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Tyndale: The Man Who Gave God an English Voice is unavailable, but you can change that!

It was an outlawed book, a text so dangerous "it could only be countered by the most vicious burnings, of books and men and women." But what book could incite such violence and bloodshed? The year is 1526. It is the age of Henry VIII and his tragic Anne Boleyn, of Martin Luther and Thomas More. The times are treacherous. The Catholic Church controls almost every aspect of English life, including...

kind of comic book. Tyndale takes issue with it as “poetry.” C. S. Lewis suggested that it is best received when it is taken exactly for what it is, “a holiday work, a spontaneous overflow of intellectual high spirits, a revel of debate, paradox, comedy and (above all) of invention, which starts many hares and kills none.”12 Later in life More himself thought “it fitter too be burned.” Of interest to us, prying into men’s heads as we might do, is that Utopia belonged to More in the first place—the