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Born	1686 • England
Died	April 9, 1761 (aged 75) • England
Subjects Of Study	Christianity • mysticism

Thomas Woolston

English theologian

Hugh Paulin Cressy

English author and editor

William Alabaster

English scholar

Evelyn Underhill

British writer

W. T. Stace

British philosopher

Bonaventura Berlinghieri: St. Francis and Scenes from His Life

St. Francis of Assisi

Italian saint

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Spanish saint

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Syrian author

John Locke

English philosopher

Isaac Of Stella

English philosopher and theologian

Brian D. Josephson

British physicist

William Carey

British missionary

Adrian IV

pope

John Toland

Irish-born British author

Augustine Baker

English monk

Whiston, oil painting by an unknown artist after a portrait by Sarah Hoadly, c. 1720; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

William Whiston

Anglican priest and mathematician

Julian of Norwich

English mystic

R.C. Zaehner

British historian

Thomas Chubb

British theologian

Edmer

English biographer and historian

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