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SOURCE: Duerden, Richard Y. “Justice and Justification: King and God in Tyndale's The Obedience of a Christian Man.” In William Tyndale and the Law: Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies 25, edited by John A. R. Dick and Anne Richardson, pp. 69-80. Kirksville, Mo.: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1994.
In the following essay originally read at a conference in 1992, Duerden examines Tyndale as a thinker, claiming that he is “pragmatic rather than systematic, ethical rather than theological, [and analogical rather than logical.”]
Previous scholarship has seen Tyndale most often as a translator and derivative theologian.1 Less often, and usually in passing, scholars have treated him, without much recourse to his theology, as a political thinker.2 When considering both his religion and his politics, scholars have seen his political thought structured by an opposition between the two kingdoms, the temporal and eternal realms.3 Each of these positions testifies to a belief in...
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