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John Wycliffe
Mid 1320's–December 1384 (Renaissance)
John Wycliffe was born in the mid 1320's in Yorkshire England. He saw the Black Plague as a sign that the clergy was unworthy and spoke out against them repeatedly. He claimed that the clergy should live in complete poverty rather than the wealth and power...
Jonathan Edwards
October 5, 1703-March 22, 1758 (Great Awakening)
Jonathan Edwards was born in 1703 as the fifth of 11 children. He entered Yale College when he was just shy of 13 and became fascinated with both faith and science. When many of his contemporaries saw science and faith as opposites, Edwards saw the natural...
Jonathan Sacks
March 4, 1948- Present (Modern Era)
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks is a British Orthodox Rabbi and philosopher from Lambeth, London. He received a first class honors degree in Philosophy from Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge and a Ph.D. from the University of London. He received is rabbinic...
Joseph Prince
May 15 1963 - Present (Modern Era)
Joseph Prince spent his primary school years in Malaysia and went on to become an IT consultant. He later, however, changed his career path to minister and changed his name. He was appointed senior pastor in 1990 and later preached at churches in Australia,...
Joseph Smith
1805 - 1844 (Great Awakening)
When Joseph Smith was 12 years old, his family moved to Western New York, the center point of the Second Great Awakening. The family attended camp meetings and dabbled in spiritualism; his parents both believed they received messages from God through dreams....
Joyce Meyer
June 4 1943 - Present (Modern Era)
Joyce Meyer was born Pauline Joyce Hutchinson in south St. Louis in 1943. She still speaks with a working class St. Louis accent. She founded her own ministry in 1985 and initially called it "Life in the Word." During the same year, she began airing her...
Julian of Norwich
November 8, 1342 - 1416 (Renaissance)
Julian of Norwich’s "Revelations of Divine Love," written in 1395, is the earliest known English-language book by a woman. In it, she speaks of God as father and mother, emphasizing God’s love and compassion, returning again and again to the...
Justin Welby
January 6, 1956 - Present
Justin Portal Welby is the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury and the most senior bishop in the Church of England. He was the vicar of Southam, Warwickshire and the Bishop of Durham for a short time. He was educated at the University of Cambridge and received...
Ketut Wiana
(Modern Era)
Ketut Wiana is a prominent Hindu scholar in Indonesia and considered one of the foremost scholars of Hindu theology alive in the 21st century. His speciality is Balinese Hinduism, a form of monotheistic Hinduism that is, as the name suggests, practiced by...
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
January 12, 1918–February 5, 2008 (Modern Era)
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was born Mahesh Prasad Varma in January 1918. He was a disciple and assistant of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati and credits Brahmananda with inspiring his teachings. Maharishi became known for introducing Transcendental Deep Meditation to...
Mahatma Gandhi
October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948 (Modern Era)
Mahatma Gandhi grew up on the Western Indian coast, where world trade has continued for 3,000 years, and his father was a prominent government minister. He was deeply influenced by his mother’s Pranami tradition of Hinduism, which reveres a small...
Maimonides
1135-December 1204 (Late Medieval)
Maimonides was born in Cordoba, Spain in the 1130's. When he was a teenager, Muslim fundamentalists conquered Spain and forced many Jews and Christians to convert. Maimonides family fled repeatedly, but evidence suggests that eventually they were forced to...
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