Today, the Anglican\/Episcopal church celebrates the feast day of William Tyndale who brought the bible into the English language. \u00a0His work, persecuted by the monarchy and Church, was eventually appropriated by both to become the King James Bible.<\/p>\n
Tyndale\u2019s work was to bring the Gospel into his place and time\u2013that was what translating the scriptures meant. \u00a0The fear of his persecutors was that such a translation would transform the scriptures into something else, something less than or different from the official doctrines of the church. \u00a0And in some ways they were right\u2013every translation into a new context or language involves a transformation, but that transformation was already happening and had happened many times before not least of which was the movement from the written law of Moses to the living, enfleshed word of Christ.<\/p>\n
Reflect today about how you can follow Tyndale and make the word of God, the good news of that word, native to your place and time. \u00a0What essential transformations will be required to make the word understandable here and now.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today, the Anglican\/Episcopal church celebrates the feast day of William Tyndale who brought the bible into the English language. \u00a0His work, persecuted by the monarchy and Church, was eventually appropriated by both to become the King James Bible. Tyndale\u2019s work was to bring the Gospel into his place and time\u2013that was what translating the scriptures […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditation","category-study"],"yoast_head":"\n