28. John Knox and the Scottish Reformation (part 1)

The Scottish Reformation was triggered by the remarkable career of John Knox, a man trained as a priest, but who came to embrace the perspective of the Reformation through a combination of forces that would not only change his life, but the entire history of a nation. Many have tied the birth of modern democratic politics to his innovations, garnered from the mind of John Calvin, but implement through the power of personal courage, grit, and relentless determination to bring to life a new and better vision of human society and faith. This lecture introduces a three part treatment of Knox, and also briefly summarizes the reign of Elizabeth in England, and gives a very brief overview of Scottish history. For more free resources, please visit: www.brucegore.com.

[@wayneg7812]

Deeper even that this - Lord have Mercy. Thank you Mr. Bruce Gore.

[@rebanelson607]

HOW THE SCOTS INVENTED...WORLD is one of the best books I've ever read! This is the first time I've ever heard anyone mention it. These history videos are excellent!

[@cathymartinmcgoey3855]

Wonderful thanks

[@harryloudon4315]

Well ladies, I am a descendent of William Wallace, born in Bannockburn where King Robert Bruce beat the English in 1314. Thank you for these lectures Professor Gore.You talked so much about Mary, without mentioning Stirling Castle. Visiting there brings all these characters to life. I hope you have had the chance.

[@michaelkavanagh5947]

Ahh a Loudon. Yeah. I am a descendent of Wallaces Irish lieutenant. Both houses still exist and hold estates. I am assuming you live in Ayrshire. You assume I live in Leinster. Ahhh. Well met.

[@acpgiga]

Great teacher! Loved this, thanks!

[@scarba]

Yay, proud Scot here. 😊

[@artvesterdal5100]

Haven’t been in lectures as good as these since I attended Prov seminary in Canada 29 years ago. Thank you sir!

[@GoreBruce]

Thank you!

[@TK-qu1ht]

Bruce... Excellent session! I don't ever want to be a "Parrot" or "just share pious verses". You keep me on the Balance Beam of The Faith.

[@AaronMiller-rh7rj]

Re: Sunday school lesson, AMEN. You are a good example and help! I hope I am able to finish the good fight.

[@frankdsouza2425]

Mr Gore, I know little about you, though I am sure I will learn ☺️ in the course of watching the video to the end; I am only at the beginning. But looking through the viewers' Comments, may I applaud your taking the trouble to answer those Comments, wherever appropriate.

[@adamturner8732]

John Knox changed the world

[@joanr3189]

Baptized in Knox Crescent Church in the 1940s, raised atheist, socialist. Only realized recently the significance of JK. Your first-rate, clear introduction to the topic compels me to read further. 👏 thank you. Keep talking.

[@titicoqui]

bravo love great sermons first, great university lectures second. sometimes u even manage to have the 2 merge seamlessly

[@CathypFreeman]

Thank you for this lesson!!!

[@nickdmo]

John was my great x6 grandfather thank you for this

[@GoreBruce]

Wow! Royalty! Thanks for checking in!

[@willmcpherson2]

Great presentation

[@starbright127]

Thank you! Great video, I'm looking into my ancestry, this is a good source of material. I'm interested in church history, especially Scottish history.

[@dwaynedarockjohnson2023]

Same

[@jackohara8969]

Just a point - the image you've used for James IV is a portrait of James VI, a very different king!

[@dalemckinnon7823]

You have a wonderful grasp of rennaisance history. I have learned so much from your lessons. That is where we have a difference of opinion. I have always believed John Knox was a less than loveable person. I think he could have been more temperant to Mary Queen of Scots. Mary was a good person. She knew little of religion ouside of her Catholic background. Thrown into Scotland, she immediately ran afoul of her brother and John Knox. I have a romantic belief system when it comes to Mary.

[@kennymacdonald5313]

The Dauphine and his bride used to take a walk in the cool of the evening to peruse the hanged remains of French Huguenots. That's how lovely Mary Queen of Scots realy was. She was staggeringly arrogant to boot

[@scarba]

@@kennymacdonald5313 well they didn’t have Netflix then. 😂

[@TheModernHermeticist]

"Don't go over that wall, there be Mel Gibsons"

[@ccwpny]

Bruce Gore Love your teachings. Have gotten a lot from them. Have you ever read the Scottish Declaration of Independence? Very interesting document.

[@GoreBruce]

Thank you. I will follow up on that!

[@alexanderdumas1258]

can I get some prayers pls 🙏 I'm trying to get into a biblical college in sept this year in Glasgow

[@GoreBruce]

Indeed!

[@JustinSDG]

so glad I found these. You have a passion for church history! Wish I could download this straight into my brain. Saved during Covid lockdowns and about 8 months later fully reformed, Thankful for all the reformers and definitely want to learn more and more. You should collaborate with someone like Steve Lawson and produce some reformer documentaries. There's a decent one on Luther but Calvin needs his own as well as Tyndale, Hus, Wycliffe, Knox. Soli Deo Gloria and thanks again Bruce

[@GoreBruce]

Many thanks, and blessings to you and yours!

