How Did a Radical English Priest Spark a Secret Reformation Centuries Before Luther?

How Did a Radical English Priest Spark a Secret Reformation Centuries Before Luther?

John Wycliffe was a 14th-century English Catholic priest and theologian who promoted several ideas which were precursors to many found in the Protestant Reformation. His ideas influenced the Lollards, a group of proto-Protestants largely composed of poor, uneducated individuals who spread Wycliffe’s teachings far and wide, across much of England.   The Dangerous Ideas That Terrified the 14th Century Papacy Portrait of John Wycliffe, by Thomas Ki…