John Wyclif (Great Medieval Thinkers)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780195183313
Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Theology / History; Christian Theology - History; Medieval; Religion; Religion - Theology
Description: Overview: This work draws on recent scholarship situating John Wyclif in his fourteenth-century milieu to present a survey of his thought and writings as a coherent theological position arising from Oxford's "Golden Age" of theology. It takes into account both Wyclif's earlier, philosophical works and his later works, including sermons and Scripture commentary. Wyclif's belief that Scripture is the eternal and perfect divine word, the paradigm of human discourse and the definitive embodiment of truth in creation is central to an understanding of the ties he believes relate theoretical and practical philosophy to theology. This connection links Wyclif's interest in the propositional structure of reality to his realism, his hermeneutic program, and to his agenda for reform of the Church.