William Tyndale Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Legacy== {{lutheranism|expanded=translators}} ===Impact on English Bibles=== {{see also |Tyndale's Bible}} The translators of the [[Revised Standard Version]] in the 1940s noted that Tyndale's translation, including the 1537 Matthew Bible, inspired the translations that followed: The Great Bible of 1539; the [[Geneva Bible]] of 1560; the [[Bishops' Bible]] of 1568; the [[Douay-Rheims Bible]] of 1582–1609; and the King James Version of 1611, of which the RSV translators noted: "It [the KJV] kept felicitous phrases and apt expressions, from whatever source, which had stood the test of public usage. It owed most, especially in the New Testament, to Tyndale". [[George Steiner]] in his book on translation ''[[After Babel]]'' refers to "the influence of the genius of Tyndale, the greatest of English Bible translators."{{sfn|Steiner|1998|p=366}} ===Memorials=== [[File:Arduinen gedenkteken voor William Tyndale, Mechelsesteenweg, 1800 Vilvoorde.JPG|thumbnail|left|Memorial to William Tyndale in a Vilvoorde public garden]] A memorial to Tyndale stands in Vilvoorde, Flanders, where he was executed. It was erected in 1913 by Friends of the Trinitarian Bible Society of London and the Belgian Bible Society.<ref>''Le Chrétien Belge'', 18 October 1913; 15 November 1913.</ref> There is also a small William Tyndale Museum in the town, attached to the Protestant church.<ref>{{Citation | url=http://www.williamtyndalemuseum.be/index.php/en/ | title=Museum | access-date=22 January 2016 | archive-date=31 January 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131181132/http://www.williamtyndalemuseum.be/index.php/en/ | url-status=dead }}.</ref> A bronze statue by Sir [[Joseph Boehm]] commemorating the life and work of Tyndale was erected in Victoria Embankment Gardens on the [[Thames Embankment]], London, in 1884. It shows his right hand on an open Bible, which is itself resting on an early printing press. A life-sized bronze statue of a seated William Tyndale at work on his translation by [[Lawrence Holofcener]] (2000) was placed in the [[Millennium Square (Bristol)|Millennium Square, Bristol]], United Kingdom. The [[Tyndale Monument]] was built in 1866 on a hill above his supposed birthplace, [[North Nibley]], Gloucestershire. A stained-glass window commemorating Tyndale was made in 1911 for the [[British and Foreign Bible Society]] by [[James Powell and Sons]]. In 1994, after the Society had moved their offices from London to Swindon, the window was reinstalled in the chapel of [[Hertford College]] in Oxford. Tyndale was at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, which became Hertford College in 1874. The window depicts a full-length portrait of Tyndale, a cameo of a printing shop in action, some words of Tyndale, the opening words of Genesis in Hebrew, the opening words of John's Gospel in Greek, and the names of other pioneering Bible translators. The portrait is based on the oil painting that hangs in the college's dining hall. A stained glass window by [[Arnold Wathen Robinson|Arnold Robinson]] in [[Tyndale Baptist Church]], [[Bristol]], also commemorates the life of Tyndale. Several colleges, schools and study centres have been named in his honour, including [[Tyndale House (Cambridge)]], [[Tyndale University]] (Toronto), the Tyndale-Carey Graduate School affiliated to the [[Bible College of New Zealand]], [[William Tyndale College]] (Farmington Hills, Michigan), and [[Tyndale Theological Seminary]] (Shreveport, Louisiana, and Fort Worth, Texas), the independent [[Tyndale Theological Seminary (Europe)|Tyndale Theological Seminary]]<ref>{{Citation | url=http://www.tyndale-europe.edu/ | title=Tyndale Theological Seminary | place=[[Europe|EU]]}}.</ref> in Badhoevedorp, near Amsterdam, the Netherlands, [[Tyndale Christian School (South Australia)|Tyndale Christian School]] in South Australia and Tyndale Park Christian School<ref>{{Citation |url=http://www.tyndalepark.school.nz/ |title=Tyndale park |publisher=School |place=[[New Zealand|NZ]]}}.</ref> in New Zealand. An American Christian publishing house, also called [[Tyndale House]], was named after Tyndale. [[File:William Tyndale Victoria Embankment.jpg|thumb|Statue of William Tyndale]] There is an Anglican communion setting in memoriam William Tyndale, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20161011120645/https://sites.google.com/site/brightmorningstar624/home/tyndale-service The Tyndale Service],'' by David Mitchell. ===Liturgical commemoration=== By tradition Tyndale's death is commemorated on [[October 6|6 October]].{{sfn|Daniell|2011}} There are commemorations on this date in the [[List of Anglican Church calendars|church calendars]] of members of the [[Anglican Communion]], initially as one of the "days of optional devotion" in the American Book of Common Prayer (1979),{{sfn|Hatchett|1981|p=43, 76–77}} and a "black-letter day" in the [[Church of England]]'s Alternative Service Book.{{sfn|Draper|1982|p=}} [[Common Worship|The Common Worship]] that came into use in the [[Church of England]] in 2000 provides a collect proper to [[Calendar of saints (Church of England)|6 October]] ([[Lesser Festival (Anglicanism)|Lesser Festival]]),<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Calendar|url=https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/churchs-year/calendar|access-date=2021-04-09|website=The Church of England|language=en}}</ref> beginning with the words: {{Blockquote |Lord, give your people grace to hear and keep your word that, after the example of your servant William Tyndale, we may not only profess your gospel but also be ready to suffer and die for it, to the honor of your name;}} Tyndale is honored in the [[Calendar of saints (Lutheran)|Calendar of saints]] of the [[Evangelical Lutheran Church in America]] as a translator and martyr the same day. 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