To all those who have said:
To all those who have said:
"Here I Stand"
facing oppresive authoritarian civil and church power.
There were Peter and John who said to the Sanhedrin: "Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God's sight to obey you rather than God." (Acts 4:19)
There were the Reformers of the sixteenth century when they had to decide whether they were going to obey God or man.
And most of all, to Samuel Rutherford. He has meant much to me for many years, but especially so from the time I began working on the material for the book and films How Should We Then Live? At that time I understood increasingly that Samuel Rutherford's Lex Rex was an important trailmarker for our day. In the times I have spoken at St. Andrews University, the most outstanding thing for me was a feeling that Samuel Rutherford was not far away, that the old Rector was close by, and very contemporary!