Hunted Heretic: The Life and Death of Michael Servetus, 1511-1553 - Softcover

Bainton, Roland H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0972501738 ISBN 13: 9780972501736

Publisher: Blackstone Editions, 2005

Synopsis

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, which has been taken up by Voltaire, Gibbon, and many others, marks the beginning of the idea of religious toleration.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Roland H. Bainton’s classic biography of Servetus remains as useful and as readable today as it was when it was first published in 1953. 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

About the Author:

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 Christendom, three volumes of Women of the Reformation, and a celebrated biography of Martin Luther, Here I Stand.

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackstone Editions
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0972501738
• ISBN 13: 9780972501736
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Hughes Peter