TYNDALE – A TRIBUTE IN PARLIAMENT – A NATIONAL RECOGNITION

To mark this historic anniversary, the ILOI worked closely with Gregory Campbell MP, a member of the Institution, and Jim Allister MP, to bring the spirit of the Reformation to Westminster. Gregory Campbell developed and proposed a motion based on the ILOI’s Twelfth Resolutions, stating:

“That this House notes the ongoing work of a number of organisations, including the Trinitarian Bible Society, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of William Tyndale translating the Bible into the English language in 1525; and recognises that this momentous event meant that, for the first time in history, millions of people for whom English was their first language began to have the opportunity to read the Bible for themselves, which transformed religious practices and subsequently enabled tens of millions of lay people, and those with no previous religious leanings or upbringing, to learn from the scriptures in their own language, and know the transforming power of the saving grace that comes about in Christ alone.”

The ILOI pays tribute to both MPs for their support in marking this key moment in the Protestant history of the nation.