Who was John Wycliffe what did he do and what is he often called?

Answer 1

John Wycliffe lived during the Reformation. He wrote doctorines that said that Christians should read The Bible for themselves and that they shouldn't have to pay money to the Catholic Church to have salvation.

Also was an English theologian , reformist , lay preacher,reformist and university teacher who was known as an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century.

Answer 2

John wycliffe is called the "Morning Star of the Reformation". In the 1300s (200 year before the Reformation), he spoke out against the Catholic Church's position the only priests could read the bible. Believing that everyone had a right to read the bible for themselves. He became the first man to translate the entire bible into the English language!

Answer 3

John Wycliffe preached a number of things which made him rather unpopular with the Roman Catholic hierarchy. These included opposition to papal authority, the sale of indulgences, transubstantiation, and he also spoke out against various church hierarchies. It was the first of these ideas which Wycliffe preached which was to involve him in the work for which he is best known - the translation of the Bible from Latin into the language of the common people. This he believed would lead to people having a direct relationship with God in Jesus Christ for themselves and to freeing them from the oppression of false papal ideas.

He preached that Jesus Christ was the true head of the church, not the pope. He also taught that the Bible alone (not the pope) was the final authority for Christian life.

Answer 4

He changed the world by being a precursor to the Protestant Reformation (for this reason, he is sometimes called "The Morning Star of the Reformation"). He was one of the earliest opponents of papal authority influencing secular power.He made known the sacred Bible and he translated the Latin,likewise;Wycliffe was also an early advocate for translation of the Bible into the common tongue. He completed his translation directly from the Vulgate into vernacular English in the year 1382, now known as Wyclif's Bible.

Answer 5

He wrote the first English version of the Bible, translated from Jerome's Latin Vulgate.

Answer 6

He created the Wycliff bible

Answer 7

He was a translator of bibles.