Born July 10, 1509 in Noyon, France, Jean Calvin was raised in a staunch Roman Catholic family. The local bishop employed Calvin’s father as an administrator in the town’s cathedral. The father, in ...

From hiding, he corresponded with Protestant Reformer John Calvin under the pseudonym ... refusing his request for death by beheading. Michael Servetus died the death of a heretic, burning ...

Nevertheless, I would agree that John Calvin bears a large share of responsibility for the execution of Michael Servetus in Geneva in 1553 for denying the doctrine of the Trinity (and thus also ...

Why he assented to the execution of Michael Servetus ... We can note that the Genevan officials who condemned Servetus to death were actually Calvin’s opponents, not his henchmen.

Last week, for the 400th anniversary of Servetus’ death ... This year John Calvin’s old congregation in Geneva has subsidized a study entitled “Michael Servetus, Heretic and Martyr.” ...

On a hill called Champel outside Geneva in 1553, green oak branches crackled in flames round the feet of a 42-year-old Spanish heretic named Michael Servetus ... stern John Calvin, “the ...

The Unitarian Church has Michael ... on how Servetus shaped Unitarian Universalism. Servetus was a Spanish theologian and physician from the 1500s whose radical beliefs bothered John Calvin ...

With his brother and sister and two friends, John Calvin fled Catholic France and ... His role in the infamous execution of Michael Servetus in 1553, then, was not an official one.