A Martyr Soul Remembered Commemorating the 450th Anniversary
of the Death of Michael Servetus
 Edited
by Clifford M. Reed. xxii, 240
pp includes references and index
ISBN (paperback): 0-9723134-1-9
Publication price £12
plus £1.20 postage & packaging
New publication from the
International Council of Unitarians & Universalists
For four days in October 2003, Unitarian Universalists from
Europe and North America met in Geneva to commemorate Michael
Servetus – theologian, physician and martyr for religious
freedom.
This is the record of that meeting.
Peter Hughes, from the US, offers a highly original theological
consideration of Servetus’ place in the Unitarian Universalist
tradition. Elek Rezi’s Transylvanian view gives the lie to
the oft-repeated claim that Servetus had no lasting impact
in his own time. Andrew Hill, from Edinburgh, asks if ‘UU’
origins didn’t actually owe more to Calvin than to Servetus.
Other contents include dramatic and devotional materials
that enrich the remembrance. Excerpts come from plays penned
by Henry Warburton Hawkes, Jane Rzepka, and contemporary Hungarian
Andras Sütõ, and from meditations written by Cliff Reed, Unitarian
minister in Ipswich.
As a conference participant wrote, ‘What was good about Geneva
was that it brought Servetus and his thought and faith into
our own time. It wasn’t just a dry repetition of well-rehearsed
history.’ This book, with a Foreword by Jill McAllister, past
president of the ICUU, brings that experience to a wider audience.
The International Council of Unitarians and Universalists
(ICUU) was founded in 1995 as a partnership of member groups
in 20 countries: www.icuu.net.
Copies are available from:
GA Mail Order Service
Unitarian Headquarters
1-6 Essex Street
London
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Please make cheques payable to ‘GA of U & FC Churches’
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