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Born July 28, 1881 • Baltimore • Maryland
Died January 1, 1937 (aged 55) • Bismarck • North Dakota
Schaff, engraving by J.J. Cade
Philip Schaff
American theologian
Lyman Beecher
Lyman Beecher
American minister
George Foot Moore
American scholar and theologian
Jonathan Dickinson
American minister
Henry Sloane Coffin, detail from an oil painting by an unknown artist
Henry Sloane Coffin
American clergyman
Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
American theologian
Paul Tillich
American theologian and philosopher
Reinhold Niebuhr
Reinhold Niebuhr
American theologian
John Dominic Crossan
Irish-born American theologian
Ian Barbour
American theologian and physicist
Charles Hartshorne
American philosopher and theologian
Murray, John Courtney
American theologian
Bushnell, Horace
Horace Bushnell
American theologian
Robert Duncan
American Anglican clergyman
Howard Thurman
American theologian and scholar
Michael Novak
Michael Novak
American theologian, economist, historian, and author
Kaufmann Kohler
German-American rabbi and theologian
Walter Rauschenbusch
American minister
Mordecai Menahem Kaplan
American rabbi
Hosea Ballou
American theologian [1771-1852]