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Born September 10, 1928 • Geneva • Switzerland
Died May 7, 2019 (aged 90) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Templeton Prize (2015)
Jean-Pierre de Crousaz
Swiss philosopher
Gaston Frommel
Swiss philosopher and theologian
Justus of Ghent: Saint Augustine
St. Augustine
Christian bishop and theologian
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas
Italian Christian theologian and philosopher
Philo Judaeus
Philo Judaeus
Jewish philosopher
Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
American theologian
Blessed John Duns Scotus
Scottish philosopher and theologian
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher
Johann Gottfried von Herder
Johann Gottfried von Herder
German philosopher
Paul Tillich
American theologian and philosopher
St. Anselm of Canterbury
St. Anselm of Canterbury
archbishop and philosopher
Rudolf Otto
Rudolf Otto
German philosopher and theologian
John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe
English theologian
Reinhold Niebuhr
Reinhold Niebuhr
American theologian
William of Ockham
English philosopher
Peter Abelard, with Héloïse, miniature portrait by Jean de Meun, 14th century; in the Musee Conde, Chantilly, France.
Peter Abelard
French theologian and poet
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher
German theologian
Richard Hooker, engraving by E. Finden after a print by W. Hollar.
Richard Hooker
English theologian
Franz Rosenzweig
German philosopher
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish philosopher and writer

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