[@JustinSDG]

@@GoreBruce watching your Calvin 2 parter now. Have you read Boettner's book Reformed Doctrine of Predestination? Wonderful chapter on Calvinism in history. Bless you

[@GoreBruce]

@@JustinSDG Yes indeed. It is excellent!

[@tobystewart4403]

"Give me Scotland ... or I die!" Great stuff. Bruce reveals his bias for swarthy protestants here. As I understand it, the Stewarts were originally Normans, some say even Scythians, who had conquered in 1066, and had been made "Stewards" of Scotland, or caretaker kings. Very little gets done, in history, without a Stewart to keep the rabble in line, and praying for earthly salvation from the tyranny of wicked Kings.

[@GoreBruce]

Can't argue with that!

[@dwaynedarockjohnson2023]

That's the soup I've been looking for thank you.

[@herrHodenbaer]

May I ask a question? What role did scottish politician William Kirckaldy play in The Reformation? Dies somebody know?

[@GoreBruce]

Wikipedia (and sources cited therein) provides a decent article on the man. Suggest you look there.

[@briteddy9759]

Suppose Elizabeth I chose to go with the Catholic and Rome, what would have happened? Henry VIII’s first marriage was never annulled and a divorce was not granted by the pope. That means his marriage to Anne Boleyn was not valid and Elizabeth illegitimate. Would she then be eligible to the English crown? So could Elizabeth I for political reason even consider Catholicism? I am sure there could have been loopholes, but it is a fun thought experiment. I am really appreciating this serie on church history. Thank you!

[@dwaynedarockjohnson2023]

Thank you for flexing thought

[@TheCynicogue]

The "weather" sure was coincidentally placed, no?

[@varasuetamminga9519]

Thank you so much for this series on Church History. I live in Texas where the Catholic Church is trying to take over Protestant Churches. We have the bizarre situation of Italian Catholics trying to suggest they represent the Presbyterian Church. My family are long time Presbyterians and Calvinists and we are constantly being attacked by Black Presbyterian Catholics who feel that all Presbyterians must be Black and Catholic and Homosexual. John Knox is turning over in his grave, needless to say. This strange mix of racism and Catholicism is also taught by our preachers in Presbyterian Churches. So whatever you can do to educate people is most appreciated. I always pray for non violent cooperation between all faiths, but the Catholic Church particularly in Texas is using our medical system to violently persecute Protestants by poisoning them with diseases and then bankrupting their families through medical bills and killing people through disease. They gleefully use this medical persecution as their modern form of burning people at the stake which they feel they can get away with, avoiding criminal prosecution through deceit. Meanwhile our Presbyterian Preachers smile and preach as if this persecution is all just fine as they become Catholic servants to a new Catholic economic aristocracy. Thank you for this history. I pray that all people find a way to restore Democratic freedom of religion to America and return our medical system to devotion to healing and compassion, rescuing it from the religious sadists who pervert it into persecution. Anything you can do to expose these modern medical and religious crimes would be greatly appreciated.

[@tarmonhill]

you are a nut job.

[@deborahszafraniec4829]

Vara Sue Tamminga Nothing is too wicked for Satan! We must remember that he is a defeated foe and if we resist him, he will flee. Use the weapons Christ gave us... the sword of the Spirit, which is His Word, and prayer. If you're the only one who sees this, then you must be the prayer warrior. The battle is the Lord's, yet you are called to stand firm. Read Ephesians chapter 6 about a dozen times, then pray, pray, pray! Our prayers are precious to God!

[@jordanlindo9703]

Catholicism is roman paganism. It is the Whore of Babylon not Christianity.

[@jameshogan5947]

Very few of us preach this truth. Thanks for being one of them. May the Lord Jesus bless you!

[@pamelamyers9613]

I call good, old fashioned, TEXAS, BULLSHIT.

[@nathanbeard513]

Why do you have a picture of James VI/I when you are talking about James IV?

[@graemesavage3290]

Robert the Bruce did have a son - David II who succeeded his father in 1329

[@KevinAlawine]

Dr? Pastor? Mr? Gore, is this series copyrighted and is it available to own?

[@GoreBruce]

+Kevin Alawine If you are interested in downloading, please contact me at [e-mail]. Thanks!

[@KevinAlawine]

+Bruce Gore thank you sir! I will.

[@joanr3189]

How the Scots Invented the Modern World should be required reading for all secondary school students. Content should be tested for graduation. This is the laying of the foundation of western civilzation.

[@karencarter8292]

Who were Sir Francis Bacon's parents ?

