Vernacular Translations

In the sixteenth century, however, it was only the many Anabaptist communities who most radically caught Erasmus’s vision to disempower the structures of catholic Christianity – both Protestant as well as Roman – by means of vernacular translations of the Bible.  Against hierarchy and creed, these free church traditions were keen to replace received dogmatic [...]

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The Bible in the Vulgar Tongue

The sermons which thou readest in the Acts of the Apostles, and all that the apostles preached were, no doubt, preached in the mother tongue.  Why, then, might they not be written in the mother tongue?  As if one of us preach a good sermon, why may it not be written?  Saint Jerome, also, translated [...]

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