Rights of Heretics: Castellio Against Darwin

Author: (Austrian) Stefan Zweig
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: The true heroes of our kind. Not those who established models and ruled by building mountains of corpses, but those who, with no 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. Meanwhile, the mild and humanitarian scholar Castellio, with the courage of a "fly fighting an elephant," bravely opposed Calvin's retrogressive actions.