SOURCE: Clebsch, William A. “Tyndale as Luther's Protégé, 1524-1529” and “Tyndale's Rediscovery of the Law, 1530-1532.” In England's Earliest Protestants, 1520-1535, pp. 137-53; 154-80. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.

In the following essays, Clebsch compares Tyndale with Luther as a translator, theologian, and expositor of the Protestants, and he analyzes Tyndale's evolving legal philosophy and how he incorporated it into his theology.

Tyndale as Luther's Protégé, 1524-1529

Ever since Thomas More became official defender of the Catholic religion, English opinion unanimously has acclaimed William Tyndale the chief spokesman of original English Protestantism. He translated the entire New Testament and large portions of the Old; he was expositor of a normative biblical religion; he pamphleteered against an entrenched Catholic hierarchy; although not always obeyed, he directed the activities of English Protestant exiles on the Continent; he was the elusive grand prize of heretic hunts arranged by More...