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John Wycliffe (/ ˈ w ɪ k l ɪ f /; also spelled Wyclif, Wickliffe, and other variants; [a] c. 1328 – 31 December 1384) [2] was an English scholastic philosopher, Christian reformer, Catholic priest, and a theology professor at the University of Oxford.
The translator John Wycliffe was rector of the church between 1374 and 1384. [1] It was in the Lutterworth rectory that he is traditionally believed to have produced the first translation of the Bible from Latin into English (see Wycliffe's Bible). [6] His translation of the Bible into English started the Lollard movement. [4]
On the same occasion, however, it also discussed the writings and preachings of John Wycliffe and Jan Hus, both of whom were condemned by the council. The Council enacted a number of canons that were henceforth included in the church's canon law, which punished Catholics with excommunication if they subscribed to various heresies named at the ...
John Wycliffe, who was a precursor to the reformation, also believed in an invisible church made of the predestinated elect. [12] Another precursor of the reformation, Johann Ruchrat von Wesel believed in a distinction between the visible and invisible church.
In this 19th-century illustration, John Wycliffe is shown giving the Bible translation that bore his name to his Lollard followers. Lollardy [a] was a proto-Protestant Christian religious movement that was active in England from the mid-14th century until the 16th-century English Reformation.
They provided the view as an alternative to viewing the Church as an authority. [56] The movement was started by John Wycliffe and its doctrine anticipated those found in the Protestant Reformation. [57] Hussites: Hussites were a 15th-century group in Bohemia, founded by Jan Hus, who was influenced by the writings of John Wycliffe.
This brick church was built in 1846 to replace an earlier stone church built between 1817 and 1819, when Episcopalian families in the area found travel over bad roads to Old Chapel (Millwood, Virginia) or Christ Episcopal Church (Winchester, Virginia) too difficult. Its name honors John Wycliffe, who first translated the Bible into English. Rev.
The oldest narrative is that John Wycliffe, as the "Morning Star of the Reformation", and his household created the first translation of the Bible into English, with a view of making it available to laymen and to break the power of the church, with copies primarily circulating among Latin-illiterate Lollards.