“Hus wanted to bring the Bible, the sacred texts of Christianity, to the common man. He paid with his life.”
That’s false. If you’ve read the charges against him - and I bet you haven’t - he was not accused, charged or anything else in regard to bringing “the Bible, the sacred texts of Christianity, to the common man” because there was no such “crime” or “heresy” for him to be charged with. Bible translation in Prague was not a legal issue.
His heresies concerned things like Utraquism - which no Protestant today believes in anyway - and Dominion.
“Hus wanted to bring the Bible, the sacred texts of Christianity, to the common man.”
Then in the 1400s, was the Roman church just fine with the common man reading the Bible on his own?
Yeah, I guess the RCE was really keen on bringing the Bible out of the monastery down to the common man’s vernacular so he could read it for himself....
Oh, wait....
Where are the charges against Hus written? I haven't found them yet.
His "trial" seems to have been a farce, He was not allowed to answer the charges (whatever they were) and according to one source, "Hus was repeatedly made the object of mockery, derision, humiliating treatment of the worst sort, and a cruel deposition when he was stripped of all his clerical clothing and publicly defrocked."
http://www.prca.org/books/portraits/hus.htm
Another source has this:
...The final act of Hus's life was played out at the Council of Constance (1414-18), called to bring an end to the Great Schism and to deal with the problem of heresy, especially Hus. Zygmunt, the king of Hungary and brother of Wenceslas, was elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1410. To strengthen his position in Germany, he pressured John XXIII to call the Council. Then, in the spring of 1415, offering a guarantee of safe conduct, Zygmunt invited Hus to attend. At first Hus hesitated, but with the urging of Wenceslas, he accepted.Once in Constance, Hus was lured into the papal residence, then imprisoned in a Dominican dungeon. What followed were months of interrogation and suffering. Zygmunt withdrew his safe conduct in January 1415. It was only due to great pressure exerted by Bohemian noblemen that Hus was given any semblance of a public hearing on June 5, 7, and 8, but he was not allowed to respond to the charges made against him. Presented with a list of 30 articles allegedly drawn from his writings but in fact drawn from the writings of John Wycliffe, Hus was ordered to renounce them upon oath. He refused, unless instructed from Scripture as to where his teachings were in error. The Council rejected his appeal to the Bible as a superior authority.
On July 6, Hus was given a final opportunity to recant. Again he refused, saying that since he did not hold all of the views as stated, to recant would be to commit perjury. He was then declared an arch-heretic and a disciple of Wycliffe. He was ceremoniously degraded from the priest-hood, his soul was consigned to the devil, and he was turned over to the secular authorities for execution. That same day, he was led to a meadow outside the city wall and burned alive.
Although the Council had consigned his soul to the devil, Hus—singing loudly as the flames consumed him— consigned his soul to God: "Jesus Christ! The Son of the living God! Have mercy upon me." His ashes were then gathered up and cast into the Rhine River.
http://biography.yourdictionary.com/jan-hus
So where is the content of the actual charges against him be found?
Cordially,