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• Clergy

• Allen, Richard, 1760-1831
• Allensworth, Allen, 1842-1914
• Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397
• Anderson, Robert, 1819-
• Anderson, William J., 1811-
• Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626
• Anthony, of Padua, Saint, 1195-1231
• Appenzeller, Henry Gerhard, 1858-1902
• Archer, John, -1642
• Armstrong, Herbert W.
• Arnett, Benjamin William, 1838-1906
• Arter, Jared Maurice
• Asbury, Francis, 1745-1816
• Aughey, John H. (John Hill), 1828-1911
• Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
• Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer), 1793-1878
• Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924
• Barnes, Albert, 1798-1870
• Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621
• Black, Leonard
• Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown, 1825-1921
• Blair, Robert, 1699-1746
• Blarer, Ambrosius, 1492-1564
• Blomfield, Charles James, 1786-1857
• Blumhardt, Christoph, 1842-1919
• Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945
• Boos, Martin, 1762-1825
• Booth, William, 1829-1912
• Borgia, Cesare, 1476?-1507
• Boston, Thomas, 1677-1732
• Bowles, Charles, 1761-1843
• Brierley, J. (Jonathan), 1843-1914
• Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961
• Brown, Sterling N. (Sterling Nelson), 1858-1929
• Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877
• Bunyan, John, 1628-1688
• Burchard, von Ursberg, approximately 1177-1231
• Burton, Robert, 1577-1640
• Bushnell, Horace, 1802-1876
• Campbell, Alexander, 1788-1866
• Campbell, Israel, 1815?-1898
• Campion, Edmund, Saint, 1540-1581
• Carey, Lott, 1780-1828
• Cartwright, Peter, 1785-1872
• Celestine V, Pope, 1215-1296
• Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842
• Chiniquy, Charles Paschal Telesphore, 1809-1899
• Colenso, John William, 1814-1883
• Contarini, Gasparo, 1483-1542
• Cooney, Robert
• Cooper, Thomas, -approximately 1821
• Copway, George, 1818-1869
• Cosin, John, 1594-1672
• Coughlin, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1891-1979
• Cuney, Norris Wright, 1846-1898
• Cuthbertson, John, 1718-1791
• Davis, Noah, 1803 or 1804-
• Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946
• Dominic, Saint, 1170-1221
• Donne, John, 1572-1631
• Dov Baer, of Mezhirech, -1772
• Dulles, Avery, 1918-2008
• Early, Jordan W. (Jordan Winston), 1814-1903
• Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758
• Egan, John J.
• Ferebee, L. R. (London R.), 1849-
• Ferrill, London
• Fletcher, John, 1729-1785
• Foote, Julia A. J., 1823-1900
• Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656
• Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882
• Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1100?-1154
• Gordon, William, 1728-1807
• Grafton, Charles C. (Charles Chapman), 1830-1912
• Graham, Billy, 1918-2018
• Green, Elisha Winfield
• Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
• Guerrant, Edward O. (Edward Owings), 1838-1916
• Hancock, Gordon Blaine, 1884-1970
• Haven, Gilbert, 1821-1880
• Heard, William H. (William Henry), 1850-1937
• Heber, Reginald, 1783-1826
• Henry, Thomas W., 1794-1877
• Henson, Josiah, 1789-1883
• Hess, Dean E. (Dean Elmer), 1917-2015
• Hicks, Rachel, 1789-1878
• Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911
• Hobart, John Henry, 1775-1830
• Hobbs, Jimmie, 1870-1879
• Holsey, Lucius Henry, Bishop, 1842-1920
• Hopkins, Samuel, 1721-1803
• Huggins, William S. (William Sidney), 1822-1862
• Hunt, John, 1827-
• Ignatius, Saint, Bishop of Antioch, -approximately 110
• Irving, Edward, 1792-1834
• Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
• Ives, L. Silliman (Levi Silliman), 1797-1867
• Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909
• Jamison, M. F. (Monroe Franklin), 1848-1918
• Jansenius, Cornelius, 1585-1638
