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To: Mrs. Don-o
Tyndale was found guilty of heresy by an Anglican Church court

I'm still quibbling. :-) It was a Catholic court, in Belgium. But you're right, he was convicted of teaching Lutheranism, not of translating the Bible into English.

101 posted on 05/18/2006 1:48:19 PM PDT by Campion ("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
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To: Campion; WKB; Dr. Eckleburg; Full Court

Well, hmm (furrowed brow) right: I thought he'd been convicted by an Anglican court first (Cuthbert Tunstall?), and then by a Catholic court in what is now Belgium. (Take off 5 points for that.)

You're entirely correct that Tyndale supported in effect the Catholic position against Henry VIII's divorce; that incurred the king's wrath and set in motion the "politics" of his betrayal and eventual execution.

The cruelty of that period is hair-raising. I recently read Ackroyd's bio of Thomas More: I have to think he repented his part in the blood-spilling, before his own was spilt.


112 posted on 05/18/2006 2:23:36 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("For I hope that we shall hereafter all merrily meet in heaven." St. Thomas More)
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