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The Hussites (Czech: Husité or Kališníci, "Chalice People"; Latin: Hussitae) were a Czech proto-Protestant Christian movement, with influences from both the Byzantine Rite and John Wycliffe, and that followed the teachings of reformer Jan Hus (fl. 1401–1415), a part of the Bohemian Reformation.
It draws its teachings from the traditional Christianity presented by the Church Fathers (Patristics), with the first Seven Ecumenical Councils, the work of Saints Cyril and Methodius, and the Protestant Reformation tradition, especially Utraquist and Hussite thought. Like Orthodox Christians, Roman Catholics, and Anglo-Catholics, the ...
The Hussite Wars, also called the ... The unrest began after pre-Protestant Christian reformer Jan Hus was executed by the Catholic Church in 1415 for heresy. [1] [2] ...
Jan Hus at the stake The spread of reformation movements in 16th-century Europe (Bohemian Reformation in orange). The Bohemian Reformation (also known as the Czech Reformation [1] or Hussite Reformation), preceding the Reformation of the 16th century, was a Christian movement in the late medieval and early modern Kingdom and Crown of Bohemia (mostly what is now present-day Czech Republic ...
Hus was released to the secular authority, which sentenced him to be burned at the stake on 6 July 1415. From 1419 to 1437 were a series of Hussite Wars, initially between various Roman Catholic rulers and the Hussites. Then there was a Hussite civil war, between the more compromising Utraquists and the radical Taborites.
Taborites: Taborites were a faction of the Hussite movement, they denied transubstantiation, veneration of saints, prayers for the dead, indulgences, confession to clergy and renounced oaths. [61] Utraquists: Utraquists insisted on communion under two kinds, apostolic poverty, "free preaching of the gospel" and the use of Czech in scripture ...
In 1971, the church started to use the name Czechoslovak Hussite Church with the aim to continue the Hussite tradition. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The Czechoslovak Hussite Church recognizes seven sacraments : baptism , eucharist , penance , confirmation , holy matrimony , holy orders , and anointing of the sick . [ 13 ]
Utraquism (from the Latin sub utraque specie, meaning "under both kinds"), also called Calixtinism (from chalice; Latin: calix, borrowed from Greek kalyx, "shell, husk"; Czech: kališníci), was a belief amongst Hussites, a reformist Christian movement based on the Czech lands, that communion under both kinds (both bread and wine, as opposed to ...