Greek New Testament
Desiderius Erasmus
The prince of the humanists, whose Greek New Testament of 1516 served the Reformation, but who sought the moral reform of Rome rather than the recovery of the gospel and wrote against Luther on the freedom of the will.
God
How the Reformation restored God to the center of faith and life through Scripture, challenging the medieval synthesis and human autonomy.
Greek New Testament
How Erasmus’s printed Greek New Testament helped Reformers return to the sources and shaped the translations of Luther, Zwingli, and Tyndale.
History of the Bible
A history of the Bible’s canon, transmission, ancient versions, medieval preservation, printing, Reformation translation, and modern abundance.
Redemption
How the Reformation recovered the biblical gospel of redemption by grace through faith in Christ as God’s power to save sinners.
Thomas Bilney
A brief biographical sketch of Thomas Bilney (c. 1495–1531), converted through Erasmus’s New Testament, the means of Hugh Latimer’s conversion, burned at Norwich.
William Tyndale
A biography of William Tyndale (1494–1536): the plowboy vow at Little Sodbury, the first printed English New Testament, Bibles in bales, the burning of God’s Word, a bare text, betrayal at Antwerp, Vilvoorde, and the prayer answered.
