{"id":297,"date":"2017-06-05T21:04:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T04:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/?p=297"},"modified":"2018-09-05T21:52:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T04:52:41","slug":"my-recommendations-book-of-the-week-june-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"My Recommendations: Book of the Week, June 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWyclif\u2019s legendary status as \u201cthe Morning Star of the Reformation\u201d fails to survive Gillian Evans\u2019 vigorous professorial investigation. Her portrait of Wyclif in John Wyclif: Myth and Reality<\/strong> reveals a complex and conflicted man \u2014 an irascible academic as well as a contrite cleric. His academic setting at Oxford forms the dominant background for Evans\u2019 portrait of both the ecclesiastic and the educator. As a parish priest, Wyclif was more educated than most. In 1379 (some years after he had departed the parish ministry) he authored a book on \u201cThe Pastoral Office\u201d in which he defined the duties of the godly pastor: to feed his sheep with God\u2019s Word, to purge his flock of contagious spiritual disease, and to defend his flock against ravaging wolves. Evans concludes that Wyclif found pastoral ministry less than satisfying, so he returned to Oxford to pursue a Doctor of Theology degree. He was a staunch critic of absentee pastors holding a plurality of parishes and\/or benefices that drew them away from their pastoral duties. Evans\u2019 focus is so much on the educator (and, later, the public servant of the royal court) that the ecclesiastic suffers adequate coverage. This may, in part, be due to an absence of adequate documentation, the result of the ultimate condemnation and burning of Wyclif\u2019s books in 1410. However, if a pastor, rather than an academic, were to write the biography, Wyclif\u2019s portrait probably would include a more detailed examination of his pastoral practices for comparison with his pastoral philosophy. In De Veritate Sacrae Scripturae<\/em> (\u201cAbout the Truthfulness of Sacred Scriptures\u201d) he declares that no human writing is superior to the Bible, all Christians have a right to read it, and the Scriptures are the best foundation for secular and ecclesiastical life. As far as the Wycliffite translations of the Bible into English are concerned, Evans finds no evidence of any contribution directly from the hand of Wyclif. Evans paints a dark and disappointing picture of a failed hero. On occasion Evans\u2019 own political sensitiveness manifests itself. She appears to use this biography as the springboard for expressing her own political bitterness and\/or agenda with regard to the war in Iraq. In spite of the author\u2019s pessimistic approach and assessment, her volume is still worth reading. Every future biographer of Wyclif needs to begin with Evans\u2019 book. It is as much an expos\u00e9 of early Oxford as it is of Wyclif. The reader will find Evans\u2019 enthusiastic study of the Middle Ages infectious.\n\nClick on picture for link.<\/strong>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Books I’ve Endorsed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Wyclif\u2019s legendary status as \u201cthe Morning Star of the Reformation\u201d fails to survive Gillian Evans\u2019 vigorous professorial investigation. Her portrait of Wyclif in John Wyclif: Myth and Reality reveals a complex and conflicted man \u2014 an irascible academic as well as a contrite cleric. His academic setting at Oxford forms the dominant background for Evans\u2019 portrait of both […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,25],"tags":[1060,142,1061,1062,1063,1064,1065,1066,1067,1068,1069,1070,1071,1072,1073,294,45],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-translation","category-church-history","category-recommendations","tag-academics","tag-bible-translation","tag-christian-theology","tag-church-of-england","tag-england","tag-english-reformation","tag-gillian-evans","tag-john-wyclif","tag-john-wycliff","tag-john-wycliffe","tag-medieval-church","tag-middle-ages","tag-oxford-university","tag-pastoral-ministries","tag-the-bible","tag-theology","tag-william-d-barrick"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}