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Shocking Knox

IT was of course John Knox who coined the phrase ‘the monstrous regiment of women’.

So it’s tempting to wonder what Knox, glowering down from his plinth in the quadrangle of New College, the home of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Divinity, would make of events there this year.

For not only was this the scene of the celebration of half a century of female Church of Scotland ministers back in May, but this autumn women started work in two of the most senior positions in the college.

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