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The Political Theory of John Knox

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

John R. Gray
John R. Gray
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Princeton, N. J.
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Extract

No man was less suited to a life of affairs in church and state than was John Knox. Yet, by a curious trick of fate, he was forced by the exigencies of his times to assume the role of official prophet and leader of a whole kingdom. For there was no one else.

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Research Article
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Church History , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , June 1939 , pp. 132 - 147
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Church History 1939

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