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PEOPLE OF IDEAS
(Philosophers,
Scientists
and Theologians)

THE MASTER LIST

A

Abelard, Peter
Achterberg, Jeanne
Admonition to the
    Parliament
Aeschylus
Aesop
Aidan
Albertus "Magnus"
Alcuin
d'Alembert, Jean Le
    Rond
Alexander, Archibald
Al-Farabi
Allen, Ethan
Alpert, Richard  (Ram
    Dass)
Altizer, Thomas J. J.
Ambrose
Amos
Ampère, André-Marie
Anaxagoras
Anaximander
Anaximenes
Anselm
Anthony
Aquinas, Thomas
Archimedes
Aristarchus
Aristophanes
Arius - Arians
Aristotle
Arminius, Jakob
Asimov, Isaac
Aspect, Alain
Astruc, Jean
Athanasius
Auburn Affirmation
Augustine
Augustine of Canterbury
Avicenna ibn Sina
Averroës ibn Rushd
Avila, Teresa of
Ayer, A. J.

B

Bacon, Francis
Bacon, Roger
Bailey, Alice
Barbour, Ian
Barrow, John D.
Barth, Karl
Basil of Caesarea
Bateson, Gregory
Bauer, Ferdinand
    Christian
Baxter, Richard
Bayle, Pierre
Becquerel, Antoine Henri
Bede
Bell, Alexander Graham
Bell, John
Bellah, Robert N.
Bellarmine, Robert
Benedict of Nursia
Bengal, Johan Albrecht
Bentham,Jeremy
Berengar
Bergson, Henri
Berkeley, George
Berkouwer, Gerrit C.
Bernard of Clairvaux
Berry, Thomas
Besant, Annie
Bessel, Friedrich
    Wilhelm
Beauvoir, Simone de
Beza, Theodore
Blake, Eugene Carson
Blake, William
Blavatsky, Helena Petrova
Bloch, Ernst
Bloom, Allan
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Boethius
Boff, Leonardo
Bohm, David
Böhme, Jacob
Bohr, Niels
Bolingbroke, Henry St.
    John
Bonaventura (Giovanni
    di Fidanza)
Bondi, Hermann
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
Boniface
Bonino, Jose Miguez
Booth, William and
    Catherine
 Born, Max
Bosch, Hieronymous
Bousset, Wilhelm
Boyle, Robert
Braaten, Carl
Brahe, Tycho
Briggs, Charles A.
Broglie, Louis-Victor
    Duc de
Brown, Harrison
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Robert
Bruce, F. F.
Brunner, Emil
Bryan, William Jennings
Buber, Martin
Bucer (Butzer), Martin
Bullinger, Heinrich
Bultmann, Rudolph
Bunyan, John
Buonarroti,
    Michelangelo
Burckhart, Jakob
    Christoph
Burke, Edmund
Byron, George Gordon
    Noel

C

Calvin, John
Campbell, Joseph
Camus, Albert
Cannon, Annie J.
Capra, Fritjof
Carey, William
Carlyle, Thomas
Carmichael, Stokeley
Carnap, Rudolf
Cartwright, Thomas
Castaneda, Carlos
Castiglione, Baldassare
Catherine of Genoa
Catherine of Siena
Cayce, Edgar
Cervantes, Miguel de
Chamberlin, Thomas C.
Champollion,
    Jean François
Chandrasekhar,
    Subramanyan
Chateaubriande,
    François Ren, de
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chauncey, Charles
Chesterton, G. K.
Chodorow, Nancy
Chopra, Deepak
Christ, Carol P.
Chrysippus
Cicero
Cineros, Ximines de
Cleanthes of Assos
Clement of Alexandria
Clement of Rome
Cloud of Unknowing
Cobb, John B., Jr.
Cocceius, Johannes
Coke, Edward
Coleridge, Samuel
    Taylor
Colson, Chuck
Columba
Columban
Compton, Arthur Holly
Comte, Auguste
Concordat of Worms
    (1122)
Condorcet
Cone, James H.
Constantine
Contarini, Gasparo
Copeland, Kenneth
Copernicus, Nicolas
Council of:
   Nicea (325)
   Constantinople (381)
   Ephesus (431)
   Chalcedon (451)
   Constantinople (553)    
   Constantinople
        (680-681)
   Nicea (787)
   Pisa (1409)
   Basel (1431-1449)
Cox, Harvey
Cranmer, Thomas
Crates of Thebes
Creme, Benjamin
Crick, Francis
Croce, Benedetto
Cromwell, Oliver
Cross, John of the
Curie, Marie and Pierre
Cusa, Nicholas of
Cuthbert
Cydones, Demetrius
Cyprian
Cyril

