DATE THAT CHANGED SCOTLAND: John Knox and the Scottish reformation:The John Knox Presbyterian church

[@nicksmart5469]

Always loved Knox theology. Never realised his full impact

[@joanr3189]

John Knox Presbyterian Church in Montreal. I was baptised there in 1941. I never understood the significance of my place in Knoxian (can I say this?) cultural history until I passed by his statue by chance in Edinburgh, and then discovered these videos about this fascinating man and his contribution to literacy. Incidentally, also, my grandfather sang tenor in the KPChurch in BlairGowrie in the early 1900s and it is his voice That I have in my head. He was literate, a socialist, atheist, supported the labour movement in Manitoba. See how these Scots spread their influence! This is a great space - it doesnt matter if anyone reads this, but it lets me make some connections. 💡

[@gymynycricket1722]

Great Scot

[@nathanverzinskie9582]

I'm a descendant of John Knox

[@johnharrison8857]

@@joanr3189 loved your comment…what a wonderful connection to John Knox, the greatest Scot ever as far as his contribution to his country goes…..a school and church in every parish, with the same building being used for spiritual and secular activities….what a vision and what a masterstroke….and his vision was fulfilled….God Bless you, Joan….by the way, Joan is a Derivative of Jean which is the female equivalent of John….and John means “God is Gracious.”

[@joanr3189]

“A few protestant martyrs later…”. Blink, and you miss these throwaways! Love these history talks.

[@FFGG22E]

That was great

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Ah thanks

[@joanr3189]

Your enthusiasm is infectious ❤️

[@OkieJammer2736]

Have been binge watching your great videos. WHAT a resource you are for not just Scotland's history, but America's too.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Please share them with folks you think will be.interested

[@SeaAngMo23]

you make me proud to be Scottish!

[@maryamkhan6308]

I am live in Scotland dundee ❤️🌹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@harbingersociety3286]

I'm so please I happened across your videos. I've learned so much from you and (from one author to another) you have an excellent way of storytelling. Thank you so much for sharing your passion!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Ah thanks

[@TheAdventuringFoodie]

Another great video! I wish we would have connected when we were last in Scotland (September 2019). When we return, I’d love to engage your services! Anyway, an anecdote involving John Knox - I talked to my daughter about his life recently and mentioned one of his quotes. She quickly replied, “Didn’t he marry a 16-year-old?” You’ve got to love forcing a 21st-century worldview on a 16th-century world changer.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Aye I'm guessing males and females might have different perspectives right enough

[@davidpaterson2309]

In Scotland, 16 is still the legal age of consent and minimum marriage age (Scotland has never had a provision for parental consent). And as average life expectancy in those days was somewhere in the late 20s/early 30s (very much dependent on class/occupation) a 16 year old was definitely considered an adult.

[@junestewart5098]

Another great video, thanks Bruce. Really enjoying these snapshots of our Scottish history and looking forward to watching many more. Once 'Lockdown' is over another guided tour is on my list of must do's !!!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

You're welcome. It's folk like you who keep me going. Keep supporting and keep spreading the word.

[@scottishpensioner2447]

Knox was truly the man who changed the world! Fantastic history Bruce! Thank you. It is so rare to hear the facts about Knox in modern Scotland. His ideas - his insistence that every child in Scotland must be able to read, that the people elected the ministers etc. were the first instantiation not just of universal literacy but of equal opportunity for everyone irrespective of wealth or status and the instantiation of meritocracy as an ideal. Knox only had daughters and his direct descendants were/are named Welsh (his son in law) and here is a a tidbit -Jane Welsh married Thomas Carlyle.

[@liampaterson3424]

Another interesting church with a strong Knoxian connection is St Mary's in Haddington (Knox's birthplace and where he was first trained as a priest).

[@stevenwheeler5324]

The changing of the bible from Italian 😉😆 was a game changer for Scotland.👍 I really enjoyed that!!👏👏

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Great to hear

[@thehistoricalcollaborator]

Your videos are wonderful, thank you

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Glad you like them!

