Theologians Posters and Art Prints, pg 3/4
for classrooms, home schoolers, offices & theme decor.

St. Jerome in His Study, Giclee Print

Saint Jerome
b. c. 347; Stridon, Roman Empire
d. 9-30-420; Bethlehem, Judea

Jerome, also known as Hieronymus Stridonensis, is a Doctor of the Catholic Church and canonized saint as the patron of theological learning, translators, librarians, and encyclopedists. Jerome was largely responsible for the Vulgate, the official Latin Bible of the Roman Catholic Church.

Jerome quotes:
• “Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.”
• “Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless.”

• book - Bible Maker: Jerome: The Fascinating Story of the Author of the Latin Vulgate

St. John on Patmos, Giclee Print

John of Patmos is the author of the New Testament The Apocalypse of Saint John the Divine - more commonly referred to as the Book of Revelation.
Revelations 1:9 I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
10: I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
11: Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

• book - St. John of Patmos and the Seven Churches of the Apocalypse (In the Footsteps of the Saints)

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.

Søren Kierkegaard quotes:
• “A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.”
• “Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.”
• “Once you label me you negate me.”
• “Purity of heart is to will one thing.”
• “Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.”
• “What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.”
• “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”

• 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.

John Knox quotes:
• “A man with God is always in the majority.”
• “You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.”

• book - John Knox

Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, and Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London, Burnt by Catholics at Oxford, Giclee Print

Hugh Latimer
b. c 1485; Leicestershire
d. 10-16-1555; Oxford (burned at the stake)

Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, was burned at the stake for heresy at the behest of Mary I. He, along with Nicholas Ridley and John Cranmer are called the Oxford Martyrs.

Hugh Latimer quotes:
• “Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.” FYI - Author Ray Bradbury used Hugh Latimer's words to Ridley in his book Farhenheit 451
• “The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.”

Ann Lee, Religious Enthusiast, Giclee Print

Ann Lee
b. 2-29-1736; Manchester, England
d. 9-8-1784; Watervliet, NY

Mother Ann Lee is remembered as the founder of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, also known as the Shakers, a religious movement that taught celibacy and female divinity.

Ann Lee quote:
• “We [the Shakers] are the people who turned the world upside down.”

Pierre Lombard, Bishop of Paris, from the “Book of Sentences”, Giclee Print

Peter Lombard
b. c 1100; Lombardy (Northern Italy)
d. 7-20-1160; Paris

Bishop Peter Lombard (Petrus Lombardus), also known as Magister Sententiarum, was a scholastic theologian and author of Four Books of Sentences, a compilation of biblical texts, together with relevant passages from the Church Fathers and medieval thinkers, on the field of Christian theology as it was understood at the time. Lombard's work became the standard textbook of theology in medieval universities as the first major effort to systematize commentaries and attempt to reconcile different viewpoints.

Peter Lombard quote:
• “Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge.”

Martin Luther & Philipp Melanchthon Giclee Print Lucas Cranach the Younger

Martin Luther
b. 11-11-1483; Germany
d. 2-18-1546

Martin Luther was a monk and theologian whose invitation, “out of love and zeal for truth and the desire to bring it to light”, to publically discuss the Ninety-Five Theses (that he nailed on the church door of Wittenberg in 1517) for reforming the Catholic Church, changed the course of Western civilization. His theology challenged the papacy by holding that salvation was a free gift of God and unmediated by the Church.

Philipp Melanchthon, née Schwartzerd, was associated with Martin Luther in the Lutheran Reformation.

Martin Luther quotes:
• “Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.”
• “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
• “Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.”

• book - Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

Page from the Mishneh Torah systematic code of Jewish law written by Maimonides, in 1180, Giclee Print

Maimonides
b. 3-30-1135; Cordoba, Spain
d. 12-13-1204; Egypt

Moses Maimonides, a rabbi and philosopher, is also considered one of the greatest physicians of his time.

Maimonides quotes:
• “Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.”
• “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
• “Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.”

• book - Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds

Cotton Mather, Giclee Printt

Cotton Mather
b. 2-12-1663; Boston, MA
d. 2-13-1728

Puritan minister Cotton Mather was the son of Increase Mather, also a minister.

Cotton Mather quotes:
• “The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.”
• “Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.”
• “What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.”

• book - The Life and Times of Cotton Mather

Thomas Merton
b. 1-31-1915; France
d. 12-10-1968; Bangkok, Thailand

Poet, teacher, social activist and student of comparative religion Thomas Merton wrote more than 70 books, mostly on spirituality, as well as scores of essays and reviews. As a Trappist monk he became well known for his dialogues with other faiths and his non-violent stand during the race riots and Vietnam War of the 1960s.

As Merton was leaving the stage after delivering a speech at a peace conference in Bangkok his parting remark was “Now I am going to disappear.” A short time later he died from touching a poorly grounded electric fan while stepping out of his bath.

• The Seven Storey Mountain

John Henry Newman
b. 2-21-1801; London
d. 8-11-1890

John Henry Newman was an influential Anglican vicar in 1843 when he converted to Roman Catholicism from the Church of England, stunning Victorian England. He wrote his autobiography, Apologia Pro Vita Sua (A Defense of One's Life), in response of the attacks. Newman was eventually named a cardinal, and proclaimed ‘Venerable’ in 1991.

Origen of Alexandria, Giclee Print

Origin of Alexandria
c. 185-254 AD

Origin, a Christian writer and teacher, was one of the Greek Fathers of the Church. He was the head of the Catechetical School of Alexandria, wrote commentary on all the books of the Bible, was expelled from Alexandria, and died in Caesarea Maritima (a city built by Herod on the Mediterranean coast of what in now of Israel) after being tortured. In the 6th century his views - the hierarchical Trinity, temporality of matter, and preexistence of souls - were declared anathema (banished).

• book - Origin of Alexandria's Interpretation of the Teacher's Function in the Early Christian Hierarchy and Community

Portrait Presumed to be Paracelsus (1493-1541), Giclee Print

Paracelsus, née Phillip von Hohenheim
b. 11-11-1493; Switzerland
d. 9-24-1541; Austria - burned at the stake as a witch

Paracelsus, a medieval physician who offended everyone with his arrogance, was the name chosen by Phillip von Hohenheim later Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim as a title to mean ‘equal to or greater than Celsus’. He was also an alchemist and astrologer.

Fellow Swiss Carl Gustav Jung wrote about Paracelsus in “The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature”.

Paracelsus quotes:
• “Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.”
• “Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.”
• “Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.”
• “We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.”
• “Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.”

Saint Patrick
b. c. 387 AD, Britian
d. 3-17-461

Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland.

Saint Paul of Tarsus Rabbi Tentmaker Missionary Reading Book, Swords in Hand, Giclee Print

Saint Paul the Apostle
(Saul of Tarsus)
b. c. 5 AD; Tarsus, Asia Minor (Turkey)
d. 64-67 AD; Rome (Nero pe

According to Acts, Saul of Tarsus' conversion took place as he was traveling the road to Damascus. Saul became Paul as he experienced a vision of the resurrected Jesus, receiving the Gospel, not from man, but by “the revelation of Jesus Christ”.

• St. Paul, the Traveler and Roman Citizen

East Africa and the Red Sea with Prester John and The Legendary Kings of Africa, Giclee Print

Prester John, a Medieval legendary Christian patriarch and king, was said to rule over a Christian nation amidst the Muslims and pagans whose location ranged from India, Central Asia, and Ethiopia.

• The Realm of Prester John