D

Dalton, John
Daly, Mary
Dante Alighieri
Darrow, Clarence
Darwin, Charles
Davies, Paul C. W.
Dawkins, Richard
Democritus
Demosthenes
Dennett, Daniel C.
Derrida, Jacques
Descartes, René
Dewey, John
Dickens, Charles
Diderot, Denis
Dilthey, Wilhelm
Diogenes Laertius
Diogenes of Synope
Dionysius the
    Areopagite
Dirac, Paul
Dobson, James
Docetists
Dominic de Guzman
Dort, Synod of (1625)
Dossey, Larry
Dostoevsky, Feodor
    Mikhailovich
Drucker, Peter F.
Duns Scotus
Durkheim, Emile

E

Eccles, John
Eckhart, Meister Johannes
Eckman, Barbara
Eddy, Mary Baker
Edington, Arthur S.
Edison, Thomas Alva
Edwards, Jonathan
Eichhorn, Johann
    Friedrich
Einstein, Albert
Eisler, Riane
Eliade, Mircea
Elijah
Elijah Mohammed
Elisha
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Empedocles
Engels, Friedrich
Epictetus
Epicurus
Erasmus, Desiderius
Eratosthenes
Erhard, Werner
Erickson, Eric
Erigena, John Scotus
Erlich, Paul
Euclid
Euripides
Eusebius
Evans, Arthur
Evans-Pritchard, E.E.
Ezekiel

F

Faraday, Michael
Farrakhan, Louis
Farrer, Austin
Feigenbaum, Mitchell
Fénelon, François
Ferguson, Marilyn
Fermi, Enrico
Feuerbach, Ludwig
Feynman, Richard
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
Finney, Charles
Fitzgerald, George
Flavel, John
Forsyth, Peter
Fosdick, Harry Emerson
Fourier, Charles
Fox, George
Fox, Matthew
Foxe, John
Ford, Henry
Frank, Francine
    Wattman
Francke, August
    Hermann
Franklin, Benjamin
Fraunhofer, Joseph von
Frazer, James George
Frege, Gottlob
Freud, Sigmund

G

Gadamer, Hans-Georg
Galen
Galileo Galilei
Geisler, Norman L.
Gell-Mann, Murray
Gentile, Giovanni
Gibbon, Edward
Gilbert, William
Gilkey, Langdon
Gilligan, Carol
Gilson, Etienne
Gimbutas, Marija
Ginsberg, Allen
Giotto di Bondone
Gladden, Washington
Glashow, Sheldon L.
Gnostics
Gödel, Kurt
Goethe, Johann
    Wolfgang von
Gould, Stephen Jay
Graham, Billy
Green, Thomas Hill
Gregory "The Great"
    (Pope)
Gregory VII (Pope)
    (Hildebrand)
Gregory of Nazianzus
Gregory of Nyssa
Griffin, Susan
Grof, Stanislav
Groote, Gerard
Grotius, Hugo
Guiness, Os
Gunkel, Hermann
Gutiérrez, Gustavo
Guyon, Madame

