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  Jan Hus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The doctors of the university required from Hus and his adherents an approval of their conception of the Church, according to which the Pope is the head, the Cardinals are the body of the Church, and that all regulations of this Church must be obeyed.
However Hus was probably reckoning that a guarantee of safe conduct was also a sign of patronage by the king and that therefore he could rely on royal support during the proceedings.
In the beginning Hus was at liberty, living at the house of a widow, but after a few weeks his opponents succeeded in imprisoning him, on the strength of a rumor that he intended to flee.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Jan Hus
Hus was a strong partisan on the side of the Czechs, and hence of the Realists, and he was greatly influenced by the writings of Wyclif.
Hus meanwhile openly defended Wyclif, and this position he maintained especially against John Stokes, a licentiate of Cambridge, who had come to Prague and declared that in England Wyclif was regarded as a heretic.
Both Hus and Jerome of Prague aroused the university and the populace against the papal commission which had been sent to announce the indulgences, and its members in consequence were treated with every sort of indignity.
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 Hus
In 1402 John was appointed rector and preacher at the Chapel of the Holy Infants of Bethlehem in Prague.
John Hus had become thoroughly familiar with the teachings of Wycliffe and, convinced of their truth, he had himself begun to teach them in the university and preach them in the pulpit.
Hus was not the original thinker that Wycliffe was, and indeed borrowed most of this thoughts from Wycliffe -- especially Wycliffe's views of the church as the elect body of Christ and the sole authority of Scripture.
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 Medieval Church.org.uk: John Huss (c.1372-1415)
In 1412 Hus and his sympathizers were roused to indignation by the preaching of a crusade against Naples, and of indulgences commanded by Pope John XXIII., and commended by the king.
The condemnation of Hus to the stake was a foregone conclusion.
Spinka, John Hus at the Council of Constance.
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 Jan Hus (c. 1370-1415)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Hus was influenced by Wycliffe's underlying principles, though he never accepted their extreme implications, and was particularly impressed by Wycliffe's proposals for reform of the Roman Catholic clergy.
Hus also became the adviser to the young nobleman Zbynek Zajíc of Hazmburk when Zbynek was named archbishop of Prague in 1403, a move that helped to give the reform movement a firmer foundation.
During his exile in 1412–14, Hus substituted for his popular preaching in Prague a series of writings in Czech; these have since become classics of Czech literature and are equally important in the history of the Czech language, since Hus developed a new and simpler orthography.
www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/Hus/Hus.html   (1505 words)

