INTRODUCING TYNDALE:
An Extract from Tyndale’s Answer to
Sir Thomas More’s Dialogue
Introduction by John Piper
Epilogue by Robert J. Sheehan
Banner of Truth. 103 pages. £5.50
ISBN 978 1 848 717 558
In 1519, one woman and six men were burned to death in Coventry for the ‘crime’ of teaching their children the Lord’s Prayer and the Ten Commandments in English.
People at this time in England were denied access to the Word of God in their own language: a situation which caused a young scholar called William Tyndale to declare to a clergyman in 1521: ‘If God spare my life, I will cause a boy that drives the plough to know more of the Scripture than you do’!