Nuggets from "Whatever Happened to Heaven?" by Dave Hunt

Nuggets from "Whatever Happened to Heaven?" by Dave Hunt

England's John Wycliffe (1329-84) was among the first to take up the cry of submission solely to the Word of God. Articulate, powerful, "the morning star of the Reformation," Wycliffe argued from Scripture that Christ, not the pope, was the true head of the church and that the Bible, not the church, was the highest authority. He produced the first Bible in English so that his countrymen could read it in their own language and understand it for themselves. Wycliffe also formed a group of evangelists, the Lollards, to preach the gospel directly from Scripture all over England. Although Parliament condemned his views in 1382 and in 1401 prescibed the death penalty for preaching the gospel, Wycliffe himself escaped martyrdom.