John Wyclif
Author : Lewis Sergeant
Publisher : New York : G.P. Putnam's
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 1892
Category : England
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Author : Lewis Sergeant
Publisher : New York : G.P. Putnam's
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 1892
Category : England
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Author : John Stacey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 30,1 MB
Release : 2009-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1606087614
More than a century and a half prior to Luther's historic act at Wittenberg, the University of Oxford's distinguished scholar John Wycliff was engaged in his own full-scale war on the institutions and practices of medieval Christendom. This vitriolic theologian from Yorkshire blasted the Pope as anti-Christian and a devil . . . the father of lies; the cardinals were full of foul pride, the Caesarean secular clergy were traitors of God and his people, the monks were in love with their own belly, and the friars were hypocrites guilty of stinking covetousness. Although defenders of the Church struck back with devil's instrument, heretics' idol, flatteries' sink, admirers subsequently hailed him as the Morning Star of the Reformation. The result of so much passion on both sides has been that even today a balanced view of Wycliff is difficult to obtain. This book is one of the first attempts to steer between the extremes, to find the real man and the place he occupied in the movement toward Reform. Actually, a full and comprehensive account of Wyclif's character is almost impossible to achieve. His own writings reveal virtually nothing of a personal nature; his face cannot be studied because no authentic portrait survives. Weighing the evidence of all the widely varying partisan biographies, Mr. Stacey does construct a reliable, if incomplete, impression of Wyclif based on certain characteristics that no assessment can reasonably reject. Painting the great Bible translator into the total picture of Reform is the more fruitful task to which the author devotes the major part of this book. He discusses the validity of Wyclif's judgments of the Church, the increasingly nationalistic climate that encouraged him, his belief in the supreme authority of Scripture and insistence on its literal meaning, his theology, and the perpetuation of his thought in the doctrines and practices of the Lollards. Mr. Stacey appraises both the success and failure of Wyclif's activity, concluding that theologically and practically his contribution revolved around the precise issues that concerned the sixteenth-century Reformers. He was on the scent and going strong even if he was not to be in at the kill. Here, for all readers, is a significant new study developed with an objectivity rarely accorded one of the most baffling and controversial personalities in history.
Author : Lewis Sergeant
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 48,30 MB
Release : 1893
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Author : Justin McCarthy
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 35,77 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Seattle Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
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Page : 470 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 1894
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Author : Seattle Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 1905
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Author : Seattle Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 32,12 MB
Release : 1905
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Author : Ármin Vámbéry
Publisher :
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 12,61 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Hungary
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Author : C. Raymond Beazley
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,33 MB
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D" (With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work) by C. Raymond Beazley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.