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| | John Wycliffe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Wycliffe Bible Translators, one of the worlds largest international organisations dedicated to translating the Bible into every living language in the World, is of course, named in honour of John Wycliffe. | | | Wycliffe aimed to do away with the existing hierarchy and replace it with the "poor priests" who lived in poverty, were bound by no vows, had received no formal consecration, and preached the Gospel to the people. | | | Wycliffe wanted to see his ideas actualized – his fundamental belief was that the Church should be poor, as in the days of the apostles. |
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| | EPC of Australia - John Wycliffe |
| | Wycliffe was a man of great faith and it was in his last years that this faith shone the brightest. | | | Wycliffe came to deny all the distinctive beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church. | | | Wycliffe grew spiritually as he gained greater knowledge and understanding of what the Word of God was teaching. |
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http://www.epc.org.au/literature/bb/wycliffe.html
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| | Island of Freedom - John Wycliffe |
| | Wycliffe denounced as unscriptural many beliefs and practices of the established church. | | | In 1376 Wycliffe enunciated the doctrine of "dominion as founded in grace," according to which all authority is conferred directly by the grace of God and is consequently forfeited when the wielder of that authority is guilty of mortal sin. | | | Wycliffe wrote several pamphlets refuting the pope's claims and upholding the right of Parliament to limit church power. |
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http://www.island-of-freedom.com/WYCLIFFE.HTM
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| | The Great Controversy |
| | Wycliffe accepted the Holy Scriptures with implicit faith as the inspired revelation of God's will, a sufficient rule of faith and practice. | | | Wycliffe received a liberal education, and with him the fear of the Lord was the beginning of wisdom. | | | Wycliffe's work was almost done; the banner of truth which he had so long borne was soon to fall from his hand; but once more he was to bear witness for the gospel. |
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| | Blue Letter Bible - Study Tools |
| | Wycliffe's doctrines gave so much offence to the clergy of the Romish Church, that in 1377 he was summoned to appear before a convocation which met in St. Paul's Cathedral in London, to answer for his heresies; but the assembly broke up in confusion without taking measures against him. | | | More than a century before Luther was born, Wycliffe had planted the seeds of the Reformation, and with great boldness and perseverence had promulgated those principles which were to shake the Romish Church to its centre. | | | Whether they would have silenced the Reformer or not, is uncertain, for during their deliberations a mandate from the queen mother forbade their proceeding against him, and he was dismissed with the simple command to abstain from preaching his doctrines in future. |
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| | John Hus |
| | Hus was burned at the stake in 1415, with Wycliffe’s manuscript Bibles used as kindling for the fire. | | | One of Wycliffe’s followers, John Hus, actively promoted Wycliffe’s ideas: that people should be permitted to read the Bible in their own language, and they should oppose the tyranny of the Roman church that threatened anyone possessing a non-Latin Bible with execution. | | | Hus conceded his veneration of Wycliffe, and said that he could only wish his soul might some time attain unto that place where Wycliffe's was. |
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| | Christian History - John Wycliffe - 131 Christians Everyone Should Know |
| | Wycliffe died before the translation was complete (and before authorities could convict him of heresy); his friend Purvey is considered responsible for the version of the "Wycliffe" Bible we have today. | | | I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors." He went on to say that the pope and the church were second in authority to Scripture. | | | Though Wycliffe's followers (who came to be called "Lollards"—referring to the region of their original strength) were driven underground, they remained a persistent irritant to English Catholic authorities until the English Reformation made their views the norm. |
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/special/131christians/wycliffe.html
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| | H371 - The Reformation Before the Reformation: John Wycliffe |
| | Wycliffe's doctrine of the Church was likewise revolutionary. | | | Thus the pre-reformation work of Wycliffe lay in his doctrines of Scripture and the Church. | | | From Augustine and Constantine till the birth of Wycliffe, the Church was the center of every person's life. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: John Wyclif |
