Samuel Przypkowski (Przipcovius, Pripcovius) (1592–19 April 1670,

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) was a Polish

Socinian Socinianism () is a nontrinitarian belief system deemed heretical by the Catholic Church and other Christian traditions. Named after the Italian theologians Lelio Sozzini (Latin: Laelius Socinus) and Fausto Sozzini (Latin: Faustus Socinus), un ...

theologian, a leading figure in the

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and an advocate of

religious toleration Religious toleration may signify "no more than forbearance and the permission given by the adherents of a dominant religion for other religions to exist, even though the latter are looked on with disapproval as inferior, mistaken, or harmful". ...

. In ''Dissertatio de pace et concordia ecclesiae'', published in 1628 in

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, he called for mutual tolerance by Christians. He was also a poet in Latin and Polish.''Europeans and Sarmatians - Polish Baroque'' (PDF)
, p. 10

Life

He studied at the

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and Altdorf, returning to Poland in the 1630s. He engaged in controversy with the Jesuit

Szymon Starowolski Szymon Starowolski (1588 – 1656; Simon Starovolscius) was a writer, scholar and historian in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was probably born near Pruzhany, and died near Kraków. He was a very prolific writer, and left behind over 70 w ...

concerning his ''Braterskie napomnienie ad dissidentes in religione'' (1644), and Daniel Zwicker. He married Alexandra, daughter of Jerzy Czaplic.

Works

*''Dissertatio de pace'' (1628), English translation by

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*''Vita Fausti Socini'', a life of

Fausto Sozzini Fausto Paolo Sozzini, also known as Faustus Socinus ( pl, Faust Socyn; 5 December 1539 – 4 March 1604), was an Italian theologian and, alongside his uncle Lelio Sozzini, founder of the Non-trinitarian Christian belief system known as Socin ...

, English translation by John Biddle *''Cogitationes sacrae'' in Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum *''De iure Christiani magistratus et privatorum in belli pacisque negotiis'' (c. 1650) The influence of his works was considerable, if obscured in Western Europe by anonymous publication (the ''Dissertatio'' was attributed to a 'Polish knight'); and 'Socinian' became for a period a by-word for the advocacy of tolerance. While there is an intellectual connection to John Locke and his ''Reasonableness of Christianity'' (1695), it is argued that Locke was not familiar with the ''Dissertation'' until after 1695. Like his English contemporaries generally, Locke was probably also unaware of the authorship of the work, commonly ascribed at the time to

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.John C. Higgins-Biddle (editor), ''The Reasonableness of Christianity By John Locke'' (1999), p. lxi.

Online edition

''Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum'' Online
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Przypkowski, Samuel 1592 births 1670 deaths People from Brzesko County Polish Unitarian theologians 17th-century Polish writers