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 transubstantiation, his strong belief in the sole...

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, because of the influence of his Latin writings both in...

Wyclyf, John(C. 1320 and J. A. Robson, Wyclif and the Oxford Schools (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press,...

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 learned man of his generation in England. The rigor of his scholastic...

John Wycliffe (pronounced /ˈwɪklɪf/; also spelled Wyclif, Wycliff, or Wickliffe) (mid-1320s – 31 December 1384) was an English theologian and an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century. He founded the Lollard movement,...

SIR: Peter Ryan (September 2001) seriously misled your readers by claiming that none of the 850-odd languages of Papua New Guinea has "any system of writing". I wonder how Mr Ryan can have remained ignorant of the extensive work in reducing PNG tribal...

Since 1877 Wycliffe Hall theological college in Oxford has been preparing students for ordained ministry within the Anglican Communion. This paper examines the reasons for the hall's establishment, its evangelical basis and the accusation of ecclesiastical partisanship leveled at the institution by its Victorian...

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 philosophy was wholly theological.

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 significant sense a religious thinker but rather a rationalist.

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 the English vernacular.