Wycliffe's propositions are condemned in London
About this date: 1382 dates the condemnation; the linked collection includes Wycliffe's later response in 1384.
Church authorities condemn propositions associated with Wycliffe on the Eucharist, clerical authority, and church property. Wycliffe answers from within the scriptural and theological disputes of his own period.
Historical context
The controversy links university argument with ecclesiastical discipline and questions about who may correct the Church. Its later reception becomes important to reform movements.
Key points
- The condemned list represents the authorities' formulation of disputed claims.
- Wycliffe's response gives a separate voice.
- Later Protestant interest does not make fourteenth-century participants members of a sixteenth-century denomination.
People
- John Wycliffe
- William Courtenay
Sources and further reading
- Condemnation of Wycliffe and his reply
Primary materials from opposing sides of the controversy.