59231ig@houxm.UUCP (I.GERSZBERG) (04/25/85)
<> The question I would like answered in more detail than I already know is: Who was John Hus (14th century Czeckoslovakia) and what did he believe that caused his execution? Thanks for any help. I'll post details of why I want to know if there is any interest. Enjoy, Bob Switzer
myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers) (04/26/85)
> The question I would like answered in more detail than I already know > is: Who was John Hus (14th century Czeckoslovakia) and what did he > believe that caused his execution? > > Bob Switzer John Hus was burned as a heretic. From the *Anchor Atlas of World History*: Reform Movements outside the Church Opposed to the papacy and to the papal Church dominated by the clergy on nat. and relig. grounds, the Lollards spread in England. They were followers of the Oxford professor John Wyclif, who accepted nothing but the Bible as authority for Christ. For this reason he translated the Bible, denounced the hierarchy, celibacy, indulgences and the teaching of the Eucharist and demanded a nat. church founded on `Christian poverty'. His teachings were suppressed in England; taught by the priest John Hus, they found new adherents in Bohemia. Hus's martyrdom and the excommunication of the Hussites caused nat., relig. and soc. crises for the Czechs. -- Jeff Myers The views above may or may not University of Wisconsin-Madison reflect the views of any other Madison Academic Computing Center person or group at UW-Madison. ARPA: uwmacc!myers@wisc-rsch.ARPA UUCP: ..!{ucbvax,allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!myers