Customer Reviews for Christianity Today John Wycliffe: Bible Translator

Plagued by disease, dominated by the Church, and strained by a century of warfare, the English people were wrought with despair during the 1300's, the time of John Wycliffe. This issue of Christian History & Biography reveals a courageous man of faith, a man willing to fight for biblical truth and against a Church corrupted by money and politics. His final act, translating the Bible into common tongue, is one of the greatest historical achievements for Christianity prior to the Reformation.

This Christian History & Biography classic is devoted to John Wycliffe and the 600th anniversary of the translation of Bible into English.

Wycliffe's England: A Time of Turmoil

John Wycliffe and the Dawn of the Reformation

Bible Translation Since John Wycliffe

Why Wycliffe Translated the Bible into English

Five Bulls of Pope Gregory XI Against Wycliffe

A Short Rule of Life for Priest, Lords, and Laborers

Wycliffe Causes Controversy over Eucharist

In the Year of Death, Wycliffe Wrote to Pope Urban VI

Issue 3 (Volume II (11), Number 2)Plagued by disease, dominated by the Church, and strained by a century of warfare, the English people were wrought with despair during the 1300's, the time of John Wycliffe. This issue of Christian History & Biography reveals a courageous man of faith, a man willing to fight for biblical truth and against a Church corrupted by money and politics. His final act, translating the Bible into common tongue, is one of the greatest historical achievements for Christianity prior to the Reformation.

This Christian History & Biography classic is devoted to John Wycliffe and the 600th anniversary of the translation of Bible into English.

• Wycliffe's England: A Time of Turmoil
• John Wycliffe and the Dawn of the Reformation
• Bible Translation Since John Wycliffe
• Why Wycliffe Translated the Bible into English
• Five Bulls of Pope Gregory XI Against Wycliffe
• A Short Rule of Life for Priest, Lords, and Laborers
• Wycliffe Causes Controversy over Eucharist
• In the Year of Death, Wycliffe Wrote to Pope Urban VI