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Born November 14, 1944 (age 80) • England
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Newman, John Henry
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
Samuel Butler, detail of an oil painting by Charles Gogin, 1896; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Samuel Butler
English author [1835-1902]
Chesterton, G.K.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
Jonathan Sacks
Jonathan Sacks
British rabbi and author
Aelred of Rievaulx, Saint
Saint Aelred of Rievaulx
Cistercian monk
Ronald Knox, pen and ink drawing by P. Evans, c. 1926; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Ronald Knox
British theologian
Sir Richard Baker
British author
John Caird
British theologian
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
German religious leader
Justus of Ghent: Saint Augustine
St. Augustine
Christian bishop and theologian
John Calvin
John Calvin
French theologian
John Bunyan, pencil drawing on vellum by Robert White; in the British Museum
John Bunyan
English author
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
French abbot
Tyconius
Christian theologian
St. Bonaventure
Saint Bonaventure
Italian theologian
St. Teresa of Ávila
St. Teresa of Ávila
Spanish mystic
John Newton
John Newton
English clergyman and writer
Adso of Montier-en-Der
Benedictine monk and abbot
John Dominic Crossan
Irish-born American theologian