Fausto Sozzini, la teoria del sacrificio e il socinianesimo

Fausto Sozzini’s idea of religion was not a heterodox interpretation of Christianity, but it put itself outside of Christian tradition, both the Reformed and the Catholic ones. It was a new religion. Sozzini contested the three pillars of Christian religion: Trinitarianism, Christ’s satisfatio through sacrifice and death; the natural law as wanted directly by God. The centre of Christianity did not lay in Christ’s death on the cross, but in his ascension in front of God. The sacred formed but the religious experience of mankind, and civil society did not have religious foundations. The Socinianism of the XVII century was profoundly different from what could be termed ursozinianismus, because following Grotius it accepted that Christianity was based upon sacrifice and natural law. It had become a Christian heterodoxy.