
Continuing our series through the Protestant Reformation, this weeks episode covers the years 1526-1529 and includes:
• King Henry VIII pursues annulment from Catherine of Aragon
• William Tyndale translates the New Testament into English from Greek
• William Tyndale smuggles English New Testaments into England in bales of cotton
• The Roman Catholic Church unknowingly finances the 2nd edition of Tyndale’s work
• Printer Peter Quentell is raided by Johannes Cochlaeus
• Balthasar Hubmaier debates Zwingli on infant baptism
• Felix Manz is martyred by drowning in the Limmat River
• 1526 Baden Disputation
• 1528 Bern Disputation
• Schleitheim Confession of 1527 (Anabaptist)
• First Kappel War of 1529
• Scotland’s First Protestant Martyrs beginning with Patrick Hamilton
Class Notes can be found here: