At 12:31 AM 10/12/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Servetus, also an Anabaptist, was burned in effigy by Catholics in France as
>well. Anabaptists became martyrs by the thousands, at Protestant as well as
>Catholic hands. Though Luther vehemently denounced their practice of adult
>baptism, he wrote against their executions (which were particularly
>horiffic): "Still, it is not right, and I truly grieve, that these
>miserable folk should be so lamentably murdered, burned, and tormented to
>death. We should allow everyone to believe what he wills. If his faith be
>false, he will be sufficiently punished in eternal hell-fire." !
a good augustinian position. it is interesting to wonder why anabaptists in
particular were intolerable for both lutherans and catholics. is it related to
why, in the early 11th cn, the french ecclesiastical authorities started
burning heretics for the first time in the history of the Latin church?
rlandes
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>Maeve
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>At 03:19 PM 10/11/99 -0400, Frans vanLiere wrote:
>>>I would agree. Calvin, I believe, burned Lutherans in Geneva; I
>>>wouldn't know whether Lutherans returned the compliment.
>>>Bill.
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>>I am sorry to see such imprece statemnt from someone who usually is know for
>>his meticulous scholarship. This is not to justify Calvin's actions in any
>>way, but only one person, Servetus, was condemned to the pyre by the Geneva
>>consistory (and not by Calvin's personal decision, although he did not
exactly
>>oppose it). Servetus was certainly not a Lutheran, but rather a Unitarian
>>(avant la lettre) who had denied the Trinity.
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