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Born January 25, 1898 • Chemnitz • Germany
Died August 27, 1955 (aged 57) • Switzerland
Subjects Of Study comparative religion • phenomenology of religion • religion • sociology
Rudolf Otto
Rudolf Otto
German philosopher and theologian
Troeltsch, Ernst
Ernst Troeltsch
German theologian
David Friedrich Strauss
German philosopher
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Jewish theologian
Paul Tillich
American theologian and philosopher
Reinhold Niebuhr
Reinhold Niebuhr
American theologian
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher
German theologian
Rudolf Bultmann
German theologian
Ferdinand Christian Baur
Ferdinand Christian Baur
German theologian
Samuel Hirsch
American religious philosopher and rabbi
Johann Georg Hamann
German philosopher
Isaak August Dorner
German theologian
Johann Jakob Griesbach
German biblical scholar
Antony Flew
English philosopher
Joseph Butler
Joseph Butler
British bishop and philosopher
Rosmini-Serbati, detail of a portrait by F. Hayez; in the Brera, Milan, Italy
Antonio Rosmini-Serbati
Italian philosopher
James Martineau
English theologian
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher
William James
William James
American psychologist and philosopher
Martin Buber
Martin Buber
German religious philosopher

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