[hiho hiho]

“Second, King Henry VIII of England also broke with the Catholic Church in the 1530s. He was not interested in reform or even in theology; he just wanted a divorce.”

That’s not the history I was taught from several sources. Henry VIII was a flawed man, but he was interested in theology and the corruption of the Catholic church.

[PAR35]

dispensationalism, based in part on Calvinist theology

Dispensationalism should be blamed on Darby, not Calvin.

[VOA]

There are a couple of interesting histories on the mechanics of the production of the King James Version.

Off the top of my heard, I think one is by Alister McGrath.
And I think one of the others has a title like "God's Secretaries".

[onedoug]

MARIA
Marry, sir, sometimes he is a kind of puritan.

SIR ANDREW
O, if I thought that I'ld beat him like a dog!

SIR TOBY BELCH
What, for being a puritan? thy exquisite reason, dear knight?

SIR ANDREW
I have no exquisite reason for't, but I have reason good enough.

MARIA
The devil a puritan that he is, or any thing constantly, but a time-pleaser; an affectioned ass, that cons state without book and utters it by great swarths: the best persuaded of himself, so crammed, as he thinks, with excellencies, that it is his grounds of faith that all that look on him love him; and on that vice in him will my revenge find notable cause to work.

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night circa 1600

[Uncle Chip]

The KJV became the most popular Bible version in 20th-century America when a set of notes written by Cyrus I. Scofield was added in 1909 and then revised in 1917 into the Scofield Reference Bible.

Oh please -- it was the most popular Bible Version long before that.