Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rappaport's stand was the recent N.B.C. showings in which the reform committee took the City Council but lost the School Committee. Joseph Lee, an N.B.C. endorsee, finished fifth in the Schools race, with Independents filling five of the nine posts. Leading the field in the Schools vote were Michael J. Ward and Mary K. Fitzgerald, both of whom are on record against the "Harvard Plan" of school consolidation...
This was too much for John Calvin. One Genevan had written his Catholic cousin in France, reproaching him for allowing a heretic like Servetus to live unmolested in Catholic territory. When the cousin asked for details, Calvin gave the documentary proof that Dr. Michel de Villeneuve was indeed Michael Servetus, the man who had denounced the Trinity...
...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, it was his denial of infant baptism and the doctrine of the Trinity. (The minister who accompanied him to the stake later observed that, had Servetus switched adjectives, and called on "the Eternal Son of God," he might have saved his life.) Last week, for the 400th anniversary of Servetus' death, Roland H. Bainton, one of Protestantism's foremost modern historians (Here I Stand, The Reformation of the 16th Century), brought...
...Nauseating Smoke. Michael Servetus was a classic 16th century man who could have existed only in that day, when a learned man had to know something about everything. He was a capable physician, the first in the West to discover that the blood circulates in the lungs. He was an astrologer of some repute, the author of several handy works on divination. He was a scholar in Hebrew and Greek, and, even by his enemies' testimony, a brilliant theologian...
...spiritual descendants to develop a bad conscience about Servetus' execution. "It served," writes Historian Bainton, "as the occasion for the rise in volume and intensity of the toleration controversy within Protestantism." This year John Calvin's old congregation in Geneva has subsidized a study entitled "Michael Servetus, Heretic and Martyr." And at the base of Champel there is now a monument to Servetus, erected in 1903 by local Calvinists-"Sons," as its legend reads, "respectful and grateful of Calvin, our Great Reformer, but condemning an error which was that...