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! ====Opposition to Henry VIII's annulment==== [[File: Bust Of William Tyndale.jpg|thumb|upright|Sculpted Head of William Tyndale from [[St Dunstan-in-the-West]] Church, London]] In 1530, from exile, he wrote ''The Practice of Prelates'', opposing Henry VIII's desire to secure the [[annulment]] of his marriage to [[Catherine of Aragon]] in favour of [[Anne Boleyn]], on the grounds that it was unscriptural and that it was a plot by [[Thomas Wolsey|Cardinal Wolsey]] to get Henry entangled in the papal courts of [[Pope Clement VII]]. {{sfn|Bourgoin|1998}}{{efn|"...English kings on one side and the wicked popes and English bishops on the other. Cardinal Wolsey embodies the culmination of centuries of conspiracy, and Tyndale's hatred of Wolsey is so nearly boundless that it seems pathological."{{sfn|Marius|1999|p=388}} }} Historian Bruce Boehrer writes that for Tyndale the issue related to the perspicacity of literal scripture: "I suspect he (Tyndale) undercut the arguments of both Church and King because he found both to be based upon an objectionable premise: that the word of God should be subject to the final arbitrament of a single man."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Boehrer |first1=Bruce |title=Tyndale's "The Practyse of Prelates": Reformation Doctrine and the Royal Supremacy |journal=Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme |date=1986 |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=257–276 |jstor=43444594 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43444594 |issn=0034-429X}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page