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John Huss 1
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John Huss (1372-1415) also spelled John Hus, Jan Hus, and Jan Huss, was the key pre-reformer in Bohemia (modern day Czech Republic). Philip Schaff writes,
Across the seas in Bohemia, where the views of Wyclif were transplanted, they took deeper root than in England, and assumed an organized form. There, the English Reformer was called the fifth evangelist and, in its earlier stages, the movement went by the name of Wycliffism. It was only in the later periods that the names Hussites and Hussitism were substituted for Wycliffites and Wycliffism. Its chief spokesmen were John Huss and Jerome of Prague, who died at the stake at Constance for their avowed allegiance to Wyclif. Through Huss, Prague became identified with a distinct stage in the history of religious progress. Distinguished among its own people as the city of St. John of Nepomuk, d. 1383, and in the history of armies as the residence of Wallenstein, the Catholic leader in the Thirty Years’ War, Prag is known in the Western world pre-eminently as the home of Huss. Through his noble advocacy, the principles enunciated by Wyclif became the subject of discussion in oecumenical councils, called forth armed crusades and furnished an imposing spectacle of steadfast resistance against religious oppression. Wycliffism passed out of view in England; but Hussitism, in spite of the most bitter persecution by the Jesuits, has trickled down in pure though small streamlets into the religious history of modern times, notably through the Moravians of Herrnhut.
To learn more about John Huss, please visit the following websites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hus http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/hcc6.ii.vi.vii.html http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/7.html http://www.ccel.org/ccel/hutton/moravian.iv.ii.html http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/john-hus.html http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07584b.htm http://www.williamtyndale.com/0johnhus.htm
Across the seas in Bohemia, where the views of Wyclif were transplanted, they took deeper root than in England, and assumed an organized form. There, the English Reformer was called the fifth evangelist and, in its earlier stages, the movement went by the name of Wycliffism. It was only in the later periods that the names Hussites and Hussitism were substituted for Wycliffites and Wycliffism. Its chief spokesmen were John Huss and Jerome of Prague, who died at the stake at Constance for their avowed allegiance to Wyclif. Through Huss, Prague became identified with a distinct stage in the history of religious progress. Distinguished among its own people as the city of St. John of Nepomuk, d. 1383, and in the history of armies as the residence of Wallenstein, the Catholic leader in the Thirty Years’ War, Prag is known in the Western world pre-eminently as the home of Huss. Through his noble advocacy, the principles enunciated by Wyclif became the subject of discussion in oecumenical councils, called forth armed crusades and furnished an imposing spectacle of steadfast resistance against religious oppression. Wycliffism passed out of view in England; but Hussitism, in spite of the most bitter persecution by the Jesuits, has trickled down in pure though small streamlets into the religious history of modern times, notably through the Moravians of Herrnhut.
To learn more about John Huss, please visit the following websites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hus http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/hcc6.ii.vi.vii.html http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/7.html http://www.ccel.org/ccel/hutton/moravian.iv.ii.html http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/john-hus.html http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07584b.htm http://www.williamtyndale.com/0johnhus.htm
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