The Burned Pages That Built a Bible
In 1526, copies of William Tyndale's English New Testament began arriving in England, smuggled inside bales of cloth and barrels of flour. The Bishop of...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29.
In 1526, copies of William Tyndale's English New Testament began arriving in England, smuggled inside bales of cloth and barrels of flour. The Bishop of London, Cuthbert Tunstall, was so outraged that he purchased every copy he could find and burned them publicly at St. Paul's Cross. Church authorities declared Tyndale a heretic. His work was condemned as dangerous, unfit, rejected.…
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