[@andymullins84]

I recommend picking this up at the 5:00 minute mark. Then watch the whole thing over again. This was the right time for the right word that explains the Scottish Enlightenment born from our Lowland Scot culture. It affected the free world, especially the U.S. But to build a fire 🔥 you need more than a spark. Knox brought the spark and the oxygen. But the people who had descendants who fought with Wallace and Bruce were the burning materials. They embraced Knox's "read it for yourself" approach to religion and subsequently everything. This egalitarian, anybody-can-do-it approach created the environment for invention and ingenuity. Mr. Fumey, you have helped me understand alot of this. People will tell you you are not Scottish as they will tell me. I'm American with a Presbyterian background. I'm related to the Kirkpatricks, Maxwells and Alexanders. But at the end of the day, American. We live in a weird time where one political affiliation will insist you are people of c*lour. This is obvious, so? Then they will go about trying to tell you what that means. Lol. They won't realize the are talking to an independent Scotsman who refuses to be pigeon-holed. Lol! Thank you for all your hard work putting together these wonderful stories!

[@fayelawless2625]

"haha! you thought it was me! twas my reflection!" ooh this video is packed with some JUICY TIDBITS YOOO

[@grendel_nz]

Love your shirt too. Put those in your shop :)

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Ah, you'll have to go to Ghana for them

[@raibeartthehairypict4696]

I really enjoyed this one Bruce my man. Good auld ST Johnston. Who would've thought it? Capitalism, democracy, the enlightenment. We really are the bees knees pal. 👍

[@scottgemmell9311]

Brilliant mate yer a legend

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

You're too kind

[@sallycosten4539]

Bruce, absolutely loving these videos. Thank you so much.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Ah, yer a sweetie. Spread the word 😘

[@asignmaker]

I want to visit Scotland one day. But mainly to see where the Keith clan began live through the generation grave sites and some food. 😀👍🧩⚖️ Thanks Bruce again a great story. ✊

[@macdaiddavidson8051]

Love your lessons. I’d love to go back to Scotland. Someday I hope.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

You should!

[@ericrabinowitz6390]

Fascinating! So let me get this right ... the American Revolution actually began on 11 May 1559, and not on 18 April 1776, as I've been brought up to understand?

[@johnharrison8857]

Have you done a podcast on George Buchanan who was born in Dumgoyne near Killearn in 1506 Stirlingshire and studied Latin and Greek and spoke fluently in French and Gaelic and possibly Spanish andItalian, and was such a good teacher and tutor that Mary Queen of Scots hired him to tutor her son James who eventually had the King James Bible Version published….there is a huge memorial stone for Buchanan in Killearn Churchyard in the centre of the village…what an influence Buchanan had on the Protestant Reformation as he shared his faith in Christ with young James, right under the unsuspecting nose of his mother who was a devout Roman Catholic….please, if you have not done a podcast on George Buchanan, please do one as soon as possible….he died in 1582.

[@PatrickKniesler]

Amazing point in history. I would have that it had not have come to pass.

[@maryjobling6054]

Very interesting and great video

[@dynamitecity9667]

Loved Perth, played golf at the King James VI course too, which surprised me as It was an Island.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Moncrieffe Island for swimming in summer

[@service2204]

Excellent Bruce be giving it a visit soon

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Yay

[@mr.caretaker6086]

Fun historical fact John Knox also turned out to be David Tennant! - I've just watch Mary Queen of Scots haha. I presume Mr Knox's english accent comes from when he was in England hanging around little Edward VI??? :) Thanks for the Vid, another destination on the list...after the world opens up again that is.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Haha. A good answer sur

[@KevinHell]

No his accent became Anglicised when he was Dr Who.

[@annasaylor3566]

I used to go with an Edward Knox in 1975

[@Kwikfix747]

Great videos this guy knows his stuff

[@paultimlin2310]

Cheers Bruce...I wonder why we were never taught any of this in school. I remember the round heads and the cavaliers and the ford cortina of course

[@paullacey748]

Never been one for Cities but I have visited Scone Palace, that’s the nearest I got to Perth

[@hadleyscott1160]

Throop Memorial Presbyterian in NYC where I was baptized and confirmed. But I learned more today.