[@carterlumbangaol9969]

GOD JESUS CHRIST Blessed🙏 The CHURCH Of SCOTLAND⛪👍 And PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH⛪👍, Amen⛪🙏

[@caledoniantours220]

Mary came back to Scotland in 1561, not 1560.

[@e.mabanda6568]

I think, given his scottish background, one might liken President Donald John Trump to John Knox as "He that feared no Man"

[@GoreBruce]

I wouldn't argue with that, although John Knox would make Donald Trump look like the most polite guy you'd ever met!

[@alanmclachlan1899]

I was bn in John Know street

[@2agbh72]

Were the Scotts then the primary movement in protestantizing England

[@jamesfletcher5906]

2/a gbh no

[@CathypFreeman]

Proud to be a direct descendant of John KNOX!!!!!! Make Mary cry!!!

[@GoreBruce]

+Cathy Purvis In my book, that makes you royalty!

[@traylyne]

+Cathy Purvis me too! I've just uncovered my ancestry that I knew nothing about for 50 years of my life. Proud to be a Knox. #strongasaknox

[@claragarcia5299]

I'm sorry but I have another opinion, not saying that your opinion is wrong but adding some information. John Knox hated Mary Stuart not because of her government, but most because she was a woman monarch, what for him was an unnatural function for women, so it was a sort of personal. That man also never had any royal blood, perhaps that is why he was so envious of things that did not belong to him. He would never stop until she was withdraw of the throne. He also hated Elizabeth 1 because she was a monarch women, which make even more suspicious if there was any Knox hands in the attempt of assassination (probably) on Elizabeth 1, which makes my mind think, was Mary really responsible for that assassination attempt? Ops, correcting you, Mary loved France, but her heart was Scottish.

[@claragarcia5299]

Bruce Gore if I said something wrong, please correct me. Ops, you are awesome!

[@dwaynedarockjohnson2023]

Thank you @Clara Garcia ❤

[@DeeZeeKidd]

'Reek' not wreak !! (@ 37mins) Reek is Scottish language for a stench.

[@joeiiiful]

Anyone over two years old knows that. Thank you for letting us know you are so smart.

[@IssacharGR]

As a Brit - i found the pronunciation of Tudor very odd....We say... tUdor not tOOdor.

[@GoreBruce]

Sorry. I'm pronouncing it the way I was taught in an American grad school.

[@IssacharGR]

@@GoreBruce ...Sorry if my casual comment seemed rude or pedantic. Perhaps you could answer a question for me...A prominent commentator on politics suggested that there was an ancestral link ranging from Trump...to John Knox. Can there be any truth in this?

[@GoreBruce]

Well, they have this in common. Both were highly controversial in their day! Beyond that, I don't know.

[@scottishredneck62]

Really enjoyed your lecture maybe the natives could help you with some pronunciation lol best wishes from Scotland

[@GoreBruce]

Thanks. I need all the help I can get!

[@scottishredneck62]

@@GoreBruce check out my Loudon hill video i live not far from there the site of three battles. One for the Covenanters, one for Robert the Bruce and one for William Wallace but the Wallace battle is contested by some historians but is mentioned by blind harry in his poetry/songs although Blind harry wrote about these things 100 years after the fact

[@GoreBruce]

@@scottishredneck62 Thank you! I will!

[@Ditka-89]

Lutheran here: do you Presbyterians still believe in predestination?

[@GoreBruce]

Well, it depends on the Presbyterian! Traditional Presbyterians embrace the doctrine, which was also affirmed by Luther in 'Bondage of the Will,' and Calvin (and Augustine, and even by Thomas Aquinas, though the Catholic church ultimately rejected that aspect of the thought of Thomas).

[@Ditka-89]

@@GoreBruce interesting. I’m not sure Luther’s understanding of predestination was quite the same as Knox or Calvin’s, but I’ve always had difficulty understanding the concept in the first place!

[@GoreBruce]

Oh, as a Lutheran, you should certainly read Luther's powerful work. Philip Melanchthon later softened up this part of Luther's teaching, but Luther himself was emphatic, even exceeding Calvin in his ferocious emphasis on the point!

[@Ditka-89]

@@GoreBruce he believed that a select few people were predestined for salvation and there was nothing they could do to stop it? It always seems like free will is emphasized with regard to the choice of faith in Luther’s teachings

[@GoreBruce]

Please read Luther, not his later interpreters. Then get back to me if you'd like.

[@martinmoran4101]

Arms if the pope! Don’tbthink so

[@masada2828]

‘500 years from now’ the World will be half way through the Kingdom Age on earth with a returned Jesus Christ ruling as King.

[@bmbodybuilding9963]

my mums name is mary

[@CastelDawn]

Mums? Now that's some revolting development.

[@davidcolley7714]

Henry the VIII was NEVER a protestant

[@spud4057]

Religious muppets