John david teems biography

David grew up in Atlanta, GA and graduated with a BA in Psychology from Georgia State University.
David Teems is the best-selling author of MAJESTIE: The King Behind the King James Bible (Thomas Nelson/Harper Collins, 2010) and TYNDALE: The Man Who Gave God.
He earned his undergraduate degree (BA Psychology) at Georgia State University and attended graduate school (educational psychology) at GSU.

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Tyndale: The Man who Gave God an English Voice

It was an outlawed book, a text so dangerous "it could onlybe countered by the most vicious burnings, of books and men and women." Butwhat book could incite such violence and bloodshed? The year is 1526. It is theage of Henry VIII and his tragic Anne Boleyn, of Martin Luther and Thomas More.The times are treacherous. The Catholic Church controls almost every aspect ofEnglish life, including access to the very Word of God. And the church will do anythingto keep it that way.

Enter William Tyndale, the gifted, courageous "heretic" whodared translate the Word of God into English. He worked in secret, in exile, inperil, always on the move. Neither England nor the English language would everbe the same again.

With thoughtful clarity and a reverence that comes throughon every page, David Teems shares a story of intrigue and atrocity, betrayal andperseverance. This is how the Reformation officially reached English shores--andwhat it cost the men who brought it there.

Praise for David Teems' previous work Majestie

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Tyndale

David Teems is a professional musician and writer. Although his primary livelihood has been music, he majored in psychology in college and has long been drawn to spiritual counseling as an avocation. None of this explains how Teems became a historian and biographer, but that is his story. The backdrop to Teems’s biography of William Tyndale is his earlier book, Majestie: The King Behind the King James Bible, occasioned by the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible in 2011.

I experienced Tyndale: The Man Who Gave God an English Voice as three separate books. The first is named in the subtitle and occupies the first hundred pages. It is the biography of the first major translator of the Bible into English. To call it a biography actually conceals the brilliance of what Teems has achieved. He tells an adventure story that revolves around Tyndale’s English translation of the New Testament and part of the Old Testament. Tyndale (1494–1536) is the protagonist of the story, which is set in many places and is a continuous narrow escape.

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ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO (ANS)—If Protestants had a top-ten list of heroes, William Tyndale (1494-1536) would surely be on the list. David Teems’ book, Tyndale: The Man Who Gave God an English Voice, tells us why. In eighteen well-researched chapters, Teems offers a penetrating look at the 16^th century scholar and translator who became a voice of reformation in England.

Tyndale

Tyndale was born in Gloucestershire, near the border of Wales. He attended Oxford University, taking a master’s degree in theology in 1515. Tyndale’s ambition, however, was to translate the Bible into English. Leaving England in 1523 to do so, he arrived in Germany in 1524. After going back and forth between a few German cities, Tyndale began the arduous task of translating the Bible into English in Worms, Germany.

Initially influenced by Desiderius Erasmus— the Dutch scholar and translator of the Greek New Testament, Tyndale translates much of the Bible into English by 1526. Tyndale completes a revised publication in 1534.

Like Maritn Luther, Tyndale uses the printing press to disseminate