Conclusions of Wycliffe Condemned at London
The twenty-four propositions drawn from Wycliffe’s teaching that were condemned at London in 1382. They concern the Eucharist, the papacy, church property and the religious orders; none concerns the translation of the Bible.
The list opens with three propositions on the Eucharist, that the substance of bread and wine remains after the consecration and that Christ is not present “identically, truly and really” in his bodily presence. Others deny that a pope or priest in mortal sin holds power, reject church endowments and attack the friars. The ninth says that after Urban VI no one should be received as pope and that people should live, like the Greeks, under their own laws.
The propositions are his opponents’ summary of John Wycliffe’s teaching, not his own words. The Sourcebook heads them “The Condemned Conclusions of John Wycliffe” and prints them between Gregory XI’s bull of 1377 and Wycliffe’s letter to Urban VI. See Wycliffe and the First English Bible.
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- about 1382, estimated date