  
 Jan Hus--A Short History
John Hus, the famous Reformer of Bohemia, was born at Hussinetz (Husinecz; 75 m.
In the beginning Hus was at liberty, making his abode at the house of a widow, but after a few weeks his opponents succeeded in imprisoning him, on the strength of a rumor that he intended to flee.
Hus conceded his veneration of Wyclif, and said that he could only wish his soul might some time attain unto that place where Wyclif's was.
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 Hus
JOHN HUS (Jan Hus) was born sometime around 1372 in the town of Husinec, Bohemia, in the area that is now the Czech Republic.
Hus was intrigued by the writings of the early English reformer John Wycliffe, though he did not agree with all Wycliffe's teachings.
Because of his refusal to recant, Hus was declared an heretic and was burned at the stake on July 6, 1415.
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 New Catholic Dictionary: John Hus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
The following year Hus again became rector of the university, and was reported to Rome for his Wycliffite tendencies, with the result that Archbishop Zbynk (Sbinco) received a Bull from Alexander V ordering him to withdraw Wyclif's writings from circulation, and forbid any preaching except in cathedral, collegiate, parish, and cloister churches.
Hus and his adherents protested to John XXIII against these measures, and were excommunicated by the archbishop, 10 July 1410.
Hus was summoned to appear before the pope but sent representatives in his stead, and sentence of excommunication was pronounced against him in February 1411.
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 Hussites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
They were followers of John Hus (Jan Hus) who was declared a heretic and executed in 1418 C.E. He promoted the reading of the New Testament and the Hebrew Bible by lay people in the common language because he felt that lay people had the ability to interpret the scriptures for themselves.
The Moravian Church: John Hus (Jan Hus) This is an article on John Hus at the Council of Constance.
Jan Hus This is from the Catholic Supersite, New Advent.
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 John Hus: The Pre-Reformer
Hus lived in a time of great political and religious upheaval and to fully understand the man and his circumstances, some background is necessary.
Hus responded, "And I commit myself to the most gracious Lord Jesus." In a letter written the night before his sentencing, Hus prayed that if his death would contribute anything to God's glory, then he might be able to meet it without fear.
John Wyclif was a maverick that rejected traditional doctrines – the kind of preacher many elders and preachers warn their assemblies not to hear.
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 BBC - h2g2 - The Hus Paper
Hus had traveled to Constance under a safe-conduct from the Emperor Sigismund, guaranteeing his return to Bohemia, thus his execution at the hands of the Council of Constance was a terrible insult to the Bohemian and Moravian nobility.
Hus was born into a poor family in a rural area south of Prague in the latter half of the fourteenth century, and attended the University of Prague, receiving his Master of Arts degree in 1396, and becoming an ordained priest in 1401.
Hus steadfastly maintained that while the accidents of the bread and wine made them bread and wine, he believed that they were, in fact, changed profoundly by the act of priestly consecration.
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 John Hus
One of Wycliffe’s followers, John Hus, actively promoted Wycliffe’s ideas: that people should be permitted to read the Bible in their own language, and they should oppose the tyranny of the Roman church that threatened anyone possessing a non-Latin Bible with execution.
Hus was burned at the stake in 1415, with Wycliffe’s manuscript Bibles used as kindling for the fire.
John Hus, the famous Reformer of Bohemia, was born at Hussinetz (Husinecz; 75 miles south west of Prague) on or around July 6, 1369.
www.greatsite.com /timeline-english-bible-history/john-hus.html   (2104 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Jan Hus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Jan Hus was a religious thinker and reformer, born in Southern Bohemia in 1369.
The Catholic Church did not condone such uprisings, and Hus was excommunicated in 1411 and burned at the stake in Constance on July 6, 1415.
Thereupon the pope issued his bull of December 20, 1409, which empowered the archbishop to proceed against Wyclifism-- all books of Wyclif were to be given up, his doctrines revoked, and free preaching discontinued.
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 Eldrbarry's Reformation Class: Wyclif and Hus
Hus' disputes over authority however were in matters of discipline, and in particular the withholding of the cup from the laity, as contrary to Scripture.
Hus' supporters in Bohemia soon began administering both the elements to the believers in communion, and the Hussites, as they were called successfully defended themselves against five crusades sent by Rome lead by a blind general named John Zizka, who used some innovative military methods to win over 30 battles with the forces against them.
It is for their views on the nature of the Church and on the sole authority of Scripture that John Wyclif and John Hus are considered to be forerunners of the Protestant Reformation.
www.eldrbarry.net /heidel/wyclfhus.htm   (1420 words)

  
 LawBuzz - Cherished Legal Rights - Books & Burning of Books - John Jus Burns - Chapter 10
On July 6, 1415, as John Hus made his way to the place of execution, the authorities made him pass by a bonfire where his books were burning.
Hus was unafraid and predicted the Protestant Reformation with almost uncanny accuracy.
Hus' ashes were cast into the Rhine; Wycliffe's were dumped into the English River Swift in 1428.
www.lawbuzz.com /cherished_rights/freedom_speech/hus_burns.htm   (318 words)

  
 John Huss - Theopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
John Huss (1369 Southern Bohemia – July 6, 1415 Constance) was a religious thinker and reformer.
He initiated a religious movement based on the ideas of John Wycliffe.
The Catholic Church did not condone such uprisings, and Hus was excommunicated in 1411, condemned by the Council of Constance, and burned at the stake.
www.theopedia.com /John_Huss   (492 words)

