Although Wycliffe disapproved of the revolt, he was blamed.

The Lollard movement was a precursor to the Protestant Reformation ( for this reason, Wycliffe is sometimes called " The Morning Star of the Reformation ").

Wycliffe was also an early advocate for translation of the Bible into the common language.

Wycliffe himself tells how he concluded that there was a great contrast between what the Church was and what it ought to be, and saw the necessity for reform.

Among the propositions Wycliffe, at the direction of the government, worked out for parliament was one that speaks out distinctly against the exhaustion of England by the Curia.

At Oxford the vice-chancellor, following papal directions, confined the Reformer for some time in Black Hall, from which Wycliffe was released on threats from his friends ; the vice-chancellor was himself confined in the same place because of his treatment of Wycliffe.

The sharper the strife became, the more Wycliffe had recourse to his translation of Scripture as the basis of all Christian doctrinal opinion, and expressly tried to prove this to be the only norm for Christian faith.

" 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.

* June 5 – The Council of Constance condemns the writings of John Wycliffe and asks Jan Hus to recant in public his heresy ; after his denial, he is tried for heresy, excommunicated, then sentenced to be burned at the stake.

* March – In England, John Wycliffe tries to promote his ideas for Catholic reform by laying his theses before parliament and making them public in a tract.

Plantinga's older daughter, Jane Plantinga Pauw, is a pastor at Rainier Beach Presbyterian Church ( PCUSA ) in Seattle, Washington, and his younger daughter, Ann Kapteyn, is a missionary in Cameroon working for Wycliffe Bible Translators.

William Cameron Townsend co-founded Wycliffe in 1934, and as the organization grew, he saw the need for airplanes and radio to reach remote areas around the world, to provide safe access to language groups.

Located near the Missouri and Oklahoma borders, it was an important spa and resort center in the late 1800s and early twentieth century as well as the location for a campus of what is now John Brown University ( JBU ) and facilities for Wycliffe Bible Translators.

In 1951, John Brown sold his Sulphur Springs properties to Wycliffe Bible Translators, which used the properties for conferences and the like.

Magdalen Hall was known for its adherence to the teachings of John Wycliffe, and it was here that William Tyndale, translator of the English Bible and martyr, studied.

Wycliffe Hall provides theological training for candidates for ordained ministry in the Church of England as well as other Anglican and non-Anglican churches.

He negotiated around resistance from many quarters, leading to the Federation Act in 1887 and affiliation ( and later federation ) with St. Michael's College in 1881, Wycliffe College and Knox College in 1885, the Ontario College of Agriculture and the Royal College of Dental Surgeons in 1888, Victoria College, the Ontario Medical College for Women and the Toronto College of Music in 1890, the College of Pharmacy in 1891, the Toronto Conservatory of Music in 1896, and the Ontario Veterinary College in 1897.

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 ".

John Wycliffe ( 1380s ) uses the term knyytis generically for men-at-arms, and only in the 15th century did the word acquire the overtones of a noble cavalryman corresponding to the meaning of chevalier.

Morey suggests that William Tyndale ( 1494 – 1536 ) and John Wycliffe ( 1320 – 1384 ) taught the doctrine of soul sleep " as the answer to the Catholic teachings of purgatory and masses for the dead.

Wycliffe College and Knox College both offered space for classes to accommodate displaced students.

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.

Constable invited Thomas Bewick to Wycliffe where he spent two months making drawings from the bird specimens.

So it resulted that the bull against Wycliffe did not become public till 18 December.

Wycliffe tried to gain public favour by laying his theses before Parliament, and then made them public in a tract, accompanied by explanations, limitations, and interpretations.

The village is served by a small public school ( Warrimoo Public School ), a private school ( Wycliffe Christian school ), a railway station and several shops including a post office.

He was previously Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Oxford, and was principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford until 2005.

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.

The University of Oxford also protected Wycliffe and similar academics on the grounds of academic freedom and, initially, allowed such persons to retain their positions despite their controversial views.

Wycliffe became the focus on media attention in 2007 when a significant number of the academic staff left, including the vice-principal and head of pastoral theology.

Like his volume on Wycliffe, the work was accompanied by the publication of a selected group of documents, in this case illustrative of the history of Queen Anne's reign down to 1707.

John Wycliffe included Paul's letter to the Laodiceans in his Bible translation from the Latin to English.

" Speaking in tongues " has been used at least since the translation of the New Testament into Middle English in the Wycliffe Bible in the 14th century.

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.

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.

Wycliffe was born in the village of Hipswell in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England in the mid-1320s.

Wycliffe received his early education close to his home.

Wycliffe owed much to William of Occam's work and thought.

Wycliffe belonged to Boreales, in which the prevailing tendency was anticurial, while the other was curial.

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.

Wycliffe was Master of Balliol College, Oxford in 1361.

Obtaining a bachelor's degree in theology, Wycliffe pursued an avid interest in Biblical studies.

Though Wycliffe appealed to Rome, the outcome was unfavourable to him.

This case would hardly have been thought of again had not contemporaries of Wycliffe, such as William Woodford and Rev.

In 1376, Wycliffe received a letter from his parents recommending him to join a different university, but he denied the offer.

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.

This would place the entrance of Wycliffe into politics about 1365 – 66.

Wycliffe was among these, under a decree dated 26 July 1374.

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.

Wycliffe was still regarded by papal partisans as trustworthy ; his opposition to the possessions of the Church may have escaped notice.

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.

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.