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1697: Thomas Aikenhead - a medical student, executed for denying the Holy Trinity, an offence under England's Blasphemy Act 1697.On the morning of January 8, 1697, Thomas wrote to his 'friends' that "it is a principle innate and co-natural to every man to have an insatiable inclination to the truth, and to seek for it as for hid treasure. . .
The Blasphemy Act 1697 (9 Will. 3.c. 35) was an Act of the Parliament of England.It made it an offence for any person, educated in or having made profession of the Christian religion, by writing, preaching, teaching or advised speaking, to deny the Holy Trinity, to claim there is more than one god, to deny the truth of Christianity and to deny the Bible as divine authority.
The maxim has entered official Catholic teaching when Pope John XXIII's encyclical Ad Petri Cathedram of 29 June 1959 used it favorably. [5] In a section saying that sometimes religious controversies can actually help attain church unity, he says "But the common saying, expressed in various ways and attributed to various authors, must be recalled with approval: in essentials, unity; in ...
He denounced original sin, [15] denied eternal punishment, [16] and translated a mortalist tract. [17] He condemned the Ranters. [18] He affirmed that the Bible was the Word of God and his Christology appears to be Socinian, denying the pre-existence of Christ but accepting the virgin birth. [19]
One day while walking with Felix, John had another vision—a white stag appeared at a stream with a red and blue cross between its antlers. [6] John disclosed to Felix the plans inspired by the vision during his first Mass of succouring captive Christians under slavery, and Felix offered his help to carry it out.
The act 53 Geo. 3.c. 160, sometimes called the Doctrine of the Trinity Act 1813, [2] the Trinitarian Act 1812, [3] the Unitarian Relief Act, [4] the Trinity Act, the Unitarian Toleration Bill, or Mr William Smith's Bill (after Whig politician William Smith), [5] was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which amended its blasphemy laws and granted toleration for Unitarian worship.
The incident began when Hunter Jr. approached Pasco and Pugh while they were sitting idle in their vehicle at a street corner in Stotts City, according to local outlet KOLR 10.
Thomas Aikenhead (bapt. 28 March 1676 – 8 January 1697) [1] [2] was a Scottish student from Edinburgh, who was prosecuted and executed at the age of 20, on a charge of blasphemy under the Act against Blasphemy 1661 and Act against Blasphemy 1695. He was the last person in Great Britain to be executed for blasphemy.