Chaucer and Wyclif: God's Miracles Against the Clergy's Magic
- Author / Editor
- Kamowski, William.
Chaucer and Wyclif: God's Miracles Against the Clergy's Magic
- Published
- ChauR 37 : 5-25, 2002.
- Description
- In CT (especially WBT, PardT, CYT, PhyT, SNT, and MLT), Chaucer shares with Wyclif the belief that the Church had lost its miraculous power and its focus on salvation, and he stresses the importance of the individual's role in personal salvation. For both men, the schism is less an institutional divide than a division between "self-sacrificing spirituality and self-serving materialism, between miracle and fraud."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.