I think that William Tyndale would view pope-resistance as an offshoot of his other calling in life: translating the Bible into English.
As you may know, the official Bible of the Catholic Church was the Latin Vulgate, written in (you guessed it) Latin.Since the Church had a monopoly on the Latin language, no one outside the Church was supposed to have the Word. Interestingly,before the Church made all these monopolizing decisions, there were other translations that effected England. Back in the early medieval period,there was the Anglo-Saxon Translation of the Bible,which was not to last after the Norman Conquest (1066) because Old Anglo-Saxon became a pretty-much dead language,except those parts that were converted into English. The New Testament was later translated into English by Wycliff. This started the movement of the Lollards,which gave John Foxe many,many martyrdoms to report on. Wycliff managed to die before the inquisitors got him,although 40 years later he was exhumed and burned at Smithfield,with ashes later poured into the river.
After Tyndale graduated from Oxford, he became convicted of his need for personal salvation.As he was at home in Latin,Greek,and later Hebrew,he had the advantage,like Luther, of being able to see for himself the Truth.
Tyndale and others sought to translate from the Greek and Hebrew a Bible for the English. his New testament was so good,in fact, that the 1611 group preparing the King James Bible used Tyndale's New Testament almost entirely in the new Authorized Version.
Of course, the Enemy hated this. Brother Tyndale was ,as the gangsters say,on the lam for years,until he was eventually betrayed and burnt at Brussells.
But his remarkable ability to translate the Word gave us the beautiful King Jame's Bible,celebrating it's 400th Birthday this year.
And of course the pope was displeased. Tough.
Julian of York
"And the Word was made flesh,and dwelt among us; (and we beheld His glory,as of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth." John 1:14
Ah,William,thanks for giving us the beauty of Holy Writ in our own language!
..
