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| Name: |
John Wyclif | | Birth Date: |
c. 1330 | | Death Date: |
1384 | | Place of Birth: |
England | | Place of Death: |
England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
theologian, reformer |
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Biography of John Wyclif
1,391 words, approx. 5 pages
 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...
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Biography of John Wyclif
5,815 words, approx. 19 pages
 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...



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John Wycliffe Quotes
680 words, approx. 2 pages
 John Wycliffe (also Wyclif , Wycliff , or Wickliffe ) (c. 1320 – 31 December 1384 ) was an English theologian and early proponent of reform in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century. He made an English translation of the Bible in one...


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Wyclyf, John (C. 1320–1384) Summary
1,294 words, approx. 4 pages Wyclyf, John(C. 1320 and J. A. Robson, Wyclif and the Oxford Schools (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press,...
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Wyclif, John Summary
1,697 words, approx. 6 pages 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...
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John Wycliffe Information
8,117 words, approx. 27 pages
 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,...



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 Quadrant
The work of Wycliffe. (Letters).
01/01/2002: 519 words, approx. 2 pages 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...
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 Anglican and Episcopal History
The Founding of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford
03/01/2004: 6,124 words, approx. 20 pages 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...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by L. J. Daly
9,453 words, approx. 32 pages
 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.
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Critical Essay by F. J. C. Hearnshaw
8,910 words, approx. 30 pages
 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.
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Critical Essay by Anne Hudson
8,415 words, approx. 28 pages
 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.


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