Authors

Writers, teachers, and thinkers whose work we've catalogued.

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Gregory Toussaint

106 books

Gregory Toussaint is a Haitian-born pastor, broadcaster, and author who founded Tabernacle of Glory in Miami in 2006 and spent eighteen years building toward a permanent $60 million, 62-branch global …

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Dada Bhagwan

78 books

Ambalal Muljibhai Patel (1908, 1988), known as Dada Bhagwan, was a Gujarati spiritual teacher who founded the Akram Vignan movement after claiming self-realisation at Surat railway station in 1958. He …

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Augustine of Hippo

67 books

Augustine of Hippo (354, 430) was a bishop, theologian, and philosopher from Roman North Africa whose doctrines of original sin, predestination, and grace became foundational to Western Christianity and whose …

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Charles R. Swindoll

54 books

Charles R. Swindoll, born in El Campo, Texas in 1934, is an evangelical pastor, broadcaster, and author who overcame a childhood stutter to become one of America's most influential preachers. …

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Bhagwan Rajneesh

50 books

Chandra Mohan Jain (1931, 1990), known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and later Osho, was an Indian philosopher and mystic who founded the Rajneesh movement, developed dynamic meditation, and built a …

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Andrew Murray

48 books

Andrew Murray (1828, 1917) was a South African Dutch Reformed pastor, institution-builder, and prolific devotional author whose books on prayer, humility, and surrender circulated in dozens of languages and made …

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Eugene H. Peterson

45 books

Eugene H. Peterson (1932, 2018) was an American Presbyterian minister, translator, and spiritual theologian best known for *The Message*, his idiomatic rendering of the Bible into contemporary American English, which …

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Martin Hengel

44 books

Martin Hengel (1926, 2009) was a German Protestant scholar of early Judaism, early Christianity, and the Hellenistic world, based for most of his career at the University of Tübingen. His …

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Peter DeHaan

42 books

Peter DeHaan is an American Christian author, Bible teacher, and founder of ABibleADay.com who writes accessible Bible study books challenging readers to shed religious habit and engage Scripture directly. His …

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Alister E. McGrath

41 books

Alister Edgar McGrath is an Irish Anglican priest, molecular biophysicist, and theologian who holds three Oxford doctorates across science and theology. Over fifty years he has built a sustained intellectual …

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Karl Rahner

41 books

Karl Rahner (1904, 1984) was a German Jesuit priest and theologian who reshaped twentieth-century Catholic thought more thoroughly than any single thinker since Thomas Aquinas. Trained under Martin Heidegger at …

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Emanuel Swedenborg

40 books

Emanuel Swedenborg (1688, 1772) was a Swedish polymath who spent the first half of his career as a scientist, engineer, and mining official before a series of visions in 1743, …

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Eugen Drewermann

40 books

Eugen Drewermann (born 1940, Bergkamen) is a German theologian, psychotherapist, and peace activist who spent four decades arguing for a depth-psychological reading of Christian scripture and became the most publicly …

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Craig A. Evans

39 books

Craig Alan Evans (born 1952) is an American biblical scholar whose research focuses on the historical reliability of the canonical Gospels, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Jewish and Greco-Roman …

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James D. G. Dunn

36 books

James D. G. Dunn (1939, 2020) was a British New Testament scholar and Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at Durham University, best known for coining the term 'New Perspective on Paul' …

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Hsuan Hua

35 books

Hsuan Hua (1918, 1995) was a Chinese Chan Buddhist monk and monastic reformer who transplanted traditional Buddhist monasticism to the United States, founding the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, Dharma …

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Dan Cohn-Sherbok

34 books

Dan Cohn-Sherbok (born 1945, Denver) is a Reform rabbi and professor emeritus of Judaism at the University of Wales who has authored or edited more than eighty books spanning Holocaust …

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F. F. Bruce

34 books

F. F. Bruce (1910, 1990) was a Scottish biblical scholar who held the Rylands Professorship of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester. Raised in the Plymouth Brethren …

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Josh McDowell

34 books

Josh McDowell is an American evangelical apologist and author whose sixty-year career produced more than 120 books, including *Evidence That Demands a Verdict* and *More Than a Carpenter*, reaching approximately …

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A. W. Tozer

32 books

A. W. Tozer (1897, 1963) was a self-educated American pastor and editor in the Christian and Missionary Alliance whose books on the interior life of Christian faith, especially 'The Pursuit …

