The rights of heretics

Author: [Austrian] Stefan Zweig
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Publish Date: 2000-07-01
Features: The true heroes of our kind. Not those who established models and ruled by piled-up corpses, but those who, without resistance, succumbed to the force of the victors—just as Castellio was overwhelmed by Calvin in his struggle for spiritual freedom, for the final establishment of a human kingdom on Earth. This book tells a small story during the time when the continent of Europe, after a brilliant dawn, fell back into darkness. At this time, the reformer Calvin had become the supreme ruler and tyrant of Geneva. The mild, humanitarian scholar Castellio, with the courage of a "fly fighting an elephant," bravely opposed Calvin's retrogression.