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Thematic Entries List Thematic List of Entries Biographical Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Adams, Hannah Booth, Catherine Agricola, Michael Booth, Joseph Allen, Richard Booth, William Allen, Roland Bosch, David Jacobus Boucher, Jonathan Alline, Henry Boudinot, Elias Althusius, Johannes Bourne, Hugh Ames, William Boyle, Robert Amissah, Samuel Hanson Bradstreet, Anne Amsdorf, Nikolaus von Braght, Tieleman Jansz van Anderson, Rufus Brainerd, David Andrewes, Lancelot Bray, Thomas Andrews, Charles Freer Brent, Charles Arminius, Jacobus Brenz, Johannes Arndt, Johann Britten, Benjamin Arnold, Eberhard Brooks, Phillips Arnold, Thomas Browne, Robert Asbury, Francis Browning, Robert Attoh-Ahuma, Samuel Richard Brew Brownson, Orestes Azariah, V. S. Brunner, Emil Bach, Johann Sebastian Bryan, William Jennings Backus, Isaac Bucer, Martin Bacon, Francis Bugenhagen, Johannes Bae¨ta, Christian Goncalves Kwami Bullinger, Heinrich Baillie, John Bultmann, Rudolf Barnes, Robert Bunyan, John Barth, Heinrich Bushnell, Horace Barth, Karl Butler, Joseph Bauer, Bruno Butler, Josephine Baumgarten, Otto Butterfield, Herbert Baumgarten, Siegmund Jakob Buxtehude, Dietrich Baur, Ferdinand Christian Cadbury, George Baxter, Richard Calixt, George Bayle, Pierre Calvert Family Beecher, Henry Ward Calvin, John Beecher, Lyman Campbell Family Bell, George Campbell, John Bengel, Johann Albrecht Capito, Wolfgang Bennett, John Cappel, Louis Bentham, Jeremy Carey, William Bentley, Richard Carnell, Edward Berggrav, Eivind Cartwright, Peter Berkeley, George Cartwright, Thomas Berkhof, Hendrikus Cary, Lott Beza, Theodore Casely-Hayford, Joseph Ephraim Blair, James Castellio, Sebastian Blake, Eugene Carson Chalmers, Thomas Blake, William Channing, William Ellery Bliss, Philip P. Chao, T. C. (Zhao Zichen) Blomfield, Charles Cherbury, Edward Lord Herbert of Blount, Charles Chillingworth, William Blumhardt, Christoph Friedrich Chiluba, Frederick Bodelschwingh, Friedrich C.C. Chubb, Thomas Boehme, Jakob Coccejus, Johannes Boesak, Alan Coffin, Henry Sloane xvii THEMATIC LIST OF ENTRIES Coke, Thomas Franck, Sebastian Colenso, John William Francke, August Hermann Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Freeman, Thomas Birch Coligny, Gaspard Fry, Elizabeth Collins, Anthony Fuller, Margaret Comenius, John Gallus, Nikolaus Cone, James Hal Garrison, Winfred Cook, Thomas George, David Cooke, Henry Gerhardt, Paul Cotton, John Gladden, Washington Coverdale, Miles Gladstone, William Ewart Cranmer, Thomas Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Cromwell, Oliver Gogarten, Friedrich Cromwell, Thomas Gomar, Franz Crosby, Fanny Goodspeed, Edgar Johnson Crowther, Archdeacon Dandeson Gordon, Adoniram Judson Crowther, Samuel Graham, Billy Crummell, Alexander Grebel, Conrad Cummins, George David Grundtvig, Nicolaj Frederick Severin Dale, Robert William Gustavus Adolphus Darby, John Nelson Hamann, Johann Georg David, Francis (Ferenc) Handel, George Frideric Davidson, Randall Thomas Harkness, Georgia Davies, Samuel Harnack, Adolf von Delany, Martin Harris, William Wade´ DeVries, Peter Hartsthorne, Charles Dibelius, Friedrich Karl Otto Hastings, Lady Selina Dibelius, Martin Hauge, Hans Nielsen Dickinson, Emily Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Dippel, Johann