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The Spanish air carrier IBERIA has endorsed the proposal made by the Michael Servetus Institute and the City Council of Villanueva de Sijena to baptize one of its brand new planes with the name of "Miguel Servet".
 
This proposal was put forward... Read more

Last October 24, the Michael Servetus Institute presented in the Birth House of Michael Servetus the first Spanish translation of the book by Sebastian Castellio, “Contra libelum Calvini” (“Against Calvin’s Libel”) (1554), attacking a book of Calvin... Read more

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This book (Logos u uomo?, Testi antitrinitari di Michele Serveto e Fausto Sozzini) edited by Sergio Carletto (University of Salerno), a member of the Michael Servetus Institute, and Graziano Lingua (University of Turin), offers the first Italian translation... Read more

On May, 2009 Dr. Jose Luis Camino Roca, published an interesting book in Spanish with the title: “Philosophy: Medicine of the Soul (12 reflections)”. In this book, the author devotes several pages to analyze the relationship between nominalism and... Read more

In 2004 the German Director Oliver Eckert (www.olivereckert.de) presented in the International Congress that was organized by the Michael Servetus Institute (www.servetus.es) in Zaragoza and the birth town of Michael Servetus (Villanueva de Sijena,... Read more

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"On the Errors About the Trinity, in Seven Books", by Michael Servetus, has been translated to French ("Sept livres sur les erreurs de la Trinité") by Rolande-Michelle Bénin and Marie-Louise Gicquel, in a
bilingual Latin-French annotated edition. The... Read more

As the Michael Servetus Institute reported in its previous communication dated 14 October 2007, Dr. Alicia McNary Forsey initiated the project to translate into English the main work of Michael Servetus (“Christianismi restitutio”) already some years... Read more

In a recent issue of the Journal of Unitarian Universalist History (Volume XXXI /2006-2007, p. 57-63), Peter Hughes published an interesting article entitled "In the Footsteps of Servetus: Biandrata, Dávid, and the Quran", in which he analyzes the similarities... Read more

The Michael Servetus High School of Zaragoza has recently published “Estudios sobre Miguel Servet III”. As its title reveals, it is the third volume devoted to Servetus edited by this educational institution that has deployed a tremendous effort to spread... Read more

In the middle of 2007, the Health Department of the Government of Aragon, published a 59-page essay (in Spanish) of Dr. Manuel García Guatas, a Professor of Art History at the University of Zaragoza, in which he outlines the history of the main monuments... Read more

On November 27, 2007, the publishing house Honoré Champion published the minutes of the seminar about Michael Servetus and the heresies that took place at the University of the Sorbonne in 2003. The book is entitled: Michel Servet (1511-1553). Hérésie... Read more

Last October 27, 2007 the Michael Servetus Institute presented a new publication during the Seminar that it hosted in the Birth House of Michael Servetus regarding the relationship between Islam and Christianity and which was attended by many members... Read more

Dr. Alicia McNary Forsey initiated the project to translate into English the main work by Michael Servetus years ago, Christianismi Restitutio. During these years, she has managed the project, choosing those who were capable of doing the translation... Read more

The well-known M.D. and humanist William Osler wrote in 1909 a thoughtful essay entitled "Michael Servetus" in which he reviewed both from a scientific and a theological standpoint the legacy of Michael Servetus. Currently this article... Read more

On June 28, 2007, the Liber Amicorum in honour of Dr. Fernando Solsona, Honorary Member of the Michael Servetus Institute, was presented in Zaragoza. Numerous personalities from the cultural, political and scientific society of Aragon attended the presentation,... Read more

Our member, Mr. Francisco Carrasquer Launed, who received the Prize of Literature in Aragon in 2006,  has recently published an interesting book titled “Servet, Spinoza y Sender. Miradas de Eternidad” (Servetus, Spinoza, and Sender: Looking at Eternity)... Read more

The publishing house “Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza” has recently finalized the edition of the Complete Works of Michael Servetus (Spanish-Latin version). Volumes V and VI contain its most important work: the “Christianismi Restitutio” or the Restoration... Read more

The American historian Henry Kamen, very well-known for his essays on the Imperial Spain and the Spanish Inquisition has recently published a new book with Penguin Books (UK) entitled “The Disinherited”. As it has been expressly credited in the book,... Read more

The Michael Servetus Institute is pleased to announce the presentation of the book “Estudios Sobre Miguel Servet II” which will be held in Zaragoza, on Monday 23rd October 2006, at the Library of the Michael Servetus High School, Paseo Ruiseñores, 49-51,... Read more

Tal y como se indica en la contraportada del libro, "ilustraciñón y cristianismo" es el tema que
el Dr. José Bada Panillo nos propone "para reflexionar en un caso, el de la vieja Europa, sobre todos los casos que tienen que ver con la libertad y la... Read more

On June 30th 2006, at 8 o’clock, in the CAI auditorium located in C/ Don Jaime I, 33, of Zaragoza, the Michael Servetus Institute and the Ateneo de Zaragoza will host the presentation of the book "Miguel Servet, Luz entre tinieblas". This new book has... Read more

The Institute has been recently informed that Mr. Joaquín Bosque, a member of the Spanish Royal Geographic Society, published last year an essay entitled "Michael Servetus (1511-1553) and the geography of his age" in Estudios Geográficos, a review... Read more

El volumen IV de las Obras Completas de Miguel Servet incluye tres breves tratados que, impresos como apéndices de Restitución del Cristianismo de 1553, contribuyen a aclarar su posición respecto de sus adversarios teológicos: 1) Treinta cartas... Read more

