Theologians Posters and Art Prints, pg 3/3
for classrooms, home schoolers, offices & theme decor.

Pierre Lombard, Bishop of Paris, from the "Book of Sentences", Giclee Print

Peter Lombard
b. c 1100; Lombardy (Northern Italy)
d. 7-20-1160; Paris

Bishop Peter Lombard (Petrus Lombardus), also known as Magister Sententiarum, was a scholastic theologian and author of Four Books of Sentences, a compilation of biblical texts, together with relevant passages from the Church Fathers and medieval thinkers, on the field of Christian theology as it was understood at the time. Lombard's work became the standard textbook of theology in medieval universities as the first major effort to systematize commentaries and attempt to reconcile different viewpoints.

Martin Luther & Philipp Melanchthon Giclee Print Lucas Cranach the Younger

Martin Luther
b. 11-11-1483; Germany
d. 2-18-1546

Martin Luther was a monk and theologian whose invitation, "out of love and zeal for truth and the desire to bring it to light", to publically discuss the Ninety-Five Theses (that he nailed on the church door of Wittenberg in 1517) for reforming the Catholic Church, changed the course of Western civilization. His theology challenged the papacy by holding that salvation was a free gift of God and unmediated by the Church.

Philipp Melanchthon, née Schwartzerd, was associated with Martin Luther in the Lutheran Reformation.

Page from the Mishneh Torah systematic code of Jewish law written by Maimonides, in 1180, Giclee Print

Maimonides
b. 3-30-1135; Cordoba, Spain
d. 12-13-1204; Egypt

Moses Maimonides, a rabbi and philosopher, is also considered one of the greatest physicians of his time.

John Henry Newman
b. 2-21-1801; London
d. 8-11-1890

John Henry Newman was an influential Anglican vicar in 1843 when he converted to Roman Catholicism from the Church of England, stunning Victorian England. He wrote his autobiography, Apologia Pro Vita Sua (A Defense of One's Life), in response of the attacks. Newman was eventually named a cardinal, and proclaimed 'Venerable' in 1991.

Origen of Alexandria, Giclee Print

Origin of Alexandria
c. 185-254 AD

Origin, a Christian writer and teacher, was one of the Greek Fathers of the Church. He was the head of the Catechetical School of Alexandria, wrote commentary on all the books of the Bible, was expelled from Alexandria, and died in Caesarea Maritima (a city built by Herod on the Mediterranean coast of what in now of Israel) after being tortured. In the 6th century his views - the hierarchical Trinity, temporality of matter, and preexistence of souls - were declared anathema (banished).

Portrait Presumed to be Paracelsus (1493-1541), Giclee Print

Paracelsus, nee Phillip von Hohenheim
b. 11-11-1493; Switzerland
d. 9-24-1541; Austria - burned at the stake as a witch

Paracelsus, a medieval physician who offended everyone with his arrogance, was the name chosen by Phillip von Hohenheim later Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim as a title to mean 'equal to or greater than Celsus'. He was also an alchemist and astrologer.

Fellow Swiss Carl Gustav Jung wrote about Paracelsus in "The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature.

Saint Paul of Tarsus Rabbi Tentmaker Missionary Reading Book, Swords in Hand, Giclee Print

Saint Paul the Apostle
(Saul of Tarsus)
b. c. 5 AD; Tarsus, Asia Minor (Turkey)
d. 64-67 AD; Rome (Nero pe

According to Acts, Saul of Tarsus' conversion took place as he was traveling the road to Damascus. Saul became Paul as he experienced a vision of the resurrected Jesus, receiving the Gospel, not from man, but by "the revelation of Jesus Christ".

• St. Paul, the Traveler and Roman Citizen

Father Matteo Ricci in Mandarin Costume, 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

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

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.

• 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 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'."

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 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: 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.

• The English Works of Wyclif Hitherto Unprinted

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