Alexander Henderson (theologian)

Alexander Henderson (* around 1583 to Criech in Fifeshire; † 19 August 1646 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish theologian.

In addition to John Knox, the Scottish Church has no one so much affected as Alexander Henderson. Originally he was a supporter of the Episcopal Church and State was therefore used 1612 as a priest in the rebellious community Leuchars. The resistance of the village brought him to years of struggle to change the page, and he became a leading opponent of the episcopal hierarchy and the English supremacy over the Church.

After the signing of the National Covenant in 1638, he was appointed moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in Glasgow, which deposed the bishops and introduced against the resistance of the English King Charles I the Presbyterian Church constitution. 1639 Henderson became pastor in Edinburgh and in 1640 he was elected Rector of the University of Edinburgh. 1641 and 1643 he headed the church's General Assembly and again from 1643 to 1646 he was a member of the Westminster Synod, a committee of the Long Parliament of England, which was to carry out a reorganization of the Church of England as in Scotland.

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