In the history of Christian doctrine, Sebastian Castellio is well known as an early, and rare, advocate for religious toleration, a man who vigorously protested the execution of the heretic Michael Servetus in Geneva in 1553. Castellio,...
moreIn the history of Christian doctrine, Sebastian Castellio is well known as an early, and rare, advocate for religious toleration, a man who vigorously protested the execution of the heretic Michael Servetus in Geneva in 1553. Castellio, who translated the Bible into Latin and Savoyard French, also composed Bible readings for children, Dialogorum Sacrorum Libri Quattuor, popularly known as Dialogi Sacri. Biblical dialogues for Latin-learning schoolboys written when he was a teacher in the College de Rive in Calvinist Geneva, the book achieved the broadest distribution of all his works. First published in in the 1540s and used in Europe for two and a half centuries, it introduced countless boys to classical Latin in lively dialogues between figures from the Old and New Testaments.
