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Born September 3, 1894 • Missouri
Died July 5, 1962 (aged 67) • Greenfield • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study Protestantism • moral theology • theological existentialism
Rudolf Bultmann
German theologian
Reinhold Niebuhr
Reinhold Niebuhr
American theologian
Nevin, John Williamson
John Williamson Nevin
American Protestant theologian
Joachim Wach
German-American theologian
Shailer Mathews
American religious leader
John Calvin
John Calvin
French theologian
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
Tertullian
Christian theologian
Troeltsch, Ernst
Ernst Troeltsch
German theologian
Adolf von Harnack
Adolf von Harnack
German theologian and church historian
Albrecht Ritschl
German theologian
Schwenckfeld, detail from a portrait by an unknown artist, 1556; in the Schwenkfelder Library, Pennsburg, Pa.
Kaspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig
German theologian
Ferdinand Christian Baur
Ferdinand Christian Baur
German theologian
Sebastian Franck
German theologian
Labadie, engraving by Johannes Tangena
Jean de Labadie
French theologian
David Friedrich Strauss
German philosopher
Antony Khrapovitsky
Russian archbishop
St. Alphonsus Liguori
Roman Catholic priest and theologian