Talk:Sebastian Castellio

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More information about this article... The following comments have been left for this page: This is a rather biased and one-sided article, based on old scholarship, and incorporating caricatures of John Calvin and sixteenth-century Geneva. It makes Castellio the poster-boy of modern ideas of tolerance and diversity. It could use a serious re-write by someone knowledgable about Calvin and the Swiss Reformation. R. A. Blacketer, PhD Dominee 18:41, 9 August 2007 (UTC) (edit)

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[edit] Calvin's Position

It is true that Calvin did not hold a government office in Geneva. However, as I pointed out in the talk page for Michael Servetus, Joseph Stalin did not hold government office most of the time he spent as dictator of the Soviet Union. The city council worked as Calvin advised; if he was too ill to attend meetings, the council convened in his bedroom. Calvin was responsible for the prosecution of Servetus. His account says that Servetus "was recognized...I thought that he should be detained." I cannot see that anyone was present who could have recognized Servetus except Calvin himself; they had been students together in Paris years earlier. J S Ayer (talk) 00:53, 4 May 2008 (UTC)