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Born April 30, 1771 • New Hampshire
Died June 7, 1852 (aged 81) • Boston • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study Unitarianism • Universalism
Parker, Theodore
Theodore Parker
American theologian
Clarke, James Freeman
James Freeman Clarke
American minister and author
John Biddle
English theologian
Faustus Socinus
Faustus Socinus
Italian theologian
Ferenc Dávid
Unitarian preacher
James Morison
British theologian
James Martineau
English theologian
John Murray
English minister and theologian
Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
American theologian
Paul Tillich
American theologian and philosopher
Reinhold Niebuhr
Reinhold Niebuhr
American theologian
John Dominic Crossan
Irish-born American theologian
Ian Barbour
American theologian and physicist
Charles Hartshorne
American philosopher and theologian
Murray, John Courtney
American theologian
Bushnell, Horace
Horace Bushnell
American theologian
Robert Duncan
American Anglican clergyman
Howard Thurman
American theologian and scholar
Crane, Caroline Julia Bartlett
Caroline Julia Bartlett Crane
American minister
Kaufmann Kohler
German-American rabbi and theologian