Wyclif, John
WYCLIF, JOHN (1330?–1384), English scholastic theologian, trenchant critic of abuses in the church, and promoter of a vernacular translation of the Bible. Wyclif was the most learn...
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Wyclyf, John(C. 1320–1384)
John Wyclyf, the scholastic philosopher and ecclesiastical reformer, was born in the north of England, near Richmond. He spent most of his adult life in and around Ox...
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The English theologian and reformer John Wyclif (ca. 1330-1384) was the most influential ecclesiastical writer in England in the second half of the 14th century.John Wyclif's denial of the doctrine of...
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John Wyclif deserves a place in a volume of Old and Middle English writers and writing not because of any works in English that may be ascribed to him with certainty. He should be included, rather, be...
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In the following essay, Loserth attempts to establish the appropriate timeline for Wyclif's publication of his infamous critique of papal and ecclesiastical corruption during the volatile perio...
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In the following essay, Hudson stresses Wyclif's promotion of the use of written English in the fourteenth century, regardless of whether or not he personally translated the Latin Bible into th...
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In the following essay, Leff emphasizes the continuity of Wyclif's metaphysical and theological thought throughout his major works, with the exception of some of his writings on civil society.
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In the following essay, Evans illuminates Wyclif's views on the significance and usefulness of figurative interpretation of the Bible in his De vertitate sacrae scripturae.
Origen encouraged...
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In the following essay, Wilks details Wyclif's belief in the circularity of history as understood in Christian terms.
During the 1370s Wyclif wrote to defend a monarchy which made extensive ...
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In the following excerpt, Hearnshaw sketches Wyclif's life, surveys his writings, and encapsulates his thought on ecclesiastical and political subjects, concluding that Wyclif was not in any si...
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In the following essay, McNeill, prompted by what he determines to be inadequacies in Herbert B. Workman's critical biography John Wyclif: A Study of the English Medieval Church (1926), explore...
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In the following essay, Heseltine questions Wyclif's status as “a profound philosopher or theologian who paved the way to a purer Christianity on a basis of reason, logic, and sound theo...
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In the following essay, Daly studies Wyclif's understanding of the concepts dominium and ecclesia in the context of civil society, asserting that Wyclif's approach to political philosoph...
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In the following excerpt, Knapp examines Wyclif's combination of Scholastic and popular modes of argumentation in his English sermons.
[Wyclif's sermons reveal] an author with a radic...
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In the following essay, Kenny probes Wyclif's position as an epistemological Realist by contrasting his views on the subject of universals with those of the nominalist William of Ockham.
Wyc...
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In the following essay, Keen outlines the development of Wyclif's thought regarding the Eucharist, which culminated in his heretical objection to transubstantiation in 1379.
In this paper I ...
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In the following essay, Kenny explicates Wyclif's theory of universals as well as the notion of predication that underlies it.
Wyclif has long been famous as a realist, but the precise conte...
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Wyclif, John
Wyclyf, John (C. 1320–1384)
John Wyclif
John Wyclif
Critical Essay by J. Loserth
