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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...

mother, the Bible Tyndale bequeathed us could have been translated no other way. Under more peaceful conditions or in more reasonable times, it would not have been the same Bible any more than Christianity would have become the lovely creature it became without the agonies of its birth. Only someone with Tyndale’s peculiar gifts and sensibilities would have been able to metabolize all of this effectively and with such pure results. We will explore this in some detail, but exile had a profound effect on