Hermann Van Flekwyk (or Vlekwijk, died June 10, 1569) was a Dutch Anabaptist, whose name has become memorable, in consequence of an examination for heresy conducted by the Franciscan Cornelius Adrians[1] later translated.[2]
Among the charges against Flekwyk: "You have sucked at the poisoned breast of Erasmus"[3] and having "blasphemed against the true body and blood of God, by speaking against the Mass,"[4] To the charges Herman replied "Can you shed the blood of a good Christian?"[5] He was executed at Bruges.
References
edit- ^ Robert Wallace, Antitrinitarian Biography (1850). A detailed account of the trial is found in Grantley McDonald, Biblical Criticism in Early Modern Europe: Erasmus, the Johannine Comma, and Trinitarian Debate (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 89–94.
- ^ Joshua Toulmin? "Dr. Toulmin published a translation of the dialogue"
- ^ Simon Goldhill Who needs Greek?: contests in the cultural history of Hellenism 2002 "Look at the following dialogue of inquisition recorded between the Franciscan friar Cornelius Adrian and an Anabaptist called Hermann van Flekwyk..."
- ^ Leonard Williams Levy Blasphemy: verbal offense against the sacred, from Moses to Salman Rushdie 1995
- ^ Gérard Brandt Histoire abrégée de la réformation des Païs-Bas 1726 d'un Anti-Trinitaire, nommé Herman van Flekwyk, n'est pas moins déplorable ... Herman repliqua : "Pourriez-vous répandre le sang d'un bon Chrétien ...?"
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