@inbook{2219d1966dc8420c8d290320427703e0,
title = "Church and state in Scotland from the reformation to the covenanting revolution",
abstract = "The concept of “church and state” has been assailed over recent decades as a deceptive distinction (since the Church was essentially subject to state authority), and as a distraction from the real story of religious experience. Yet it persists because it remained central to political divisions that stretched up to and beyond the Anglo-Scottish parliamentary union of 1707. This chapter explores the development of the constitutional position of the Church of Scotland from the Reformation until the Covenanting Revolution against King Charles I. Its focus is on the central controversy over sovereignty (the “two kingdoms” debate) that was a source of tension throughout the period and formed the basis for that revolution. It explores the peculiar nature of the Church of Scotland{\textquoteright}s autogenesis in 1560, the significance of that and of its early development under a Catholic monarch for its self-understanding, as well as its evolving relationship with central government under King James VI and Charles I.",
keywords = "sovereignty, polity, presbyterianism, episcopacy, endowment",
author = "MacDonald, {Alan R.}",
year = "2021",
month = dec,
day = "16",
doi = "10.1163/9789004335950_025",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789004329720",
series = "Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition",
publisher = "Brill Academic Publishers",
pages = "607--629",
editor = "Hazlett, {William Ian P.}",
booktitle = "A companion to the reformation in Scotland ca.1525-1638",
address = "Netherlands",
}