H

Habakkuk
Hagan, Kenneth
Haldane, J. B. S.
Hamilton, Alexander
Harnack, Adolph von
Harrington, James
Harrison, Edward R.
Hartshorne, Charles
Harvey, William
Hawking, Stephen
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm
    Friedrich
Heidegger, Martin
Heisenberg, Werner
Helvitius (Claude
    Adrien)
Henry, Carl
Henry "the Navigator"
    (Prince)
Heraclitus
Herbert of Cherbury,
    Lord Edward
Herder, Johann
    Gottfried
Herodotus
Herschel, William
Hertz, Heinrich
Heschel, Abraham
    Joshua
Hesiod
Hick, John
Hildebrand (Pope
    Gregory VII)
Hildegard of Bingen
Hilton, Walter
Hinn, Benny
Hipparchus
Hippocrates
Hobbes, Thomas
Hodge, A. A.
Hodge, Charles
Hoffman, Abbie
Hofmann, Albert
d'Holbach, Baron
Holmes, Oliver
    Wendell, Jr.
Homer
Hooker, Richard
Horace
Hosea
Houston, Jean
Hoyle, Fred
Hugh of St. Victor
Humanist Manifesto
Hume, David
Huss, John (Jan)
Husserl, Edmund
Huxley, Aldous
Huxley, Julian
Huxley, T. H.
Huygens, Christian
Hybels, Bill
   

I

J

   

K

L

M

Mach, Ernst
Machen, John Gresham
Machiavelli, Niccolo
MacIntyre, Alasdair
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Maimonides (Rabbi Moses
    ben Maimon)
Maistre, Joseph de
Malcolm X
Malebranche, Nicholas
Malinowski, Bronislaw
Malthus, Robert
Mandelbrot, Benoit
Manicheanists
Manning, Henry Edward
March, Robert H.
Marcionists
Marconi, Guglielmo
Margenau, Henry
Margulis, Lynn
Maritain, Jacques
Mark (gospel writer)
Marcus Aurelius
Maritain, Jacques
Marsilio of Padua
Marty, Martin
Marx, Karl
Maslov, Abraham
Mather, Cotton
Mather, Increase
Mather, Richard
Maximus the Confessor
Maxwell, James Clerk
May, Robert
McMullin, Ernan
Mechtilde of Magdeburg
Melanchthon, Philip
Menander
Mendel, Gregor
Mendeleyev, Dmitry
    Ivanovich
Merchant, Carolyn
Merton, Thomas
Methodius
Micah
Micaiah ben-Imlah
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Michelson, Albert
Mill, James
Mill, John Stuart
Miller, Jean Baker
Miller, William
Milton, John
Modalists
Mollenkott, Virginia Ramey
Moltmann, Jörgen
Monod, Jacques
Montagu, Ashley
Montaigne, Michel de
Montanists
Montesquieu, Baron de
Moody, Dwight L.
Moore, G. E.
More, Thomas
Morley, Edward
Muggeridge, Malcolm
Muhammad of Mecca
Müntzer, Thomas
Myer, Norman

N


O

P

Pagels, Elaine
Pannenberg, Wolfhart
Paine, Thomas
Paley, William
Papias
Parmenedes
Pascal, Blaise
Patrick
Paul (the Apostle)
Paul III (Pope)
Paul VI (Pope)
Pauli, Wolfgang
Pauling, Linus Carl
Paulsen, Kathryn
Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich
Peacocke, Arthur
Peale, Norman Vincent
Peat, F. David
Peirce, C.S.
Pelagianists
Penrose, Roger
Penzias, Arno
Pericles
Perkins, William
Perls, Fritz
Petrarch, Francesco
Petrie, Flinders
Pfeiffer, John
Philo
Pietsch, P.
Pindar
Pittenger, W. Norman
Pius IX (Pope)
Pius XII (Pope )
Planck, Max
Plato
Plotinus
Plutarch
Poincaré, Henri
Polanyi, Michael
Polkinghorne, John
Polybius
Polycarp
Popper, Karl R.
Porfiro Miranda, José
Porphyry
Price, Freddie
Price, John Randolph
Priestley, Joseph
Prigogine, Ilya
Proclus
Procopius of Caesarea
Protagoras
Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph
Psellus, Michael
Ptolemy
Pusey, Edward Bouverie
Pushkin, Aleksandr
Pyrrho
Pythagoras

Q

R

Radewijns, Florens
Rahner, Karl
Ram Dass (Richard Alpert)
Rauschenbusch, Walter
Ray, John
Reber, Grote
Reid, Thomas
Reimarus, Hermann
    Samuel
Renan, Ernst
Reuchlin, Johannes
Reuther, Rosemary Radford
Ricardo, David
Richards, I. A.
Richards, M. C.
Ricoeur, Paul
Rifkin, Jeremy
Ritschl, Albrecht B.
Roberts, Jane
Rogers, Carl
Rohrlich, Fritz
Rolle, Richard
Romero, Archbishop Oscar
Rorty, Richard
Rosenberg, Alfred
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Royce, Josiah
Ruskin, John
Russell, Bertrand
Russell, Charles Taze
Russell, Letty M.
Rutherford, Ernest
Ruysbroeck, Jan van
Ryerson, Kevin