[@kerrwintersgill]

excellent video - thank you!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thank you, you're kind. It's always an encouragement to get a wee comment.

[@janetmackinnon3411]

Stirring! Thank you.

[@randysandford4033]

Bruce is the BEST! Are there any videos regarding Knox's "debates" with Mary QOS?

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Sorry no, but that is an idea

[@AliceMarieM]

Someone should make a period drama about the Scottish Parliament of 1560, so crucial to history, not just Scottish, but American. Really set the precedent for 1776.

[@dianecheney4141]

I really liked the Mary Queen of Scots but John Knox is a masterpiece

[@saltnessmonster]

Sad Reid’s no longer exists the bacon roll was banging. John Knox was an interesting figure, from a slave to a leader.

[@bobblues1158]

WOW!

[@damogranheart5521]

Years ago, my father had a co-worker named Priest Knox. I always wondered about that name. He helped put out my dad when his pants caught fire as he was walking down the hall. It was my fault entirely!

[@oddfellow831]

Where did you get that shirt? Man, I love that.

[@jamesmatthew7557]

We are such a bloody small country, aren't we, maybe those Americans are right to ask if we know their distant relatives ... we probably had a drink with them in a pub at least once! We're of an age, and I remember visiting my 'great uncle' as a child, at least on one occasion at his place of work, St. John's Kirk, where he was (or recently had been) the Minister.

[@whoarewe7515]

Only one episode left to watch.

[@raymondfink9580]

Bruce, he has a fort named after him in Kentucky! 😂 where they hide all the gold! 😂

[@raydavison4288]

We also have a Knox County in Kentucky.

[@nokulungamkhize1763]

Oh this is the Fort Knox people always make reference to when they speak of how heavily guarded it is. I thought it was a prison lol. Thank you Raymond.

[@edwinhughes6493]

Fort Knox is named for Henry Knox not John Knox.

[@mikedolberry3043]

@@edwinhughes6493 Yes, the first Secretary of War. John had a more balanced use for money.

[@LadyMiriamVera]

Though I admire the work Knox has done for our modern day worship I have to say he was not a perfect person as none of us are. Flawed, as we all are, the lack of respect he showed to an anointed sovereign, because she was a woman, leads me to believe that the only parts of scripture he paid attention to was that no one was better than any other, in God’s eyes, we are all on the same level. Scripture teaches that an anointed sovereign is to be respected and not harmed and so far from all I’ve heard and read concerning this man, this knowledge alludes him. We can disagree with people without being disrespectful to them and as we, even now, learn what scripture actually says about how we are to conduct ourselves through life. I am grateful for all the things we have come to know through this man but I have to, as it is said, take the juice and spit out the pits, of what has been taught through actions. Let’s stick to the written word in the context of which it was written and we will be fine I think. Great 👍🏻 show today, thank you.

[@heatherheron-speirs8727]

Very interesting. A lot of Scots migrated to New Zealand (including my forebares) and the culture here is arguably the most egalitarian in the world. First country to give women the vote, for example. I personally feel Scottish values were hugely integrated here, and they tended to align relatively well with Maori too, leadingto intermarriage. Literacy and democracy are all about egalitarianism. Go the Scots! And thanks so much for this video.

[@jerishamm8759]

Don't forget Knoxville, TN

[@mrsuperger5429]

John Knox, Scotland's greatest son. No Reformation means no Scottish Enlightenment. His statue should be adorned in every town and city in Scotland.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Maybe a wee bit overstated, but here's a video along those lines kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGq1lq2qZdBoaqc

[@mrsuperger5429]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Thank you. It looks great.

[@waynekerrgoodstyle]

Near the end of this video you mentioned North Inch, is this where The Battle of North Inch took place?

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I think this is what you're looking for kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKvGpImOo5ySsNU

[@waynekerrgoodstyle]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Well I wasnae expecting that. lol Thanks again. :-)

[@jphnrogers7703]

There is a book called "How the Scots invented the modern world". It seems to me that with all the technology that you use to present these wonderful videos ,it might be time to do homage to James Klerk Maxwell.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

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[@jphnrogers7703]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours So much for me to try to get one by a canny Scot.

