Monday, January 22, 2018

D'Jara on John Knox


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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