The BURIED Book Club discussion

Michael Servetus was a sixteenth century author whose heretical writings about Christianity, in opposition to the writings of John Calvin, got him burned at the stake. What was believed to be the last manuscript of his book Christianismi Restitutio was burned with him. However, a few manuscripts were secretly preserved.

Now, several books about the--I suppose-- remarkable story of Servetus have been published. At least one of them has been read and reviewed by a few hundred people on Goodreads. Here's a selection of just some of the books about Servetus:

-Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World
-Did Calvin Murder Servetus?
-Hunted Heretic: The Life and Death of Michael Servetus, 1511-1553
-Michael Servetus: Intellectual Giant, Humanist, and Martyr
-Michael Servetus, Heretic or Saint?
-Michael Servetus

However, guess what? The total number of ratings and reviews for ALL WORKS actually written by Servetus, including the one he died for is... ZERO. (See here: Michael Servetus)

That just seems wrong. The bastard burned fer Christ's sake!

Who's going to remedy this? (And can I pass the buck?)

Zadignose wrote: "Who's going to remedy this? (And can I pass the buck?)"

Nope. This un's on you.

And I'm wondering about his literary merit/value. Some of these theologs could turn a mighty good phrase over the fires of hell ;; but most of this stuff is for specialists only. I would never count Christian Wolff as BURIED ;; even if only Kant-specialists (and usually not even them) bother to need to or have reason to read him. These BURIED-cum-archeological works are perhaps a bit tricky. Even if Paul were all things to all men ; we can not be all things to all books all the time.

Nathan "N.R." wrote: "Some of these theologs could turn a mighty good phrase over the fires of hell ;; but most of this stuff is for specialists only. "

Well, this is unfortunately the case for a pdf that Zadignose dug up, which is the first Treatise contained in The Two Treatises of Servetus on the Trinity: On the Errors of the Trinity, Seven Books, MDXXXI, Dialogues on the Trinity, Two Books, on the Righteousness of Christ's Kingdom, Four Chapters, MDXXXII.

My review of it is here, and the pdf is linked in the review, if anyone wants to kill some time.