The Translator They Burned Whose Words Became the Foundation

In 1525, William Tyndale smuggled the first printed English New Testament out of Cologne in bales of cloth. The Bishop of London, Cuthbert Tunstall, bought up every copy he could find and burned them publicly at St. Paul's Cross. Church authorities called Tyndale a heretic. King Henry VIII's agents hunted him across Europe for years. In October 1536, outside Brussels, they strangled him at the stake and set his body ablaze.…