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2003 Death - Dorothee Solle, German Theologian

1997 Death - John Seldon Whale, theologian, dies at 100

1997 Death - Ulrich Ernst Simon, theologian, dies at 63

1996 Death - William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian, dies at 85

1996 Death - Geoffrey Bryan Bentley, moral theologian, dies at 87

1996 Death - David Nicholls, priest/theologian/political theorist, dies at 60

1995 Death - Georges Yves Marie Congar, Dominican theologian cardinal, dies at 91

1995 Death - Philip Owen A Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator, dies at 72

1988 Death - Hans Urs von Balthasar, Swiss Theologian

1984 Death - Francis Schaeffer, American Theologian

1984 Death - Karl Rahner, German Theologian

1978 Death - William Barclay, Scottish Theologian

1967 Death - Otto Dibelius, German theologian/bishop, dies at 86

1963 Death - Gerald Vann, British Theologian

1950 Birthday - Rowan Williams, English Theologian

1938 Birthday - Leonardo Boff, Italy, Brazilian Catholic theologian

1937 Death - Rudolf Otto, German Theologian

1937 Death - John Gresham Machen, Presbyterian theologian, professor, New Testament, Princeton Seminary, formed Orthodox Presbyterian Church, dies of pneumonia at age 55

1936 Birthday - David Nicholls, priest/theologian/political theorist

1929 Birthday - Dorothee Solle, German Theologian

1927 Birthday - Thomas J J Altizer, Massachusetts, U.S. Radical theologian, God is Dead

1925 Birthday - Ernesto Cardenal, born in Granada, Nicaragua, Catholic priest, famous Nicaraguan Sandinista liberation theologian, served as culture minister, poet, established primitivist art community

1922 Birthday - Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator

1921 Birthday - D E Nineham, theologian

1919 Birthday - Huston Smith, American Theologian

1916 Birthday - John McIntyre, theologian

1913 Birthday - Ulrich Ernst Simon, theologian

1912 Birthday - Francis Schaeffer, American Theologian

1911 Birthday - William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian

1909 Birthday - Geoffrey Bryan Bentley, moral theologian

1907 Birthday - William Barclay, Scottish Theologian

1906 Birthday - Gerald Vann, British Theologian

1905 Birthday - Hans Urs von Balthasar, Swiss Theologian

1904 Birthday - Georges Yves Marie Congar, dominican Theologian cardinal

1904 Birthday - Karl Rahner, German Theologian

1903 Death - Francis Ellingwood Abbot, theologian (Scientific Theism), dies at 66

1901 Death - Brooke Foss Westcott, English Theologian

1900 Birthday - Howard Thurman, theologian/author, Deep River, Deep in the Hunger

1896 Birthday - John Seldon Whale, theologian

1892 Birthday - Reinhold Niebuhr, U.S., theologian, Nature and Destiny of Man

1889 Death - Edwin Hatch, English Theologian

1888 Birthday - Ronald Knox, English Theologian

1886 Birthday - Karl Barth, born in Basel, Switzerland, theologian and author, Action in Waiting

1886 Death - John Keble, theologian, Bournemouth

1882 Death - Bruno Bauer, German Theologian

1881 Death - Orson Pratt, American Theologian

1881 Birthday - John Gresham Machen, born in Baltimore, Maryland, Presbyterian theologian, professor, New Testament, Princeton Seminary, formed Orthodox Presbyterian Church

1875 Birthday - James E K Aggrey, Ghana, U.S. theologian/educationalist

1874 Death - David Friedrich Strauss, German Theologian

1870 Death - Thomas Erskine, Scottish Theologian

1869 Birthday - Rudolf Otto, German Theologian

1863 Death - Frederick William Faber, theologian, wrote 'Faith of Our Fathers', 'My God, how wonderful thou art', 'Oh, gift of gifts', founded religious community in Cotton Hall, Birmingham, dies

1860 Death - Ferdinand Christian Baur, German Theologian

1860 Death - Theodore Parker, American Theologian

1843 Birthday - Kaufmann Kohler, reform rabbi/theologian

1836 Birthday - Francis Ellingwood Abbot, Boston, theologian, Scientific Theism

1835 Birthday - Edwin Hatch, English Theologian

1825 Birthday - Brooke Foss Westcott, English Theologian

1814 Birthday - Frederick William Faber, born in Calverley, England, theologian, wrote 'Faith of Our Fathers', 'My God, how wonderful thou art', 'Oh, gift of gifts', founded religious community in Cotton Hall, Birmingham

1811 Birthday - Orson Pratt, American Theologian

1810 Birthday - Theodore Parker, American Theologian

1810 Birthday - Abraham Geiger, theologian/author/leader of Reform Judaism

1809 Birthday - Bruno Bauer, German Theologian

1808 Birthday - David Friedrich Strauss, German Theologian

1805 Death - William Paley, English Theologian

1801 Death - Johann Kaspar Lavater, German Theologian

1800 Death - Hugh Blair, Scottish Theologian

1799 Birthday - Johann von Dollinger, German Old Catholic theologian/historian

1792 Birthday - Ferdinand Christian Baur, German Theologian

1788 Birthday - Thomas Erskine, Scottish Theologian

1761 Death - William Law, theologian, dies

1758 Death - Jonathan Edwards, theologian/philosopher 'Original Sin', dies at 54

1741 Birthday - Johann Kaspar Lavater, German Theologian

1729 Death - Samuel Clarke, theologian, dies

1718 Birthday - Hugh Blair, Scottish Theologian

1703 Birthday - Jonathan Edwards, U.S., theologian/philosopher, Original Sin

1694 Death - John Tillotson, British Theologian

1692 Birthday - Joseph Butler, Wantage Berkshire, theologian

1686 Death - John Pearson, British Theologian

1681 Birthday - Feofan Prokopovich, theologian, archbishop of Novgorod, westernizer

1645 Death - Hugo Grotius, Dutch Theologian

1644 Death - William Chillingworth, English theologian, Cambridge Platonist, dies

1639 Birthday - Noel Alexandre, French theologian/historian

1638 Death - Cornelius Jansen, theologian (Jansenism), dies

1612 Birthday - John Pearson, British Theologian

1603 Death - Pierre Charron, French philosopher/theologian, dies

1585 Birthday - Caspar Bartholin, Malmo, physician, theologian, writer on anatomy

1580 Death - Giovanni Morone, Italian theologian/diplomat/cardinal, dies at 71

1564 Death - John Calvin, French Theologian

1560 Death - Philip Melanchthon, German Theologian

1559 Birthday - Isaac Casaubon, naturalized English classical scholar, theologian

1548 Birthday - Francisco Suarez, Granada Spain, philosopher/theologian

1535 Death - Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, physician/theologian, dies

1509 Birthday - John Calvin, Protestant religious reformer/theologian

1497 Birthday - Philip Melanchthon, German Theologian

1470 Birthday - Pietro Bembo, cardinal/theologian

1273 Death - Rumi, Mawlana, Mawlawi, poet, theologian, wrote, the six books of the Masnavi, influenced Persian literature, dies

1207 Birthday - Rumi, born in Balkh, Khorasan, now Afghanistan, Mawlana, Mawlawi, poet, theologian, wrote, the six books of the Masnavi, influenced Persian literature

1075 Death - John VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies

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