Stanton.) Pp. 98 + 9 plates. (New York: Herbert Reichner, 1953.) 8.50 dollars. Michael Servetus A Translation of his Geographical, Medical and Astrological Writings, with Introductions and Notes.

Michael Servetus was the sort of guy who couldn’t leave well enough alone. He was smart, and he couldn’t resist demonstrating how smart he was, no matter the consequences. It was a personality ...

The "Fearless Scholar" of "Out of the Flames" is the 16th-century Spanish physician, philosopher and mystical theologian Michael Servetus (1511-1553), the guiding spirit, though not an actual ...

Then the faggots were lit. The fire’s victim was a 42-year-old Spaniard named Michael Servetus. His crime, for which he had been duly tried and sentenced: religious heresy. Specifically ...

On a hill called Champel outside Geneva in 1553, green oak branches crackled in flames round the feet of a 42-year-old Spanish heretic named Michael Servetus. His heresy: that God was not Three-in ...

Why he assented to the execution of Michael Servetus. Today, heresy is hardly an operative term in Protestant church life, but in Calvin’s day to deny the Trinity was tantamount to committing ...

Nevertheless, I would agree that John Calvin bears a large share of responsibility for the execution of Michael Servetus in Geneva in 1553 for denying the doctrine of the Trinity (and thus also ...

On a winter’s day in 1553, on the plain of Champel outside Geneva, Michael Servetus was burnt alive by the city fathers, with the enthusiastic support of religious reformer John Calvin.