The Booke of the Universall Kirk of Scotland

In 1560, Scotland severed its ties with Rome and embarked on one of the most dramatic religious transformations in European history. This volume preserves the foundational documents of that revolution - the acts, proceedings, and determinations of the newly established Reformed Church of Scotland, spanning from the explosive first Parliament of the Reformation through the turbulent decades that followed. Here readers encounter the original records of a church inventing itself in real time, debating doctrine, establishing governance, and forging an identity that would shape Scottish life for centuries. The assembly minutes reveal not merely procedural business but the intellectual and spiritual battles waged by Knox, Craig, and their contemporaries as they constructed a distinctly Scottish Protestantism. For historians of religion, scholars of the Reformation, and anyone drawn to the raw material of how revolutions unfold, these pages offer something rare: direct access to the moment when Scotland's ecclesiastical destiny was decided.