[permalink] [id link]
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.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
Wycliffe and aimed
The " Constitutions of Oxford " of 1408 aimed to reclaim authority in all ecclesiastical matters, specifically naming John Wycliffe in a ban on certain writings, and noting that translation of Scripture into English by unlicensed laity is a crime punishable by charges of heresy.
Wycliffe and do
Why should men not do so now ?” For one to have a personal relationship with God, Wycliffe believed that need to be described in the Bible.
Wycliffe and away
One of the early references is John Wycliffe bible ( 1382 ), Leviticus xxii, 24: " Al beeste, that ... kitt and taken a wey the ballokes is, ye shulen not offre to the Lord ..." ( any beast that is cut and taken away the bollocks, you shall not offer to the Lord, i. e. castrated animals are not suitable as sacrifices ).
Wycliffe and his team are responsible for a large geographical area and often have to spend time away from home during an investigation.
Wycliffe and with
The more radical party identified itself more boldly with the doctrines of John Wycliffe, sharing his passionate hatred of the monastic clergy, and his desire to return the Church to its supposed condition during the time of the apostles.
Wycliffe became deeply disillusioned both with Scholastic theology of his day and also with the state of the church, at least as represented by the clergy.
It is said that on this occasion Wycliffe served as theological counsel to the government, composed a polemical tract dealing with the tribute, and defended an unnamed monk over against the conduct of the government and parliament.
The kind of men with whom Wycliffe dealt included the Carmelite monk John Kyningham over theological or ecclesiastical-political questions.
When it is recalled that it was once the task of Owtred to defend the political interests of England against the demands of Avignon, one would more likely see him in agreement with Wycliffe than in opposition.
Wycliffe had set these ideas before his students at Oxford in 1376, after becoming involved in controversy with William Wadeford and others.
It was in keeping with the plans of Gaunt to have a personality like Wycliffe on his side.
Most of the English clergy were irritated by this encounter, and attacks upon Wycliffe began, finding their response in the second and third books of his work dealing with civil government.
These books carry a sharp polemic, hardly surprising when it is recalled that his opponents charged Wycliffe with blasphemy and scandal, pride and heresy.
The reformatory activities of Wycliffe effectively began here: all the great works, especially his Summa theologiae, are closely connected with the condemnation of his 18 theses, while the entire literary energies of his later years rest upon this foundation.
But Wycliffe was already engaged in one of his most important works, that dealing with what he perceived as the truth of Holy Scripture.
His teachings concerning the danger attaching to the secularizing of the Church put Wycliffe into line with the mendicant orders, since in 1377 Minorites were his defenders.
Since it was from dealing with ecclesiastical-political questions that Wycliffe turned to reformatory activities, the former have a large part in his reformatory writings.
Of all the reformers who preceded Martin Luther, Wycliffe put most emphasis on Scripture: " Even though there were a hundred popes and though every mendicant monk were a cardinal, they would be entitled to confidence only insofar as they accorded with the Bible.
If Wycliffe was in philosophy the superior of his contemporaries and had no equal in scholastic discipline, he belongs with the series of great scholastic philosophers and theologians in which England in the Middle Ages was so rich – with Alexander of Hales, Roger Bacon, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham ( Occam ), and Thomas Bradwardine.
Organizations such as the Wycliffe Bible Translators and the United Bible Societies, have resulted in availability of the Bible in 2, 100 languages, which has further lent an identification with the phrase among Christians themselves.
The primary mission of JAARS is to serve Bible translators working with Wycliffe and SIL International in their efforts to translate parts of the Bible into the 2, 393 language groups ( 200 million people ) worldwide that have no part of the Scriptures in their language.
* 1942-William Cameron Townsend founds Wycliffe Bible Translators ; New Tribes mission founded with a vision to reach the tribal peoples of Bolivia
In 1688 he published Reflections upon Mons Varillas's History of Heresy, written with Edward Hannes, a confutation of Antoine Varillas's account of John Wycliffe.
The expelled head of the seculars was a certain John de Wiclif, who has been identified with the great reformer Wycliffe.
Dr Westcott ( in his History of the English Bible ) states that " The history of our English Bible begins with the work of Tyndale and not with that of Wycliffe.
Wycliffe and existing
Wycliffe Bible Translators is an interdenominational organization mandated to making a translation of the Bible in every living language in the world, especially for cultures with little existing Christian influence.
