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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008)
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
G. K. Chesterton
English author and Christian apologist (1874–1936)
Philipp Melanchthon
German reformer (1497-1560)
Ellen G. White
American author, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1827–1915)
Dorothy L. Sayers
English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer (1893-1957)
Rudolf Bultmann
German theologian (1884–1976)
Mary Baker Eddy
American founder of Christian Science (1821–1910)
George Fox
English founder of Quakers (1624–1691)
Marko Marulić
Croatian national poet and European humanist
Jacques Ellul
French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarchist
Ethan Allen
American general, writer and philosopher (1738–1789)
John Lennox
Northern Irish mathematician and philosopher of science (b. 1943)
James S. White
American publisher, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1821–1881)
Charles Hartshorne
American philosopher (1897–2000)
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Romanian-born German-American feminist theologian
Joseph Bates
American sailor, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1792–1872)
Robert Barclay
Scottish Quaker apologist
Thomas J. J. Altizer
American professor and theologian (1927–2018)
Gabriel Vahanian
French-Armenian theologian (1927–2012)
Margaret Fell
co-founder of the Religious Society of Friends
Walter Veith
zoologist
Hiram Edson
American Seventh-day Adventist leader pioneer
William Stringfellow
American theologian (1928–1985)
Jim Forest
American Orthodox theologian, author, and peace activist (1941-2022)
James Nayler
English Quaker, mystic, writer, religious dissenter
George Abbot
English religious writer and politician