Word: servetus
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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...
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...
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...