Most courses of theology taught only the doctrines of the Church apart from Scripture and with the study of the writings of early Church fathers. Ironically, doctors of theology thought that lecturing on the Bible was simplistic and beneath them. For Wycliffe, however, the more exposure he had to Scripture, the more he loved it. And the more he loved it, the more concerned he became that what he had been taught and was teaching was inaccurate.