On November 6, 2005, more than 80 delegates of the International Council of Unitarian Universalists (ICUU), that will hold its biennial meeting in the Abbey of Monserrat (Barcelona-Spain), will travel to Villanueva de Sijena to visit in pilgrimage the... Read more

As some of you may recall, Los Monegros is the territory in which Villanueva de Sijena, the native town of Michael Servetus, is... Read more

The Michael Servetus Institute has just published a Spanish/English Bilingual edition of the essay by Dr. Ana Gómez Rabal: De Trinitatis Erroribus: A Philological Approach to Michael Servetus. This essay points out that Servetus was very aware... Read more

In the presentation of this new book, Valentine Zuber,... Read more

On the 22nd and 23rd of October, 2004 an International Congress serving as a closing event of the commemorative acts of the 450th anniversary of the death... Read more

The Muslim sacred month of Ramadan has begun, celebrating the revelation of Qur'an to the Prophet Muhammad. At such a time, I am especially grateful to TCS for allowing me space to develop my thoughts on the trope of the "Islamic Reformation." This... Read more

For four days in October 2003, Unitarian Universalists from Europe and America met in Geneva to commemorate Michael Servetus - theologian, physician and martyr of religious freedom, born in Villanueva de Sijena (Huesca-Aragón-Spain). Clifford Reed,... Read more

The Congress will be attended by the most... Read more

The Michael Servetus Institute has recently published the second edition of the essay "Teología y Medicina en la Obra de Miguel Servet" by Prof. Diego Gracia (104 pages). Diego Gracia is a bioethicist and a professor of History of Medicine... Read more

Volume II (in two books) of the Complete Works of Michael Servetus has recently come to light. This new volume has been edited by Prof. Angel Alcalá and published by Larumbe Publishers within the collection "Clásicos Aragoneses". Volume II covers, in... Read more

The Parliament of the World's Religions closed its third gathering in the modern era (the fourth including the now almost legendary 1893 Parliament) last July 13th with the thundering of the Japanese drums of the Taiko Ensemble. Over 7,000 participants... Read more

To commemorate the 450th anniversary of the death of Michael Servetus who was burned at the stake in Geneva, the Ateneo de Zaragoza prepares its civil pilgrimage to some of the places that were part of Servetus vital itinerary. Due to time constraints,... Read more

The library funds of the Institute are of utmost importance to efficiently assist to those researchers who may ask for our help. Therefore, updating the library and increasing the quality of its materials is one of our major concerns. Since October... Read more

There are still many biographical and conceptual misconceptions about Michael Servetus, especially amongst the average man. These brief lines would like to set aside some errors about Michael Servetus which mislead about his origins and belittle the... Read more

Some time ago I expressed some criticism about the book on Michael Servetus by Lawrence & Nancy Goldstone, "Out of the Flames", mainly based on reports I had received from Servetian scholars, and I was asked by some list members to provide more details... Read more

Professor Ángel Alcalá Galve was awarded on April 22, 2004, the Medal of Culture Achievement which the Government of Aragon awards every year to those who have contributed to the development of the Aragonese culture. Prof. Alcalá was born in Andorra,... Read more

The Health Department of the Government of Aragón intends to install a new statue of Michael Servetus in front of the Hospital which bears his name. This statute will be a reproduction of the original statute made by Mrs. Clotilde Roch, a disciple... Read more

Alcalà, Angel, “La sinrazón... Read more

Frédéric Amsler has published in the “Bulletin du Centre Protestant d'Etudes” of Geneva an interesting 35 page essay entitled "L'afffaire Servet et la naissance de l'unanimisme protestant genevois” (n° 4-5, pp. 1-40, août 2006. In this essay, the author... Read more

Éditorial. Quand Calvin... Read more

Los dos grandes legados de Servet: el unitarismo y el reconocimiento moderno de la libertad... Read more

Ángel Alcalá (hablando del legado de Servet)(entrevista) por... Read more

Le néo-protestantisme ou le crépuscule... Read more

Our member, Mr. Francisco Carrasquer Launed, who received the Prize of Literature in Aragon in 2006,  has recently published an interesting book titled “Servet, Spinoza y Sender. Miradas de Eternidad” (Servetus, Spinoza, and Sender: Looking... Read more

The publishing house “Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza” has recently finalized the edition of the Complete Works of Michael Servetus (Spanish-Latin version). Volumes V and VI contain its most important work: the “Christianismi Restitutio” or the Restoration... Read more

The Michael Servetus Institute has recently published the essay by Jaume de Marcos: “The influence of Erasmus in Michael Servetus` Works”. In this essay, which has been edited in English and Spanish, Jaume de Marcos analyzes in detail the main elements... Read more

El volumen IV de las Obras Completas de Miguel Servet incluye tres breves tratados que, impresos como apéndices de Restitución del Cristianismo de 1553, contribuyen a aclarar su posición respecto de sus adversarios teológicos: 1) Treinta cartas... Read more

El volumen IV de las Obras Completas de Miguel Servet incluye tres breves tratados que, impresos como apéndices de Restitución del Cristianismo de 1553, contribuyen a aclarar su posición respecto de sus adversarios teológicos: 1) Treinta cartas... Read more

"The Trinity was defined at the Council of Nicaea and the relationship of the human and divine natures of Christ was defined at Chalcedon. Very few questioned the Church's depictions of the nature of God. Two such mavericks, Michael Servetus (1509-1553)... Read more