Sean A. Otto 
John Wyclif [EPUB ebook] 
New Perspectives on an Old Controversy

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John Wyclif has been a controversial figure since his own time, often dividing opinion between devoted followers and intransigent opponents. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was already a developing mythos about him, and he was variously used as a symbol of heretical depravity or of valorous defense of the gospel. The Reformation calcified opinions, and the two subsequent centuries did not see much development. The nineteenth century marked the beginning of important changes in scholarly opinion, with confessional approaches weakening and giving way to greater objectivity. This trend was strengthened by the emergence of a professional class of historians around the turn of the twentieth century, but the established confessional biases were not quickly done away with until the postwar period. Today, confessional mythmaking is gone and the goal is no longer to show why one particular branch of Christianity is correct, but to present as accurate a picture as possible of the past. As the concerns of the twentieth century give way to those of the twenty-first, it is encouraging that there are still new things to be learned about the past, new ways of seeing and engaging, even with figures so well studied as Wyclif.

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Sean A. Otto received his Ph D from the University of St. Michael's College (Toronto) after completing a study of John Wyclif’s Sermones. His research and teaching interests include medieval theology and heresy, preaching and catechesis, as well as Wyclif’s anti-fraternal polemics and appropriation of the friars’ preaching materials. He is currently registrar for the Diocese of Quebec and an independent scholar.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 86 ● ISBN 9781725251069 ● File size 3.1 MB ● Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers ● City Eugene ● Country US ● Published 2021 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7811711 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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