John Knox (D'Jara Culpepper)
John Knox was born at Haddington, Scotland in 1514 and
trained to be a theologian. Though most famous as a pioneer of Scottish
Reformation, Knox began as a devout priest of Roman Catholicism. Protestant
Thomas Guillame was appointed to preach around Scotland by the Regent Arran,
James Hamilton, making his and George Wishart’s reformer influence the most
likely factors in Knox’ conversion. After the events of Wishart’s execution for
heresy in 1546 and the murder of David Beacon, the cardinal responsible for the
arrest, John Knox became a Protestant preacher amongst Beacon’s murderers. He
became the chaplain for Edward VI of London in 1551, but it was short-lived, as
Catholic Mary Tudor—or Mary I of England—took the throne after Edward VI fell
under extensive illness. During Mary’s reign, Knox wrote several works that
condemned the Roman Church, including but not limited to his best-known work, History
of the Reformation of Religion within the Realm of Scotland, and his most infamous work, The
First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. Before
and during this time, Knox also came to believe fully in the teachings of John
Calvin, which came in handy when he fled Scotland in 1556 during Mary Stuart’s
reign, as he returned to Geneva as a pastor.
Sources:
Our class text, page
205
http://reformationhistory.org/johnknox.html
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