William Tyndale at 500 years ... and after

The author, who is one of the editors of The Obedience of a Christian Man f or the Tyndale Project, recalls first of all the beginning of her own caree r at Yale, with Richard Sylvester as mentor, and Sister Anne O'Donnell as f ellow student. The Tyndale Project was born in a sense from the More Projec t. Next she examines each of the twenty essays collected in the volume unde r review, using the words of its title as divisions in her text. The subdiv ides word into translation, hermeneutics, and pastoral applications. Church furnishes "old and new" and concerns, not the two testaments, but beliefs and the Church, and "Tyndale and More". State is the domain where Tyndale r eveals himself the most myopic, particularly in his vision of a calculating Wolsey. Not content to extract the marrow of substance from these bones, t he author engages in much close examination, enriching the work with many a dditions or suggestions. She does the same with communications posterior to the book she is reviewing. The approval she accords to the authors thus ha s all the weight of her own expertise in the field.