Conrad Henry VIII Distler, Hugo Henry, Carl F. H. Donne, John Herbert, George Douglass, Frederick Herder, Johann Gottfried Drummond, Henry Hicks, Edward Du Plessis, David Johannes Hobbes, Thomas DuBois, W. E. B. Hofmann, Melchior Dwight, Timothy Hogg, James Eberhardt, W. Holl, Karl Eddy, Mary Baker Hooker, Richard Edwards, Jonathan Hooker, Thomas Eliot, George Hopkins, Samuel Eliot, John Hromadka, Josef Eliot, T. S. Hubmaier, Balthasar Elizabeth I (Elizabeth Tudor) Huddleston, Trevor Emerson, Ralph Waldo Hume, David Erastus, Thomas Hutchinson, Anne Falwell, Jerry Hutter, Jakob Faraday, Michael Irving, Edward Farel, Guillaume Jabavu, Davidson Don Tengo Felgenhauer, Paul Jackson, Sheldon Feuerbach, Ludwig James, William Finley, Robert Jefferson, Thomas Finney, Charles Grandison Jewel, John Fisher, Geoffrey Francis Johnson, James Fisk, Wilbur Johnson, Samuel Flacius, Matthias Jones, Rufus Matthew Forsyth, Peter Taylor Jowett, Benjamin Fosdick, Harry Emerson Judson, Adoniram Fox, George Jung-Stilling, Johann Heinrich Foxe, John Jurieu, Pierre xviii THEMATIC LIST OF ENTRIES Kagawa, Toyohiko Mayhew, Jonathan Kant, Immanuel McFague, Sallie Karlstadt, Andreas Rudolf Bodenstein McIntire, Carl Keble, John McPherson, Aimee Semple Keckermann, Bartholomew Melanchthon, Philipp Kepler, Johannes Melville, Andrew Kierkegaard, Søren A. Menno Simons Kilham, Hannah Merle d’Aubigne´, Jean Henri Kimbangu, Simon Middleton, Thomas Fanshaw King, Martin Luther, Jr. Miller, William Kingsley, Charles Milton, John Kingsley, Mary Modrzewski, Andreij Knox, John Moffat, Robert Koelle, Sigismund W. Moffatt, James Kraemer, Hendrik Mo¨hler, Johann Adam Krauth, Charles Porterfield Molanus, Gerhard Wolter Krudener, Barbara Moltmann, Ju¨rgen Kutter, Hermann Moody, Dwight Lyman Kuyper, Abraham Moon, Sun Myung Laestadius, Lars Levi More, Henry Lagarde, Paul de Morrison, Charles Laski, Jan Mosheim, Johann Lorenz Latimer, Hugh Mott, John Raleigh Laud, William Mott, Lucretia Coffin Lavater, Johann Kaspar Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior Law, William Mu¨ller, George Le Nain de Tillemont, Louis-Sebastien Mu¨ntzer, Thomas Leade, Jane Ward Naude´, Christiaan Frederick Beyers Lee, Ann Naumann, Friedrich Legge, James Neander, Johann August Wilhelm Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Nee, Watchman (Ni Tuosheng) Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim Neill, Stephen Charles Lewis, C. S. Nevin, John W. Lewis, Sir Samuel Newbigin, J. E. Lesslie Liang A-Fa (Liang Fa; Leang A-Fa) Newman, John Henry Liddon, Henry Parry Newton, Isaac Lightfoot, Joseph Barber Niebuhr, H. Richard Lincoln, Abraham Niebuhr, Reinhold Livingstone, David Niemo¨ller, Martin Locke, John Nietzsche, Friedrich Lo¨he, Wilhelm Nygren, Anders Luther, Martin Oberlin, Johann Friedrich Luthuli, Albert John Ochino, Bernardino Machen, John Gresham Oecolampadius, Johannes Mackay, John Alexander Oldham, Joseph H. Mackenzie, John Oppong, Kwame Sampson MacLeod, George Fielden Oshitelu, Josiah Olunowo Macleod, Norman Osiander, Andreas Madison, James Overbeck, Franz Camille Maranke, John Paley, William Marheineke, Philipp Konrad Palmer, Phoebe Worrall Marpeck, Pilgram Pannenberg, Wolfhart Marrant, John Paracelsus, Theophrastus Martineau, James Parker, Matthew Mather, Cotton Parker, Theodore