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John Hus’ Conflict with the Catholic Church
John Hus was born at Husinetz in Bohemia (which now is called Czechoslovakia), 1369. About in 1390 he enrolled in the University of Prague, where in 1401 John Wycliffe’s works were brought from England. After studying them Hus was greatly influenced by Wycliffe’s underlying principles: the supremacy of the Bibles authority over the Church, the separate spheres of civil and churchly power, the doctrine of predestination, Christ is the head of the church, not the pope, the communion for the laity should be both bread and wine (The Roman Catholic Church reserved the cup- wine for the clergy). Wycliffe’s rejection of the wealth, corruption, and hierarchical tendencies of the Roman Catholic Church impressed Hus the most. ...
The very beginning of Hus’ conflict with the Catholic Church was when ecclesiastical authority proscribed Wycliffe’s works as heretical in 1403, but Hus continued spreading them. ... Hus protested and received the support of the Czech element at the university. ... Wenceslas, for political reasons, switched his support from the Germans to Hus and allied with the reformers. ...
Hus became a rector of the University of Prague in 1409, after the Council of Pisa, when king supported him. ... From the pulpit of the nearby chapel, Hus took an active part in the movement to reform. He intensively critiqued the church of those days. Naturally, his ideology was unacceptable for the church. He had no intention of altering the traditional doctrines of the church, but only of restoring Christian life, and particularly the life of the Catholic Roman clergy, to its highest ideals.
There were two circumstances that made the situation favorable for Hus’ reform.
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