Talk:Sebastian Castellio

Referencing
This article needs further work. It relies heavily on Stafan Zweig. While Zweig was a wonderful journalist and writer, he was not a historian. Reviewing Zweig’s book, Yale historian Roland Bainton wrote: “The book abounds in errors and inconsistencies, and even if they were corrected it would still be amateurish.” I have added a couple of books to the biblio by historians which can be used for improving the references in the article. When I find time, I might give it a try.--Joel Mc (talk) 09:26, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Agreed. About this book, see André Gounelle (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Gounelle) who describes Zweig's book as "bourré d’erreurs historiques" (packed full of historical errors) (http://andregounelle.fr/histoire-des-idees/sebastien-castellion.php) Muleiolenimi (talk) 20:11, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

John Locke and the Double Passive
The current text says, "His writings...were desired to be published by John Locke..." A double passive construction is stylistically bad, and in this case it is ambiguous. Does it mean that John Locke desired their publication, or that others desired their publication by John Locke? I suppose the first, and will rewrite in that sense. The sentence continues, "but at the time it was a capital crime to even own copies of manuscripts by Castellio or on the Servetus controversy..." Everywhere? Even in England? Citation, please! J S Ayer (talk) 22:20, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Sebastian Castello
Sebastian Castello (name variations: Castalio, Chatelion; 1515 - December 29, 1563) was the rector of the College of Geneva (obviously not Geneva College, maybe what is today Université de Genève?). He was born in St. Martine du Fresne (in Switzerland?). His ideas conflicted with those of John Calvin who had Castello dismissed from his position in 1544. He moved to Basel, Switzerland where he became a professor of Greek. He wrote about tolerance, that the government has no right to insist on the specific form of faith and to expel other people not sharing it. This was outstanding at that time and in many parts of the world it still is.