Translating Resurrection: The Debate Between William Tyndale and George Joye in Its Historical and Theological Context

568 Pages·2014·2.772 MB·English

by  Gergely Juhász

Translating Resurrection
Studies in the History of
Christian Traditions
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Translating Resurrection
The Debate between William Tyndale and George Joye
in Its Historical and Theological Context
By
Gergely M. Juhász
LEIDEN | BOSTON
Cover illustration: Jan de Gheet’s view of Antwerp, from Unio pro conservatione rei publice (Antwerp:
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Juhász, Gergely, 1971–
 Translating Resurrection : the debate between William Tyndale and George Joye in its historical and
theological context
  pages cm. — (Studies in the history of Christian traditions, ISSN 1573–5664 ; VOLUME 165)
 Includes bibliographical references and index.
 ISBN 978-90-04-24894-6 (hardback : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-90-04-25952-2 (e-book : alk. paper) 1. Tyndale,
William,—1536. 2. Joye, George,—1553. 3. Future life—History of doctrines—16th century. 4. Resurrection—
History of doctrines—16th century. 5. Reformation. 6. Church history—16th century. I. Title.
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ConTEnTs
Acknowledgments  ......................................................................................... xi
List of Illustrations  ......................................................................................... xiii
Abbreviations  .................................................................................................. xv
1.   The Tyndale–Joye Debate in the Literature  ..................................... 1
A Tumultuous World  .............................................................................. 1
The Pamphlet and Its Author: The Debate on the Doom of
the Dead Between George Joye and William Tyndale  ............ 12
William Tyndale  .................................................................................. 12
George Joye  ........................................................................................... 16
The sources for the Tyndale–Joye Debate  ....................................... 27
A status Quaestionis ................................................................................ 28
The First Biographical References by Joye’s Contemporaries  .... 28
The Conservative Consensus and some Exceptions to It  ...... 33
A shift in the study of Joye  .............................................................. 55
Charles Butterworth and Joye’s only Biography  ................. 56
William Clebsch  ............................................................................. 57
Recent studies  ................................................................................ 61
Conclusion of the status Quaestionis  ........................................... 65
Methodological Considerations and the structure of the Book  .... 66
2. Views on Post-Mortem Existence Prior to the Reformation  ...... 71
Views on Post-Mortem Existence in the Bible  ................................ 72
Belief in the Afterlife in the old Testament  ............................... 72
Belief in the Afterlife in the new Testament  ............................. 77
Post-Mortem Existence in the Church Fathers  ............................... 86
Post-Mortem Existence in the Theology of the Middle Ages and
the Renaissance  ................................................................................... 101
3.  Views on Post-Mortem Existence in the Early Reformation
Period  ...................................................................................................... 125
Introduction  ............................................................................................... 125
Wessel Gansfort  ........................................................................................ 126
Erasmus  ....................................................................................................... 132
Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples  ....................................................................... 152
viii contents
Martin Luther  ............................................................................................ 164
Andreas Karlstadt and Gerhard Westerburg  ................................... 180
Philipp Melanchthon  .............................................................................. 188
Huldrych Zwingli  ...................................................................................... 193
Martin Bucer  .............................................................................................. 208
Heinrich Bullinger  .................................................................................... 226
Bartholomäus Westheimer and otto Brunfels  ................................ 234
William Roye, simon Fish, and William Tracy  ............................... 244
John Fisher and the Defenders of Purgatory  ................................... 253
Thomas More  ............................................................................................. 260
John Frith  .................................................................................................... 266
The Anabaptists  ........................................................................................ 276
Conclusion to Chapter Three  ............................................................... 282
4.  The Tyndale–Joye Debate in Antwerp  .............................................. 287
Tyndale’s Worms new Testament and Its Antwerp
Reprints (1526–33)  .............................................................................. 287
A Common Protestant Basis  ................................................................. 295
Diverging opinions: Tyndale’s Position on soul sleep  ................. 300
Joye’s Letter to Latimer and the Letter to Brother William
(29 April 1533)  ...................................................................................... 306
Joye’s First new Testament (August 1534)  ........................................ 321
Tyndale’s second Foreword in His First Revised new Testament
(november 1534)  ................................................................................. 327
Joye’s second new Testament (november 1534–January 1535)  ..... 342
Joye’s Apologye (February 1535)  ........................................................... 351
Joye’s non-Theological Arguments  ................................................ 353
Joye’s Theological Arguments  ......................................................... 366
Joye’s scholarship and sources  ....................................................... 399
Joye’s style  ............................................................................................. 410
Joye’s Translational strategy  ............................................................ 414
Aftermath  .................................................................................................... 421
5. Conclusion  .................................................................................................. 427
The Inappropriateness of the Conservative Consensus  ............... 427
An Exegetical Debate in Its Context  .................................................. 428
The Legacy of the Tyndale–Joye Debate  ........................................... 429
Appendices  ...................................................................................................... 433
1. George Joye to Hugh Latimer (29 April 1533)  ............................. 433
contents ix
2. John Coke to Brother William (29 April 1533)  ........................... 435
3. The ‘Attached Paper’  .......................................................................... 436
4. Joye’s Address ‘Unto the Reader’ in His second
new Testament  .............................................................................. 437
5. Biblical Texts where Joye Changed ‘resurreccion’ into
‘lyfe after this’  ................................................................................. 440
Bibliography  .................................................................................................... 453
Index of Biblical References  ....................................................................... 525
General Index  .................................................................................................. 532