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Persona #239

Michael Servetus

1511–1553
Spanish physician, theologian, anti-Trinitarian

Anti-Trinitarian biblicism, pioneering pulmonary circulation, and burnt at the stake in Calvin's Geneva

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Attribute Michael Servetus
Time · Extent Finite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom NDet
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Finite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Finite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Immediate
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Limited
Observer · Moral Authority Revelation
Observer · Theological Method Conversionist
Energy · Extent Finite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each persona's writings reveal about their stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Michael Servetus

Christian created-and-eschatological time; Servetus's reformist program is restorationist — recovering pre-Nicene Christianity.

Space

Michael Servetus

Conventional 16th-century substantival.

Matter

Michael Servetus

Substantival; his anatomical work treats matter as a proper object of empirical inquiry, including in religious-theological matters (the pulmonary circulation appears in the *Restitutio*).

Observer

Michael Servetus

Embodied rational soul; libertarian-cooperative free will under grace; primacy of individual conscience against ecclesial-magisterial authority.

Energy

Michael Servetus

Pre-thermodynamic.

Information

Michael Servetus

Personal information conserved through immortality; doctrinal information should track Scripture, not extra-scriptural tradition.

Internal Tensions

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Michael Servetus

Servetus's anti-Trinitarianism, rejected by Reformers and Catholics alike, made him doubly heretical; his execution by a Protestant magistrate at Calvin's instigation has haunted Reformed political theology ever since. The intellectual history is harder than the cultural memory: 16th-century norms broadly accepted heresy as a capital matter, and many Reformers (Luther, Bullinger) defended the execution. Modern Reformed self-criticism is substantial.