Christopher Sandius Jr. (

Königsberg Königsberg (, ) was the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was named ...

, October 12, 1644 –

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, November 30, 1680) was an

Arian Arianism ( grc-x-koine, Ἀρειανισμός, ) is a Christological doctrine first attributed to Arius (), a Christian presbyter from Alexandria, Egypt. Arian theology holds that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who was begotten by God t ...

writer and publisher of

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), uncle ...

works without himself being a Socinian. His name was Latinized as Christophorus Sandius, though his German name appears to have been Christoph Sand, and he was known as Christof Van den Sand during his later years in the Netherlands. Following research by

Lech Szczucki Prof. Lech Szczucki (1933 – 19 November 2019) was a Polish historian of philosophy and culture, particularly noted since the 1960s for his work on the Polish Brethren. He was a professor emeritus of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Institut ...

it appears that Sandius Jr. was well educated by his rigorous father, Christopher Sandius Sr., (d.1686) a government official in Königsberg, who himself was later removed from his office for anti-Trinitarian sympathies. Sandius Jr. moved to Amsterdam and earned his living as an editor, translator and publisher, he became well-recognized among European intellectuals. Sandius Jr. promoted the view that

Arianism Arianism ( grc-x-koine, Ἀρειανισμός, ) is a Christological doctrine first attributed to Arius (), a Christian presbyter from Alexandria, Egypt. Arian theology holds that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who was begotten by God ...

was the high point of the theology of the Early Church. He remained on good terms with exiled Polish Socinians

Andrzej Wiszowaty Andrzej Wiszowaty Sr. (Latin ''Andreas Wissowatius'') ( Filipów 1608 - Amsterdam, 1678) was a Socinian theologian who worked with Joachim Stegmann (1595–1633) on the Racovian Catechism of 1605, and taught at the Racovian Academy of the Polish Bre ...

and

Stanislaw Lubieniecki Stanislav and variants may refer to: People *Stanislav (given name), a Slavic given name with many spelling variations (Stanislaus, Stanislas, Stanisław, etc.) Places * Stanislav, a coastal village in Kherson, Ukraine * Stanislaus County, Cali ...

, while engaging in friendly polemics with them on the problem of the

pre-existence of Christ The pre-existence of Christ asserts the existence of Christ before his incarnation as Jesus. One of the relevant Bible passages is where, in the Trinitarian interpretation, Christ is identified with a pre-existent divine hypostasis (substantive ...

which they denied, but Sandius, as an

, accepted. Sandius Jr. also enjoyed close relationship with Benedictus Spinoza especially at the end of his life, when he became known as one of philosopher's most faithful followers. Between 1676-1680 he defended the anonymous author of the ''Tractatus theologico-politicus'' in correspondence with the Catholic theologian Pierre Daniel Huet.

Works

Possible involvement with

Frans Kuyper Frans Kuyper (Latin: Cuperus) (1629, Amsterdam — 21 October 1691, Rotterdam) was a Dutch Socinian writer and printer. Life First a Remonstrant minister at Vlaardingen, he left the church on his objection to infant baptism. From 1663–1673 he ope ...

's ''Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum quos Unitarios vocant.'' 1668 ("post A.D. 1656" incorrect) * 1669 ''Nucleus Historiae Ecclesiasticae,'' in 2 vols. 8vo, reprinted at Cologne, in 1676: and in London in 1681. * 1669
Interpretationes paradoxae IV. Evangeliorum
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1670 ed.
. * 1669 ''Centuria Epigrammatum''. * 1671 ''Tractatus de Origine Animae.'' * 1677 ''Notae et Observationes in G. J. Vossium de Historicis Latinis''. * 1678 ''Confessio Fidei de Deo Patre, Filio, et Spiritu Sancto, secundum Scripturam'', * Hermann Cingallus (pseud.) ''Scriptura sacrae trinitatis revelatrix''Philip Knijff, Sibbe Jan Visser, Piet Visser ''Bibliographia Sociniana. A Bibliographical Reference Tool for the Study of Dutch Socinianims and Antitrinitarianism'', Amsterdam, 2004, p. 133 Posthumous. edited by

Benedykt Wiszowaty Benedykt Wiszowaty (c.1650 – after 1704 Kosinowo) was a Polish Socinian, nobleman, author and publisher. After the Sejm expelled the Socinians from Poland, he left the country with his father. From 1666, they lived in Amsterdam, where he condu ...

, grandson of Fausto Sozzini: * “ Bibliotheca Anti-trinitariorum: sive catalogus scriptorum et succinta narratio” posthumously

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, Austria 1684, 12mo, containing an account of the lives and writings of Socinian authors such as

Georg Schomann Georg Schomann (Polish ''Jerzy Szoman'') (Racibórz 1530 - Chmielnik 1591) was a Socinian (Unitarianism, Unitarian) theologian. In his youth, was distinguished by a deep Catholic religiosity. In the years 1552-1554 he studied at the Kraków Academy ...

, and some tracts giving many particulars of the history of the Polish Socinians.

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on the site of the Unitariens {{DEFAULTSORT:Sandius, Christopher 1644 births 1680 deaths 17th-century German writers 17th-century German male writers Post-Reformation Arian Christians Writers from Königsberg