Arianism and Millenarianism: The Link Between Two Heresies From Servetus to Socinus

Abstract

Arianism and millenarianism, on the face of it, seem strange bedfellows. In a tradition stretching back to the post-Reformation era, canonised in the Enlightenment, consolidated by the liberal historiography of the nineteenth century, massively restated in the post-war period, and still very evident in recent literature, these two forms of unorthodoxy are associated with seemingly antithetical sets of values and behaviours.