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WAS KNOX MISUNDERSTOOD?

n Issue 124 (November 2022) there is an article about John Knox, in which the reformer is portrayed as a bombastic, fire-breathing preacher, utterly uncompromising in his hostility to all but his own narrow point of view. It also casts him as a woman-hater, if not frankly misogynistic. This is basically the

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