NO POPULAR PRESS WITHOUT TYNDALE

The 2011 Trust is gearing up for the 400th anniversary of the Authorised Version next year with a YouTube video on its website of Richard Dawkins no less reading chapter two of the Song of Songs. In an interview with 2011 chairman Frank Field MP, also available on the web-site, Professor Dawkins declared that

we are a Christian culture, we come from a Christian culture and not to know the King James Bible is to be, in some small way, barbarian.

As the youth group knows, the AV is largely the work of the Evangelical linguistic genius William Tyndale, who was martyred for Christ in 1536. Heresy Corner published this piece by Cranmer's Curate about the link between the English Bible and the emergence of a popular free press in Britain.