Christian writers

Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)

credited author of the Gospel of Mark and Christian saint; traditionally identified with John Mark (20-68)

Barnabas (; ; ), born Joseph () or Joses (), was a prominent Christian disciple, identified as an apostle in Acts 14:14. According to Acts 4:36, he was a Cypriot Levite. He undertook missionary journeys as a companion of Paul the Apostle, evangelizing among the "God-fearing" Gentiles who attended synagogues in some of the Hellenized cities of Anatolia. He participated in the Council of Jerusalem ( AD).

Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius () was an early Christian author who became an advisor to Roman emperor Constantine I, guiding his Christian religious policy in its initial stages of emergence, and a tutor to his son Crispus. His most important work is the Institutiones Divinae ("The Divine Institutes"), an apologetic treatise intended to establish the reasonableness and truth of Christianity to pagan critics.

Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (c. 485 – c. 585), commonly known as Cassiodorus (), was a Roman statesman, scholar, and writer who served in the administration of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. Senator was part of his surname, not his rank. In his later years, he devoted himself to Christian learning and founded the Vivarium monastery, where he worked extensively during the final decades of his life.

first archbishop of Serbs

Arnobius (died c. 330) was an early Christian apologist of Berber origin during the reign of Diocletian (284–305).

Greco-Roman Christian traveller and historian (c.160–c.240)

Christian writer and historian and native of Aquitania (c. 363 – c. 425)

monk, historian, and theologian

4th century Latin writer and astrologer

6th century Syrian scholar and intellectual

5th-century saint and theologian

thumb|Epitome of Philostorgius' Church History by Photios I of Constantinople ([[British Library, 16th-century manuscript)]] Philostorgius (; 368 – c. 439 AD) was an Anomoean Church historian of the 4th and 5th centuries.

Western Roman Christian woman, widely regarded to be the author of a detailed account of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land about 381/2–384

eminent ancient physician

first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (1911–1981)

Salvian (or Salvianus) was a Christian writer of the 5th century in Roman Gaul.

5th-century Christian writer

Possidius (5th century) was a friend of Augustine of Hippo who wrote a biography and an indiculus or list of his works. He was bishop of Calama in the Roman province of Numidia.

Navarrese Basque-language writer and priest

British poet, novelist, theologian, literary critic, and member of the Inklings (1886–1945)

thumb|325x325px|Ruins in Edessa, the famous [[Syriac Christian school]] Rabbula (; romanized ''Rabūlā d'Urhāy'') was a bishop of Edessa from 411/2 to August 435/6 AD, noteworthy for his opposition to the views of Theodore of Mopsuestia and Nestorius. However, his successor Ibas, who was in charge of the school of Edessa, reversed the official stance of that bishopric. Rabbula is not to be confused with the otherwise unknown scribe of the 6th century Rabbula Gospels. He is venerated as a saint by the Oriental Orthodox Church (feast on August 7/8 according to the Syriac Orthodox Church), with po

Lebanese author, poet, editor, translator, and critic. (1903–1947)

Cypriot bishop

Christian apologist

Bulgarian writer and cleric

Serbian writer and historian

Byzantine theologian

Canadian cartoonist (born 1960)

German writer (1903–1942)

5th century Christian historian

Christian writer

Lebanese author and poet (1931–2014)

2nd century Christian apologist and chronicler

American singer-songwriter

Helvidius (sometimes Helvetius) was the author of a work written prior to 383 against the belief in the perpetual virginity of Mary. Helvidius maintained that the biblical mention of "sisters" and "brothers" of the Lord constitutes solid evidence that Mary had normal marital relations with Joseph and additional children after the miraculous conception and birth of Jesus. He supported his opinion by the writings of Tertullian and Victorinus. Helvidius is sometimes seen as an early proto-protestant, along with Vigiliantius, Jovinian and Aerius of Sebaste.

American biblical scholar (1935–2012)

Swedish writer

Cypriot bishop

missionary in China

Russian philosopher (1852–1923)

Syrian translator (1605–1664)

American religion academic

English preacher and fabulist

writer, pedagogue, actor and theater worker

Montenegrin poet

Canadian cartoonist, evangelist, agnostic, politician, newspaper editor, inventor, broadcaster and author (1915-2001)

Speraindeo (died 853) was a Córdoban Mozarabic abbot, teacher of Eulogius and Alvarus Paulus.

Early Christian Apostolic apocrypha

missionary, evangelizer of the Alpine Slavs

Australian young earth creationist

Rhodo was a Christian writer who flourished in the time of the Roman emperor Commodus (180-92); he was a native of the province of Asia Minor who came to Rome where he was a pupil of Tatian.

Syrian writer

thumb|Illuminated manuscript depicting city map of Jerusalem under Crusader control, 1200s. Sæwulf ( ; 1102 – 1103) was probably the first English (Anglo-Saxon) pilgrim to Jerusalem following its conquest in the First Crusade. His Latin written account of his pilgrimage, Relatio de situ Ierusalem , tells of an arduous and dangerous journey; and Sæwulf's descriptive narrative provides scholars brief but significant insight into sea travel across the Mediterranean to the new Kingdom of Jerusalem that was established soon after the end of the First Crusade.

Japanese suffragist

Swedish Writer (1903-2002)

Ghanaian pastor and motivational speaker

British Christian author in Canada (1924-2002)

Dutch writer and painter (1943)