| | [Note: John of Gaunt was the king's son, not his brother.] This party profited by Edward III's premature senility to misgovern in their own interests, and found in the Oxford doctor, with his theories of the subjection of church property to the civil prince, a useful ally in their attacks on the Church. | | | His real spiritual inheritor was John Hus, and it was through Bohemia, if at all, that he is directly connected with the Reformation. | | | The traditional date of his birth is given as 1324, but some authorities put it earlier. |
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| | Glimpses bulletin #13: English reformer, John Wycliffe |
| | Wycliffe, a devoted student of the Bible, saw that some of the doctrines of the church had departed from biblical moorings. | | | In cooperation with other like-minded ministries, Wycliffe Bible Translators aims to translate the Bible into every one of the over 2,500 remaining languages on earth that don't have the Scriptures. | | | The film provides valuable insight into conditions in the 14th-century pre-Reformation church and shows why Wycliffe is hailed as the "Morningstar of the Reformation." He set the stage for later reformers especially John Hus, the Czech hero whose reforms were carried forward by the Unitas Fratrum, and later through Zinzendorf and the Moravians. |
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http://chi.gospelcom.net/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps013.shtml
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| | John Wycliffe: Morning Star of the Reformation / History of the English Bible |
| | “This Master John Wycliffe,” says he, “hath translated the Gospel out of Latin into English, which Christ had entrusted with the clergy and doctors of the Church, that they might minister it to the laity and weaker sort, according to the state of the times and the wants of men. | | | Soon after this, in the year 1379, Wycliffe, as divinity professor, had gone to fulfill his accustomed annual duty at Oxford, but there he was seized with an alarming illness. | | | The Queen, says Rapin, was a great favourer of Wycliffe’s doctrine, and had she lived longer would have saved his followers; but the illustrious foreigner once interred, and thus so remarkably eulogized, a different scene immediately opened to view. |
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| | Wycliffe - History - John Wycliffe |
| | John Wycliffe lived almost 200 years before the Reformation, but his beliefs and teachings closely match those of Luther, Calvin and other Reformers. | | | Born in the 1300s, Wycliffe criticized abuses and false teachings in the Church. | | | The Church expelled Wycliffe from his teaching position at Oxford, and 44 years after he died, the Pope ordered his bones exhumed and burned. |
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http://www.wycliffe.org/history/JWycliff.htm
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| | John Wycliffe - Encyclopedia Britannica (1911) |
| | For it is a well-known fact that Wycliffe proclaimed the Bible, not the Church or Catholic tradition, as a man's supreme spiritual authority, and that he sought in consequence by every means in his power to spread the knowledge of it among the people. | | | It is first with the appearance of Wycliffe (q.v.) and his followers on the arena of religious controversy that the Bible in English came to be looked upon with suspicion by the orthodox party within the Church. | | | The text of the Gospels was extracted from the Commentary upon them by Wycliffe, and to these were added the Epistles, the Acts and the Apocalypse, all now translated anew. |
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http://www.bible-researcher.com/1911-wyclif.html
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| | WYCLIFFE, JOHN - LoveToKnow Article on WYCLIFFE, JOHN |
| | Though they were, with the majority of regent masters at Oxford, on the side of Wycliffe, the main question at issue was for them one of philosophy rather than faith, and they were quite prepared to make formal submission to the authority of the Church. | | | The note of both the Trialogus and of the Opus evangelicum, Wycliffe's last work, is their insistence on the " sufficiency of Holy Scripture." | | | It is also significant that all the only four known complete MSS. |
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http://www.1911ency.org/W/WY/WYCLIFFE_JOHN.htm
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| | Medieval Sourcebook: Condemnation of Wycliffe, 1382 |
| | Moreover, you are on our authority to arrest the said John, or cause him to be arrested and to send him under a trustworthy guard to our venerable brother, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Bishop of London, or to one of them. | | | For the gospel of John telleth that when they would have made Christ king, He fled and hid Him from them, for He would none such worldly highness. | | | I have joyfully to tell to all true men that believe what I hold, and legates to the pope; for I suppose that if my faith be rightful and given of God, the pope will gladly confirm it; and if my faith be error, the Pope will wisely amend it. |
