Pre-Reformation The Reformation Church History Christianity

There were people and movements who prepared the way for the Reformation. These include John Wycliffe (sometimes called the "morning star of the Reformation") and William Tyndale who translated the Bible, making it available to English-speaking laymen. Wycliffe also preached that the Bible should be the only rule of faith, not the Pope, whom he called the antichrist. The Renaissance also had a religious impact, as scholars studied the works of the early Church Fathers and felt that the Church of their day had departed from the simple faith of the early church.

• The Pre Reformation Era - Links to the Waldenses, Wycliffe, John Huss and the Lollards.
• The Pre-Reformation Movements - A comprehensive presentation of the people and movements which anticipated pre-reformation the ideas of the Reformation: The Devotio Moderna (teachings of pre-reformation the Brethren of the Common Life), John Wycliffe and the pre-reformation Lollards, Jan Hus and also the Waldenses.
• The Northern Renaissance and the Background of the Reformation - Discusses the Devotio Moderna, mysticism, the invention the reformation of pre-reformation printing, and humanism and its effect on the reformation the Reformation.
• Forerunners of the Reformation - Short articles on Wycliffe, Hus, Peter of Chelcic, the United the reformation Brethren in Bohemia, and Kasper von Schwenckfeld.
• Roots of the Protestant Reformation - Part III of this site discusses the theological influences the reformation of Wycliffe, Hus and Erasmus on the later Reformers.
• Pre-Reformation Mystics - Short biographies of men such as Thomas a the reformation Kempis, Meister Eckhard, Johannus Tauler, Heinrich Suso, and the reformation some later mystics.

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