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This ''Book of Discipline'' refers to two works regulative of ecclesiastical order in the Church of Scotland after the Scottish Reformation. They were drawn up by John Knox and others on the Geneva model. * ''The First Book of Discipline'' (1560) * ''The Second Book of Discipline'' (1578) ==''First Book of Discipline''== In 1560, following the death of the regent Mary of Guise, who ruled on behalf of her daughter Mary, Queen of Scots who was in France and the defeat of French forces at the Siege of Leith, the reform-minded Lords of the Congregation were in the ascendency in Scotland.〔J. E. A. Dawson, ''Scotland Re-Formed, 1488–1587'' (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007), ISBN 0-7486-1455-9, p. 211.〕 The Scottish Parliament met in Edinburgh 1 August 1560.〔J. Wormald, ''Court, Kirk, and Community: Scotland, 1470–1625'' (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991), ISBN 0-7486-0276-3, p. 117.〕 Ignoring the provisions of the Treaty of Edinburgh, on 17 August, Parliament approved a Reformed Confession of Faith (the Scots Confession), and on 24 August it passed three Acts that abolished the old faith in Scotland. Under these, all previous acts not in conformity with the Reformed Confession were annulled; the sacraments were reduced to two (Baptism and Communion) to be performed by reformed preachers alone; the celebration of the Mass was made punishable by a series of penalties (ultimately death) and Papal jurisdiction in Scotland was repudiated.〔J. D. Mackie, B. Lenman and G. Parker, ''A History of Scotland'' (London: Penguin, 1991), ISBN 0140136495, p. 153.〕 The Queen declined to endorse the acts that Parliament had passed and the new kirk existed in a state of legal uncertainty.〔K. M. Brown and A. R. MacDonald, eds, ''Parliament in Context, 1235–1707'' (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010), ISBN 0748614869, p. 48.〕 The Lords had intended for the parliament to consider a ''Book of Reformation'', that they had commissioned and which was largely the work of John Knox. However, they were unhappy with the document and established a committee of "six Johns", including Knox, to produce a revised version. The result of the delay was that the document, known as the ''First Book of Discipline'' was not considered by the full parliament, but a thinly attended convention of nobles and about 30 lairds, in January 1561 and then only approved individually and not collectively.〔M. Lynch, ''Scotland: A New History'' (London: Pimlico, 1992), ISBN 0-7126-9893-0, p. 197.〕 The book set out a system of church order that included superintendents, ministers, doctors, elders and deacons.〔 It also contained a programme of parish-based reformation that would use the resources of the old church to pay a network of ministers, a parish based school system, university education and arrangements for poor relief. However, the proposal for the use of church wealth were rejected and under an Act of Council, which kept two-thirds in the hands of its existing owners and even the remaining third had to be shared with the Crown. The result was an abandonment of the educational programme, ministers remained poorly paid and the church was underfunded.〔Mackie, Lenman and Parker, ''A History of Scotland'', pp. 154–5.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Book of Discipline (Church of Scotland)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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