history of Christianity

We are currently publishing the full interviews with the academics who we featured in the documentary series, followed by a number of interviews looking more closely at modern Bible translations.

Today, Tony is speaking to Alec Ryrie, the professor of the history of Christianity at the University of Durham.

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Tyndale House podcast.

Today, I am delighted to be joined by Alec Ryrie, who is a historian from Durham University in the United Kingdom.

We're going to be talking about William Tyndale and Tyndale's New Testament because we are celebrating the 500th anniversary of the first printing of William Tyndale's New Testament, being the first New Testament to be translated into English from Greek, rather than from Latin, which Wycliffe had done previously.

So perhaps we could start just with you introducing yourself a little bit, telling us what you do in Durham, what you're your background and your interests are that have particularly brought William Tyndale into your life?

Well, my title is Professor of the History of Christianity.

And I teach actually right across that field at Durham with a focus on the Reformation era and beyond.

So the faxes he sent, he kept the originals, which are now in Emory.

One of those, I came across a letter to a man called Eamon, there was no surname, uh, dated 2001, and it was a two-page fax in which Seamus, clearly this Eamon had sent Seamus a book, and Seamus, as it turns out, it was a, the, the, Eamon was a man called Eamon Duffy, who's the professor, was the professor of the History of Christianity at Cambridge.

And Eamon Duffy wrote a magnificent book in 2001 called The Voices of Morebath.

Now, Morebath is a small farming village on the, in Exmoor.