Category
Doctrinal suppression
Suppression of dissent, censure of scholarship, condemnation of scientists.
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FILED · 1633 · CATHOLIC · DOCTRINAL
The Galileo Affair
The Roman Inquisition tried Galileo Galilei in 1633 for advocating Copernican heliocentrism, sentenced him to indefinite house arrest, and required him to publicly recant. The Catholic Church formally acknowledged the error of the verdict in 1992.
FILED · 1553 · REFORMED · DOCTRINALThe Execution of Michael Servetus
The Spanish anti-trinitarian theologian and physician Miguel Serveto was burned at the stake at Champel, outside Geneva, on 27 October 1553, under the prosecution of the city's Reformed magistracy with the active participation of John Calvin. The case is the founding moment in modern Protestant arguments for religious toleration.
