Religion

This page is devoted to the study of religion. Relevant publications are listed below.

Center Publications

From Logos to Trinity: The Evolution of Religious Beliefs from Pythagoras to Tertullian. Cambridge University Press, 2012. (See sidebar, right)

Flavius Josephus and His Testimony Concerning the Historical Jesus. Lecture presented for the Science-Religion Discussion Club, Institute on Religion in an Age of Science, Houston, June 18, 2004. A shorter version of this paper was published in Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism, Vol. 13, 2005, (Washington, DC: American Humanist Association), pp. 66-103.

The Logos and Its Function in the Writings of Philo of Alexandria: Greek Interpretation of the Hebrew Myth and Foundations of Christianity. Published in A Journal from The Radical Reformation. A Testimony to Biblical Unitarianism, Vol. 7, No. 3 Spring 1998, Part I pp. 22-37; Vol. 7, No. 4 Summer 1998, Part II pp. 36-53.

The Restoration of Christianity. An English Translation of Christianismi restitutio, 1553, by Michael Servetus (1511-1553). Marian Hillar, and Christopher A. Hoffman, translators. Lewiston, NY; Queenston, Ont., Canada; Lampeter, Wales, UK: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2007. Pp. 409+xxix.

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. Pp. 95 +xlv.

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. Pp. 302+l.

Thirty Letters to Calvin & Sixty Signs of the Antichrist by Michael Servetus. Translated from Christianismi restitutio by Christopher A. Hoffman and Marian Hillar. Lewiston, NY; Queenston, Ont., Canada; Lampeter, Wales, UK: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. Pp. 175 + lxxxvi.

The Possible Sources for the Development of the Christian Trinitarian Concepts. From Marian Hillar, From Logos to Trinity: The Evolution of Religious Beliefs from Pythagoras to Tertullian (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Process Theology and Process Thought in the Writings of Michael Servetus. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. San Antonio, TX, October 24-27, 2002.

The First Translation of De Trinitate, the First Part of Christianismi restitutio. An Evaluation of its Biblical Theology. Paper presented at the meeting of the South-Central Renaissance Conference. San Antonio, TX, March 21-24, 2007.

Tertullian and the Doctrine of the Trinity. Excerpts from Marian Hillar, From Logos to Trinity, ch. 7 ("Tertullian, Originator of the Trinity," pp. 190-220) and ch. 8 ("Tertullian and the Son of God," pp. 221-248).

Numenius and Greek Sources of Justin's Theology. Published in A Journal from the Radical Reformation. A testimony to Biblical Unitarianism, Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 3-31.

What Does Modern Science Say About the Origin of Religion? Published in Dialogue and Universalism, Vol. XXII, No. 4, 2012, pp. 111-120.

Regarding the Mystery of the Trinity and the Teaching of the Ancients to Philip Melanchthon and His Colleagues, by Michael Servetus. Translated from Christianismi restitutio by Marian Hillar and Christopher A. Hoffman (Lewiston, NY; Queenston, Ont., Canada; Lampeter, Wales, UK: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2015), 103 pp. + lii.