Why The Lollards Were Followers Of John Wycliffe's Bible

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The Lollards were a group of anti-clerical English Christians who lived between the late 1300s and the early 1500s. The Lollards were followers of John Wycliffe, the Oxford University theologian and Christian Reformer who translated the Bible into vernacular English. We cannot understand who the Lollards were without first looking at who John Wycliffe (132? -1384) was. During this time, the Bible was usually only available in Latin, which was the language used by the Church and those of the upper classes. Wycliffe wanted to change that, and he did by translating the Latin Bible (the Vulgate) into the people's common language (1382). The privileged text of this essay is going to be the Lord’s Prayer, and not the whole Wycliffe’s Bible. First