The Impact of Determinism and Predestination on Rulership

Dermot McCulloch: There is always a tension in Reformation Protestantism between hierarchy and the feeling that we are all part of the chosen people. In particularly the Scottish Reformation, it is remarkable that powerful figures, members of the nobility, were under discipline alongside everybody else from the church. And I guess that must have been part of the rationale for Henry's proclaiming himself as having the right to say what is and is not religious orthodoxy. The English got as far as cutting off the head of their king over that debate in 1649.