1 / 9

John Wycliffe Jan Hus

John Wycliffe Jan Hus. ROOTS: John Wycliffe. John Wycliffe was born in Hipswell, Yorkshire His large family settled in an area called Wycliffe-on-Tees In 1346, he left to attend Oxford. H e was regarded as a prominent theologian in Oxford.

gaenor
Download Presentation

John Wycliffe Jan Hus

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. John Wycliffe Jan Hus

  2. ROOTS: John Wycliffe • John Wycliffe was born in Hipswell, Yorkshire • His large family settled in an area called Wycliffe-on-Tees • In 1346, he left to attend Oxford. • He was regarded as a prominent theologian in Oxford. • While a rector at a parish in Luther worth, The Church had demanded financial support from England. He argued against giving the church any more funds. So it begins…

  3. Profession: John Wycliffe • During the time of reformation, John Wycliffe was a leading philosopher and theologian at Oxford whose thought reflected the growing anticlericalism in the fourteenth century. • Wycliffe believed the Church should be under the monarch and all its properties should belong to England. • Wycliffe wrote two treatises that stated that civil authorities should be able to remove properties from corrupt clergymen. • He also called for elimination of entire ecclesiastical hierarchy because he believed everyone was his own priest. • Wycliffe struck at the very heart of the Church: • 1)He struck at the elaborate rituals 2)The cult of saints • 3) Pilgrimages 4)The transubstantiation 5)The sacraments for salvation

  4. Profession Continued… • He believed the Bible should be more accessible to laity. • He began translating the Bible into English. Wycliffe’s views led to his expulsion and excommunication. • After his death in 1384, his followers called the Lollards continued his teaching spreading the condemnation of oral confession, indulgences and the pope. • Lollardy gained a lot of aristocratic followers, but it resulted in the persecution to them. • Wycliffe’s teachings were later condemned by the Council of Florence, which ordered that his remains be removed from consecrated ground and burned. SHEESH!

  5. ROOTS: Jan Hus • Jan Hus was born in in Husenic, Bohemia located in Prague-East District. • His father was a wealthy farmer and he attended University of Prague. He became the rector of the university in 1402 • In his early writing, he wrote condemning the idea of miracles being seen as Christ’s presence. • Instead, He saw it as a hoax. He believed they should read the Word to find meaning within their Christian faith.

  6. Profession: Jan Hus • In many of his works after John Wycliffe, he wrote sermons vigorously condemning clerical corruption, the sale of indulgences and practice of holding the cup from people during the Eucharist.’ • Like Wycliffe, he stressed that the Word was the only absolute proof of belief within the Church. The cult of saints and pilgrimages were just superstitions. • He also stated it was God who forgave sins and not priests. Hus declared that it was okay to disobey priests if their demands were immoral or illegal. • As a result, he gained a lot of hatred.

  7. Profession Continued… • However, in Czech he became a national hero because he represented the people. • Prior to his excommunication, he appealed to defend himself at the Council of Constance. • The emperor agreed , but immediately as he arrived and stated his case. He was imprisoned, tried, and condemned as a heretic. • He was burned to the stake on 6 July 1415. His death inspired Hussite rebellion that tore Bohemia apart for two decades. • Peace was restored in Council of Basel.

  8. Nystrom, Bradley P. and David P. The History of Christianity. New York: McGraw Hill, 2004. Print.http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/john-wycliffe.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hus

More Related