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The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church, Volume 4: The Age of the Reformation is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Volume 4, The Age of the Reformation, Old focuses on changes in preaching due to the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation. This is the pivotal volume in Old’s project, covering as it does not only what the Reformers and Counter-Reformers preached but also their reform of preaching itself. Old traces the main events and people involved in the development of preaching at...

the English Bible. As with so much in the English Reformation, it was a political struggle. Ever since Wycliffe the Catholic hierarchy had opposed a vernacular Bible. As early as 1522 William Tyndale saw the need of a fresh translation along the lines of Christian humanist scholarship.208 Tyndale’s vision was broader and more profound than Wycliffe’s; the Wycliffe Bible had not been a fresh translation from the Greek and Hebrew, but rather a translation of the Latin Vulgate. Thanks to Christian humanism,
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