• Jasper, John, 1812-1901
• Jea, John, 1773-
• Jeter, Henry N. (Henry Norval), 1851-1938
• John Chrysostom, Saint, -407
• John Paul II, Pope, 1920-2005
• Johnson, Thomas L. (Thomas Lewis), 1836-1921
• Jones, Absalom, 1746-1818
• Jones, Charles Colcock, 1804-1863
• Jones, Jim, 1931-1978
• Jones, Thomas H.
• Ketcherside, W. Carl
• King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
• King, Thomas Starr, 1824-1864
• Kivengere, Festo
• Latrobe, Christian Ignatius, 1758-1836
• Latta, M. L. (Morgan London), 1853-
• Leadbeater, C. W. (Charles Webster), 1854-1934
• Lee, Jarena, 1783-
• Leo X, Pope, 1475-1521
• Lightfoot, J. B. (Joseph Barber), 1828-1889
• Loguen, Jermain Wesley
• Lowe, Thomas G., 1815-1869
• M'Crie, Thomas, 1772-1835
• MacDonald, George, 1824-1905
• Machebeuf, Joseph Projectus, 1812-1889
• Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204
• Manning, Henry Edward, 1808-1892
• Manship, Andrew, 1824-
• Marrs, Elijah P., 1840-
• Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728
• Mathew, Theobald, 1790-1856
• Maurice, Frederick Denison, 1805-1872
• May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871
• Mazzuchelli, Samuel, 1806-1864
• McClain, Matthew
• McCray, Mary F. (Mary Francis), 1838-1894
• McKenna, Horace Bernard, 1899-1982
• McKim, Randolph H. (Randolph Harrison), 1842-1920
• Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826
• Munger, Robert Boyd, 1910-
• Muste, A. J. (Abraham John), 1885-1967
• Newman, John Henry, Saint, 1801-1890
• Newport, Elizabeth, 1796-1872
• Newton, John, 1725-1807
• Nicholas V, Pope, 1397-1455
• Noyes, John Humphrey, 1811-1886
• Offley, G. W. (Greensbury Washington), 1808-1896
• Olive, Johnson, 1816-1885
• Peck, Jesse T. (Jesse Truesdell), 1811-1883
• Peckham, John, -1292
• Pennington, James W. C.
• Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660
• Peterson, Daniel H.
• Pius IX, Pope, 1792-1878
• Pole, Reginald, 1500-1558
• Polk, Leonidas, 1806-1864
• Powell, A. Clayton (Adam Clayton), 1865-1953
• Rankin, G. C. (George Clark), 1849-1915
• Ransom, Reverdy C. (Reverdy Cassius), 1861-1959
• Rashi, 1040-1105
• Rigdon, Sidney, 1793-1876
• Robertson, Pat
• Rogers, Ammi, 1770-1852
• Russell, C. T. (Charles Taze), 1852-1916
• Ruzhin, Israel, 1797-1850
• Ryerson, Egerton, 1803-1882
• Ryle, J. C. (John Charles), 1816-1900
• Sam, Konrad, 1483-1533
• Sander, Nicholas, 1530?-1581
• Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498
• Schneersohn, Joseph Isaac, 1880-1950
• Schneersohn, Menahem Mendel, 1789-1866
• Schneerson, Menachem Mendel, 1902-1994
• Seabury, Samuel, 1729-1796
• Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919
• Sherlock, Thomas, 1678-1761
• Short, Augustus, 1802-1883
• Sidonius Apollinaris, Saint, 431 or 432-approximately 487
• Simeon, Charles, 1759-1836
• Smith, Chuck, 1927-2013
• Smith, David, 1784-
• Smith, Hyrum, 1800-1844
• Smith, James L. (James Lindsay)
• Spaulding, Solomon, 1761-1816
• Spurgeon, C. H. (Charles Haddon), 1834-1892
• Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, 1815-1881
• Stapleton, Thomas, 1535-1598
• Stedman, Ray C.
• Stephen, Leslie, 1832-1904
• Stewart, Ellen
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
• Tilmon, Levin, 1807-1863
• Toplady, Augustus, 1740-1778
• Torquemada, Juan de, 1388-1468
• Velimirović, Nikolaj, 1880-1956
• Venn, Henry, 1796-1873
• Viret, Pierre, 1511-1571
• Walker, Charles T. (Charles Thomas), 1858-1921
• Wallace, Caleb, 1742-1814
• Walters, Alexander, 1858-
• Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748
• Waynflete, William, 1395?-1486
• Wazana, Yáacov
• Whately, Richard, 1787-1863
• White, George, 1764-1836
• Whitefield, George, 1714-1770
• Wilkerson, Major James
• Wilson, Samuel Graham, 1858-1916
• Wise, Isaac Mayer, 1819-1900
• Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530
• Yamamoto, Yukitaka

