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Born May 26, 1863 • Portland • Maine
Died October 23, 1941 (aged 78) • Chicago • Illinois
Subjects Of Study Social Gospel
Role In Social Gospel
Walter Rauschenbusch
American minister
Reinhold Niebuhr
Reinhold Niebuhr
American theologian
Edward Everett Hale
Edward Everett Hale
American clergyman and writer
Helmut Richard Niebuhr
American theologian
Nevin, John Williamson
John Williamson Nevin
American Protestant theologian
Joachim Wach
German-American theologian
John Calvin
John Calvin
French theologian
Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
American theologian
Paul Tillich
American theologian and philosopher
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German theologian
Martin Bucer, medal by Friedrich Hagenauer, 1543; in the Archives and Library of the City of Strasbourg.
Martin Bucer
Protestant religious reformer
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher
German theologian
Troeltsch, Ernst
Ernst Troeltsch
German theologian
Adolf von Harnack
Adolf von Harnack
German theologian and church historian
Rudolf Bultmann
German theologian
John Dominic Crossan
Irish-born American theologian
Ian Barbour
American theologian and physicist
Charles Hartshorne
American philosopher and theologian
Schwenckfeld, detail from a portrait by an unknown artist, 1556; in the Schwenkfelder Library, Pennsburg, Pa.
Kaspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig
German theologian
Murray, John Courtney
American theologian