Fill in the blank. John Wycliffe challenged a number of ..... doctrines with arguments which centuries later would echo during the Protestant Reformation.

CULTURAL AND LITERARY ENGLISH RENAISSANCE

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Fill in the blank. John Wycliffe challenged a number of ____ doctrines with arguments which centuries later would echo during the Protestant Reformation.

A	Roman Catholic
B	Anglican
C	Buddhist
D	Protestant

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -He said that there was no scriptural justification for the papacy’s existence and attacked the riches and power that popes and the Church as a whole had acquired. He disapproved of clerical celibacy, pilgrimages, the selling of indulgences and praying to saints.

Detailed explanation-2: -John Wycliffe is widely considered one of the medieval forerunners of the Protestant Reformation. His criticism of the practices and beliefs of the church foreshadowed those of later reformers. Wycliffe also directed a translation of the Bible into English.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Council of Constance declared Wycliffe a heretic on 4 May 1415, and banned his writings, effectively both excommunicating him retroactively and making him an early forerunner of Protestantism.

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