Glimpses #13: John Wycliffe: Reformation Morningstar
Format: 2-page bulletin insert
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Product Description: If you had lived in Wycliffe's time, you would have found many of the same uncertainties and pressures that are common to our own age. Seismic shifts dislocated the settled patterns of life. The "Black Plague" swept across England and Europe and in some places wiped out one-third of the population. What was known as the "100 Years War" between England and France sapped energy and resources. Wage controls locked the poor into a marginal existence and led to the violent Peasant's Revolt in England in 1381.
Wycliffe cared deeply for the poor and common folk and railed against the abuses of the Church. The Church owned over one-third of the land in England. Clergy were often illiterate and immoral. High offices in the church were bought or given out as political plums. But the problems went even deeper. Wycliffe, a devoted student of the Bible, saw that some of the doctrines of the church had departed from biblical moorings. Based on his study of the Scripture, he wrote and preached against the teachings about purgatory, the sale of indulgences, and the doctrine of transubstantiation.
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