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René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
Augustine of Hippo
Christian theologian, philosopher, and saint (354–430)
Thomas Aquinas
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225–1274)
Søren Kierkegaard
Danish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic (1813–1855)
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
Tertullian
Tertullian (; ; 155 – 220 AD) was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He was the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature and was an early Christian apologist and a polemicist against heresy, including Gnosticism.
Ambrose
Ambrose of Milan (; 4 April 397), canonized as Saint Ambrose, was a theologian and statesman who served as Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397.
Bernard of Clairvaux
Burgundian saint, abbot and theologian (1090-1153)
Catherine of Siena
Italian Dominican saint (1347-1380)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident (1906–1945)
Karl Barth
Swiss Protestant theologian (1886-1968)
Gabriel Marcel
French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist (1889-1973)
Flannery O'Connor
American writer (1925–1964)
Dorothy Day
American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert (1897-1980)
Reinhold Niebuhr
American Protestant theologian (1892–1971)
Athenagoras of Athens
Greek philosopher and Father of the Church (c.133–c.190)
Alasdair MacIntyre
Scottish-American philosopher (1929–2025)
G. E. M. Anscombe
British analytic philosopher
Jonathan Edwards
Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian (1703-1758)
Charles Taylor
Canadian philosopher (born 1931)
Cornel West
American philosopher, political activist and writer (born 1953)
John Lennox
Northern Irish mathematician and philosopher of science (b. 1943)
Dietrich von Hildebrand
German Catholic philosopher and theologian (1889–1977)
Robert Spaemann
German philosopher (1927–2018)
Charles Grandison Finney
American religious leader, writer and educator (1792–1875)
Walter Rauschenbusch
United States Baptist theologian (1861–1918)
Rosemary Radford Ruether
American theologian (1936–2022)
Stanley Hauerwas
American theologian
Adam Kozłowiecki
Catholic cardinal (1911-2007)
John Stevens Cabot Abbott
American historian, pastor, and author (1805-1877)
John Howard Yoder
American theologian and academic (1927–1997)
Bernhard Häring
German Catholic priest and theologian (1912-1998)
Paul Ludwig Landsberg
German-Jewish philosopher (1901-1944)
Thomas Berry
American priest (1914–2009)
Andrew Linzey
British theologian, priest and animal rights activist
H. Richard Niebuhr
American theologian (1894-1962)
Wilhelm Busch
German protestant pastor and writer (1897-1966)
Anders Nygren
Swedish bishop (1890–1978)
Edward Feser
American professor of philosophy
Heinrich Pesch
German economist (1854-1926)
Servais-Théodore Pinckaers
Belgian Catholic Moral Theologian, Dominican Priest (1925–2008)
John Milbank
British philosopher
Knud Ejler Løgstrup
Danish philosopher (1905–1981)
Stanley Grenz
American theologian (1950–2005)
Carl F. H. Henry
American theologian (1913-2003)
Oliver O'Donovan
British theologian
Ada María Isasi-Díaz
American Roman Catholic theologian and academic (1943–2012)
James F. Childress
American philosopher and theologian
Harry M. Kuitert
Dutch theologian (1924-2017)
Paul Ramsey
American theologian (1913-1988)
James Gustafson
American academic (1925-2021)
John Watson
Canadian philosopher (1847-1939)
Margaret Farley
American Sister of Mercy and theologian
Joseph Fletcher
American academic, theorist of ethics (1905-1991)
Johannes Beck
German Jesuit and social ethicist
Vernon Bourke
American philosopher (1907–1998)
John Frame
American philosopher and theologian (born 1939)
Andrzej Grzegorczyk
Polish mathematician and philosopher
Tadeusz Ślipko
Polish philosopher (1918-2015)
Elisabeth Gerle
Swedish ethicist