Roger Williams

Roger Williams

male, deceased (1684)
Calvinist ministers and theologian, Massachusetts colonial, Rhode Island colonial, minister, Reformed theologian, from Rhode Island…Governor of Rhode Island, ReligioushistoryoftheUnitedStates, separation of church and state, Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge, House of Commons
Roger Williams (December 21, 1603-April 1, 1684) was an English theologian, a notable proponent of the separation of Church and State, an advocate...
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…ReligioushistoryoftheUnitedStates, President of Princeton University
Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 - March 22, 1758) was a colonial American Congregational preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native...
Charles Grandison Finney

Charles Grandison Finney

male, deceased (1875)
oberlin college, Christian Revivalist, Christian, Christian evangelicalism, second great awakening, from Connecticut…ReligioushistoryoftheUnitedStates, president of Oberlin College
Charles Grandison Finney, often called "America's foremost revivalist," was a major leader of the Second Great Awakening in America, which had a...
Isaac Backus

Isaac Backus

male, deceased (1806)
Christian, Baptist, Brown University, Congregationalist, Christian evangelicalism, Theologian…united states constitution, ReligioushistoryoftheUnitedStates, separation of church and state, anti-type of Abraham., termed the father of American Baptists.
Isaac Backus was a Baptist preacher and a delegate to the First Continental Congress. Born in the village of Yantic, near the town of Norwich,...
Increase Mather

Increase Mather

male, deceased (1723)
Calvinist ministers and theologian, Massachusetts colonial, President of Harvard University, Harvard College, puritan, ReligioushistoryoftheUnitedStates…Province of Massachusetts Bay, United States state
The Reverend Increase Mather was a major figure in the early history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay (now the...
Samuel Willard

Samuel Willard

male, deceased (1707)
Massachusetts colonial, Concord, President of Harvard University, American colonial, American sermon writer, Colonialism…ReligioushistoryoftheUnitedStates, The Reverend, A Compleat Body of Divinity
Samuel Willard (1640-1707) was a Colonial clergyman. He was born in Concord, Massachusetts; graduated at Harvard in 1659; and was minister at...
Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather

male, deceased (1728)
Massachusetts colonial-era clergy, Calvinist ministers and theologian, Massachusetts colonial, Salem witch trials, American clergy, University of Glasgow…ReligioushistoryoftheUnitedStates
Cotton Mather (February 12, 1663 - February 13, 1728). A.B. 1678 (Harvard College), A.M. 1681; honorary doctorate 1710 (University of Glasgow), was...
Mary Baker Eddy

Mary Baker Eddy

female, deceased (1910)
Founder of religions, Mary Morse Baker, Mary Baker Glover, Mary Baker G. Eddy, Mary Baker Glover Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures…Church of Christ, Scientist, ReligioushistoryoftheUnitedStates, Religious leader
Mary Baker Eddy founded the Church of Christ, Scientist in 1879 and was the author of its fundamental doctrinal textbook, "Science and Health with...
Thomas Hooker

Thomas Hooker

male, deceased (1647)
Connecticut colonial-era clergy, Marefield, newtown, University of Cambridge, griffin, American clergy…ReligioushistoryoftheUnitedStates, Colony of Connecticut
Thomas Hooker (July 5 1586 - July 7 1647) was a prominent Puritan religious and colonial leader remembered as one of the founders of the Colony of...