Marian Hillar

Marian Hillar (born March 22, 1938) M.D., Ph.D., is an American philosopher, theologian, linguist, and scientist. He is a recognized authority on Michael Servetus and the development and ideas of the Socinian movement in the 16th and 17th centuries.^[1] He does research in the history of ideas and is author of The Case of Michael Servetus (1511–1553) - The Turning Point in the Struggle for Freedom of Conscience, and Michael Servetus: Intellectual Giant, Humanist, and Martyr (together with Claire S. Allen). Together with Dr. Christopher A. Hoffman he is translator of the major work of Michael Servetus, The Restoration of Christianity of which three books were already published: The Restoration of Christianity. An English Translation of Christianismi restitutio (1553) by Michael Servetus (1511–1553); Treatise on Faith and Justice of Christ’s Kingdom by Michael Servetus. Selected and Translated from Christianismi restitutio; Treatise Concerning the Supernatural Regeneration and the Kingdom of the Antichrist by Michael Servetus. Selected and Translated from Christianismi restitutio.

Biography

Marian Hillar was born in 1938 in Bydgoszcz (Poland) in an old family claiming its roots in 14th century Holland. He received classical education in highly selective elementary and secondary schools with emphasis on science and languages. He earned his degrees at the Medical University of Gdansk and studied at the Jagiellonian University and at Sorbonne. His studies included not only biomedical sciences and medicine but also history of philosophy, theology, history of religions and languages – modern and classical. He was invited in 1969 to do research at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He became a US citizen in 1977. He did research and taught in Europe at the Medical University of Gdansk and the Università degli studi di Camerino, and in the USA at the Baylor College of Medicine and the Ponce School of Medicine. He is currently professor of philosophy and religious studies, and he is director of the Center for Philosophy and Socinian Studies^[2] which he founded in 1986.

History of Philosophy and Religion

Marian Hillar has done studies of the philosophy of Hippocratic medicine; Greek philosophy of science and the origin of science; ancient Greek philosophy; liberation theology; studies on the New Testament, Dead Sea Scrolls, early Christian writers, and the origin of Christianity; Philo of Alexandria, Numenius, early church fathers and development of the theory of logos and of the Trinity; studies in ethics- Stoics, Thomas Aquinas, Kant; Radical Reformation and development of antitrinitrian doctrines, socinians; development of modern ideas on freedom of conscience and church-state separation.

Editorship

Hillar is editor-in chief and founder of the Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism,^[3] a scholarly journal published yearly since 1992 by the Humanists of Houston. In 2005, the American Humanist Association, Washington, DC, agreed to assume the duties of publishing the journal under its aegis.

Selected publications

Books

• Marian Hillar, "Energetics and Kinetic Mechanisms of Enzyme Function", pp. 685, Whittier Publications, Lido Beach, New York, 1994.
• Marian Hillar, "The Case of Michael Servetus (1511-1553) - The Turning Point in the Struggle for Freedom of Conscience," pp. 444, The Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston N.Y., 1997; second printing in 1999.
• Marian Hillar with Claire S. Allen, “Michael Servetus: Intellectual Giant, Humanist, and Martyr,” pp. 274+xxvii. (Lanham, New York, Oxford: University Press of America, 2002).
• Marian Hillar, and Christopher A. Hoffman, translators: “The Restoration of Christianity. An English Translation of Christianismi restitutio, 1553, by Michael Servetus (1511-1553). Translated by Christopher A. Hoffman and Marian Hillar,” (Lewiston, NY; Queenston, Ont., Canada; Lampeter, Wales, UK: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2007).
• 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).
• 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).

Marian Hillar, and Christopher A. Hoffman, translators: “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. Juan Naya and Marian Hillar, eds., “Michael Servetus, Heartfelt: Proceedings of the International Servetus Congress, Barcelona, 20-21 October, 2006,” (Lanham, MD and Plymouth UK: University Press of America, 2011). 430 pp.

See also

• American philosophy
• List of American philosophers

References

• http://www.berkshirehumanists.org.uk/?p=1368 David McKnight, "Just in case you were beginning to think that Humanism was a simple concept..." December 1, 2008.
• http://www.servetus.org/ Reproduces many papers of Hillar
• http://www.countrysidebiblechurch.org/Files/Acrobat/FREEDOM.pdf
• http://www.liberationtheology.org/
• http://www.skeptically.org/bible/id12.html
• http://www.miguelservet.org/servetus/hillar.htm
• http://www.articlearchives.com/reports-reviews-sections/book/1504978-1.html Book Review: "Michael Servetus: Intellectual Giant, Humanist, and Martyr"
• http://people.stfx.ca/wsweet/Book-Istanbul-TOC.htm "Numenius and Greek Sources of the Central Christian Theological Doctrine", The Proceedings of the XXI World Congress of Philosophy, Volume 8

1. ^ "The Philosophical Legacy of the 16th and 17th Century Socinians: Their Rationality", The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, at the XXth World Congress of Philosophy, 1998.
2. ^ Center for Philosophy and Socinian Studies
3. ^ Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism

External links

• Marian Hillar's Website

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