18 September 2015 A.D. ENGLISH REFORMATION: William Fulke & Necessity of English Bible Translations
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September 2015 A.D. ENGLISH REFORMATION: William Fulke & Necessity of English
Bible Translations
A Defence of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holy
Scriptures into the English Tongue, against the Cavils of Gregory Martin
Author: William Fulke
Editor: Charles Henry Hartshorne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1843
Pages: 607
One of the most significant and divisive issues in the English
Reformation was Bible translation. This volume from the Parker Society presents
Puritan minister William Fulke’s defense of an English Bible. Fulke rails
against Catholic priest Gregory Martin’s attacks on English translations as
dangerous and unreliable, advocating for the widespread distribution of a Bible
in the people’s tongue. The volume includes a biographical sketch of the
spirited Fulke, and is indicative of the groundswell of Reformed theology that
carried the Church of England away from Rome.
William Fulke (1538–1589) was an
English Puritan divine, and a leading figure in the vestments controversy over
English church identity.
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