Scotland’s Second Reformation Revolutionized the National Relationship Between Church and State
What do we do when others want us to adopt ways of worship that God has not commanded? Do we just accept this in order to keep the peace? Scotland’s second reformation was the most thorough movement in the whole of Europe, revolutionizing church and state in which the people stood up to James VI, a monarch claiming absolute power, who sought to define and control the way in which they worshipped God. This article discusses how ordinary Scots challenged a king who claimed authority over the worship of the Church—and changed constitutional history in the process.
