"In 1423 the Wycliffite scholar William Taylor had pronounced prayer to saints as idolatry." (John Davis, Heresy And Reformation I...

"Far fewer [Lollard] suspects admitted to holding to the allied opinion, but distinct article, that prayers should not be made to saint...

In a post a few years ago , I discussed the fact that many of the pre-Reformation opponents of Roman Catholicism, such as the Lollards, reno...

There were far more pre-Reformation individuals and groups who agreed with Protestant beliefs than critics of Protestantism typically sugges...

Concerning some of the opposition to prayer to saints around the time of the Second Council of Nicaea, Dirk Krausmuller writes:

We've written a lot over the years about the Reformation's deepest roots, such as the Biblical and patristic ones . I want to quote ...

TurretinFan and Dan Chapa recently produced a video discussing the diversity of views of the perpetual virginity of Mary held by sources of ...

People have taken a lot of different positions on the perpetual virginity of Mary. A wide variety of views is found in the historical record...

It's common for Roman Catholics and other critics of Protestantism to bring up support among the earliest Protestants for various Marian...

It's often claimed that every Christian before the Reformation believed in baptismal regeneration, that only heretics opposed it, that o...

When you can cite an extrabiblical pre-Reformation source or a source from the Reformation era or later in a given context, make more of an ...

Just as people are often undecided about religious issues in our day, the same was true in past generations. That category of agnosticism is...

Murray Wagner refers to how Petr Chelcicky "denounced the doctrine of purgatory...Chelcicky's rejection of purgatory has its preced...

Some of the Hussites held to "an outright denial of any notion of Christ's presence in the eucharist...In time, Tabor arrived at a ...

In other posts, I've discussed other groups who were forerunners of the Reformation to some extent, the Waldensians and the Lollards. I...

Ben Merritt of Cleave to Antiquity recently produced a video in which he interviewed an eyewitness of the Zeitoun Marian apparitions and con...

I've written a lot over the years about how diversely John 3:5 was interpreted prior to the Reformation, contrary to the popular suggest...

Several centuries before the Reformation, Bede wrote against viewing 1 John 5:5 as support for justification through faith alone and, more s...

I've written before about how opposition to the perpetual virginity of Mary persisted beyond the earliest centuries, into the late patri...

In the ninth century, Rabanus Maurus wrote: