English Reformer · Bible translator

William Tyndale

Born: c. 1494
Died: 1536

English scholar and Reformer who translated the New Testament and much of the Old Testament from Hebrew and Greek into English, and wrote treatises on justification, Scripture and Christian obedience. He was executed near Brussels in 1536.

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Expositions and Notes on Sundry Portions of the Holy Scriptures, Together with The Practice of Prelates

Tyndale's expositions of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5–7) and of the First Epistle of John, his notes on Matthew's Gospel, and The Practice of Prelates, his 1530 polemic against papal and prelatical power and Henry VIII's divorce proceedings.

1530–1531Biblical commentaryRead

The Obedience of a Christian Man

Tyndale's 1528 argument that Scripture belongs in the vernacular, that Christians owe obedience to God-ordained civil rulers rather than to papal claims, and that the plain literal sense of Scripture must govern doctrine.

1528Political theologyRead

The Parable of the Wicked Mammon

Tyndale's 1528 treatise on justification by faith alone, expounding Christ's parable of the unjust steward to show that good works are the fruit, not the cause, of righteousness before God.

1528Theological treatiseRead