Johannes von Goch

15th-century German Augustinian monk
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Intro15th-century German Augustinian monk
PlacesGermany
wasReligious scholar Theologian
Work fieldReligion
Gender
Male
Birth1410, Goch, Kleve, Düsseldorf Government Region, North Rhine-Westphalia
Death28 March 1475Mechelen, Arrondissement of Mechelen, Antwerp, Flemish Region (aged 65 years)
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Biography

Johannes von Goch (properly Johann Pupper) (c.1400 - 1475) was a German Augustinian monk, thought by some to be a precursor of the Reformation.

Biography

He was born at Goch in the Rhineland, probably studied at Paris, and was the founder of an order of canonesses at Tabor, near Mechelen in Brabant, in 1451, of which he subsequently became prior.

Theology

He may in some respects be considered a precursor of the Reformation, and in his writings, De Libertate Christiana, De Quatuor Erroribus circa Legem Evangelicam, and Epistola Apologetica (1521), he attacks the influence of Pelagianism in the Church, and advocates a return to the text of the Bible as the only true source of religious truth. He was considered a man of profound piety, and as a theologian was unexcelled in his day.

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