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Article: Philosophy and Politics in the Thought of John Wyclif.(Book Review)
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By Stephen E. Lahey. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, Fourth Series, 54. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. x + 237 pp. $60.00 cloth.
The English theologian John Wyclif first ran afoul of ecclesiastical authorities in 1377, when Pope Gregory XI condemned nineteen propositions drawn from his De civili dominio, a massive work completed the previous year. Principally at issue was Wyclif's rather controversial understanding of dominium, or lordship. To argue, as Wyclif did, that all just human dominium is dependent upon divine grace was not itself a new concept and had been employed by papal apologists like Giles of Rome some seventy years ...