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  • Lollardy
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  • Wyclif’s Bible is the term now given to the versions of the Bible translated into Middle English by Lollard scholar John Wyclif. These versions of the Bible appeared in the later years of the fourteenth century, but were still studied long thereafter.
  • It taught the concept of the "Church of the Saved", meaning that Christ's true Church was the community of the faithful, which overlapped with but was not the same as the official Church of Rome. It taught a form of predestination. It advocated apostolic poverty and taxation of Church properties. Other doctrines include consubstantiation in favour of transubstantiation , although some of its followers went further. A Lollard blacksmith in Lincolnshire declared that he could make "as good a sacrament between ii yrons as the prest doth vpon his auter (altar)".
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  • Wyclif’s Bible is the term now given to the versions of the Bible translated into Middle English by Lollard scholar John Wyclif. These versions of the Bible appeared in the later years of the fourteenth century, but were still studied long thereafter.
  • It taught the concept of the "Church of the Saved", meaning that Christ's true Church was the community of the faithful, which overlapped with but was not the same as the official Church of Rome. It taught a form of predestination. It advocated apostolic poverty and taxation of Church properties. Other doctrines include consubstantiation in favour of transubstantiation , although some of its followers went further. A Lollard blacksmith in Lincolnshire declared that he could make "as good a sacrament between ii yrons as the prest doth vpon his auter (altar)".