The Coverdale Translation of Psalm LXXXIV
The Coverdale Bible of 1535 in itself, in its sources, in its enduring vitality, is one of the remarkable monuments of the Protestant Reformation in England. Any historical study of it must set one at the heart of that astonishing release of human energies that put an end to an older epoch of Christ...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1945
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1945, Volume: 38, Issue: 4, Pages: 245-269 |
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| Summary: | The Coverdale Bible of 1535 in itself, in its sources, in its enduring vitality, is one of the remarkable monuments of the Protestant Reformation in England. Any historical study of it must set one at the heart of that astonishing release of human energies that put an end to an older epoch of Christendom and, along with other influences, set us on the road to our modern complexity of forces whose issue we do not descry. The new vernacular Bibles of the sixteenth century, embedded in the new doctrine of the private reader's emancipation from authority, were manifestly one of the chief engines of the popular appeal of Protestantism, which was to be in the event so sweepingly successful throughout northern Europe. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S001781600002280X |