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Augustine of Hippo

354 CE - 430 CE · Roman North Africa (modern Algeria)

Augustine of Hippo was a Christian bishop, theologian, and writer in late Roman North Africa. He is one of the most influential Christian thinkers in…

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"You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you."

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Hans Küng

1928-2021 · Switzerland

Hans Küng was a Swiss Catholic priest and theologian. A theologian is a scholar who studies the meaning and history of religion. He was born…

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"Küng challenged the Catholic teaching that the Pope cannot be wrong on matters of faith and morals."

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Huldrych Zwingli

1484-1531 · Swiss Confederacy (now Switzerland)

Huldrych Zwingli was a Swiss priest and reformer. He is one of the three central figures of the Protestant Reformation, along with Martin Luther and…

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"Zwingli held that only what the Bible clearly taught should shape Christian belief and worship."

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Khadija bint Khuwaylid

c. 555-619 · Arabia (Mecca)

Khadija bint Khuwaylid was a successful Arabian merchant in 6th- and 7th-century Mecca. She is honoured in Islamic tradition as the first Muslim and as…

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"By God, God will never humiliate you. You maintain family ties, you help to carry the burdens of the weak,…"

Mahmoud Mohamed Taha was a Sudanese Islamic reformer, political thinker, civil engineer, and Sufi mystic, known to his followers as Ustadh ('the teacher') Mahmoud. He…

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"The Meccan message is the message of equality and freedom. The Medinan message was for its time. The Second Message…"

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Martin Luther

1483-1546 · Germany (Lutheran / Protestant Reformer)

Martin Luther (1483-1546) was a German friar, theologian, and biblical scholar whose objections to Catholic practice became the catalyst for the Protestant Reformation — a…

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"Here I stand; I can do no other."

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Moses Maimonides

1138-1204 · Al-Andalus / Egypt (Sephardic Jewish)

Moses ben Maimon (1138-1204), a religious figure known in Hebrew as Rambam and in Arabic as Musa ibn Maymun, was a Sephardic Jewish philosopher, legal…

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"The truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor…"

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