Which English scholar argued that the Bible was the final authority for Christian life and translated the Bible into English?

• A. Wycliffe
• B. Martin Luther
• C. William Tyndale
• D. John Wycliffe

Answer: (D)

Placing Scripture as the ultimate guide for how Christians should live is the core idea here. John Wycliffe argued that the Bible, rather than church authority or tradition, should govern faith and daily practice. He also spearheaded the first major effort to translate the Bible into English, so laypeople could read it directly. In the 1380s his followers completed the Wycliffe Bible, a turning point that made Scripture accessible in the vernacular and reinforced the view that final authority lies with the text itself. While later reformers like Luther and Tyndale pushed these principles farther, Wycliffe is the figure traditionally associated with both asserting Scripture’s primacy and initiating the English translation of the Bible.