Hunted heretic; the life and death of Michael Servetus, 1511-1553.
By: With a new foreword by the author.
Series: Beacon series in liberal religion,; LR2
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1960
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Servetus, Michael, 1511?-1553.
Description: "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. 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. However, the case of Servetus ... marks the beginning of the idea of religious toleration."-- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliography.