Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens, GA 30606

10:30 a.m. Out of the Flames

What is a book? A combination of paper, ink, glue, and cardboard or the embodiment of ideas, the physical representation of a life’s work? Rev. Lisa Romantum Schwartz will tell the story of Michael Servetus, a scientist and freethinking theologian of the 16th century who was executed for publishing a book stating that the trinity is a theological fallacy. The fire that killed Servetus was stoked with the last known copy of his book so as to eradicate the ideas along with the man, but this is the story of the enduring power of ideas.