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Yet there are passages which are moderate in tone ; G. V. Lechler identifies three stages in Wycliffe's relations with the papacy.
The first step, which carried him to the outbreak of the schism, involves moderate recognition of the papal primacy ; the second, which carried him to 1381, is marked by an estrangement from the papacy ; and the third shows him in sharp contest.
However, Wycliffe reached no valuation of the papacy before the outbreak of the schism different from his later appraisal.
If in his last years he identified the papacy with antichristianity, the dispensability of this papacy was strong in his mind before the schism.
It was this very man who laboured to bring about the recognition of Urban VI ( 1378 – 1389 ), which appears to contradict his former attitude and to demand an explanation.

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