was shaped by the violent religious upheaval of sixteenth-century Scotland. The result is a provocative reexamination that questions the self-portraits Knox painted of himself, revealing a figure who was equal parts sincere reformer and ruthless political operator. Lang traces Knox's journey from obscure beginnings to become the unshakable antagonist of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the architect of Scotland's break with Rome. This is history written with the skepticism of a literary detective and the narrative urgency of a polemic, challenging readers to question what we think we know about the men who forged modern nations through faith and force.
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“The enthusiasm which induced a priest, notary, and teacher like Knox to carry a claymore in defence of a beloved teacher, Wishart, seems more appropriate to a man of about thirty than a man of forty, and, so far, supports the opinion that, in 1545, Knox was only thirty years of age. ””
— Andrew Lang
“He loathes what he has left behind him, and it is natural to guess that, in his first years of priesthood, his religious nature slept; that he became a priest and notary merely that he “might eat a morsel of bread”; and that real “conviction” never was his till his studies of Protestant controversialists, and also of St. Augustine and the Bible, and the teaching of Wishart, raised him from a mundane life. ””
— Andrew Lang
“Knox could not fail to see what was so patent: many books of the German reformers may have come in his way; no more was wanted than the preaching of George Wishart in 1543-45, to make him an irreconcilable foe of the doctrine as well as the discipline of his Church.””
— Andrew Lang
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