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Laddar... Fire in the Bones: William Tyndale--Martyr, Father of the English Bibleav S. Michael Wilcox
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The leading personalities of his century would draw upon all their resources to stop him, from the brilliant Sir Thomas Moore to King Henry VIII; from Charles V, ruler of half of Europe, to the Pope. Both church and state hunted him relentlessly-at a time when the church held power over both soul and body and could condemn the heretic to execution by fire. His crime? Translating the words of the Bible into the "vulgar" English tongue. He was William Tyndale, and the story of his life, told in Fire in the Bones, reads like a novel, as exciting in its facts as any fiction could be. He knew the smugglers' secret marks and their intense, fraternal loyalty. He tasted the salt of shipwreck and knew the despair of lost manuscripts buried under the waves of the North Sea. Intrigue, safe houses, bribes, spies, covert conversations, last-minute flight, aliases, imprisonment, loneliness, all wove their spell into the riddles of his hidden world. He died at last as a martyr, but not before he had bequeathed to the world some of the most beloved and sacred phrases and terms in Holy Writ, including Atonement, still small voice, and Let there be Light. Readers everywhere will be captivated by his story. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)270.6092Religions History, geographic treatment, biography of Christianity History of Christianity Reformation; Counter reformation (1517-1648)Klassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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It was also interesting that Wilcox paints Anne Boleyn as a good person and somewhat of a martyr in her own right(definitely challenging some puritanical Protestant thoughts that I have been the recipient of).
A good editor would have helped with the clarity and streamlined the text.
To sum it all up, I was disappointed because the choice of topic is great. Tyndale is a remarkable man (as were More, Zwingli, Luther, Erasmus, Cromwell, Henry VIII and the others that surrounded him*). He deserves a larger, greater attempt, more study, less comparison. The comparison didn't really work and too many conclusions were drawn that didn't seem to have enough weight behind them.
* What was in the water in those late 1400s-1500s? ( )