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'''Michael Servetus''' was a Spanish physician, mathematician, astronomer, meteorologist and philosopher who lived from 29 September 1511 A.D. to 27 October 1553 A.D.
Servetus was largely interested in pharmacology and humanism. He also conducted a number of meteorological and astronomical observations during his life. He also attempted to give one of the first accurate accounts of the human circulatory system. This caused tensions with the Church because it conflicted with long-standing theological accounts of the circulatory system, and because Michael Servetus wanted to defile the bodies of the revered men whom God had called home by conducting autopsies on the remains which God had commanded be consigned to the earth.
Servetus was also interested in theology, although his own writings on the subject could hardly be considered theological. He opened correspondence with [[John Calvin]] in which he disputed the sacred and central doctrine of the Holy Trinity. As news of Servetus and his heresies spread, the Church became involved.
In 1553, Michael Servetus was denounced as a heretic while in Vienna by one of Calvin's followers who had been offended (and rightly so) by the humanistic doctrines of the pretentious physician. Servetus was imprisoned and found guilty of heresy by the French Inquisition, and sentenced to death by being burnt alive along with his books.
Unfortunately, Servetus was able to escape from prison for a time, although his heretical books were consigned to the purifying effigy which the Inquisition had built to cleanse the world of his vile and blasphemous doctrines. However, a short time later, Michael Servetus was apprehended in Geneva and, on October 27, 1553, he was burned at the stake for the preaching of Non-trinitarianism and anti-paedobaptism. For the inexcusable crime of suggesting that children should not be baptized, Calvin had demanded that Servetus merely be beheaded, rather than burnt alive. Martin Luther helped see to it that the sale and printing of the Michael Servetus' books was immediately halted.
Unfortunately, although justice was done upon the heretic Michael Servetus, his teachings had already spread through the Libertine movement, thus setting in motion the events that gave rise to the modernist philosophy of Secular Humanism.
Servetus was largely interested in pharmacology and humanism. He also conducted a number of meteorological and astronomical observations during his life. He also attempted to give one of the first accurate accounts of the human circulatory system. This caused tensions with the Church because it conflicted with long-standing theological accounts of the circulatory system, and because Michael Servetus wanted to defile the bodies of the revered men whom God had called home by conducting autopsies on the remains which God had commanded be consigned to the earth.
Servetus was also interested in theology, although his own writings on the subject could hardly be considered theological. He opened correspondence with [[John Calvin]] in which he disputed the sacred and central doctrine of the Holy Trinity. As news of Servetus and his heresies spread, the Church became involved.
In 1553, Michael Servetus was denounced as a heretic while in Vienna by one of Calvin's followers who had been offended (and rightly so) by the humanistic doctrines of the pretentious physician. Servetus was imprisoned and found guilty of heresy by the French Inquisition, and sentenced to death by being burnt alive along with his books.
Unfortunately, Servetus was able to escape from prison for a time, although his heretical books were consigned to the purifying effigy which the Inquisition had built to cleanse the world of his vile and blasphemous doctrines. However, a short time later, Michael Servetus was apprehended in Geneva and, on October 27, 1553, he was burned at the stake for the preaching of Non-trinitarianism and anti-paedobaptism. For the inexcusable crime of suggesting that children should not be baptized, Calvin had demanded that Servetus merely be beheaded, rather than burnt alive. Martin Luther helped see to it that the sale and printing of the Michael Servetus' books was immediately halted.
Unfortunately, although justice was done upon the heretic Michael Servetus, his teachings had already spread through the Libertine movement, thus setting in motion the events that gave rise to the modernist philosophy of Secular Humanism.