• Spiritual leaders

• Stripping the Gurus: Sex, Violence, Abuse and Enlightenment, by Geoffrey D. Falk (HTML and PDF with commentary at strippingthegurus.com)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Reading Khamenei: The World View of Iran's Most Powerful Leader (Washington et al.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, c2008), by Karim Sadjadpour (PDF with commentary at carnegieendowment.org)

• The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: Martin and Boden, 1833), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The Life Experience and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (with a new introduction by Singleton; New York and Nashville: Abingdon Press, c1960), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones and George A. Singleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the American Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: F. Ford and M. A. Riply, 1880), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the American Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: Lee and Yeocum, c1887), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org; title page missing
• Richard Allen and Absalom Jones (Baltimore: Church Advocate Press, 1916), by George F. Bragg (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth, A. M., Ph. D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U. S. Army (Boston: Sherman, French and Co., c1914), by Charles Alexander (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Untersuchungen Über die Echtheit der Hymnen des Ambrosius (offprint from Jahrbücher für Classische Philologie supplement volume, in German; Leipzig: Druck von B. G. Teubner, 1903), by August Steier
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Anderson Surpriser: Written After He Was Seventy-Five Years of Age (Macon, GA: The Author, 1895), by Robert Anderson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life of Rev. Robert Anderson (Macon, GA: Printed for the author, 1892), by Robert Anderson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson, Twenty-Four Years a Slave (Chicago: Daily Tribune Book and Job Printing Office, 1857), by William J. Anderson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Lancelot Andrewes (London: Methuen and Co., 1894), by Robert L. Ottley
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Lancelot Andrewes and the Reaction (London: George Allen and Sons, 1910), by Douglas Macleane (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memoirs of the Life and Works of the Right Honorable and Right Rev. Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, D.D., Lord Bishop of Winchester (Cambridge: Printed for the author by J. Palmer, 1860), by Arthur T. Russell (multiple formats at Google)

• A Modern Pioneer in Korea: The Life Story of Henry G. Appenzeller (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1912), by William Elliot Griffis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Revelation Unrevealed: Concerning the Thousand-Yeares Reigne of the Saints With Christ Upon Earth, Laying Forth the Weak Grounds, and Strange Consequences of That Plausible, and Too-Much Received Opinion (London: Printed by R. L. for J. Bisse, 1650), by Joseph Hall (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Autobiography of Herbert W. Armstrong, by Herbert W. Armstrong (HTML with commentary at thetrumpet.com)
• Transformed by Truth: The Worldwide Church of God Rejects the Teachings of Founder Herbert W. Armstrong and Embraces Historic Christianity; This is the Inside Story (originally published 1997), by Joseph Tkach, contrib. by Hank Hanegraaff (illustrated HTML with commentary at gci.org)

• Poor Ben: A Story of Real Life (Nashville: Pub. House of the A.M.E. Sunday-School Union, 1890), by Lucretia H. Newman Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Echoes from a Pioneer Life (Atlanta: A. B. Caldwell, 1922), by Jared Maurice Arter (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, From August 7, 1771, to December 7, 1815 (3 volumes; New York: N. Bangs and T. Mason, 1821), by Francis Asbury
  • Volume I (August 7, 1771 - July 4, 1786): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II (July 15, 1786 - November 6, 1800): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (November 8, 1800 - December 7, 1815): multiple formats at Google
  • all volumes (some may be unlabeled): page images at HathiTrust

