Prolog Hello, my name is
From Hamburg — in word, code & script.
Software engineer, Socinian, author & translator. For over twelve years I have been building software, translating early-modern theology from Latin into German, and running platforms devoted to the rational tradition of the Sozzini. Faith with reason and Scripture.
Fig. 1 The author, photographically.
My name is Marcin Poholski. Born in Hamburg in 1987, I still live and work in this Hanseatic city. I completed my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the University of Lübeck, with a focus on Media Informatics — and have been building software for more than twelve years since.
In 2020 I was baptised. Since then, the rational, Scripture-based theology of the Socinians has become a central part of my life. Alongside my work as a software engineer, I write and translate books from Latin into German, run platforms about Socinianism in German and English, and produce short videos that bring theological topics into a modern, accessible form.
Above all, I am a seeker — constantly searching for truth, constantly questioning. Learning, for me, is not a phase but a posture: I ask, I examine, I rethink, again and again. I read Plato, Socrates and Kant not for their own sake, but because I try to live by their words — and by what Jesus taught. My approach can be put simply: faith with reason and Scripture.
B.Sc.
Lübeck
University · Studies
Bachelor of Science · Computer Science with a focus on Media Informatics
A degree in computer science with a clear focus on Media Informatics: software engineering, human-computer interaction, digital media, web and UI technologies. During my studies I developed an interest in applying technical thinking to theology and philosophy — in particular to the rational tradition of Socinianism.
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Private study
private, ongoing reading & thinking
Engagement with the early-modern Socinian tradition (Lelio & Fausto Sozzini, Schmalz, Völkel, Moskorzowski) and with classical philosophy — from Socrates and Plato to Kant. A continuous study of the unitarian, rational-biblical tradition of Christianity.
A selection of my German publications: one original work on end-time prophecy, plus five translations from the Latin — four writings of Fausto Sozzini and the celebrated Racovian Catechism.
Florilegium
"The beginning is the half of the whole."
"I know that I know nothing."
"Have the courage to use your own understanding."
"It is not for reason to bow to faith, but for faith to bow to reason."
On my YouTube channel I share short videos: dreams I find worth passing on, theological notes from a Socinian-unitarian perspective, and book recommendations.
— Game
In chess I am less concerned with flashes of genius than with finding good rules and obeying them. I play in the school of Nimzowitsch — prophylaxis, blockade, control of the centre; a system whose precepts I try to follow, with the same rigour I look for in programming and in theology.
— Faith
I am a Socinian. This tradition — founded by Lelio and Fausto Sozzini in the 16th century — joins faith with reason and biblical exegesis. More on this at socinianism.com.
— Language
Theology, philosophy and literature. I translate selected writings of the Socinian tradition from Latin into German, to make them accessible to a wider audience.
— Craft
Clean architecture, readable code, good tools. Software that does precisely what it should — and a healthy appetite for new languages, frameworks and AI tools.
Whether about software, theology, chess or translation — I welcome real messages from real people.
This page was set in Fraunces, Newsreader and JetBrains Mono. Hand-coded in Hamburg, hosted at All-Inkl, in the year MMXXVI.
