Literary and Historical Background

John Knox's An Answere to a Great Nomber of Blasphemous Cavillations written by an Anabaptist, and adversarie to Gods eternal Predestination (1560), the short title of which is simply On Predestination, belongs to the third of four categories identified in the Reformer's writings by David Laing, the first editor of an essentially complete edition of Knox's works (Edinburgh, 1846-64). Laing regarded it as a “controversial” or “devotional” text. The former it certainly is, but twenty-first century readers might have difficulty classifying it as the latter. So for our current purposes, we shall place it simply in Knox's “theological” division; a division which also contains such publications as A Vindication of the Doctrine that the Sacrifice

3348 words

Citation: Farrow, Kenneth D. . "On Predestination". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 August 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8449, accessed 19 March 2024.]

8449 On Predestination 3 Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic. In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves.

Save this article

If you need to create a new bookshelf to save this article in, please make sure that you are logged in, then go to your 'Account' here

Leave Feedback

The Literary Encyclopedia is a living community of scholars. We welcome comments which will help us improve.