80% of the words in my English New Testament, where I listen to the voice of God each day–were first translated from Greek into English for us by William Tyndale. We all owe him a debt of gratitude.
THE FOUR DECADES of Tyndale’s life, from the early 1490s to the mid-1530s, overlapped one of the most notable periods of change in Western history, incuding: the ending of the Dark Ages, the beginnings of the Renaissance, the claiming of the New World, the Spanish Inquisition, and the beginnings of the Reformation.
At the time, Tyndale might have felt detached from it all, living the lonely and unrooted life of a fugitive and exile. But in the long view, he was actually integral to some of the most significant moments and movements of the early 16th century—great societal upheavals, the aftershocks of which are still being felt in our modern world.
William Tyndale
c. 1492–95 Tyndale is born
1508 A young teenager, he enters Magdalen College at Oxford
1512 Completes his B.A. at Oxford
1514–1515 Completes his M.A. at Oxford and is ordained, but refuses to enter monastic orders
1519 Moves to Cambridge for doctoral studies, then quits
1521–1523 Begins teaching at Little Sodbury, gets into disputes with priests
c. 1524 Seeks patronage of Bishop Tunstall and is rebuffed; then, assisted by Monmouth, he travels to Germany and registers at the University of Wittenberg
1525 In Cologne, he prepares to print an English New Testament, but he is discovered and escapes with only a few printed portions
1526 He completes the printing in Worms, and smuggled copies of his New Testaments are soon being circulated throughout England
1527 Bishop Tunstall orders the purchase and burning of all the testaments, but this serves only to finance Tyndale’s second edition
1527–1530 English agents seek to capture Tyndale on the Continent; he keeps moving, and writing
1530 His translation of the first five books of the Old Testament appeared in England
1531 He meets Henry’s agent Steven Vaughan, but declines the king’s invitation to return to England
1531 Sir Thomas More begins writing against Tyndale
1533 His good friend, John Frith, was burned at the stake in Smithfield
1534 He moves into Thomas Poyntz’s English merchants’ boarding house in Antwerp
1535 King’s agent Henry Phillips arrives in Antwerp and befriends Tyndale, then arranges to have him arrested while the Poyntzes are out of town; Tyndale is cast into Vilvoorde prison near Antwerp
1536 Fifteen months later, at Vilvoorde, Tyndale is strangled to death and his body burned at the stake
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