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THE CLASSICS OF WESTERN SPIRITUALITY a
THE CLASSICS OF WESTERN SPIRITUALITY A Library of the Great Spiritual Masters
President and Publisher
Mark-David Janus, CSP
EDITORIAL BOARD Editor-in-Chief Bernard McGinn—Naomi Shenstone Donnelly Professor of Historical Theology and the History of Christianity, Divinity School, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Editorial Consultant John E. Booty—Professor of Anglican Studies, School of Theology, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
Joseph Dan—Professor of Kabbalah, Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Louis
Dupré—T.
L. Riggs Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Yale
University, New Haven, CT
Rozanne
Elder—Executive
Vice-President,
Cistercian Publications,
Kalamazoo, MI
Michael
Fishbane—Nathan
Cummings Professor, Divinity School,
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Karlfried Froehlich—Professor of the History of the Early and Medieval Church, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ
Arthur
Green—Professor of Jewish Thought, Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA Stanley S. Harakas—Archbishop Iakovos Professor of Orthodox Theology, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Seminary, Brookline, MA
Moshe Idel—Professor of Jewish Thought, Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia—Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, Spalding Lecturer in Eastern Orthodox Studies, Oxford University, England.
Azim Nanji—Director, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, England. Seyyed Hossein Nasr—Professor of Islamic Studies, George Washington University, Washington, DC
Sandra M. Schneiders—Professor of New Testament Studies and Spirituality, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, CA
Michael A. Sells—Emily Judson Baugh and John Marshall Gest Professor of Comparative Religions, Haverford College, Haverford, PA Huston Smith—Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
John R. Sommerfeldt—Professor of History, University of Dallas, Irving, TX David
Steindl-Rast—Spiritual
Redding, CT
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David Tracy—Greeley Professor of Roman Catholic Studies, Divinity School, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Rowan D. Williams— Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Wycliffite Spirituality EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY J. PATRICK HORNBECK II, STEPHEN E. LAHEY, AND FIONA SOMERSET
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Cover and caseside design by Cynthia Dunne, www.bluefarmdesign.com Book design by Lynn Else Copyright © 2013 by J. Patrick Hornbeck II, Stephen E. Lahey, and Fiona Somerset All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the Publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wycliffite spirituality / edited and translated by J. Patrick Hornbeck II, Stephen E. Lahey, Fiona Somerset. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8091-0605-9 (alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8091-4765-6 (alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-893757-84-4 1. Lollards. 2. Wycliffe, John, d. 1384. I. Hornbeck, J. Patrick,
1982- II. Lahey, Stephen E. III. Somerset, Fiona. BX4901.3.W93 2013 284'.3—dc23 2012028137
Published by Paulist Press 997 Macarthur Boulevard Mahwah, New Jersey 07430 www.paulistpress.com Printed and bound in the United States of America
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