[@georgejob2156]

Read Sir Thomas Devine,s many books, ultimate authority on Scottish and Irish history .. in particular " The Scottish Nation"

[@KevinHell]

When I think of John Knox I think of Pastor Jack Glass who was outraged by........well almost everything in the 70's. Famously pickited outside every Billy Connolly gig in Scotland claiming blasphemy.

[@Thewolverine0865]

Growing up within the Catholic school system, we were always told negative things about Knox.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Aye, and I notice the other side harangue me about Mary Queen of Scots. Jus think what it must have been like at the time

[@georgejob2156]

Of course you were he was Rome's bete noir.

[@Justsomebody009]

Ok this will sound weird but I’ve always had a huge connection with Mary queen of Scots. Learning about her made me fall in love with history. But it’s like I feel like I was there. Anyway I can’t stand John Knox. I try and like him because of how he changed Scotland but I literally can’t. My destine for him is also something I cannot explain idk it was like I was there

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

You don't gave to like the man. It's just interesting how the country developed

[@georgejob2156]

Glasgow cathedral 1560 first General Assembly of The Church of Scotland.

[@par576]

Now I'm not sure about the prominence of St John's Kirk over Roslyn Chapel but you tell a good yarn. John Knox v Sinclair?

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Roslin more beautiful, but much less significant

[@par576]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours But which has the Holy Grail?

[@Slamb68]

Do you still do tours?

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I do when I can fit them in

[@bazermaggie]

You wanted a dirty secret about Knox ....... not only did he have an English accent .... he was a Dundee fan too 😇

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Nooooooooooo!

[@johnlee5423]

Knox was the Keith Richards of his day magnificent party animal

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

😂

[@stephenblues7182]

11th May , Gothenburg day .... Stand Free

[@David-ho6mu]

nicely done. Great to see you in the real Peyrth as well as the fake one they call Purrth. Saw you said G’day to WA. Did you do any more vids in Straya? Saw two in Nuzilind

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I'm sure you'll make it through to them. It's like you've snorted a big bag of coke and gone on a mental video cul😂🤪

[@davidmbrown4251]

That’s EXACTLY what ive done.

[@davidmbrown4251]

I’m lovin them. You’re doing what I’d love to do. But you do it better mate.

[@jerimypaulspencer9440]

I think Calvinism and John Knox helped to push some of the final nails in the coffin of Celtic Christianity. That and the highland clearances brought about the twilight of what began with St. Patrick.

[@littlejimmy5020]

I always wondered where st Johnston played their football

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Is that a piss take?

[@littlejimmy5020]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours nope genuinely had no idea

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Every day's a school day with Scotland History Tours

[@wonjubhoy]

You would have found out this year anyway. St Johnstone won both the league cup and Scottish Cup this year. That put Perth on the map.

[@littlejimmy5020]

@@wonjubhoy I'm not a big follower of Scottish football :)

[@TayebMC]

"Its open and staffed by volunteers during the summertime", so its open for 1 week then.

[@eugenesullivan]

'First literate people' In what language? English, Gaelic or Scots?

[@WDwyer]

Did John Knox not marry a 13 year old girl when he was quite old-“for the sake of formation of her character”? My Mother said that.

[@WDwyer]

@Rory Mann She was 17-my mistake. He was 54.

[@ksmith7122]

"henry viii was an ancestor or harvey weinstein" lol

[@jackfullerton5762]

How about a nice discrete lapel mic for ye?

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Got one

[@helenswan705]

I confess - yes I confess!!! - I dont understand the distinctions between the many divisions of the Protestant church. Astonishing really when you think how recent it is. presbyterians? Free Church? Lutheran? methodist? United Free? so help me god

[@fearthekilt]

I wish my University had offered a class in Scottish history. I took 16th century European history. I took 20th century modern history. I took the Age of discovery. I took ancient history. I took European colonialism. I took Russian history. All that but not one class about the Lads and Lassies that invented everything. I mean seriously...

