Henry VIII,the Reign

The Obedience of A Christian Man
The Obedience of a Christen man, and how Christen rulers ought to govern, wherein also (if thou mark diligently) thou shalt find eyes to perceive the crafty convience of all iugglers [sic] is a 1528 book written by the English Protestant author William Tyndale. The title is now often modernised and abbreviated to The Obedience of a Christian Man. 


The first edition of the book was published by Merten de Keyser in Antwerp. The work is known for its premise that the king of a country was the head of that country's church - not the pope - and the first publication, in to argue the divine right of kings. 

Tyndale's opposition to Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon antagonised Henry but when he was arrested by the Roman Catholic authorities in Antwerp in 1535, Henry's chief minister Thomas Cromwell attempted to intervene on Tyndale’s behalf, without success
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William Tyndale
Henry VIII, the Reign.
Henry VIII, the Reign.