French Reformation to Scotland
It is natural to assume that the prime source of Calvinist theology and ecclesiology influencing Scotland came directly from Geneva. After all, John Knox (ca. 1513-72), one of the Scottish Reformation leaders, had glowingly expressed his experience of the Genevan reform as “the most perfect school of Christ.” However, the case can be made that the undoubted influence of Calvin upon Knox was “refracted through the prism of French Protestant experience”.
Carter Lindberg, The European Reformations, 2nd Edition (Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), 317