“Ploughboys and pastors alike” are able to read the scripture thanks to this determined man.
“With spies, lies, and a shipwreck thrown in for good measure, his life was anything but dull.” That’s how the Rev. C. Chappell Temple begins his recent blog about Williams Tyndale.
Tyndale left England as a young man and spent his life in Germany until “on October 6, 1536, that at the age of just forty-two, William Tyndale was tied to a stake, strangled, and then burned.”
What did Tyndale do? He translated the Bible into English. And Temple reflects that for Tyndale, “the scriptures were literally worth dying for, and their careful translation into English was a sacred task deserving of whatever it took.”
C. Chappell Temple is the lead pastor of Christ United Methodist Church in Sugar Land, Texas, a southwestern suburb of Houston. He is also an adjunct faculty member in the Houston program of Perkins School of Theology, teaching United Methodist history, doctrine, and polity.
Last Updated on October 11, 2016