It began with the dramatic introduction of the Tyndale Bible.

In 1523, taking advantage of the recent invention of the printing press, Tyndale began to cast the Scriptures into English.

Little Sodbury Manor is originally 15th century, the home of Sir John Walsh who employed William Tyndale as chaplain and tutor to his grandchildren in 1522-3 ; by tradition he began his translation of the Bible in his bedroom here.

Tyndale was also given the right to confer the Bachelor of Arts degree in the humanities, social sciences and business, as well as undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level degrees in religion, theology, and divinity.

On December 5, 2007, Tyndale was given ministerial consent by the Province of Ontario to offer a 12-month Bachelor of Education program to prepare teachers for primary, junior, and intermediate grades.

Tyndale offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in human services conjointly with Seneca College, which allows a student to earn a BA degree from Tyndale plus a diploma in either early childhood education or social service work from Seneca.

Tyndale offered the Bachelor of Theology ( Th. B.

He received an honourary degree from Tyndale University College and Seminary in 2007.

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Mark D. Powers, President, Pulte Homes Connecticut, Fortune 150, received a degree from William Tyndale College in 1998.

Tyndale was born at some time in the period 1484 – 1496, possibly in one of the villages near Dursley, Gloucestershire.

The Tyndale family also went by the name Hychyns ( Hitchins ), and it was as William Hychyns that Tyndale was enrolled at Magdalen College School, Oxford.

Edward Smith is recorded in two genealogies as having been the brother of Sir William Tyndale, of Deane, Northumberland, and Hockwald, Norfolk, who was knighted at the marriage of Arthur, Prince of Wales to Katherine of Aragon.

Tyndale became chaplain to the house of Sir John Walsh at Little Sodbury and tutor to his children in about 1521.

After the harsh meeting with Bell and other church leaders, and near the end of Tyndale's time at Little Sodbury, John Foxe describes an argument with a " learned " but " blasphemous " clergyman, who had asserted to Tyndale that, " We had better be without God's laws than the Pope's.

Tyndale preached and studied " at his book " in London for some time, relying on the help of a cloth merchant, Humphrey Monmouth.

William Tyndale then left England and landed on the continent, perhaps at Hamburg, in the spring of the year 1524, possibly travelling on to Wittenberg.

From an entry in George Spalatin's Diary, on 11 August 1526, it seems that Tyndale remained at Worms about a year.

William Tyndale, before being strangled and burned at the stake, cries out, " Lord, open the King of England's eyes ".

The king's wrath was aimed at Tyndale: Henry asked the Emperor Charles V to have the writer apprehended and returned to England under the terms of the Treaty of Cambrai, however, the Emperor responded that formal evidence was required before extradition.

Tyndale " was strangled to death while tied at the stake, and then his dead body was burned ".

Hitton was, according to Tyndale, tortured and executed at the stake for heresy.

Its ante-chapel houses a stained-glass window depicting William Tyndale, made in 1911 for the British and Foreign Bible Society, and installed at Hertford in 1994.

He was educated at Oxford University, where he studied the Hebrew, Greek and Latin languages, and also became familiar with the ( banned ) writings of Martin Luther and William Tyndale as well as the technology of printing.

Here he became friends with John Frith and William Tyndale, and became a member of the group of humanist theologians that met at the White Horse Tavern-a group that included the future Lutherans Edward Fox and Robert Barnes, and the arch-conservative Stephen Gardiner.

The Tyndale Monument is a tower built on a hill at North Nibley, Gloucestershire, England.

It was built in honour of William Tyndale, a translator of the New Testament, who is believed to have been born at North Nibley.

Further down the Cotswold Edge, at Hawkesbury, is the Somerset Monument, erected in 1846, and the design of the Tyndale tower has features in common with this.

North Nibley is the probable birthplace of William Tyndale, who was responsible for translating the New Testament into English, and for which he was later sentenced to death by burning at the stake in Vilvoorde, Flanders.

In his memory the Tyndale Monument stands on Nibley Knoll just above the village, at on the Cotswold Way and is a fine viewpoint.

In the late 1980s, Taylor and his colleagues at Tyndale House Publishers invited a team of 90 Greek and Hebrew scholars to participate in a project of revising the text of The Living Bible.

Tyndale was a priest who graduated at Oxford, was a student in Cambridge when Martin Luther posted his theses at Wittenberg and was troubled by the problems within the Church.

Magdalen Hall was known for its adherence to the teachings of John Wycliffe, and it was here that William Tyndale, translator of the English Bible and martyr, studied.

It is also home to campuses of York University, Seneca College, Osgoode Hall Law School, and Tyndale University College and Seminary.

Trinity College, Bristol was formed in 1971 from a merger of three evangelical colleges in Bristol: Clifton College, Dalton House with St Michaels, and Tyndale Hall.

It was renamed Tyndale Hall in 1952.

He was Assistant Curate of Harborne Heath in Birmingham 1952-54 and Lecturer at Tyndale Hall, Bristol 1955-61.

In 1970 he became Principal of Tyndale Hall, Bristol, and from 1971 until 1979 he was Associate Principal of Trinity College, Bristol, which had been formed from the amalgamation of Tyndale Hall with Clifton College and Dalton House-St Michael's.

He served as a Royal Air Force chaplain during World War II, followed by five years as vicar of St Nicholas ' Church, Durham and seventeen years as vice-principal of Tyndale Hall, Bristol.

His more serious writings begin early with the Enchiridion militis Christiani, the " Handbook of the Christian Soldier " ( 1503 ) ( translated into English a few years later by the young William Tyndale ).

" One year later, the earliest recorded use in reference to a theological distinction was by Sir Thomas More, who spoke of " Tyndale his evangelical brother Barns ".

Sharing Erasmus ' translation ideals, Tyndale took the ill-regarded, unpopular and awkward Middle-English " vulgar " tongue, improved upon it using Greek and Hebrew syntaxes and idioms, and formed an Early Modern English basis Shakespeare and others would later follow and build on as Tyndale-inspired vernacular forms took over.

As Tyndale later complained:

The entire New Testament ( first published in 1526, later revised, 1534 and 1535 ), the Pentateuch, Jonah and in David Daniell's view, the Books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, First and Second Samuel, First and Second Kings, and First and Second Chronicles, were the work of William Tyndale.

Although Wycliffe's Bible circulated widely in the later Middle Ages, it had very little influence on the first English biblical translations of the reformation era such as those of William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale, as it had been translated from the Latin Vulgate rather than the original Greek and Hebrew ; and consequently it was generally ignored in later English Protestant biblical scholarship.

One year later, 1535, William Tyndale was tried and denounced as a heretic for his new English Bible translation.

John Rogers, the first martyr under Mary I, whose " Matthew's Bible " later combined translations by Tyndale and Miles Coverdale, served as chaplain to the English merchants in Antwerp.