William Swinderby and the Wycliffite attitude to excommunication
The early Wycliffite William Swinderby expressed some strong criticisms of excommunication. He was alarmed that churchman thought that it was their power, rather than God's power, that consigned a soul to hell. The rhetoric of sentences of excommunication in this period was indeed intended to f...
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Cambridge University Press
2009
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