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Who had him killed?
“Who had him killed?”
After being convicted of heresy by the church, he was defrocked and turned over to civil authorities in the Low Countries, who in turn were under Charles V.
It was his heresy against the Catholic Church that resulted in his death. The English started pursuing him because of his opposition to Henry’s divorce & his translating, but Henry’s new wife SUPPORTED Tyndale, so the main force for pursuit seems to have been Thomas More - who hated Tyndale for translating. And in the end, Thomas More died before Tyndale, for refusing to support Henry’s marriage, but Tyndale was still caught and and charged with heresy...and Queen Anne’s failure to give birth to a boy meant Henry soon turned against her. And in any case, Henry VIII probably couldn’t have saved Tyndale, since he was caught in a Catholic area under Charles V...who didn’t like Henry.
Clear-cut, isn’t it!
Also, from what I read, it wasn’t his translating, but his frequent writings on salvation by faith.
Surely you are not denying that the Catholic Church convicted many of heresy, or that the penalty was death?
As others have pointed out, it was a brutal time. Tyndale received less brutality than many. Reformers were killed in Catholic regions, and Catholics were killed in Protestant regions. Baptists were killed in both. I read somewhere that Baptists, tired of being killed by both sides, once took over a town...and killed non-Baptists. They were overcome, and other Baptists thought their example proved why church and state should be separate.
Our ancestors in faith were excellent examples of courage, but not so good on mercy...