Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards

male, deceased (1758)
fire-and-brimstone, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Christian Revivalist, Calvinist ministers and theologian, From Northampton, Massachusetts, minister…Native American, Americanclergy, American, American sermon writer, American colonial
Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 - March 22, 1758) was a colonial American Congregational preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native...
Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher

male, deceased (1887)
Beecher family, buried at Green-Wood Cemetery, Anti-catholicism, death by cerebral hemorrhage, Bleeding Kansas, Amherst College alumni…American, Americanclergy
Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887) was a prominent, theologically liberal American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer,...
Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather

male, deceased (1728)
Massachusetts colonial-era clergy, Calvinist ministers and theologian, Massachusetts colonial, Salem witch trials, Americanclergy, University of Glasgow…English American, American, American sermon writer, American colonial
Cotton Mather (February 12, 1663 - February 13, 1728). A.B. 1678 (Harvard College), A.M. 1681; honorary doctorate 1710 (University of Glasgow), was...
Henry McNeal Turner

Henry McNeal Turner

male, deceased (1915)
supreme court, African Methodist Episcopal bishop, President Lincoln, Radical Republican, From Georgia, Reconstruction…Americanclergy, american colonization society, African American in the Civil War, African American, american civil war
Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (1834-1915) was a Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Turner was born "free" in Georgia, United States....
John Williams

John Williams

male, deceased (1899)
Harvard University, professor, from Massachusetts, trinity college, episcopal church, bishop…Americanclergy, American
John Williams (1817-99) was an American bishop of the Episcopal church. He was born at Deerfield, Mass., and educated at Harvard and at Trinity...
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick

male, deceased (1969) (Indiana, United States)
moral equivalence, Appeasement of Hitler, minister, union theological seminary, Baptist, liberal Christianity…Americanclergy
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) was an American clergyman. He was born in Buffalo, N.Y. He graduated from Colgate University in 1900, and Union...
Henry van Dyke

Henry van Dyke

male, deceased (1933)
The First Christmas Tree, ambassador to the Netherlands, United States ambassador to the Netherlands, Fisherman’s Luck, Gone From My Sight, The Other Wise Man…Americanclergy, American, American Academy of Arts and Letters
Henry van Dyke was an American author, educator, and clergyman. He graduated from Princeton University, 1873, and from Princeton Theological...
W.A. Criswell

W.A. Criswell

male, deceased (2002)
Baptist from the United States, convention, ph.d, Americanclergy, minister, from Texas…American
Wallie Amos Criswell, Ph.D. (December 19, 1909 – January 10, 2002), was an American pastor, author, and a two-term elected president of the So...
Jonathan Mayhew

Jonathan Mayhew

male, deceased (1766)
Unitarian, missionary, Americanclergy, christ, American, Martha's Vineyard
Jonathan Mayhew (October 8, 1720 - July 9, 1766) was a noted American clergyman and minister at Old West Church, Boston, Massachusetts. He is...
Marvin Pentz Gay Sr.

Marvin Pentz Gay Sr.

male, deceased (1998)
Parents who murdered their child, convicted of murder, death by pneumonia, Former Seventh-day Adventist, Americanclergy, tumor…American, African American
The Reverend Marvin Pentz Gay, Sr. was an American fundamentalist minister of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and later a spin-off sect called the...