Theologians Posters and Art Prints, pg 2/3
for classrooms, home schoolers, offices & theme decor.

Mary Baker Eddy was the founder of Christian Science.

Saint Bede the Venerable
b. ca. 672 or 673; England
d. 5-27-735

Bede, a Benedictine monk at a Northumbrian monastery, is best known as an author and scholar. His most famous work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) gained him the title "The father of English history".

Saint Hildegard von Bingen
b. 1098; Germany
d. 9-17-1179

Saint Hildegard von Bingen should be considered a "polymath" (a person with varied knowledge and learning). She was an "abbess, artist, author, counselor, linguist, naturalist, teacher, scientist, philosopher, physician, herbalist, poet, activist, visionary, and composer". Hildegard was also the founder of monasteries at Rupertsberg and Eibingen, communicated with popes, and traveled through Europe.

• Hildegard of Bingen: Scivias
• more women posters

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, (nee von Hahn)
b. 7-31-1831; Ukraine
d. 5-8-1891; England

Russian mystic and author Madame Blavatsky was the founder of the theosophical ("divine wisdom") movement bringing together spiritual aspects of Eastern and Western religious beliefs.

• The Secret Doctrine: the Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy: Index to Volumes 1 and 2

Jakob Bohme, Giclee Print

Jakob Böhme
b. 1575; Germany
d. 11-17-1642

Jakob Böhme was a mystic whose visions lead him to the necessity of all original unities to undergo differentiation – as in the knowledge of good and evil – in order for God to achieve a new self-awareness by interacting with a creation that was both part of, and distinct from, Himself, (see Carl Jung's Answer to Job).

• The Wisdom of Jacob Bohme (Great Works of Christian Spirituality Series)

John Bunyan
b. 11-28-1628; England
d. 8-31-1688

Writer and preacher John Bunyan wrote The Pilgrim's Progress (1768), a Christian allegory telling of Christian, an Everyman character, making his way from the "City of Destruction" (Earth) to the "Celestial City" (Heaven).

John Calvin
b. 7-10-1509; France
d. 5-27-1564; Geneva

John Calvin, born a Catholic, was Protestant theologian and reformer whose ministry in Geneva, Switzerland attracted Protestant refugees from across Europe.

• John Calvin: A Biography by T. H. L. Parker

Bartolome de las Casas
b. 8-24-1484; Spain
d. 7-17-1566; Madrid

Bartolome de las Casas, Dominican missionary priest and the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, came to the defense of the indigenous peoples after witnessing the slavery, torture and genocide of the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists.

• In Defense of the Indians: The Defense of the Most Reverend Lord, Don Fray Bartolome de las Casas, of the Order of Preachers, Late Bishop of Chiapa

Saint Catherine of Siena
b. 3-25-1347; Siena, Italy
d. 4-29-1380; Rome

Saint Catherine of Siena was a lay member of the Dominican Order, a scholastic philosopher, and theologian.

She dedicated to her life at age four to 'praying, meditating and living in total solitude' into her late teens when she experienced a 'Mystical Marriage' with Jesus and began to help the sick and poor.

In 1370 Catherine received visions that commanded her to leave her solitary life and go into public works. She began pleading for peace among the Italian factions and to end the Western Schism on the Church.

Catherine of Siena, with Teresa of Avila and Thérèse de Lisieux, are the only three women who are Doctors of the Church.

Jonathan Edwards
b. 10-5-1703; Connecticut
d. 3-22-1758; Princeton, NJ

Jonathan Edwards was a colonial American Congregational minister and theologian noted for his Puritan heritage, Calvinist theology, as a leader in the "Great Awakening", and his fire-and-brimstone revivalist sermons like "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"(1741) .

Edwards, fascinated by the discoveries of scientists like Isaac Newton, saw the laws of nature as derived from God and no inherent conflict between the spiritual and material.

Jonathan Edwards served briefly as president of Princeton College. He was also a grandfather to US Vice President Aaron Burr, an ancestor of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and authors O. Henry and Robert Lowell.

• Jonathan Edwards: A Life

Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1526, Giclee Print Albrecht Dürer

Desiderius Erasmus
b. 10-27-1466; Rotterdam
d. 7-12-1536; Basel

Desiderius Erasmus was a humanist - a teacher of grammar, rhetoric, moral philosophy, poetry and history as studied via classical authors, and a theologian.

• Desiderius Erasmus (Spiritual Leaders and Thinkers Series)
• The Erasmus Reader

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Giclee Print

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
b. 8-28-1749; Frankfur am Main
d. 3-22-1832

Goethe is considered a polymath (someone knowledgeable across many disciplines) - his work spans poetry, drama, literature, theology, humanism, and science.

• Goethe's Faust
• Theory of Colours; Goethe
• educational color posters

Anne Hutchinson
b. July, 1591; England
d. 8-20-1643, killed by Indians in what is now Pelham Bay Park, NY.

Anne Hutchinson, née Marbury, was a key figure in the development of religious freedom in the American colonies. She taught that salvation was through inward grace and not through performing religious works.

• Colonial America posters
• women's rights activists posters
• American Jezebel, The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard, Giclee Print

Søren Kierkegaard
b. 5-5-1813; Denmark
d. 11-1-1855; Copenhagen

Søren Kierkegaard, philosopher and theologian, is noted for his search for meaning expressd in his ideas of "subjectivity" and "leap of faith". Kierkegaard, who suffered from melancholia, said, "I saved my life by telling stories." In his life time Kierkegaard was rideculed for his attacks on the political and materialism of the State Christian Church of Denmark.

• book - Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography

John Knox, Giclee Print

John Knox
b. c. 1510; Scotland
d. 11-24-1572

The clergyman John Knox was a leader of the Protestant Reformation and considered the founder of the Presbyterian denomination that emphasizes the sovereignty of God, the authority of the Bible, and the necessity of grace through faith in Christ.

• book - John Knox