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God's bestseller : William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the writing of the English Bible-- a story of martyrdom and betrayal / Brian Moynahan.
Van Pelt Library BR350.T8 M578 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moynahan, Brian, 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tyndale, William, -1536.
- Tyndale, William.
- More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535.
- More, Thomas.
- Bible--English--Versions--Tyndale.
- Bible.
- Reformation--England--Biography.
- Reformation.
- England.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 422 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- William Tyndale left England in 1524 to translate the Bible into English. This was heresy, punishable by death. Sir Thomas More, hailed as a saint, considered it his divine duty to pursue Tyndale. He did so with an obsessive ferocity that probably led to Tyndale's capture and death.
- Brian Moynahan's lucid and meticulously researched biography illuminates Tyndale's life, from his childhood in England to his death outside Brussels. He chronicles the birth pangs of the Reformation, the wrath of Henry VIII, and the consuming malice of Thomas More. Above all, he reveals the English Bible as a labor of love, for which a man in an age more spiritual than our own willingly gave his life.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-403) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312314868
- OCLC:
- 51652932
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