Contra libellum Calvini : a new critical edition supplemented by the text of the Basle manuscript-fragment by Uwe Plath / Sebastian Castellio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Castellion, Sébastien, 1515-1563, author.

Contributor:

Plath, Uwe, editor.

Series:

Cahiers d'humanisme et Renaissance ; v. 160.

Cahiers d'humanisme et Renaissance, 1422-5581 ; no 160

Standardized Title:

Contra libellum Calvini in quo ostendere conatur haereticos jure gladii coercendos esse

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564--Early works to 1800.

Calvin, Jean.

Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.

Christian heresies--Switzerland--Geneva--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Early works to 1800.

Christian heresies.

Reformed Church--Controversial literature--History--Early works to 1800.

Reformed Church.

Christian controversies--Reformed Church--History--Early works to 1800.

Christian controversies.

Toleration--Religious aspects--Reformed Church--Early works to 1800.

Toleration.

Toleration--Religious aspects.

Reformed Church--Controversial literature.

History.

Switzerland--Geneva.

Physical Description:

235 pages : facsimiles ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Genève : Droz, [2019]

Language Note:

Text in Latin; critical matter in English.

Summary:

Sebastian Castellio's Contra libellum Calvini belongs -- together with the De haereticis, an sint persequendi -- to his most important contribution to the toleration controversy that began after the Spaniard Michael Servetus was arrested and burnt at the stake in Geneva for heresy. Castellio wrote this work in the summer 1554 in Basle as an answer to Calvin's Defensio orthodoxae fidei. It was written as a dialogue between Calvin and "Vaticanus" (Castellio). In this work we get to know the Basle humanist as an angry, passionate debater who attacks Calvin's faults and weaknesses, his theology and activity in Geneva with arguments full of irony and biting scorn. Here we find the famous sentence "to kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but is to kill a man". This work was first published in 1612 in the Netherlands by the humanist Reinier Telle. Uwe Plath's critical edition is not only a reproduction of the Telle text, it also includes the text of the Basle Autograph- fragment and attempts to give a readable, error-free text, as close as possible to Castellio's original.

Notes:

Also known as "Dissertatio qua disputatur, quo iure, quove fructu haeretici sunt coercendi gladio vel igne."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-235).

ISBN:

9782600059763

2600059768

OCLC:

1129810697

Publisher Number:

9782600059763