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Scottish Protestantism and the Scottish Charjor Kirk
In 1560, Scotland became the last place to adopt the Reformation as official doctrine. The Scottish Parliament approved a broadly Calvinist confession of faith. Leading Scots reformers were not peasants but educated men who often spent time abroad learning their dangerous ideas. For Knox, any form of worship not explicitly required by scripture was idolatry. He denied that God's love of all humans would result in his offering them grace and redemption.