Along with Peter Waldo and John Wycliffe, John Huss stands among the greatest of the pre-reformers, Protestant leaders that criticized the Roman Catholic Church and paved the way for the 16th century Reformation led by Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli.
John Huss’s life and teachings influenced the church long after his death. From the Bohemian Reformation came the Moravians, named after the easter region in the Czech Republic. The Moravian Brethren also influenced George Whitefield and the Great Awakening and helped ignite the missionary movement in the 18th century. Thus, God used John Huss as a central tool to impact the three great revival campaigns of the last five-hundred years in church history: the Protestant Reformation, the great century of missions, and the Great Awakening.