SOME IMPORTANT PHILOSOPHERS AND THEOLOGIANS

AND THEIR TIME PERIODS

Hellenistic Philosophers –

Plato (427-347 BCE)

Aristotle (384-322 BCE)

Early Christian Apologists –

Justin Martyr (c. 100-c. 165)

Irenaeus (c. 130-c. 200)

Tertullian (c. 160-c. 225)

Classical Era Theologian/Philosophers –

Eastern = Athanasius (c. 296-373)

Gregory of Nazianzus (329-389)

Basil of Caesarea (c. 330-379)

Gregory of Nyssa (c. 330-395)

Western = Augustine (354-430)

Boethius (c. 480-524)

[Pseudo-Dionysius (c. 500)]

Medieval Scholasticism and Mysticism –

Western = Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109)

Bonaventure (1217-1274)

Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327)

John Duns Scotus (c. 1266-1308)

William of Ockham (c. 1280-1349)

Eastern = Gregory Palamas (c. 1296-1359)

Renaissance Humanism –

Desiderius Erasmus (1469?-1536)

Reformation and Early Protestantism –

Martin Luther (1483-1546)

Jean Calvin (1509-1654)

Lutheran Orthodox theologians: Martin Chemnitz (1522-1586), Johann Gerhard (1582-1637)

Enlightenment Rationalism and Idealism –

Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

John Locke (1632-1704)

David Hume (1711-1776)

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834)

Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century liberalism –

Philosophers of Modern Atheism =

Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-=1872)

Karl Marx (1818-1883)

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Theologians of historical criticism =

Albrecht Ritschl (1822-1889)

Adolf von Harnack (1851-1930)

Ernst Troeltsch (1865-1923)

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)