That means that they are allowed to explore God’s creation and, according to Genesis 2:15, make use of it in a responsible and sustainable way. The Protestant concept of God and man allows believers to use all their God-given faculties, including the power of reason. Whittingham and his fellow translators made use of many other versions and commentaries, including the excellent work of Beza, and, more important, they returned to the Greek and Hebrew texts to guide and check their translationsthe first of the English translators to employ such exacting and scrupulous methods. John Knox was there preaching to the English congregation, Calvin was there writing commentaries, and Theodore Beza, one of the most prominent Biblical scholars of the day, was there studying the Greek text. It was translated for the space of two years and more, day and night by William Whittingham, Anthony Gilbey, and others whom the accession of Mary Tudor had forced into exile at Geneva, then at the height of its ascendancy over the Protestant world. But the Geneva Bible was the product of the best Protestant scholarship of its time. Published at Geneva in 1560 by Rowland Hall, the Geneva Bible shaped the theology, the literary expression, and the very consciousness of the Elizabethan world.Įarlier English versions of the Biblethe Coverdale and Matthew Bibles, even the Great Bible were patchwork translations of inferior quality. A century later, non-conforming Protestants, along with the Protestant refugees from continental Europe, were to be among the primary instigators of the that led to the founding of the United States of America.įew translations of the English Bible have been as widely read and as influential as the Geneva Biblewhich the University of Wisconsin Press here offers in a first-edition facsimile. Įpiscopalian was re-established following the. They largely adopted in the 17th century, and were influenced by. They took on distinctive beliefs about clerical dress and in opposition to the system, particularly after the 1619 conclusions of the they were resisted by the English bishops.
The first Protestant sermon delivered in England was in Cambridge, with the pulpit that this sermon was delivered from surviving to today. Their beliefs, however, were transported by the emigration of congregations to the Netherlands, and by evangelical clergy to Ireland, and were spread into lay society and parts of the educational system, particularly certain colleges of the. Puritans were blocked from changing the established church from within, and were severely restricted in England by laws controlling the practice of religion.
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