John Knox

In 1546, John Knox—a priest of the Church he would later denounce—walks before a hunted preacher carrying a two-handed sword. A year later, he stands in St Andrews and condemns the Pope. What changed?

A. Taylor Innes follows Knox from Haddington and the lecture halls of Glasgow into the religious upheaval of sixteenth-century Scotland. Yet the most consequential part of his early life is almost a blank: for nearly twenty years, the future reformer disappears from view, then returns as a priest and notary. Innes traces the world that formed him and the sharp, enduring convictions that followed, while confronting the silence Knox himself left about his break with the Church. Was his transformation sudden, or had it been gathering force in secret?

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