Hunted Heretic: The Life and Death of Michael Servetus, 1511-1553
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (864 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0972501738 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 235 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Sad but true Good man murdered by the Devils of Orthodoxy. Mark Ellis said Great Addition!. This reprint of Bainton's classic is a most welcome addition to Servetus studies. Bainton's book on Servetus' thought and life remains the definitive work on Servetus, and will likely remain so for years to come. The additions by Angel Alcala, are superb, a friend of Bainton's and a leader in Spanish scholarship. For those who are looking to make a foray into Servetus studies, the bibliography is a gem. English speakin. "A wonderful, conforting, helpful book!" according to Dena Gracie. "In Life and Death: The Shaping of Faith" is a well written, moving book that deals with issues of grief and loss and brings them together with ones personal search for faith during those hard times. It is an important book to read if you have experienced a loss because it brings you through the process of grief with the realization that it is only through our dark times that our faith and religion are fully tested. Bu
. Roland H. Bainton, a professor of church history at Yale University and a lifelong pacifist, wrote Hunted Heretic as part of a life-work consecrated to "the reconciliation of peoples." His works include The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, The Travail of Religious Liberty, Christian Attitudes toward War and Peace, Erasmus of Chr
From the Publisher Roland H. This new edition includes: - A new introduction by the leading modern Servetus scholar, Ángel Alcalá - Translation into English of text from Alcalá’s Spanish edition of 1973 - Additions to the notes and bibliography incorporating recent scholarship - Many new annotations in the bibliography - A short biography of Roland Bainton - Historia Mortis Serveti: an account of the death of Servetus from 1554 . Bainton’s classic biography of Servetus remains as useful and as readable today as it was when it was first published in 1953
Michael Servetus, a Spaniard executed for heresy in John Calvin’s Geneva, is remembered as an important Reformation-era theologian and as a physician credited with the discovery of the circulation of the blood through the lungs. However, the case of Servetus, which has been taken up by Voltaire, Gibbon, and many others, marks the beginning of the idea of religious toleration.. His first book, On the Errors of the Trinity, so shocked both Catholics and Protestants that he was compelled to live under an assumed name. All but a few copies of his magnum opus, Christianity Restored, were destroyed shortly after publication