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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 64. Chapters: John Wycliffe, Chaim Potok, William Tyndale, Myles Coverdale, John Rogers, John Nelson Darby, Hugh J. Schonfield, Richard Challoner, George Joye, Ronald Knox, Alexander Campbell, Helen Barrett Montgomery, Clarence Jordan, Nahum M. Sarna, Mary Sidney, George Lamsa, David Philipson, Jacob O. Meyer, Isaac Leeser, Philip Schaff, Joseph H. Hertz, Benjamin Wilson, Adolph Ernst Knoch, Eugene H. Peterson, Chana Bloch, Stephen Mitchell, Donald Foster Hudson, E. V. Rieu, Robert Alter, Olaf M. Norlie, Moshe Greenberg, Kenneth Wuest, Ephraim Avigdor Speiser, Joseph Bryant Rotherham, Richard Taverner, David H. Stern, John Bertram Phillips, Steven T. Byington, Cyrus Adler, John Edgar McFadyen, Ralph Earle, Jr., John Trevisa, Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, Max Margolis, Everett Fox, Richmond Lattimore, George Constantine, Richard Francis Weymouth, Kenneth N. Taylor, Jay P. Green, Henry Wansbrough, Moises Silva, Heinz Cassirer, Edgar J. Goodspeed, S. H. Hooke, Angelo Traina, Harry Orlinsky, Nathaniel N. Whiting, Hugo McCord, William F. Beck, George R. Noyes, Joseph Lilly, James Kleist. Excerpt: John Wycliffe (; also spelled Wyclif, Wycliff, Wiclef, Wicliffe, or Wickliffe) (c. 1328 - December 31, 1384), also known as Wycliffe John, was an English Scholastic philosopher, theologian, lay preacher, translator, reformer and university teacher who was known as an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century. His followers were known as Lollards, a somewhat rebellious movement, which preached anticlerical and biblically-centred reforms. The Lollard movement, was a precursor to the Protestant Reformation (for this reason, Wycliffe is sometimes called "The Morning Star of the Reformation"). He was one of the earliest opponents of papal authority influencing secular power. Wycliffe was also an early advocate for transl...
