Argues that Christians cannot be saved simply by performing ceremonies or by hearing the Scriptures in Latin, which most could not understand, and that all should have access to the Bible in their own language. The author claims that there is just one social structure created by God to which all must be obedient, without the Pope's intervention.

This translation of the New Testament into English from its original Greek was printed in Germany in 1534 and smuggled back into England. It therefore escaped the fate of Tyndale's previous version, which had been seized and publicly burnt by the authorities. The 1534 edition outraged the clerical establishment by giving the laity access to the word of God, in print in English for the first time. Tyndale, who was already in exile for political reasons, was hunted down and subsequently burned at the stake for blasphemy.
For the next eighty years--the years of Shakespeare among...

Including Bible translations from the original Greek and Hebrew, this collection of William Tyndale's work presents the full text of the seminal "Pathway of Holy Scripture," and extracts from "The Obedience of a Christian Man," "The Parable of the Wicked Mammon," "The Practice of Prelates," and his powerfully political "An Answer unto Sir Thomas More's Dialogue."

The first English translation of the New Testament from the original Greek -for which Tyndale was martyred Fromm