Why does the Church of Scotland dislike George Buchanan 1506-1582?

The question seems to be making assumptions. The Church of Scotland is a large denomination with many different viewpoints. The fact that you may have come across one or more people who seem to dislike him, even if their views have been published in, say, Life and Work, does not mean that the C of S dislikes him. For one thing Buchanan belonged to the C of S of his day.

I'm looking at what J D Douglas says in the Dictionary of Scottish Church History and Theology (a very useful work which you might find through a library), and it looks like Buchanan had some pretty revolutionary views, to the effect that people could kill tyrants. Possibly those who followed these views were later not in the mainstream, as Douglas mentions Samuel Rutherford and Richard Cameron. After 1689 (the Glorious Revolution, William and Mary), there were some followers of the Covenanter movement in which Richard Cameron had been a leader who remained outside the compromise worked out between the crown and the Church of Scotland (the Revolution Settlement). These formed the Reformed Presbyterian Church (now very small in Scotland, but present in greater numbers in Ireland and USA).

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