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The list Christian philosophers includes Cornel West, Pope John Paul II, C.S. Lewis, René Descartes and Joseph Priestley. The list consists of 328 members and 9 sublists.
  • 1.

    Cornel West
    American philosopher and political activist (born 1953)
    Cornel West
    Overview: Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953) is an American philosopher, political activist, social critic, and public intellectual. The grandson of a Baptist minister, West focuses on the role of race, gender ...
    Date of birth: 2 June 1953
    Age: 71
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    American anti-capitalists 93T
    Baptist philosophers 3T
    African-American theologians 20T
  • 2.

    Pope John Paul II
    Polish, Religion
    Pope John Paul II
    Overview: Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Pauli II; Italian: Giovanni Paolo II; Polish: Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła 18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the ...
    Date of birth: 18 May 1920
    Date of death: 2 April 2005
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Nationality: Polish
    Occupation: Religion
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)
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    Polish Roman Catholic writers 26T
    Patrons of World Youth Day 13T
    Members of the underground Labor Party 4T
  • 3.

    C.S. Lewis
    British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
    C.S. Lewis
    Overview: Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) ...
    Date of birth: 29 November 1898
    Date of death: 22 November 1963
    Age: 64 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Writers from Oxford 10T
    Fantasy writers from Northern Ireland 1T
    Literary critics from Northern Ireland 2T
  • 4.

    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    Russian novelist (1821–1881)
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    Overview: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (11 November [O.S. 30 October] 1821 – 9 February [O.S. 28 January] 1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. Numerous ...
    Date of birth: 30 October 1821
    Date of death: 9 February 1881
    Age: 59 (age at death)
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Russian untitled nobility 65T
    19th-century Russian translators 54T
    People from Moskovsky Uyezd 52T
  • 5.

    René Descartes
    French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
    René Descartes
    Overview: René Descartes ( or ; Renatus Cartesius; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy ...
    Date of birth: 31 March 1596
    Date of death: 11 February 1650
    Age: 53 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    Augustinian philosophers 13T
    Founders of philosophical traditions 43T
    Cartesianism 8T
  • 6.

    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561–1626)
    Francis Bacon
    Overview: Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England ...
    Date of birth: 22 January 1561
    Date of death: 9 April 1626
    Age: 65 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Liverpool 35T
    Peers of England created by James I 19T
    Burials at St Albans 2T
  • 7.

    Joseph Priestley
    Scientist
    Joseph Priestley
    Overview: Joseph Priestley FRS (24 March [O.S. 13 March] 1733 – 6 February 1804) was an English chemist, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator, and liberal political ...
    Date of birth: 13 March 1733
    Date of death: 6 February 1804
    Age: 70 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Chemist
    Gender: Male
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    18th-century English non-fiction writers 152T
    Christian abolitionists 358T
    Priestley family 5T
  • 8.

    James I of England
    King of Scotland (1566–1625), King of England and Ireland (1603–1625)
    James I of England
    Overview: James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English ...
    Date of birth: 19 June 1566
    Date of death: 27 March 1625
    Age: 58 (age at death)
    Nationality: Scottish
    Occupation: Royalty
    Gender: Male
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    16th-century Scottish peers 65T
    Failed assassination attempt survivors 18T
    17th-century Irish monarchs 12T
  • 9.

    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher
    Immanuel Kant
    Overview: Immanuel Kant (, ; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics ...
    Date of birth: 22 April 1724
    Date of death: 12 February 1804
    Age: 79 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    Philosophers of literature 95T
    Philosophers of logic 129T
    History of ethics 19T
  • 10.

    Gottfried Leibniz
    German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
    Gottfried Leibniz
    Overview: Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz (1 July 1646 [O.S. 21 June] – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat. He is one of the most pr ...
    Date of birth: 1 July 1646
    Date of death: 14 November 1716
    Age: 70 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Mathematician
    Gender: Male
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    Linear algebraists 38T
    Philosophical theists 22T
    People educated at the St. Thomas School, Leipzig 25T
  • 11.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    Lutheran theologian
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    Overview: Dietrich Bonhoeffer ( 4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the ...
    Date of birth: 4 February 1906
    Date of death: 9 April 1945
    Age: 39 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Male
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    Clergy from Wrocław 17T
    People executed by Nazi Germany by hanging 29T
    1945 murders in Europe 7T
  • 12.

