John Knox / Jane Dawson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dawson, Jane E. A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knox, John, approximately--1514-1572.

Knox, John.

Presbyterians--Scotland--Biography.

Presbyterians.

Theologians--Scotland--Biography.

Theologians.

Reformation--Scotland.

Reformation.

Scotland--Church history--16th century.

Scotland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, [Connecticut] ; London, [England] : Yale University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jane Dawson has written the definitive life of John Knox, a leader of the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth-century Scotland. Based in large part on previously unavailable sources, including the recently discovered papers of Knox's close friend and colleague Christopher Goodman, Dawson's biography challenges the traditionally held stereotype of this founder of the Presbyterian denomination as a strident and misogynist religious reformer whose influence rarely extended beyond Scotland. She maintains instead that John Knox relied heavily on the support of his 'godly sisters' and conferred as well as argued with Mary, Queen of Scots.

Contents:

""Cover page""; ""Halftitle page""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations and maps""; ""Maps""; ""Preface and acknowledgements""; ""chapter one Rare and wonderful gifts""; ""23 May 1557, Geneva""; ""Sources""; ""chapter two Tinoterius: The man from the banks of the Tyne""; ""God who from my youth has provided""; ""An oracle in matters of religion""; ""Minister of the altar in the archdiocese of St Andrews""; ""chapter three My first anchor""; ""Taste of the truth""; ""John 17""; ""Master George""; ""The blessed martyr of God""; ""The kindness of God""

""chapter four Called by my God""""That bloody wolf the Cardinal""; ""In the name of God""; ""Feed my sheep""; ""That Babylonian harlot""; ""The same purity that now it is ministered in the churches of Scotland""; ""chapter five The realm of England""; ""Knox the FORSARE""; ""Rude boldness to your faces""; ""The family of Scots""; ""This is the first letter that ever I sent you""; ""Beloved Mother""; ""chapter six Why held we back the salt?""; ""Sitting at the Lord�s Table""; ""Neither grateful nor capable of being pleased""; ""The liberty of the preachers� tongues""

""God shall guide the footsteps of him that is wilsome""""An answer given to a certain Scotsman""; ""chapter seven A farrago of ceremonies""; ""The English congregation assembled at Frankfurt""; ""The brethren of the purity""; ""The face of an English church""; ""Horrible calumnies""; ""With a troubled heart""; ""chapter eight Double cares""; ""Their fervency does so ravish me""; ""Lady Mary Dowager, Regent of Scotland""; ""That complete union of mind""; ""Our miserable country of England""; ""chapter nine Pierced with anguish and sorrow""; ""The fearful cross of Christ""; ""Grave men weep""

""To maintain, set forward, and establish the most blessed word of God""""Beloved Brother""; ""The Trumpet has once blown""; ""chapter ten Quietness of conscience and contentment of heart""; ""Have mercy, God""; ""The example of Geneva""; ""You may provide true teachers for yourselves""; ""Give ear therefore betimes, O Britain""; ""chapter eleven England, in refusing me, refused a friend""; ""The terrible Blast of the Trumpet""; ""Satan�s bloody claws""; ""chapter twelve Restorer of the Gospel among the Scots""; ""Monuments of idolatry""; ""This common cause""; ""Too extreme""

""Thy wondrous works late wrought in our eyes""""chapter thirteen Churching it like a Scythian""; ""The people to be orderers of things""; ""Face of a perfect reformed kirk""; ""Bear the barrow to build the houses of God""; ""The order of Ecclesiastical Discipline""; ""No small heaviness""; ""The wordlings refused""; ""chapter fourteen Sorrow, dolour, darkness and all impiety""; ""To put in execution God�s judgements""; ""My subjects shall obey you, and not me""; ""My lord Arran and my lord Bothwell are agreed now""; ""Painful preacher of his blessed Evangel""

""Of a grave behaviour, sincere, inclining to no faction""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-300-21418-9

OCLC:

905902892