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title: 'Calvin and Servetus'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'John Bailey Adger, D.D.'
date: 1869-07-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Calvinism (Historical)'
- 'Church History, Autobiography, and Biography'
scriptures:
- '1 Corinthians 3'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/calvin-and-servetus
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# Calvin and Servetus

In this article, John Bailey Adger examines the controversy between John Calvin and Michael Servetus, arguing that Calvin’s role in Servetus’s condemnation has often been misunderstood. Adger presents Calvin as a principled defender of orthodox Christianity who opposed Servetus’s anti-Trinitarian teachings, while situating the trial and execution within the legal, political, and religious assumptions of sixteenth-century Europe.

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