The English Bible

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Cards (4)

  • Injunctions required each parish church to acquire an English Bible and encourage 'every person to read the same, which is the lively word of God that very Christian man, is bound to embrace'

    1538
  • First edition of the Great Bible appeared, complete with a title page showing Henry VIII 'offering' the word of God on the one hand to Cranmer and his bishops and on the other to Cromwell and other politicians

    1539
  • Act for the Advancement of True Religion restricted the public reading of the Bible to upper-class males

    1543
  • The word of God was all very well, but not if it loosened the bonds of social control on which good order depended