John Wycliffe (1330 -1384) was a theologian, scholastic philosopher, lay preacher, biblical translator, reformer, priest, and a seminary professor at the University of Oxford. He produced some of the first handwritten English translations of the Bible and helped to make them widely available. He was an early critic of the Papacy and the clerical basis of the Catholic Church; Wycliffe argued scripture was the primary basis for Christianity and is seen by many as the precursor for the later Protestant Reformation of Martin Luther. (+info)

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