General Prologue of the Wycliffe Bible the later version of Wycliffe Bibles at about 1395–1397. The other two "General Prologues" are attached to revised earlier version Wycliffe Bibles, revised 1395–1397. There are more than 200 later versions of the Wycliffe Bible that do not have the "General Prologue" attached. The Prologue contains wording that indicates it was written between 1395 and 1397. Purvey, as the eximious doctor prominent leader of the Lollards at the time, is credited with the later version Wycliffe Bible New Testament portion, as well as the "General Prologue." Chapter fifteen shows the procedures how the Lollard translators went about their work of
Transubstantiation 14th-century reformers, John Wycliffe in particular. The manner in which the change occurs, the Roman Catholic Church teaches, is a mystery: "The signs of bread and wine become, in a way surpassing understanding, the Body and Blood of Christ." The precise terminology to be used to refer to the nature of the Eucharist and its theological implications has a contentious history, especially in the Protestant Reformation. In the Greek Orthodox Church, the doctrine has been discussed under the term of "metousiosis", coined as a direct loan-translation of "transsubstantiatio" in the 17th century. In Eastern Orthodoxy in general, the Sacred Mystery