James Tait Black Memorial Prizes
John Knox
Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle
A biography that traces the life of John Knox at the intersection of faith, politics, and controversy. It avoids reducing him to a single image and instead shows both the force of a driving reformer and the complexity of a man shaped by his age.
Work Information
The reformer’s life emerges as a chain of convictions and conflicts.
Lord Eustace Percy’s biography places John Knox, a central figure of the Scottish Reformation, within the wider current of history. It explores a figure who invites sharply divided judgments with a narrative that keeps its range and balance.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Lutterworth Pr
- Published
- 2013-10-31
- Pages
- 343 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 12.9 x 1.83 x 19.81 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780718893132
- ISBN-10
- 0718893131
- Price
- 8157 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Religion & Spirituality/Christianity/Theology
John Knox has suffered in this century from that trick of the popular imagination that seizes on one aspect of a historical figure and elevates it into the whole man. At one time he was the foremost Scottish genius, but in our day there have been those who would have us believe that he was a ranter, an iconoclast and perhaps a hypocrite. The author of this classic biography has sought to find the truth between these two extremes. He shows us Knox against the disturbed currents of the Continent, where mediaeval Christendom was at an end and no new order had yet emerged from the chaos of creeds and philosophies. No man could stem these currents, but John Knox in his own country gave them a direction. He became, if not the leader, at least the inciter of a revolution. He set his mark indelibly on history, and not only that of his native land; his influence upon the English court was considerable, but he also became a figure of European significance. "No grander figure can be found, in the entire history of the Reformation in this island, than that of John Knox" wrote the historian Froude. The author has given us a balanced assessment of the life and times of this remarkable man.
Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle PC (21 March 1887 - 3 April 1958), styled Lord Eustace Percy between 1899 and 1953, was a British diplomat, Conservative politician and public servant. He most notably served as President of the Board of Education under Stanley Baldwin between 1924 and 1929.
Reviews
-
An old book but a good read about an interesting man and his times.