The Scottish Reformation: Knox, Melville, the Scots Confession and the Books of Discipline
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From Patrick Hamilton and Wishart through the Reformation Parliament of 1560 to Andrew Melville and the Second Book of Discipline (1578). Students read the Scots Confession and both Books of Discipline as the founding documents of the Kirk, with Knox's History as the primary narrative.
These lists, taken from the school's verified research, are studied on your own at your own pace. The school's own classes, written as full teaching, open one at a time.
How to begin
- Enroll with a free account so the school keeps your place.
- Open the first class, lecture or reading and follow the order of the syllabus.
- Mark each lecture, reading and assignment complete when you finish it.
- Choose a weekly study goal to see when you will finish.
Syllabus
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Lectures Listen to the lectures in order. Those marked supplementary are optional.
- John Knox (lecture 1 of 'John Knox and the Scottish Reformation') Sherman Isbell (Free Church of Scotland (Continuing), Presbytery of the United States) 43 min 42 s Open source Doctrinal Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary / SermonAudio
- From Knox to the Covenanters Rev. David Silversides 46 min 14 s Open source Doctrinal Loughbrickland Reformed Presbyterian Church (RPC of Ireland) / SermonAudio Intramural within the Scottish stream: both hold the 1647 text of WCF 23, but Reformed Presbyterians add political dissent from uncovenanted constitutions, which the Free Church tradition (Cunningham, Bannerman, Moncreiff, FP Magazine) rejects. Present both as confessional options under the 1647 text in the Headship...
- History of the Reformation series: 'John Knox and the Scottish Reformation', parts 1-5 Joe Morecraft III 5 lectures: 46 min 40 s; 52 min 15 s; 50 min 33 s; 1 h 3 min 35 s; 52 min 43 s Open source Supplementary Heritage Presbyterian Church (RPCUS) / SermonAudio Westminster-subscribing (RPCUS) but teaches a theonomic reading of the civil magistrate and the judicial law, which goes beyond WCF 19.4 ('general equity') and the 1647 text of 23.3 as read by the Scottish churches. Keep as supplementary narrative history only (Knox, Covenanters, Westminster Divines units); do not...
Total: 2.5 hours