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TRINITY & OTHER DOCTRINES OF GOD: PROF. M. M. NINAN X SERVETUSISM Michael Servetus Spanish theologian also known as Miguel Servet (1511 - 1553) "Michael Servetus: Unitarian, Antitrinitarian, or Cosmic Dualist?" Martyr for Oneness under Calvin At the time of the Reformation, Sabellianism was reformulated by Michael Servetus, a Spanish theologian and physician, to the effect that Christ and the Holy Spirit are merely representative forms of the one Godhead, the Father. His own view affirmed one God, operative through His Word, which is co-eternal with Himself and His agent in creation. This Word was united with the man Jesus, born of a virgin, to become the Son of God, who thus had a beginning in time and was not co-eternal with God. The term "Christ" was applied to the Word, whether before or after the incarnation. This doctrinal position was set forth by Servetus in his De Trinitatis Erroribus printed at Hagenow near Strasbourg, and thus on Protestant soil, in 1531 (English translation by E. Morse Wilbur, Harvard Theological Studies XVI, 1932). 109
TRINITY & OTHER DOCTRINES OF GOD: PROF. M. M. NINAN Attacking the orthodox teaching and attempting to form a view of his own, asserting that: the Word is eternal, a mode of God’s self-expression, whereas the Spirit is God’s motion or power within the hearts of men. The Son is the union of the eternal Word with the man Jesus. By reason of this book Servetus was safe neither in Protestant nor in Catholic territory. He took refuge under pseudonymity and lived as Michel de Villeneuve in France, where for several years he supported himself as an editor. Everything he did gave offense. An edition of the Bible had notes which said that the prophets of the Old Testament were referring to events of their own times and were not predicting the future. An edition of Ptolemy's geography contained a passage denying that Palestine was a land flowing with milk and honey. Servetus then studied medicine in Paris and became the discoverer of the pulmonary circulation of the blood. For twelve years he practiced as a physician at Vienne near Lyons. In 1553 he brought out clandestinely his great work, the Restitutio Christianismi, which repeated the views of the De Trinitatis Erroribus with the addition of two new elements. The first was Anabaptism which he had presumably imbibed during his previous stay at Strasbourg. With vehemence he denied the rightfulness of infant baptism, and recommended the postponement of baptism to the thirtieth year in imitation of Christ. The very title of the book, the Restitution of Christianity, is reminiscent of several 110
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