Talk:Marian Hillar

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I just started putting up this page. Marian Hillar is a world authority on the subject of Michael Servetus and the Socinians, having published the most thorough histories on the subject of Michael Servetus.

Zabadooken (talk) 07:41, 15 March 2009 (UTC) Further Comment

He is right that he is one of the few scholars that studies Michael Servetus, but his work is pretty biased towards his "humanist" agenda. It is notable that he is working on translating some of Servetus' works, and is worth celebration. His humanist club does not publish a scholarly journal; typically, scholarly means that it is refereed by an editorial board of reputable academics. This kind of rigor is lacking. Book reviews of his work cite pretty notable mistakes, and ignorance particularly about early-modern history. For example, he describes Geneva when Servetus was executed as being a quasi police state under the tutelage of Calvin. In fact, Calvin was pretty unpowerful in the late summer of 1553 in Geneva. The Consistory had only ecclesiastical power at the time. Hillar displays a great command of intellectual history, and how Servetus fits into that. But, he makes pretty outrageous claims that Servetus prefigures the French Revolution and Enlightenment. His work suffers from hero-worship, and doesn't seem to be too critical of Servetus' often bewildering behavior. For example, Servetus has an obsessive fascination with Calvin, which likely leads him to go to Geneva en route to Venice (which is notably out of the way from Vienne (France)). This biographical piece seems to have been written by himself, which is fine, but a bit overblown.

And, he hasn't written the most thorough pieces on Michael Servetus. The definitive work is decidedly *Hunted Heretic,* by Roland Bainton (deceased) (Beacon, 1953), Emeritus Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Yale University.

130.132.117.78 (talk) 23:27, 24 April 2009 (UTC) Out of Flames by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone, p. 327:

"For a figure as ignored by history as Michael Servetus, there is a wealth of material to be had,  both by and about him. In 1953 the theological historian Roland Bainton published "Hunted Heretic : The Life and Death of Michael Servetus  (1511-1553),"  a biography on which he worked, on and off, for thirty years. Marian Hillar, in 1997, published the more comprehensive "The Case of Michael Servetus (1511-1553): the Turning Point in the Struggle for Freedom of Freedom of Conscience."  Hillar, a Polish expatriate and Socinian scholar, is vitriolic in his description of both Calvin and the Catholic Church, but there is no doubting the depth of his research."

"He is currently professor of philosophy and religious studies" where is he a professor? -- chris

There are references to Hillar's Servetus work at Talk:Michael_Servetus; specifically, a user writes in the Talk:Michael_Servetus section: "I can also tell you that Michael Servetus: Humanist and Martyr was a fairly well-balanced book." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.32.177.107 (talk) 17:22, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

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