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

Father Matteo Ricci Giclee Print

Matteo Ricci
b. 10-6-1552; Papal States
d. 5-11-1610; China

Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit missionary, mathematician and cartographer, went to China to spread Catholicism. There he became the first to translate Confucianism text into a western language.

• The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci
• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was also a Jesuit priest

Nicholas Ridley Martyred Bishop, Giclee Print

Nicholas Ridley
b. c. 1500; Northunberland
d. 10-16-1555; Oxford (burned at the stake)

Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London, was burned at the stake for heresy along with Hugh Latimer at the orders of Mary I. They, along with John Cranmer, are called the Oxford Martyrs.

• Treatises and Letters of Dr. Nicholas Ridley

Girolamo Savonarola
b. 9-21-1452; Ferrara
d. 5-23-1498; execution in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence.

Savonarola, a Dominican priest, is remembered for calling for religious reform, anti-Renaissance preaching, book burning, and destruction of what he considered immoral art - the Bonfire of the Vanities. Though he is considered as a precursor of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation, he remained a Roman Catholic during his whole life.

• Fire in the City: Savonarola in Renaissance Florence

Albert Schweitzer
b. 1-14-1875; Alsace-Lorraine, Germany;
d. 9-4-1965, Lambaréné, Gabon, Africa

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) was a theologian, philosopher, and widely acclaimed as an organist for interpreting the works of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Deciding “man can no longer live his life for himself alone,” he left his career in Europe to finance, build, and equip a hospital in Equatorial Africa.

He articulated a philosophy of ‘reverence for life’ to get beyond an improverished understanding of reality. Insisting nothing comes to pass without inwardness, he proclaimed a “faith in a new humanity, casting it as a torch into the darkness of our age.”

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952.
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• more Albert Schweitzer posters

Joseph Smith
b. 12-23-1805; Sharon, Vermont
d. 6-27-1844; Carthage, IL

Joseph Smith, Jr. gathered a religious following known as the Latter Day Saints or Mormonism after announcing that an angel had shown him a set of golden plates describing a visit of Jesus to the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

Joseph Smith, and his brother Hyrum, were attacked and killed by a mob while in jail in Carthage, IL, for advocating the destruction of local newspaper that claimed Smith practiced polygamy and was setting himself up as a theocratic king. At the time Smith was the mayor of Nauvoo, Illinois, and running for President of the United States.

• Six Presidents of the Mormons Art Print

Abbot Suger
b. c. 1081; France
d. 1-15-1151

Suger, as the abbot or head of the monestary of Saint-Denis, was a statesman - historian involved in secular affairs which included the rebuilding of St. Denis in the new Gothic style of architecture.

• The Deeds of Louis the Fat, Abbot Suger

Emanuel Swedenborg
b. 1-29-1688; Sweden
d. 3-28-1772

Swedenborg was a Swedish philosopher, Christian mystic, and theologian who had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. Notable people who were influenced by Swedenborg include William Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Jung, August Stindberg, Charles Baudelaire, Balzac, William Butler Yeats, John “Johnny Appleseed” Chapman, William James, and Helen Keller.

Emanuel Swedenborg quotes ~
• “True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.”
• “Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.”

• Collected Works of Emanuel Swedenborg

Tertullian
c.155-222 AD

Quintus Septimus Florens Tertullianus, who introduced the term Trinity to the Christian vocabulary, and became known as the “Father of the Latin Church”, was raised in Carthage as a pagan.

• Tertullian (Early Church Fathers)

William Tyndale
b. c. 1494; Gloucestershire, England
d. 1536; near Brussels, Belgium, burned at the stake for heresy

William Tyndale (Tindall/Tyndall), a Protestant reformer, was the first translator of Hebrew and Greek New Testament biblical texts directly into vernacular English, thus enabling those not schooled in Greek or Latin to understand God's word for themselves.

• William Tyndale quote ~
“I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.”

• William Tyndale: A Biography

William of Tyre
b. c. 1130; Jerusalem
d. 1185

William, archbishop of Tyre, was a chronicler of the Crusades and the Middle Ages.

• Lebanon posters
• William of Tyre: Historian of the Latin East

Evelyn Underhill
b. 12-6-1875; England
d. 6-15-1941

Evelyn Underhill is considered a Christian mystic who wrote prolifically on mysticism and the practice of religion. In her book Mysticism (1911) she describes the quest as “. . . refus(al) to be satisfied with that which other men call experience, and is inclined . . . 'to deny the world in order that it may find reality'.”

Evelyn Underhill quotes ~
• “After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.”
• “Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.”
• “God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament. ”

John Wesley
b. 6-28-1703; England
d. 3-2-1791

John Wesley, an Anglican minister and Christian theologian, was an early leader in the Methodist movement. “Methodist” was the word coined to describe the practice of methods in Bible study and practical living. The Methodist movement was particularly attractive to the working classes - factory, farms, and slaves, for the liberalization of church structure.

FYI - John Wesley's brother Charles wrote the lyrics for the Christmas carol “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”, the tune is from Mendelssohn. The Salvation Army charity and church was founded by a former Methodist minister and his wife, William and Catherine Booth.

John Wesley quotes ~
• “Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.”
• “Think and let think.”
• “Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.”
• “Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.”

• John Wesley Quote poster

Roger Williams
b. 12-21-1603; London, England
d. 4-1-1684; Rhode Island

Roger Williams, the founder of the city of Providence, RI and co-founder of the colony of Rhode Island, was a notable advocate of the separation of Church and State (the phrase “wall of separation” is attributed to Williams), and a fair dealer with Native Americans.

Roger Williams quotes ~
• “Enforced uniformity confounds civil and religious liberty and denies the principles of Christianity and civility. No man shall be required to worship or maintain a worship against his will.”
• “The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.”

• Roger Williams: Prophet of Liberty

John Wycliffe
b. c. 1320; England
d. 12-31-1384

John Wycliffe was a theologian who founded the Lollard movement, a precursor to the Protestant Reformation. Wycliffe is credited as the instigator of the first complete translation of the Bible into English and his work of making the sacred available to the common man was part of the paradigm of the Peasant's Revolt of 1381. His thinking influenced Jan Hus.

John Wycliffe quotes ~
• “This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.”
• “I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.”

• The English Works of Wyclif Hitherto Unprinted

Brigham Young
b. 6-1-1801; Whitingham, Vermont
d. 8-29-1877; Utah

Brigham Young was the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1847 until his death, the founder of Salt Lake City and the first governor of Utah Territory. Brigham Young University was named in his honor.

Young was known as the “American Moses,” because he led an exodus of Mormon pioneers through a desert to their “promised land”. He is also known as “the most prominent Mormon polygamist”, one who had plural wives.

The ancient prophet, poet and philosopher Zoroaster (also Zarathustra), is the namesake of Zoroastrianism, an ancient faith whose first basic belief is there is one universal and transcendental God, the one uncreated creator and to whom all worship is ultimately directed (named Ahura Mazda) and the purpose of humankind is active participation in life and the exercise of good thoughts, words and deeds.

Zoroaster, through his “Gathas” (hymns) seeded the belief systems that gave shape to the Christian eras of the Middle Ages and the European Enlightenment. Zoroaster is noted in the Mozart's Magic Flute as the character Sarastro, the philosopher Nietzsche uses Zarathustra as a character in his Thus Spoke Zarathustra, composer Richard Strauss wrote Opus 30, also known as Also Sprach Zarathustra.

Zoroaster is also revered in Bahá'í Faith as a “Manifestation of God”.

• In Search of Zarathustra: The First Prophet and the Ideas That Changed the World