Celebrating England's first Evangelical mov't, William Tyndale and the first printed English New Testament
Celebrating England's first Evangelical mov't, William Tyndale and the first printed English New Testament
By Christian Today
Sunday, August 10, 2025
Celebrations for the quincentenary — the 500th anniversary — of the English New Testament began in Antwerp in July. This is the story …
William Tyndale
It was John Wycliffe and his followers who translated the Bible into English from Latin in the late 1300s. This led to the Lollards, who comprised England's first Evangelical movement. From that movement came a man called William Tyndale, who had the drive to translate the New Testament into English from Greek, using Erasmus' printed Greek New Testament.
Printed New Testament
He completed the New Testament 500 years ago in 1525. He had been forced to flee England to complete his enterprise because he had been refused permission to translate by the English Church authorities, which alerted them to what he was doing.
He fled to what is now Germany, and he completed the New Testament in Cologne in 1525. Sadly, he was betrayed, and only the first 22 Chapters of Matthew survived, known today as the Cologne Fragment. Later, he went to Worms and restarted his work, publishing his New Testament. This work was recorded as arriving in England and Scotland in late 1525, although, due to the change in the calendar, it is now considered to have occurred in early 1526.
Later, he revised it and printed a new version in Antwerp, which is now in Belgium. There will be events to mark the quincentenary of the English New Testament through 2026.
Tyndale effectively gave us the modern English Bible, because what he did led to the King James Version and modern revisions or revisions of it, like the RSV, NRSV and ESV.
The Tyndale Society
The Tyndale Society was founded in 1995 to research and foster scholarship into William Tyndale. The Tyndale Society launched celebrations for the quincentenary of the English New Testament with a conference in Antwerp in July. This event was co-hosted by the University of Antwerp, the Plantin-Moretus Print Museum, and Louvain University.
The title of the conference was "Tudor England and the Antwerp Book Trade," and there were nearly a hundred people learning and giving papers about Tyndale and the print world in which he inhabited, which helped to produce the English Bible. This also marked the 30th anniversary of the Tyndale Society.
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