Switzerland: Calvin's Cancel Culture (TRIH ep 274)
1553 · Resource
In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook focus on Geneva in the mid-16th century, using the 1553 execution of Michael Servetus to examine the tensions at the heart of the Reformation. Holland sketches Servetus as a polymath and heterodox theologian who denied original sin and the Trinity, and describes his provocative publication The Restoration of Christianity (1553) and subsequent arrest after Calvin alerted authorities. The hosts explore John Calvin's transformation of Geneva into...
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