John Knox
Birthplace	in or near Haddington, East Lothian, Kingdom of Scotland
Died	Friday, November 24, 1572
Occupation	Pastor, author, reformer

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Knox, John

Born 1505 or circa 1514 near Haddington; died Nov. 24, 1572, in Edinburgh. Leader in the Reformation; founder of the Presbyterian Church in Scotland. Son of a peasant.

Knox was a priest in the 1530’s. In the 1540’s he began delivering sermons in the spirit of Protestantism. He spent the 1550’s abroad; for several years he lived in Geneva, where he became close friends with Calvin, under whose influence his Protestant views took final shape. After returning to Scotland in 1559, he preached Calvinism, which in 1560, by an act of the Scottish Parliament, was declared the state religion. In the 1560’s he became Edinburgh’s main preacher. His fanatic devotion to Calvinism and irreconcilability with Catholicism made him one of the most ardent opponents of the Catholic Scottish queen Mary Stuart. His public statements against Mary Stuart, despite theological externals, expressed antityrannical ideas and exerted an influence on the radical segment of the Scottish Calvinists and the English Independents. He wrote The History of the Reformation in Scotland (published posthumously, 1587).

WORKS

Works, vols. 1–6. Edinburgh, 1846–64.
The History of the Reformation in Scotland, vols. 1–2. London, 1949.

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