• Tupelo (Chicago: Rhodes and McClure Publishing Co., 1905), by John H. Aughey
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Augustine, by James J. O'Donnell (HTML at Georgetown)
• Confessions, by Saint Augustine of Hippo, trans. by Albert C. Outler (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• Confessions, by Saint Augustine of Hippo, ed. by James J. O'Donnell (HTML at Georgetown)
• Confessions, by Saint Augustine of Hippo, trans. by E. B. Pusey
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• Saint Augustin, by Louis Bertrand, trans. by Vincent O'Sullivan (Gutenberg text)
• A Third Testament: A Modern Pilgrim Explores the Spiritual Wanderings of Augustine, Blake, Pascal, Tolstoy, Bonhoeffer, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky, by Malcolm Muggeridge (multiple formats with commentary at plough.com)
• Three Conceptions of Mind: Their Bearing on the Denaturalization of the Mind in History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1926), by Alejandro A. Jascalevich (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early Reminiscences, 1834-1864 (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., ca. 1922), by S. Baring-Gould (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life at Threescore and Ten (New York, American Tract Society, c1871), by Albert Barnes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Disputation on Holy Scripture, Against the Papists, Especially Bellarmine and Stapleton (Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1849), by William Whitaker, ed. by William Fitzgerald (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Life and Sufferings of Leonard Black, a Fugitive from Slavery, Written by Himself (New Bedford, MA: Press of B. Lindsey, 1847), by Leonard Black (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Lady in the Pulpit (New York: Woman's Press, c1951), by Laura Kerr (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer, With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes, by James Beattie, Robert Blair, and William Falconer, ed. by George Gilfillan (Gutenberg text)

• Vier Deutsche Schriften Gegen Martin Luther, den Bürgermeister und Rat von Konstanz, Ambrosius Blarer und Konrad Sam (Corpus Catholicorum v14, in German; Münster: Aschendorff, 1929), by Johann Eck, ed. by Karl Meisen and Friedrich Zoepfl
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Reflections Arising out of the Popish Aggression: For the Consideration of the Church, Laity, and Parliament; With Comments on the Dispute Between the Rev. W.J.E. Bennett of Saint Barnabas, Pimlico, and the Bishop of London (London: J. H. Kendall, 1851), by A Simple Protestant (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Awakening: One Man's Battle with Darkness (Walden, NY et al: Plough Pub. House, c2014), by Friedrich Zündel (PDF at plough.com)

• A Third Testament: A Modern Pilgrim Explores the Spiritual Wanderings of Augustine, Blake, Pascal, Tolstoy, Bonhoeffer, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky, by Malcolm Muggeridge (multiple formats with commentary at plough.com)

• The Life of Martin Boos, a Roman Catholic Clergyman in Germany (abridged and adapted from an autobiography edited by Gossner; Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, n.d.), contrib. by Martin Boos and Johannes Gossner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life of William Booth, the Founder of the Salvation Army (2 volumes; London: Macmillan, 1920), by Harold Begbie
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Authoritative Life of General William Booth, Founder of The Salvation Army, by George S. Railton, contrib. by Bramwell Booth (Gutenberg text)

• Cesare Borgia: A Biography (London: Chapman and Hall, 1913), by William Harrison Woodward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of Cesare Borgia of France, by Rafael Sabatini (Gutenberg text)
• The Renaissance: Savonarola; Cesare Borgia; Julius II; Leo X; Michael Angelo (English edition; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1913), by Arthur Gobineau, ed. by Oscar Levy, trans. by Paul V. Cohn
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Memoirs of the Life, Time, and Writings of the Reverend and Learned Thomas Boston, by Thomas Boston (HTML at iclnet.org)

• The Life, Labors, and Travels of Elder Charles Bowles, of the Free Will Baptist Denomination (with an essay on "the African race" by the author, and on the fugitive slave law by Arthur Dearing; Watertown, MA: Ingalls and Stowell's Steam Press, 1852), by John W. Lewis, contrib. by Arthur Dearing (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• "J. B.": J. Brierley, His Life and Work (ca.1915), by Harry Jeffs (multiple formats at archive.org)

• In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1953, No. 1, Oliver Brown, et al., Appellants, vs. Board of Education of Topeka, et al., Appellees.; No. 2, Harry Briggs, Jr., et al., Appellants, vs. R. W. Elliott, et al., Appellees; No. 4, Dorothy E. Davis, et al., Appellants, vs. County School Board of Prince Edwards County, Appellees; No. 10, Francis B. Gebhart, et al., Petitioners, vs. Ethel Louise Belton, et al., Respondents: Brief for Appellants in Nos. 1, 2 and 4 and for Respondents in no. 10 on Reargument (briefs for school desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case; 1953), ed. by NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (page images at HathiTrust)

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