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Name: Corte ende duydelijcke wederlegginghe, van 'tghene door Mr.Johan Calvijn, tot beweringe vande macht der Overheyt, int straffen der ketteren, by gebracht wert: in seker boecxken van hem ge-intituleert: Wederlegginghe der dolinghen van Michiel Servet
Author: Castellio, Sebastiano

Short and Clear Refutation of John Calvin's Arguments on the Punishment of Heretics

Corte ende duydelijcke wederlegginghe, van 'tghene door Mr.Johan Calvijn, tot beweringe vande macht der Overheyt, int straffen der ketteren, by gebracht wert: in seker boecxken van hem ge-intituleert: Wederlegginghe der dolinghen van Michiel Servet

Dutch

Sebastiano Castellio 1554 · published 1613

186 pages

2 images

First Translation

No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.

Extensive searches across multiple catalogs (including local, Open Library, Google Books, Internet Archive, and OpenAlex) yielded no results for an English translation of this specific work by Sebastiano Castellio. While Castellio's broader arguments against Calvin are well-known and have been translated (notably in Roland Bainton's 'Concerning Heretics'), this specific title does not appear to have been translated into English.

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About This Book

theologypoliticsphilosophyreligious polemicProtestant theologyecclesiastical authorityhermeticism

In this blistering 16th-century polemic, Sebastiano Castellio takes on the legendary John Calvin to argue that 'to kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.' Readers will discover a foundational defense of freedom of conscience and a prophetic warning against the rise of a 'New Popedom' that uses the state as its executioner.