SOURCE: McNeill, John Thomas. “Some Emphases in Wyclif's Teaching.” Journal of Religion 7, no. 4 (July 1927): 447-66.

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), explores the fundamental elements of Wyclif's thought on religious, political, and philosophical subjects.

Dr. Workman's John Wyclif¹ is at once among the most admirable and among the most unsatisfying of biographies. No one can read the book without deep appreciation of the author's fulness of research, conscientious accuracy of detail, fairness of mind, and breadth of view. Seldom does a historical work make a deeper impression of completeness of investigation. In these nearly eight hundred compact pages countless lines of inquiry have been patiently followed; the most unfamiliar sources have been combed, and unstinted pains taken to reconstruct the fragments. We close the second volume...