John Knox by Lloyd Jones and Murray

John Knox and the Reformation

A little book with a big punch much like Knox himself. Lloyd-Jones has two chapters that came out of a conference in Scotland. In one he makes the argument that Knox was the founder of the puritans. In true Lloyd-Jones he holds nothing back.

He says that Knox's influence in some ways responsible for the the American revolution. "Consider the case of the Pilgrim Fathers. Knox is behind their whole attitude towards the State and the rulers; and so he is, as Thomas Carlyle claims, the founder of American Puritanism in exactly same way. Indeed, I would argue that he is in many ways the father of the American War of Independence which came to a triumphant conclusion from the standpoint of the colonists in 1776. He was the one who opened the door to all this."

The last chapter is by Iain Murray who brings forth a biographical sketch of Knox. Well done an a good read.