History · Rise of Indian Nationalism
UGC NET June 2012 History
Who was called the 'Morning Star' of the Reformation?
AMartin Luther
BJohn Calvin
CZwingli
DJohn Wycliffe ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) John Wycliffe — John Wycliffe was called the Morning Star of the Reformation, so the answer is John Wycliffe.
Explanation
★John Wycliffe was called the Morning Star of the Reformation, so the answer is John Wycliffe.
★He lived in fourteenth century England and criticised the wealth and power of the Church.
★He advocated translation of the Bible into the common vernacular for ordinary people.
★He is said to have helped render the Bible directly from the Latin Vulgate into Middle English.
★His ideas foreshadowed the later Protestant Reformation by nearly two centuries.
★Martin Luther began that Reformation in Germany in 1517.
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