There were many great Reformers who came out of and spoke out against the abuses within the Catholic Church. The main objective of these men was not to cause a split within the church or to create a new denomination but to reform the errors that had crept into the Church of Rome. Martin Luther has long been credited for his stance against the Church of Rome and is the prominent figure of the Protestant Reformation,however, over 100 years prior, two other men emerged who paved the way and inspired Luther himself. “Two notable medieval forerunners to the Reformation were John Wycliffe and Jan Huss.”(MacArthur) The time when John Wycliffe and John Huss lived was not unlike the time in which we now live with sickness, war and social uprisings occurring all around them. …show more content…
He was the leading philosopher of his time as well as being an English priest despite it taking him twenty-six years to earn his doctorate due to Black Death outbreaks throughout the region. Wycliffe had a great love of the Scriptures and was very committed to studying them and learning God’s Word. This love for Scripture fostered a heart in Wycliffe for those less fortunate and caused him to denounce the inaccuracies in the teaching of the Catholic Church and the immoral leadership of the Church. “The highest service that men may attain to on earth is to preach the Word of God. This service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore God more straightly demands it of them… And for this cause, Jesus Christ left other works and occupied himself mostly in preaching, and thus did His apostles and for this God loved