RACOVIA, CATECHISM. — Fundamental text of the Socinians (v. SOCINI), published in Polish at Racovia (Rakau in Poland) in 1605, reprinted in German in 1608 and in Latin in 1609 with some alterations.
It is a true treatise on antitrinitarian theology, divided into eight sections; in the fourth, devoted to the person of Jesus Christ, it is affirmed that he may be called God, because after his Resurrection he received all power in heaven and on earth, but that in him there is no divine nature. The C. of R. is currently replaced by the Manual of Unitarian Belief by Giacomo Freeman Clarke, a disciple of Channing.
BIBL.: W. A. Curtis, A history of Creeds and Confessions of Faith in christendom and beyond. Edinburgh 1911.
Camillo Crivelli