Biography of Miguel Servet

Migel Servet (died 27/10/1553) – famous antitrinitary, a doctor by profession, came from Navarre. Spiritual career to which he prepared, not place, but occupied by religious issues presented him with all the subtleties of various theological systems and theories. Being 15 years old, he received a lucrative place in the scribe confessor of Emperor Charles V. Followed him during his journeys through Germany and Italy, S. personal conversations and impressions recognized Protestant and Catholic practices controversy. His first essay: "De trinitatis erroribus" (1531), published in the German mountains. Hagen, directed against the dogma of the trinity of the Divine, Jesus Christ, he recognizes a human nature, and the Holy Ghost ascribes symbolic significance. "The book brought against the author of a storm in Germany and was in many places burned. After moving to France, took up medicine, S. and physiological findings. These surveys have led to his discovery, which places C. Harvey predecessors in the series: he pointed out that the blood , coming from the heart, makes "a long and amazing journey" around the entire body. However, theologians occupied his thoughts more positive science: already in 1532 appeared his other work "Dialogi de trinitate", in which he further developed his polemic against the doctrine of about the Trinity. At the end of 30-ies S. perfectly issued work of Ptolemy, and courted his glory this geographer. Having spent more than 13 years in the city of Vienna on his main work: "Christianismi restitutio", SA issued it in Lyon in 1553 Its purpose "to restore Christianity," which, according to S., equally falsely interpreted by Roman Catholics and reformers. Go with Anabaptists relatively minor irregularity of baptism, S. believes that the baptism of the spirit informs the person of Christ. In Christ he looks now as the Son of God . Holy Spirit, which is the divine breath, united with the breath of earth, the created life, and this connection was the soul of Christ. God is one and unknowable, but is revealed to man in the Word and the Spirit, which, according to S. – only modes samovozvescheniya and samosoobscheniya Deity rather than hypostasis. Against the Catholic C. argues against a much more violently than against the reformers, the Roman church, he called Sodom, the prostitute, and Lutherans and Calvinists tried to prove that the mortification of the flesh and good deeds just as surely lead to salvation, as well as faith. C . before the printing of books said the most important passages from her Calvin, who denounced the Archbishop vennskomu that the authors of the anonymous treatise – S. As a consequence, S. escaped from Vienna and made his way to Italy, passing through stopped in Geneva. Upon hearing of his arrival, Calvin denounced him City Council. S. was arrested and put on trial. The investigation and trial was made by Calvin and the investigator and a witness. and the prosecutor. Having exhausted the purely theological arguments, Calvin eagerly began to argue that S. Anabaptist, ie, a member of the sect , which shortly before had shown a revolutionary attitude toward social structure. S., for his part, referred to the custom of ancient church, which only exorcising heretics. He was sentenced to be burned at the stake and burned on Oct. 27, 1553, remaining faithful to the end his teachings.