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Born June 11, 1881 • Lithuania
Died November 8, 1983 (aged 102) • New York City • New York
Subjects Of Study Reconstructionism
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Jewish theologian
Seymour Siegel
American theologian
Louis Ginzberg
Lithuanian-American scholar
Caravaggio: The Conversion of St. Paul (second version)
St. Paul the Apostle
Christian Apostle
Philo Judaeus
Philo Judaeus
Jewish philosopher
Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
American theologian
Paul Tillich
American theologian and philosopher
Reinhold Niebuhr
Reinhold Niebuhr
American theologian
Franz Rosenzweig
German philosopher
John Dominic Crossan
Irish-born American theologian
Ian Barbour
American theologian and physicist
Charles Hartshorne
American philosopher and theologian
Murray, John Courtney
American theologian
Robert Duncan
American Anglican clergyman
Bushnell, Horace
Horace Bushnell
American theologian
Howard Thurman
American theologian and scholar
Kaufmann Kohler
German-American rabbi and theologian
Michael Novak
Michael Novak
American theologian, economist, historian, and author
Schaff, engraving by J.J. Cade
Philip Schaff
American theologian
Walter Rauschenbusch
American minister