Mather, Increase Peale, Norman Vincent Mathews, Shailer Pedersen, Johannes Peder Ejler Mathiis, Jan Penn, William Matthews, Z. K. Perkins, William Maurice, Frederick Denison Peters, Thomas xix THEMATIC LIST OF ENTRIES Petri, Laurentius So¨derblom, Nathan Petri, Olaus Sozzini, Fausto (Socinus) Philip of Hesse Spalding, Johann Joachim Philip, John Spener, Philipp Jakob Pierson, Arthur Tappan Spurgeon, Charles Pilkington, George Lawrence Stahl, Friedrich Julius Praetorius, Michael Stanton, Elizabeth Cady Priestley, Joseph Stoecker, Adolf Pufendorf, Samuel Stone, Barton W. Purcell, Henry Stowe, Harriet Beecher Pusey, Edward Bouverie Strauss, David Friedrich Rade, Martin Strong, Josiah Ragaz, Leonhard Studd, Charles Thomas Raikes, Robert Sun Yat-sen Ramabai, Pandita Sunday, Billy Ramsey, Arthur Michael Sung, John (Song Shangjie) Rauschenbusch, Walter Swedenborg, Emanuel Reimarus, Hermann Samuel Swift, Jonathan Reindorf, Carl Christian Tait, Archibald Campbell Richardson, Henry Hobson Tausen, Hans Richer, Edmond Taylor, James Hudson Ritschl, Albrecht Benjamin Taylor, Jeremy Roberts, Granville Oral Taylor, Nathaniel William Robertson, Frederick William Telemann, Georg Philipp Robertson, Pat Temple, Frederick Robinson, Henry Wheeler Temple, William Robinson, John Arthur Thomas Tennent, Gilbert Rossetti, Christina Tennyson, Alfred, Lord Rothmann, Bernhard Tholuck, Friedrich August Gottreu Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Thomasius, Christian Royce, Josiah Tillich, Paul Russell, Charles Taze Tillotson, John Russwurm, John Brown Tindal, Matthew Sabatier, Auguste Ting, K. H. Sabatier, Paul Tocqueville, Alexis de Salt, Titus Toland, John Sankey, Ira David Torrey, Reuben Archer Sattler, Michael Troeltsch, Ernst Schaff, Philipp Tutu, Desmond Schelling, Friedrich von Tyndale, William Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Underhill, Evelyn Schleiermacher, Friedrich Van der Kemp, Johannes Theodorus Schmucker, Samuel Simon Van Dusen, Henry P. Scho¨n, James Frederick Vaughan Williams, Ralph Schu¨tz, Heinrich Visser’t Hooft, Willem Adolf Schweitzer, Albert Walther, Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Schwenckfeld, Caspar Walton, Isaac Seabury, Samuel Wang, Ming Dao (Wang Mingdao) Semler, Johann Salomo Watts, Isaac Servetus, Michael Weatherhead, Leslie Sharp, Granville Weber, Max Sheldon, Charles Weigel, Valentin Sheppard, Richard Weld, Theodore Dwight Sheppard, William Henry Wesley, Charles Simeon, Charles Wesley, John Slessor, Mary Westcott, Brooke Smith, Hannah Whitall Wheatley, Phillis Smith, Joseph Whiston, William Smith, W. Robertson White, Ellen Gould Smyth, John White, William Hale xx THEMATIC LIST OF ENTRIES Whitefield, George Conscientious Objection Whitgift, John Creation Science Wichern, Johann Heinrich Cultural Protestantism Wilberforce, Samuel Culture Wilberforce, William Darwinism Willard, Frances Elizabeth Caroline Democracy Williams, Roger Dissent Wilson, Woodrow Divorce Winstanley, Gerrard Ecology Witherspoon, John Economics Wolff, Christian Education, Overview Wollaston, William Ethics Woolman, John Ethics, Medical Woolston, Thomas Ethnicity Wordsworth, William Euthanasia Wren, Christopher Family Wu, Y. T. (Wu, Yaozong) Freemasonry Wu¨nsch, Georg Frontier Religion Young,
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