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

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.

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.

These books carry a sharp polemic, hardly surprising when it is recalled that his opponents charged Wycliffe with blasphemy and scandal, pride and heresy.

To Wycliffe, the Church is the totality of those who are predestined to blessedness.

The royal power, Wycliffe taught, is consecrated through the testimony of Holy Scripture and the Fathers.

Especially interesting is the teaching which Wycliffe addressed to the king on the protection of his theologians.

How Wycliffe came to be active in the interest of Urban is seen in passages in his latest writings, in which he expressed himself in regard to the papacy in a favorable sense.

When he stated that " the case of the orders which hold property is that of them all ," the mendicant orders turned against him ; and from that time Wycliffe began a struggle which continued till his death.

While Wycliffe is credited, it is not possible exactly to define his part in the translation, which was based on the Vulgate.

This is the most final of all posthumous attacks on John Wycliffe, but previous attempts had been made before the Council of Constance.

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.

But this example of Netter is not well chosen, since the tone of Wycliffe toward Kynyngham is that of a junior toward an elder whom one respects, and he handled other opponents in similar fashion.

It is not enough realised that, well before Luther, Wycliffe also recognised the other major Reformation doctrine, that of justification by faith, though not in fully worked out form as Luther achieved.

Wycliffe is honoured in the Church of England on 31 December and in the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church ( USA ) on October 30.

* Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, one of the Church of England's designated Evangelical theological colleges, is also named in his honour.

In this 19th-century illustration, John Wycliffe is shown giving the Bible translation that bore his name to his Lollard followers.

* 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.

* The De heretico comburendo Act is passed in England, as the Archbishop of Canterbury pressures King Henry IV of England into outlawing as heretics the Lollards, followers of John Wycliffe.

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.

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.

The following day is Whit Monday, a name coined to supersede the form Monday in Whitsun-week used by John Wycliffe and others.

* Wycliffe ( TV series ), a British television detective series

Charles Wycliffe Goodwin ( 1817 – 1878 ) was a British Egyptologist, lawyer and judge.

Most of his acting work has been in theatre, although he has played police officers on television ; he is best remembered for the character Doug Kersey in the British television show Wycliffe.

Her numerous credits in other British television series include The Avengers, Mr. Bean, the regular role of Jo in Cold Warrior, the first Helen Wycliffe in Wycliffe, A Dance to the Music of Time, Heartbeat, Rosemary & Thyme and Kingdom.

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.

Her television credits include roles in Where the Heart Is, Wycliffe and A Wing and A Prayer.

** Charles Wycliffe a fictional detective created by W. J. Burley, on which the television series is based

Kevin has written more than 150 episodes of television drama, including scripts for Doctor Who, Minder, Wish Me Luck, and Wycliffe, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries for the BBC and The Last Detective for Granada Television.

He is perhaps best known for his television roles, most notably the title role in detective drama Wycliffe.

Shepherd's work in television increased during the 1980s and 1990s, culminating in his acclaimed role as the eponymous Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe in the HTV television series Wycliffe from 1993 to 1998.

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.

The first of a series of disruptive and new perspectives came from John Wycliffe at Oxford University, then from Jan Hus at the University of Prague.

Internal police politics provide slow-burning story arcs in the later series, with Wycliffe constantly having to deal with red tape, budget restraints and a blustering, image-obsessed Deputy Chief Constable.

During Series 5, he is shown struggling to recover from the trauma of this injury ; the darker tone of this series culminates with Wycliffe falsely accused of a crime and only proven innocent at the last moment.

Wycliffe ran for five series from 24 July 1994 to 5 July 1998, and included a pilot episode ( originally shown on 7 August 1993 ) and a Christmas Special shown between the fourth and fifth series.

It featured ( along with various other scenes from the town ) as the incident room in an episode of the TV detective series Wycliffe.

In real life, the Major Crime Investigation Team in Cornwall, which would presumably be headed by Wycliffe, is based at Newquay, but his Divisional HQ appears to be somewhere in the Camborne area.

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.

It was in keeping with the plans of Gaunt to have a personality like Wycliffe on his side.

Wycliffe was summoned before William Courtenay, Bishop of London, on 19 February 1377, " to explain the wonderful things which had streamed forth from his mouth ".

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.

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 Council of Constance declared Wycliffe ( on 4 May 1415 ) a heretic and under the ban of the Church.

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.

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.

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 Hall students have gone on to work in many different nations all over the world, as Christian pastors, missionaries and apologists.

In 1929 Wycliffe Hall staff and students on pilgrimage to Jerusalem were commissioned as peacekeepers during riots in Palestine, and one student was shot through the shoulder.

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.

Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay patterned his people – oriented government on the principles which he found in the 1952 edition of the biography of past President Lázaro Cárdenas, which was written by William Cameron Townsend, the founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators and the Summer Institute of Linguistics ( SIL International ).

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 ".

Wycliffe, an Oxford scholar, went so far as to state that "... The Gospel by itself is a rule sufficient to rule the life of every Christian person on the earth, without any other rule.

" ( City of God 15: 2 ) This view was expounded on by medieval theologians such as Thomas Aquinas and John Wycliffe.

Challis took issue with Charles Wycliffe Goodwin's views on Genesis expressed in Essays and Reviews ( 1860 ).