Why did John Knox found Presbyterianism?

Answer 1

Knox broke away out of protest to what he perceive grave errors in what the present church practiced. Knox believed he knew a better way. This is the way all protestant works start and of course no matter what you start, someone always seems willing to follow, ergo, those protesting broke away and named the new work Presbyterianism. Actually, this isn't the same question. John Knox was born in 1513 and he died in 1572. I hope this is clearer!

Answer 2

The Presbyterian church is one of the denominations that began during the Protestant Reformation. If was started to better express the teachings of John Calvin, a leading Protestant theologian who taught in Geneva, Switzerland.

Answer 3

John Knox was not the founder of Presbyterianism - that was John Calvin. However, John Knox attended Calvin's theological school in Geneva where he learned the tenets of Presbyterian doctrine. He then took that system of belief back to Scotland and established the Presbyterian church there. Many Scots emigrated to the "new world" - the United States - and brought their Presbyterianism with them.

Answer 4

A former Catholic priest, John Knox, developed the Presbyterian church in Scotland based primarily on John Calvin's theological doctrines. who would ask this question