#17 - Michael Servetus: Martyrdom, Medicine, and the Seed of Socinian Thought

A vivid re-telling of Michael Servetus’s life: a Spanish physician-theologian whose anatomical insight and anti-Trinitarian writings collided with the Reformation’s fiercest controversies. This episode traces his travels, his books—including the rare Christianismi Restitutio (1553)—his arrest and execution in Geneva, and the ways his work was preserved, read, and later taken up by anti-Trinitarian circles, including the Polish Brethren and early Socinians. Listeners will encounter primary sources, trial records, and the charged intellectual atmosphere that made Servetus both a medical innovator and a religious martyr.