The 14th century theologian John Wycliffe is credited with translating what is now known as Wyclif's Bible, though it is not clear how much of the translation he himself did.

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

Wycliffe had set these ideas before his students at Oxford in 1376, after becoming involved in controversy with William Wadeford and others.

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 ".

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.

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.

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.

William Henry Griffith Thomas, one of Wycliffe Hall ’ s best known principals and a noted theologian, is remembered by a bronze bust in the Dining Room.

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 ).

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.

Chaucer wrote in an early East Midland, Wycliffe translated the New Testament into it and William Caxton, the first English printer, wrote in it.

The report was authored by William Welch, founding dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Wycliffe Rose of the Rockefeller Foundation.

Wycliffe was founded in 1942 by William Cameron Townsend and is associated with the Protestant section of Christianity.

Soon after ( in 1967 ), the bequest of Dr. William Wycliffe Spooner ( 1882 – 1967 ) and his wife Mercie, added strength to the Gallery's collection of English watercolors by contributing works by J. R. Cozens and Francis Towne.

Besides the Speculum Richard also wrote, according to the statement of William of Woodford in his Answer to Wycliffe ( Edward Brown, Fasciculus Rerum expetendarum, p. 193 ), a treatise De Officiis ; and there was formerly in the cathedral library at Peterborough another tractate from his pen, entitled Super Symbolum.

Tunstall died at Wycliffe, and his estates passed to his half-brother, William Constable.

William Courtenay, the Archbishop of Canterbury was able to turn both the church and Parliament against Wycliffe by falsely stating that his writings and his influence were fuelling the peasants involved in the revolt.

A man of some learning, Repyngdon came to the front as a defender of the doctrines taught by John Wycliffe ; for this he was suspended and afterwards excommunicated, but in a short time he was pardoned and restored by Archbishop William Courtenay, and he appears to have completely abandoned his unorthodox opinions.

* Calvin Hibbard: William Cameron Townsend Stimulator of linguistic research among ethnic minorities and champion of their cultural dignity ( official biography at the SIL website ; the same biography is also on the Wycliffe website )

* William Wycliffe Livingston ( C ): Lambeth 1967 – 1973

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.

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.

John Wycliffe at work in his study

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

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.

The work which in his own opinion was his greatest, Johann von Wiclif und die Vorgeschichte der Reformation ( 2 vols., 1873 ), appeared in English with the title John Wycliffe and his English Precursors ( 1878, new ed., 1884 ).

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.

Long thought to be the work of Wycliffe himself, it is now generally believed that the Wycliffite translations were the work of several hands.

The earlier was translated during the life of Wycliffe, while the later version is regarded as the work of John Purvey.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.