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  • An indictment against John Calvin  

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    Stefan Zweig with "violence against conscience" tells the story that opposed the XVI th century humanist Sebastian Castellio Protestant theologian John Calvin skillfully demonstrating how a dictatorship and a totalitarian regime sets in and take
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  • The Excellence 1  

    Awareness against violence (Paperback)
    A fascinating book about a little known subject. With his mastery of writing SZ Happens to present serious and complex subjects like a novel. A tour de force!
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  • A huge reading  

    Awareness against violence (Paperback)
    To read "One of the absurdities of human nature is that ideologues dedicated to one doctrine are completely insensitive to all that is not it. And as the narrowness of thought causes injustice in the share, the result is a fanaticism that leaves no r
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  • fanaticism when you hold us  

    Awareness against violence (Paperback)
    plain and simple to read all the Taliban and other fundamentalists in the world (but I doubt they understand) and learn by heart: "To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine is to kill a man."
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  • Extremely interesting 2  

    Awareness against violence (Paperback)
    I ordered the book because I read many biographies written by Zweig and I all found very interesting. I had no knowledge of the subject, and I learned a lot about Calvin is a subject I knew very little. Beyond that, the book is really remarkable for
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  • Calvin vs. Castellon: a hidden chapter of Geneva's history  

    Awareness against violence (Paperback)
    Incredible ... I grew up in Geneva. I even attended 4 years Calvin College, created by Jean Calvin himself who taught them. And I see 30 years later that I knew virtually everything from Calvin himself, to say nothing of that Sebastian Castellio I ha
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  • Zweig best essayist historian  

    Awareness against violence (Paperback)
    Stefan Zweig tells here the struggle between totalitarianism -at need sanguinaire- Calvin and safety of his unfortunate opponent Sebastian Castellio. Written at the time of the triumph of Nazism in Germany and Austria, it almost pamphlet obviously ta
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  • Calvin, Ayatollah early  

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    It is a Genevan friend who, shocked by this little-known lighting, enticed me. The so-called open-mindedness and tolerance of heretics indeed takes a shot. Calvin, at a time when the Christian religion is in the shade but not lace, shown here through
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