  
 Life & Liberty Ministries: John Hus
John - Jan in Czech - was born in 1374 to a humble family.
Meanwhile, Hus preached against the sale of indulgences, which were being used to finance the pope's expedition against the king of Naples.
Hus, sick and physically wasted by long imprisonment, illness, and lack of sleep, protested his innocence and refused to renounce his alleged errors unless he could be shown otherwise from Scripture.
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 The Sentence Against John Hus
This holy synod of Constance is compelled to act against these men as against spurious and illegitimate sons, and to cut away their errors from the Lord's field as if they were harmful briars, by means of vigilant care and the knife of ecclesiastical authority, lest they spread as a cancer to destroy others.
This holy synod therefore pronounces the said John Hus, on account of the aforesaid and many other matters, to have been a heretic and it judges him to be considered and condemned as a heretic, and it hereby condemns him.
It declares that the said John Hus seduced the christian people, especially in the kingdom of Bohemia, in his public sermons and in his writings; and that he was not a true preacher of Christ's gospel to the same christian people, according to the exposition of the holy doctors, but rather was a seducer.
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 A History of the Moravian Church (iv.ii)
John Hus went on to attack the vices of the clergy.
If Hus had only halted here, it is probable that he would have been allowed to die in peace in his bed in a good old age, and his name would be found enrolled to-day in the long list of Catholic saints.
He promised Hus, in the plainest terms, three things: first, that he should come unharmed to the city; second, that he should have a free hearing; and third, that if he did not submit to the decision of the Council he should be allowed to go home.
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 Safe Conduct   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
John is not swayed and is determined to speak the truth of scripture.
John Hus’s preaching of the Word eventually won him the honor of standing trial before the Emperor at the Council of Constance, which was convened to put an end to the power struggle and demolish heresy.
On that stake John Hus, spoke, “It is thus that you silence the goose, but a hundred years hence there will arise a swan whose singing you shall not be able to silence.” And one hundred years later, Martin Luther successfully continued what John Hus and others had started.
www.dramatix.org /historic/safe_conduct.html   (1138 words)

  
 Czech and Slovak History: An Annotated Bibliography (European Reading Room, Library of Congress)
Schwarze, William N. John Hus, the Martyr of Bohemia: A Study of the Dawn of Protestantism.
Wratislaw, Albert H. John Hus: The Commencement of Resistance to Papal Authority on the Part of the Inferior Clergy.
Bernal, John D. "Comenius' visit to England, and the Rise of Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century." In The Teacher of Nations: Addresses and Essays in Commemoration of the Visit to England of the Great Czech Educationalist Jan Amos Komensky, 1942 [Chapter 4, Needham]: 27-34.
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 Christian Videos, DVDs, family entertainment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Yet, John Hus was convinced and taught openly that the Bible should be presented in the language of the people, that salvation comes by faith in Jesus Christ, and the Word of God is the final authority.
John Hus taught in the University of Prague and as a pastor, challenged the abuses of medieval Christendom.
John Hus was summoned to the Council of Constance and promised safety, but he was betrayed.
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 John Huss, Priest and Martyr
John Huss (Jan Hus) was born in Bohemia (now part of the Czech Republic) in about 1371.
He received a master's degree from Charles University in Prague in 1396, became a professor of theology in 1398, was ordained to the priesthood in 1400, was made rector of the University in 1402, and in 1404 received a bachelor's degree in theology (presumably a more advanced degree than the term suggests today).
The followers of John Huss and his fellow martyr Jerome of Prague became known as the Czech Brethren and later as the Moravians.
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 Huss, John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
He early came under the influence of the writings of John Wyclif, and though he did not fully espouse Wyclif’s doctrine, he opposed its condemnation (1403) by the Univ. of Prague and translated Wyclif’s Triologus into Czech.
This situation was not helped when, in the same year, the Council of Pisa deposed both popes and chose Pietro Cardinal Philarghi as Alexander V, who was shortly succeeded by Baldassarre Cardinal Cossa as John XXIII.
Wenceslaus stood by Huss and in 1411 brought about a truce, but the fight flared up again in 1412, when Huss openly denounced the bulls of the antipope John XXIII against King Lancelot of Naples and preached against indulgences.
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 Council of Constance 1414-1418 A.D. <16ecume4.htm>
The condemnation of the forty-five articles of John Wyclif, decreed by the doctors, is irrational and unjust and badly done and the reason alleged by them is feigned, namely that none of them is catholic but each one is either heretical or erroneous or scandalous.
They were long ago asserted, preached and taught by John Wyclif and John Hus, of cursed memory, and were included in various of their books and pamphlets.
The hearing was granted to him and he asserted, said and professed in effect, at a public assembly of the same synod, that he had wrongly consented to the aforesaid sentence condemning the said Wyclif and John Hus and that he had lied in approving the sentence.
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