John Wyclif și ordinele religioase călugărești
John Wyclif and monastic religious orders

Summary/Abstract: The reform draft of the English theologian John Wyclif included in the late fourteenth century the dissolution of the monastic religious orders from the Church. The main reason for this new approach was thediscrepancy between the monks’ way of life and the ideal of the monastic life spent in poverty and selfless as the one of our Savior Jesus Christ.Although he was at first a supporter of the monastic ideal, especially ofthe Franciscans, one can see that at the end of his life Wyclif will triggeran unprecedented attack against the religious orders. Wyclif did not stop there, but he organized his own group, the so-called ”poor priests”,which led a life of poverty, going barefoot throughout the kingdom of England, preaching the gospel and the new doctrines of their master. This study focuses on all those aspects following the analysis of the keypoints of the relation between John Wyclif and the religious orders.

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