Selected Writings: William Tyndale

good evening and welcome to this service of evening prayer for wednesday evening wednesday the 6th of october my name is catherine bowyer and i'm the dean of newcastle and i acknowledge that this danery where this service is being recorded and the cathedral of christchurch cathedral newcastle and saint peter's hamilton stand on a wobbical land i pay my respects to elders past and present and pray that i with the cathedral community may join with them in a spirit of reconciliation in caring for all that god has entrusted to us in the good gifts of creation today we give thanks for the witness of william tyndale translator of the scriptures law born in gloucestershire in about the year 1494 william tyndale studied first at maudlin hall oxford and then at cambridge he became determined to translate the scriptures from the greek directly into contemporary english but was thwarted in this by