Post by phantasman on Apr 7, 2014 22:36:57 GMT -5
The Catholic Bishop who translated the Bible from Latin to English in 1360. He wound up being a heretic of the church. His bones exhumed 30 years after he died at the request of the Pope and burned with the ashes cast into the river. His beliefs are summed up:
He demanded strict dialectical training as the means of distinguishing the true from the false, and asserted that logic (or the syllogism) furthered the knowledge of catholic verities; ignorance of logic was the reason why men misunderstood Scripture, since men overlooked the connection – the distinction between idea and appearance. Wycliffe was not merely conscious of the distinction between theology and philosophy, but his sense of reality led him to pass by scholastic questions. He left aside philosophical discussions which seemed to have no significance for the religious consciousness and those which pertained purely to scholasticism: "we concern ourselves with the verities that are, and leave aside the errors which arise from speculation on matters which are not."
This is interesting as he did not have access to Nag Hammadi info that we have. But did they have access to the library of the ECFs? Only seeing a small segment of what Irenaeus wrote over things like the secret books?
I found his commnent...........interesting.
He demanded strict dialectical training as the means of distinguishing the true from the false, and asserted that logic (or the syllogism) furthered the knowledge of catholic verities; ignorance of logic was the reason why men misunderstood Scripture, since men overlooked the connection – the distinction between idea and appearance. Wycliffe was not merely conscious of the distinction between theology and philosophy, but his sense of reality led him to pass by scholastic questions. He left aside philosophical discussions which seemed to have no significance for the religious consciousness and those which pertained purely to scholasticism: "we concern ourselves with the verities that are, and leave aside the errors which arise from speculation on matters which are not."
This is interesting as he did not have access to Nag Hammadi info that we have. But did they have access to the library of the ECFs? Only seeing a small segment of what Irenaeus wrote over things like the secret books?
I found his commnent...........interesting.