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Bruce Chilton

32 books

Bruce D. Chilton is an American biblical scholar and Episcopalian priest best known for situating Jesus within first-century Judaism through the study of the Aramaic Targumim. Holding the Bernard Iddings …

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Dorothee Sölle

32 books

Dorothee Sölle (1929, 2003) was a German Lutheran theologian, poet, and political activist who developed political theology as a form of engaged praxis, arguing that faith without justice is theologically …

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Stanley Hauerwas

32 books

Stanley Hauerwas, born July 24, 1940, is an American Protestant theologian and ethicist who spent decades at Duke Divinity School arguing that Christian ethics is inseparable from Christian community and …

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Bruce Wilkinson

31 books

Bruce Wilkinson is an American evangelical teacher and author who co-founded Walk Thru the Bible in 1976 and became internationally known after his 2000 book *The Prayer of Jabez* sold …

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Ellen Gould Harmon White

31 books

Ellen G. White (1827, 1915) co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church and became the most translated female non-fiction author in literary history. Over a seventy-year ministry she produced more than 5,000 …

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Henry Cloud

30 books

Henry Cloud is an American clinical psychologist and New York Times bestselling author best known for co-authoring Boundaries (1992), which has sold over two million copies and spawned a five-part …

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Alan Watts

29 books

Alan Watts was a British-born philosopher and broadcaster who spent four decades translating Zen Buddhism, Taoism, and Vedanta into language accessible to Western audiences, building a national following through radio, …

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Chögyam Trungpa

29 books

Chögyam Trungpa (1939, 1987) was a Tibetan Buddhist master of the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages who became a central figure in bringing Vajrayana teaching to the West, founding Vajradhatu, Naropa …

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Helmut Thielicke

29 books

Helmut Thielicke (1908, 1986) was a German Lutheran theologian and rector of the University of Hamburg whose career bridged rigorous systematic theology and popular preaching to packed congregations. Formed by …

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Jack W. Hayford

29 books

Jack W. Hayford (1934, 2023) was an American Pentecostal pastor, broadcaster, and composer best known for growing The Church on the Way in Van Nuys, California from fewer than twenty …

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Joel Osteen

29 books

Joel Scott Osteen, born in Houston in 1963, spent seventeen years producing his father John Osteen's televised sermons at Lakewood Church before becoming its senior pastor in 1999 following his …

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Rowan Williams

29 books

Rowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth, is a Welsh Anglican theologian, poet, and former Archbishop of Canterbury (2003, 2012) whose scholarship on Christian mysticism, prayer, and the incarnation draws …

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E.M. Bounds

27 books

Edward McKendree Bounds (1835, 1913) was a Methodist minister, Confederate Army chaplain, and former attorney from Missouri whose eleven books on prayer have remained in continuous Protestant circulation long after …

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Jean Calvin

27 books

Jean Calvin (1509, 1564) was the French Protestant theologian whose systematic doctrines of divine sovereignty and predestination became the foundation of Calvinism, shaping Reformed churches across Europe and the Americas. …

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Billy Graham

26 books

William Franklin Graham Jr. (1918, 2018) was a Southern Baptist evangelist who preached in person to more people than any Christian minister in recorded history, conducting large-scale crusades across six …

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Gary Smalley

26 books

Gary Smalley (1940, 2016) was an American counselor and author who spent over thirty years writing and teaching about Christian marriage and family life. His books, including The Language of …

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Jacques Ellul

26 books

Jacques Ellul (1912, 1994) was a French sociologist, lay theologian, and philosopher of technology whose sixty-plus books built one of the twentieth century's most rigorous critiques of modern civilisation. His …

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Deepak Chopra

24 books

Deepak Chopra is an Indian-born American physician and author who emigrated from Delhi to the United States in the early 1970s and became one of the most widely read figures …

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Gregory Baum

23 books

Gregory Baum (1923, 2017) was a German-born Canadian Catholic theologian who drafted the first version of Nostra Aetate at Vatican II, pioneered the integration of classical sociology with Catholic theology, …

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H. Norman Wright

23 books

H. Norman Wright (1937, 2023) was a Christian grief and trauma therapist, premarital counseling pioneer, and author of more than one hundred books including *Experiencing Grief* and *What to Say …

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B. Alan Wallace

22 books

B. Alan Wallace (born 1950) is an American scholar, translator, and meditation teacher who spent fourteen years as a Tibetan Buddhist monk ordained by the Dalai Lama before earning a …

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Andy Stanley

21 books

Andy Stanley is an American pastor, author, and communicator who founded North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, Georgia in 1995, growing it into a network of more than 225 churches …