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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
William Blake
English poet and artist (1757–1827)
G. K. Chesterton
English author and Christian apologist (1874–1936)
Ignatius of Loyola
Spanish Catholic priest and theologian (1491–1556)
Eva Perón
Argentine actress and politician (1919–1952)
John Chrysostom
Church Father, Archbishop of Constantinople and Christian saint (c. 347–407)
Simone Weil
French philosopher, writer, and social activist (1909–1943)
John Wycliffe
English theologian and early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident (1906–1945)
John Wesley
founder of the Methodist movement (1703-1791)
Josemaría Escrivá
Spanish priest, writer and Catholic saint
Thomas Müntzer
early Reformation-era German pastor who was a rebel leader during the German Peasants' War
William Wilberforce
English politician and abolitionist (1759–1833)
Ivan Illich
Austrian philosopher and theologian (1926–2002)
Dorothy Day
American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert (1897-1980)
Jacques Maritain
French philosopher (1882–1973)
Hilaire Belloc
French-English writer (1870–1953)
Thomas Merton
priest and author (1915–1968)
George Fox
English founder of Quakers (1624–1691)
Reinhold Niebuhr
American Protestant theologian (1892–1971)
Cesar Chavez
Cesario Estrada "Cesar" Chavez was an American labor unionist and political activist. Along with Dolores Huerta and Gilbert Padilla, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Ideologically, his worldview combined leftism with Catholic social teaching.
Menno Simons
Dutch theologian, founder of the Mennonites (1496-1561)
John Newton
Anglican clergyman, slave trader and abolitionist (1725–1807)
Gustavo Gutiérrez
Peruvian theologian (1928–2024)
Leonardo Boff
Brazilian Catholic liberation theologian (born 1938)
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Swiss Brethren minister from whom the Amish received their name
John Ball
English rebel and priest (1338-1381)
Jacques Roux
French priest and revolutionary (1752-1794)
Jakob Hutter
Tyrolean Anabaptist leader and founder of the Hutterites
Sebastian Franck
German Renaissance humanist
Jon Sobrino
Spanish theologian
Melchior Hoffman
Anabaptist prophet (1490-1543)
Felix Manz
Swiss martyr
John Dominic Crossan
American academic
Stanley Hauerwas
American theologian
Conrad Grebel
Swiss theologian
Charles Freer Andrews
Christian missionary in India, close friend of Mahatma Gandhi
George R. Price
American population geneticist (1922–1975)
William Joseph Simmons
Ku Klux Klan founder (1880–1945)
John Howard Yoder
American theologian and academic (1927–1997)
David Dellinger
American activist
Christoph Blumhardt
German theologian (1842-1919)
Shane Claiborne
American activist and author
Greg Boyd
American theologian and pastor
Michael Sattler
German Anabaptist martyr, author of the Schleitheim Confession
Adin Ballou
American minister (1803–1890)
Juan Luis Segundo
Uruguayan theologian
Thomas Gumbleton
Roman Catholic bishop and activist (1930–2024)
Philip Berrigan
American priest and anti-war activist (1923-2002)
Hans Denck
German theologian and Anabaptist leader (1495-1527)
Michael Gaismair
leader of German peasant revolt (1490-1532)
Political Party of Radicals
Dutch political party
Alexander Mack
Co-founder and first pastor of the Schwarzenau Brethren
Brian McLaren
American pastor and author (born 1956)
Roy Bourgeois
Founder of the human rights group School of the Americas Watch
Walter Wink
American biblical scholar (1935–2012)
Hosea Ballou
American Universalist minister (1771–1852)
Justus Velsius
Dutch humanist
Jim Wallis
American activist and Evangelical writer
William Stringfellow
American theologian (1928–1985)