Wycliffe and hierarchy
In the early 1410s several Fellows of Oriel took part in the disturbances accompanying Archbishop Arundel's attempt to stamp out Lollardy in the University ; the Lollard belief that religious power and authority came through piety and not through the hierarchy of the Church particularly inflamed passions in Oxford, where its proponent, John Wycliffe, had been head of Balliol.
Wycliffe and poor
Wycliffe wanted to see his ideas actualised – his fundamental belief was that the Church should be poor, as in the days of the apostles.
There, in 1388, he finished his revised version of the Bible, whilst also preaching across the country as one of the poor preachers which Wycliffe had organised before his death.
Wycliffe and priests
* May 22 – Pope Gregory XI issues five Bulls condemning the opinion of John Wycliffe that Catholic priests should live in poverty like the twelve disciples of Jesus.
Wycliffe and who
John Wycliffe (; also spelt Wyclif, Wycliff, Wiclef, Wicliffe, or Wickliffe ) ( c. 1320 – 31 December 1384 ) was an English Scholastic philosopher, theologian, lay preacher, translator, reformer and university teacher at Oxford in England, who was known as an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century.
His predecessor in a like case was John Owtred, a monk who formulated the statement that Saint Peter had united in his hands spiritual and temporal power – the opposite of what Wycliffe taught.
But Owtred believed it sinful to say that temporal power might deprive a priest, even an unrighteous one, of his temporalities ; Wycliffe regarded it as a sin to incite the pope to excommunicate laymen who had deprived clergy of their temporalities, his dictum being that a man in a state of sin had no claim upon government.
It was under these conditions that Pope Gregory XI, who in January, 1377, had gone from Avignon to Rome, sent on 22 May five copies of his bull against Wycliffe, dispatching one to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the others to the Bishop of London, King Edward III, the Chancellor, and the university ; among the enclosures were 18 theses of his, which were denounced as erroneous and dangerous to Church and State.
To Wycliffe, the Church is the totality of those who are predestined to blessedness.
" Therefore in this early period it was Wycliffe who recognised and formulated one of the two major formal principles of the Reformation — the unique authority of the Bible for the belief and life of the Christian.
The term " Lollard " refers to the followers of John Wycliffe, a prominent theologian who was dismissed from the University of Oxford in 1381 for criticism of the Church, especially his doctrine on the Eucharist.
Lollard, Lollardi or Loller was the popular derogatory nickname given to those without an academic background, educated if at all only in English, who were reputed to follow the teachings of John Wycliffe in particular, and were certainly considerably energized by the translation of the Bible into the English language.
At first, although Lollardy was denounced as a heresy, Wycliffe and the Lollards were sheltered by John of Gaunt and other anti-clerical nobility, who may have wanted to use Lollard-advocated clerical reform to acquire new sources of revenue from England ’ s monasteries.
Such people would include Wycliffe and Tyndale, who have been brought up most recently in an LDS General Conference.
Martin Luther's spiritual predecessors included John Wycliffe and Jan Hus, who likewise had attempted to reform the Roman Catholic Church.
* Shortly before his death, John Wycliffe sends out tracts against Pope Urban VI, who had not turned out to be the reformist Wycliffe had hoped.
People who serve at the JAARS Center or overseas are typically members of Wycliffe Bible Translators.
During the first world war, Wycliffe Hall housed refugees from Serbia, and trainees from the Royal Flying Corps who built a practice aeroplane in the Dining Hall.
Arundel was a vehement opponent of the Lollards, the followers of John Wycliffe, who in his 1379 treatise De Eucharistia had opposed the dogma of Transubstantiation.
A firm adherent of the Church of Rome, Sigismund was successful in obtaining aid from Pope Martin V, who issued a bill on 17 March 1420 which proclaimed a crusade “ for the destruction of the John Wycliffe, Hussites and all other heretics in Bohemia ".
The organization is named after John Wycliffe, who was responsible for the first complete English translation of the whole Bible into Middle English.
He once broke down on live television after his son, Michael Murray James, who had been a pupil at Wycliffe College, also an actor, committed suicide at age 27, and afterwards he gave talks on coping with family tragedy.
But, like other followers of Wycliffe who had recanted, he was ill at ease at his betrayal.
Monasticism in the Protestant tradition proceeds from John Wycliffe who organized the Lollard Preacher Order ( the " Poor Priests ") to promote his reformation views.
This can cause problems for Wycliffe, who is shown as a contented family man, married to a teacher ( Lynn Farleigh ) and with two teenage children ; it also makes it difficult for Lane and Kersey, who are both single, to form relationships outside work.
0.403 seconds.