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| | wycliffe |
| | Although he and his followers, the Lollards, had some support in the 14th century, Wycliff was denounced by Pope Gregory XI. | | | However, Wycliffe's ideas helped spread the doctrines of the Reformation during the 1500's. | | | for there are still nearly 170 hand-copied Wycliffe Bibles extant. |
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| | Britannia Biographies: John Wycliffe |
| | Ultimately Wycliffe was excommunicated from the church, but he was not physically harmed before he died from a stroke. | | | Although there is debate as to what role Wycliffe played in the translation of the version now associated with his name, no-one doubts that he was leading the movement which culminated in that first widespread version of an English Bible. | | | This had much to do with his ideas of personal reverence for God. |
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http://www.britannia.com/bios/jwycliffe.html
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| | English Dissenters: Lollards |
| | The lives of John Wycliff and of the most eminent of his disciples; Lord Cobham, John Huss, Jerome of Prague, and Zisca | | | Lollard sermons were commonly heard from the pulpits of churches in Oxford. | | | Both Hereford and Repyngton would later recant, and become faithful servants of the Church. |
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| | John Wycliffe -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The “morning star of the Reformation” was John Wycliffe, English priest and reformer of the late Middle Ages. | | | Essay by Joyce Carol Oates on the 20th century American author John Updike. | | | Wycliffe also spelled Wycliff, Wyclif, Wicliffe, or Wiclif English theologian, philosopher, church reformer, and promoter of the first complete translation of the Bible into English. |
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| | Wycliffe - USA |
| | What should I do to prepare myself for service with Wycliffe? | | | Can you give me an e-mail address for a Wycliffe member? | | | What training do I need to be a translator? |
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| | John Wycliffe Theological College |
| | Issues similar to what he faced urgently confront us today, which explains the establishment of this college to prepare men to preach the precious gospel of salvation wherever God calls them. | | | Wycliffe sends out his Lollards with the Scriptures. | | | John Wycliffe Theological College is named after the man rightly hailed as the "Morning Star of the Reformation." Over 600 years ago, Wycliffe fought tenaciously for the truth and authority of the Word of God and trained his "Lollards" to do the same. |
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| | Wycliffe, John - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Wycliffe, John |
| | He criticized such fundamental doctrines as priestly absolution, confession, and indulgences, and set disciples to work on the first translation of the Bible into English. | | | Allying himself with the party of John of Gaunt, which was opposed to ecclesiastical influence at court, he attacked abuses in the medieval church, maintaining that the Bible rather than the church was the supreme authority. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. |
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| | John Wyclif, Translator and Controversialist |
| | In 1374, King Edward III appointed him rector of Lutterworth, and later made him part of a deputation to meet at Brussels with a papal deputation to negotiate difference between King and Pope. | | | Today, the Wyclif Foundation, named in his honor, is committed to translating the Bible into all the languages spoken anywhere in the world. | | | John Wyclif (also spelled Wycliffe, Wycliff, Wicliffe, or Wiclif) was born in Yorkshire around 1330, and was educated at Oxford, becoming a doctor of divinity in 1372. |
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| | Wycliffe International |
| | Weekly Bulletin: A new list is posted every week to enable you to pray for Bible translation around the world. | | | William Edoni, respected member of the Wycliffe International Board, died on February 28... |
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| | Wyclif, John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | This first and literal translation of the Latin Vulgate Bible into English was mainly the work of his followers, notably Nicholas Hereford; the smoother revision of c.1395 was directed by Wyclif& follower John Purvey. | | | In England the Lollards (see Lollardry) formed the link between Wyclif and the Protestant Reformation; on the Continent he was a chief forerunner of the Reformation, through his influence on Jan Huss, the Bohemian reformer, and through Huss on Martin Luther and the Moravians. | | | 1972); K. McFarlane, John Wycliffe and the Beginnings of English Nonconformity (1953); J. Stacey, John Wyclif and Reform (1964); J. Carrick, Wycliffe and the Lollards (1977); L. Hall, The Perilous Vision of John Wyclif (1983). |
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