John Huss: His Life, Teachings and Death, after Five Hundred Years
Overview
John Huss belongs not to Bohemia alone. He has a place in the religious history of Europe and the West. For Protestants, Huss appears as a forerunner of the Reformation by his assertion of the authority of the Scriptures and his definition of the church. Moreover, to all who follow with interest the progress of toleration in matters of religious opinion and general thought, he occupies the place of martyr to the sacred rights of conscience. From whatever standpoint he may be regarded, as a heretic or as an advocate of forgotten Scriptural truth, as a contumacious rebel against constituted church authority or as an advocate of the just rights of conscience, his personality and teachings promote the study of the foundations of church authority in such an irenic spirit that the cause of the mutual recognition of Christians, one of the other, may be advanced. As Schaff asks in the introduction, “Is it too much to hope that the solemn study of this man’s Christian aims and death may promote the disposition to regard with tolerance doctrinal errors when the persons who hold them are moved with devotion to the person of Christ and the promotion of goodwill among men?” This biography is intended not only to set forth the teachings and activity of John Huss and the circumstances of his death but also to show the perpetuation of his influence upon the centuries that have elapsed since he suffered at the stake. “He being dead yet speaketh.”
- Title: John Huss: His Life, Teachings and Death, after Five Hundred Years
- Author: David Schley Schaff
- Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons
- Print Publication Date: 1915
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Hus, Jan, 1369?-1415
- Resource ID: LLS:JHUSSLFTCHDTH
- Resource Type: text.monograph.biography
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T04:07:56Z