#7 - Johann Ludwig von Wolzogen: An Aristocrat Defends the Socinians

A seventeenth-century nobleman discovers a banned theology and chooses to defend it. This episode traces Johann Ludwig von Wolzogen’s place inside the wider story of the Polish Brethren, the Racovian Academy, and the transnational circulation of Socinian ideas. Listeners will gain a clear picture of the intellectual and political world that made a private aristocratic champion both necessary and dangerous — and why Socinian doctrines appealed to reasoned critics of orthodox Trinitarianism.