SOURCE: Boehrer, Bruce. “Tyndale's The Practyse of Prelates: Reformation Doctrine and the Royal Supremacy.” Renaissance & Reformation 10, no. 3 (August 1986): 257-76.

In the following essay, Boehrer argues that Tyndale infused The Practyse of Prelates with what is the essence of truly Christian behavior.

What makes Tyndale's The Practyse of Prelates unique in the literature of the Henrician divorce is nothing less than its entire polemical orientation.¹ At a time when the intellects of Europe were rapidly gathering into two distinct camps on the divorce issue, Tyndale sought common cause with no one. Not only did he—as was to be expected—continue to fulminate against the party of Rome, but he decisively withheld his allegiance from the Henrician group, despite the general support Henry was finding amongst English Lutherans.² Throughout the King's great matter, upon which all Englishmen sooner or later had to take a stand, Tyndale remained unswayed by...