The Right to Heresy ebook

'Every thoughtful human being has to establish the landmarks between freedom and authority'When Sebastian Castellio dared to protest John Calvin's theocratic control of Geneva, he knew his lone voice could never overcome one of Europe's most powerful leaders. His feud with Calvin condemned Castellio to terror, censorship and poverty; his writings to historical oblivion.Four hundred years later, Stefan Zweig found in Castellio a consoling hero of free-thinking political conscience. Written in 1936, when Zweig had just fled the rise of Nazism, The Right to Heresy is a fierce, emotional essay on despair and hope in the face of authoritarianism.