Search Results: John Knox

John Knox (l. c. 1514-1572) was a Scottish theologian and reformer famous for his work in advancing the Protestant Reformation in Scotland, his contentious relationship with Mary, Queen of Scots (l. 1542-1587), and establishing the Presbyterian...

The rule of women in government and ministry has long been a source of controversy in the Christian Church. Beginning with the Apostolic period, female leadership has been embraced and resisted by innumerable people, the debate centering...

Henry Knox (1750-1806) was a Boston-born bookseller who became a general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) and served as the army's Chief Artillery Officer. After the conflict, he was appointed the...

John Knox House, High Street, Edinburgh, Scotland. Allegedly, the house in which Scottish reformer John Knox spent his last years and died.

Statue of Scottish theologian and reformer John Knox (l. c. 1514-1572) in Haddington, East Lothian.

Portrait of John Knox (l .c. 1514-1572) by William Holl the Younger (l. 1807-1871). National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Mary of Guise (aka Marie de Lorraine, 1515-1560) was a French noblewoman who became the second wife of James V of Scotland (r. 1513-1542). With the premature death of her husband, her daughter Mary, Queen of Scots (r. 1542-1567) became queen...

Henry Knox, portrait by Gilbert Stuart, 1806. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.

Henry Knox around the end of the American Revolutionary War, c. 1784, oil on canvas portrait by Charles Willson Peale. Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Colonel Henry Knox bringing the artillery from Fort Ticonderoga to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to help bring an end to the Siege of Boston, by an unknown artist, 1775. National Archive, collection number: 111-SC-100815.