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Marian HillarMarian Hillar, M.D., Ph.D., earned his degrees at the University Medical School of Danzig and studied at the Jagiellonian University and at Sorbonne. He did research and taught in Europe at the University Medical School of Danzig and Universitá degli studi di Camerino, and in the USA at Baylor College of Medicine and Ponce School of Medicine. He is currently professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Philosophy and Socinian Studies. He is a contributing editor and frequently publishes in the Humanist cultural and philosophical monthly published in Warsaw Bez Dogmatu (Without Dogma) and editor-in-chief of the Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism, published by the American Humanist Association, Washington, DC. He has written five books and published 140 papers. He has several discoveries in the biochemical sciences. His other specialties are modern and classical languages and history of philosophy and religions (biblical, patristic, and comparative religious studies). His studies were focused on the ancient Greek philosophy, moral issues in religion and philosophy, and the development of theology and religions. He is a world expert on Michael Servetus and on the development and ideas of the Socinian movement in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the precursor of the Enlightenment and American democracy. He is listed in "Who's Who In Theology and Science" and member of numerous scholarly organizations.

 

Publications:



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Marian Hillar, and Christopher A. Hoffman, translators: “Treatise Concerning the Supernatural Regeneration and the Kingdom of the Antichrist by Michael Servetus. Selected and Translated from Christianismi restitutio by Christopher A. Hoffman and Marian Hillar,” (Lewiston, NY; Queenston, Ont., Canada; Lampeter, Wales, UK: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008).



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Marian Hillar, and Christopher A. Hoffman, translators: “Treatise on Faith and Justice of Christ’s Kingdom by Michael Servetus. Selected and Translated from Christianismi restitutio by Christopher A. Hoffman and Marian Hillar,” (Lewiston, NY; Queenston, Ont., Canada; Lampeter, Wales, UK: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008).



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Restoration of Christianity: An English Translation of Christianismi Restitutio

Translated by Christopher A. Hoffman and Marian Hillar

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Published by Edwin Mellen Press
Publication date: April 2007
ISBN: 0773455205


 

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The Case of Michael Servetus:
(1511-1553 : The Turning Point in the Struggle for Freedom of Conscience)

Hardcover
Published by Edwin Mellen Press
Publication date: June 1997
ISBN: 0773485724



Comments on this book:

Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone, Out of Flames. The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World.  Broadway Books, New York, 2002.

Excerpt from Bibliographic Notes, p. 327.

For a figure as ignored by history as Michael Servetus, there is a wealth of material to be had, both by and about him. In 1953 the theological historian Roland Bainton published Hunted Heretic: The Life and Death of Michael Servetus (1511-1553), a biography on which he worked, on and off, for thirty years. Marian Hillar, in 1997, published the more comprehensive The Case of Michael Servetus (1511-1553): The Turning Point in the Struggle for Freedom of Conscience. Hillar, a Polish expatriate and Socinian scholar, is vitriolic in his denunciations of both Calvin and the Catholic Church, but there is no doubting the depth of his research.


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Michael Servetus: Intellectual Giant, Humanist, and Martyr

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Published by University Press of America
Publication date: February 2003
ISBN: 0761824006




Papers:

  

The Justification of Morals in the Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas

 

The Justification of Morals in the Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas

Kant

 

Is a Universal Ethics Posible?  A Humanist Proposition

The Philosophical Legacy of the XVI th and XVII th Century Socinians:  Their Rationality

 

The Philosophical Legacy of the XVI th and XVII th Century Socinians:  Their Rationality

Abortion

 

Philosophers and the Issue of Abortion

From the Polish Socinians to the American Constitution

 

From the Polish Socinians to the American Constitution

Liberation Theology:  Religious Response to Social Problems

 

Liberation Theology:  Religious Response to Social Problems

Emblem of Poland

 

Poland's New Totalitarianism

The Problem of the Soul in Aristotle's De Anima

 

The Problem of the Soul in Aristotle's De Anima

DNA

Evolution and Creationism

 

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