HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 85: Lelio Sozzini, Michael Servetus, Nontrinitarianism
9 Apr 2020
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Arians just made christ a slightly lesser divinity. He served as a physician, astrologer and a theological renegade. He sought to find allies for his anti-trinitarian views among reformers. He made enemies of both catholics and reformers alike. He somehow got away and fled to geneva. His hopes for help from calvin was dashed. Calvin put him on trial and he was burned alive in 1553. In the wake of servetus" execution, unitarianism lived on thanks to the works of the socinians. They were led by two italian reformers of siena. Lelio sozini and his nephew fausto spread the gospel of unitarianism to eastern europe. This was where the polish brethren accepted it and kept unitarian literature flowing. While the execution of servetus might shock some, most reformers outside geneva greeted. Even conciliatory melanchthon hailed calvin as a hero of the reformation for refusing to allow in the contamination that was anti-trinitarian heresy.
