Word: servetus
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...Geneva's citizens were summoned to swear fealty to a 21-article confession of faith; church and state had separate powers, but in Calvin's theocracy no citizen of the state could be outside the authority of the church. The most famous of his opponents, Michael Servetus, was burned at the stake for his anti-Trinitarian views, though Calvin regretted the burning (he had wanted him beheaded...
Organized religion has almost always been opposed to advances in religious thought. It crucified Jesus. It burned Servetus, and banished Roger Williams. Now Tillich is meeting with the same kind of opposition in a more civilized form...
Flesh & Effigy. The Catholic authorities acted fast. Servetus was arrested and clapped in jail, but he escaped and made his way to Geneva in disguise. There, on Sunday, Aug. 13, 1553, he was recognized at church, arrested by the Calvinists...
...months after he had. been burned in effigy by the frustrated officers of the Inquisition, Servetus was burned in the flesh by the Calvinists...
...take long for Calvin's 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...