Fire in the Bones: William Tyndale, Martyr, Father of the English Bible by S. Michael Wilcox
English | April 18th, 2017 | ISBN: 1629721719, 1590382978 | 256 pages | EPUB | 4.24 MB
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.