    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623–1662)
    Blaise Pascal
    Overview: Blaise Pascal ( pass-KAL, -⁠KAHL, PASS-kəl, -⁠kal, pahs-KAHL; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.
    Date of birth: 19 June 1623
    Date of death: 19 August 1662
    Age: 39 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Mathematician
    Gender: Male
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    Cartesianism 8T
    17th-century Christian mystics 87T
    17th-century male writers 1,224T
  • 13.

    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008)
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    Overview: Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer and political prisoner. One of the most famous Soviet dissidents ...
    Date of birth: 11 December 1918
    Date of death: 3 August 2008
    Age: 89 (age at death)
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Male
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    Recipients of the Order of the Red Star 135T
    People from Cavendish, Vermont 2T
    Eastern Orthodox philosophers 21T
  • 14.

    Albert Schweitzer
    French-German theologian and philosopher (1875–1965)
    Albert Schweitzer
    Overview: Albert Schweitzer OM ( 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was an Alsatian polymath. He was a theologian, organist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. A Lutheran, Schweitzer challenged both ...
    Date of birth: 14 January 1875
    Date of death: 4 September 1965
    Age: 90 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Educator
    Gender: Male
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    French male organists 247T
    German male organists 267T
    French writers in German 11T
  • 15.

    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Overview: Søren Aabye Kierkegaard ( SORR-ən KEER-kə-gard, -⁠gor; 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and religious author who is widely considered to ...
    Date of birth: 5 May 1813
    Date of death: 11 November 1855
    Age: 42 (age at death)
    Nationality: Danish
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
    Partner: Regina Schlegel (Engaged)
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    19th-century Danish philosophers 1T
    Tuberculosis deaths in Denmark 5T
    Danish ethicists 2T
  • 16.

    G.K. Chesterton
    English writer
    G.K. Chesterton
    Overview: Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox". Time m ...
    Date of birth: 29 May 1874
    Date of death: 14 June 1936
    Age: 62 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 4" (193 cm)
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    20th-century English male writers 1,328T
    20th-century British male writers 1,407T
    English World War I poets 38T
  • 17.

    Mircea Eliade
    Romanian historian of religion, writer and philosopher (1907–1986)
    Mircea Eliade
    Overview: Mircea Eliade (March 9 [O.S. February 24] 1907 – April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading ...
    Date of birth: 8 March 1907
    Date of death: 22 April 1986
    Age: 79 (age at death)
    Nationality: Romanian
    Occupation: Journalist
    Gender: Male
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    Mysticism scholars 26T
    Journalists from Bucharest 21T
    Diplomats from Bucharest 27T
  • 18.

    George MacDonald
    Scottish writer and Christian minister (1824–1905)
    George MacDonald
    Overview: George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow ...
    Date of birth: 10 December 1824
    Date of death: 18 September 1905
    Age: 80 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Male
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    Scottish Christian poets 3T
    George MacDonald 5T
    19th-century Christian mystics 69T
  • 19.

    Max Scheler
    German philosopher
    Max Scheler
    Overview: Max Ferdinand Scheler (22 August 1874 – 19 May 1928) was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology. Scheler developed further the philosophical method ...
    Date of birth: 22 August 1874
    Date of death: 19 May 1928
    Age: 53 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    Writers from Munich 90T
    19th-century German non-fiction writers 37T
    German male essayists 86T
  • 20.

    R. G. Collingwood
    British historian and philosopher
    R. G. Collingwood
    Overview: Robin George Collingwood FBA (1889–1943) was an English philosopher, historian and archaeologist. He is best known for his philosophical works, including The Principles of Art (1938) and the posthumously ...
    Date of birth: 22 February 1889
    Date of death: 9 January 1943
    Age: 53 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    People from Cartmel 16T
    20th-century British philosophers 250T
    20th-century English historians 340T
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