Catholic Insight, January 1st, 2002
Benson Bobrick, Wide as the Waters. The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired. New York; Simon & Schuster. 379 pp., $38.50 Can.
Bobrick's first chapter, entitled "Morning Star" deals with John Wycliffe, a 14th-century English priest who thought that the Church had been corrupted by worldly possessions and urged that it return to its primitive simplicity. But he also attacked Church doctrines, such as that on transubstantiation, and not surprisingly he was brought before Church courts on charges of heresy. Considering Scripture as the source of all morality and truth, he ...
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