S

Sagan,Carl
Saint-Simon, Count Henri
Sappho
Satin, Mark
Savonarola, Girolamo
Schaeffer, Francis
Schelling, Friedrich
Schillebeeckx, Edward
Schiller, Friedrich von
Schlick, Moritz
Schliemann, Heinrich
Schleiermacher, Friedrich
Schneider, Stephen H.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Schrödinger, Erwin
Schumacher, E. F.
Schweitzer, Albert
Scopes "Monkey Trial"
Scotus, Duns
Segundo, Juan Luis
Seneca
Shaftesbury, The Earl of
Shapley, Harlow
Sheldrake, Rupert
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Siger of Brabant
Silva, Jose
Simmons, Menno
Skinner, B. F.
Slipher, Vesto
Smale, Stephen
Smith, Adam
Smith, Joseph
Smith, William Robertson
Sobrino, Jon
Socrates
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Sorel, Georges
Sorokin, Pitirim
    Alexandrovitch
Sophocles
Spangler, David
Spencer, Herbert
Spengler, Oswald
Spener, Philip Jacob
Spinoza, Benedict
    (Baruch)
Spock, Benjamin
Spong, John Shelby
Sproul, R. C.
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon
Starhawk, Miriam
Steinem, Gloria
Steiner, Rudolf
Stevenson, Charles
Stewart, I.
Stott, John R. W.
Strabo
Strauss, David Friedrich
Sunday, William (Billy)
     Ashley
Suso, Heinrich
Swedenborg, Emanuel

T

Tauler, Johannes
Taylor, E. B.
Tacitus
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
Tennent, Gilbert
Tennyson, Alfred - Lord
Teresa of Avila
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Tertullian
Thales
Theologia Germanica
Thielicke, Helmut
Thomson, J. J.
Thoreau, Henry David
Thucydides
Tillich, Paul
Tindal, Matthew
Toland, John
Tolstoy, Leo
Torrance, Thomas
Torres, Camillo
Torrey, R.A.
Toynbee, Arnold J.
Treichler, Paula
Treitschke, Heinrich von
Turgot
Turretin, Francis
Tutu, Archbishop
    Desmond

U

Urban II (Pope)
Usher, James

V

Valla, Lorenzo
Van Buren, Paul
Van Til, Cornelius
Vatican II (1962-1965)
Vergil / Virgil
Vesalius, Andrea
Vico, Giambattista
Vinci, Leonardo da
Voltaire (François-Marie
    Arouet)
de Voogd, Stephanie

W

Waldo, Peter
Warfield, Benjamin B.
Watson, James Dewey
Watts,Alan
Webb, Sidney
Weber, Max
Weil, Simone
Weinberg, Steven
Weiss, Johannes
Wellhausen, Julius
Wells, H.G.
Wesley, John
Wesley, Charles
Westminster Confession
    of Faith
Wettstein, Johann Jakob
Wheatley, Margaret
Whitby, Synod of
    (663/664)
White, Ellen
White, Jacquelyn Grant
Whitehead, Alfred North
Whitfield, George
Whitman, Walt
Whitney, Eli
Wiesel, Ellie
Wilber, Ken
Wilberforce, William
Wilkins, John
William of Ockham
Wilson, Edward O.
Wilson, Robert
Wimber, John
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Wolfe, Susan
Wolff, Christian
Woolston, Thomas
Wordsworth,William
World Council of Churches
Worms, Concordat of
    (1122)
Wrede, Wilhelm
Wulf, Maurice de
Wycliff, John

X

Xenophon
Ximines de Cineros

Y

Z

Zeno of Citium
Zephaniah
Zinzendorf, Count Nikolaus Ludwig von
Zohar, Danah
Zukav, Gary
Zwingli, Ulrich




 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

  Miles H. Hodges