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Whadya do?

[@davidmcclymont6326]

Scotland would be a totally different country if the might and papeish fuckers from Rome had there way God bless John Knox a proud man who stood up for his beliefs and paved the way for Scottish Protestants til this very day oh and yes he is buried in a car park next to Saint Giles cathedral in Edinburgh royal mile, There should be a statue of the man but no ! God bless you and keep you brother John

[@jonmatthews4254]

What's worse, you having a Scottish accent when you are English or John Knox having and English accent but being a Scot?

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Both sound horrific

[@dianecheney4141]

Presbyterian churches in the US are the place you go on Sunday morning to pretend you don’t have a hang over and the place you go to for picnics that are really drinking contests

[@tibulcain4904]

Young boy dropped an f bomb and a pub brawl broke out at church 😂😂😂😂 "exclamation of indignation"

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

It's an old tale, oft repeated in churches up and down the country to this day

[@TheOriginalJAX]

Refrigeration.... That's a big one.

[@michaelkallaur7073]

whats your problem wi scepticism, man.

[@Carol-ug6nn]

A correction to your printed captions - Scotland was the first literate, not illiterate Protestant country.

[@BoadiceanRevenge]

I dont think John Knox liked wummin' very much! 🤔

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

A Monstrous Regiment

[@melvynmcminn9121]

No...not the first...Israel, the Jews were...sorry

[@2realtruthbritton]

Yes, true! John Knox spoke of the seed of Abraham. Here is a clip from the book, The Great Controversy 1888 edition on the topic. Hope it's not too long...found it fascinating: John Knox had turned away from the traditions and mysticisms of the church... When brought face to face with the queen of Scotland, in whose presence the zeal of many a leader of the Protestants had abated, John Knox bore unswerving witness for the truth. He was not to be won by caresses; he quailed not before threats. The queen charged him with heresy. He had taught the people to receive a religion prohibited by the State, she declared, and had thus transgressed God's command enjoining subjects to obey their princes. Knox answered firmly:- "As right religion received neither its origin nor its authority from princes, but from the eternal God alone, so are not subjects bound to frame their religion according to the tastes of their princes. For oft it is that princes, of all others, are the most ignorant of God's true religion. If all the seed of Abraham had been of the religion of Pharaoh, whose subjects they long were, I pray you, madam, what religion would there have been in the world? And if all in the days of the apostles had been of the religion of the Roman emperors, I pray you, madam, what religion would there have been now upon the earth? ... And so, madam, you may perceive that subjects are not bound to the religion of their princes, although they are commanded to give them reverence." Said Mary, "You interpret the Scripture in one way, and they the Romish teachers interpret it in another; whom shall I believe, and who shall be judge?" "You shall believe God, who plainly speaketh in his Word," answered the reformer; "and farther than the Word teaches you, ye shall believe neither the one nor the other. The Word of God is plain in itself, and if in any one place there be obscurity, the Holy Ghost, who never is contrary to himself, explains the same more clearly in other places, so that there can remain no doubt but unto such as are obstinately ignorant." Such were the truths that the fearless reformer, at the peril of his life, spoke in the ear of royalty. With the same undaunted courage he kept to his purpose, praying and fighting the battles of the Lord, until Scotland was free from popery. GC88 250.2 - GC88 251.2

[@melvynmcminn9121]

@@2realtruthbritton absolutely spot on! Shows one what a good Calvanist can do!

[@2realtruthbritton]

@@melvynmcminn9121 He certainly stood for the Bible over the vain traditions of man!

[@melvynmcminn9121]

@@2realtruthbritton not bad; for an American Anglican Priest who is also a strict Calvinist! Your videos are superb sir! Thank you and may God richly bless you all and your families as well!

[@IlluminatiCheckerboardflooring]

May be a controversial take, but John Knox is the reason why Scotland is such an atheist nation today

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Not sure I understand that

[@williammackenzie6115]

Scotland is becoming an atheist nation because the Church of Scotland and others no longer follow God's word the way Knox and the reformers did.

[@shellc6743]

John Knox .. the Taliban of his time.