William Law: Quick Facts

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Hugh Paulin Cressy

English author and editor

William Alabaster

English scholar

Thomas Woolston

English theologian

Evelyn Underhill

British writer

W. T. Stace

British philosopher

St. Francis of Assisi

Italian saint

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Spanish saint

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Syrian author

John Locke

English philosopher

Isaac Of Stella

English philosopher and theologian

Brian D. Josephson

British physicist

William Carey

British missionary

Julian of Norwich

English mystic

Adrian IV

pope

John Toland

Irish-born British author

Augustine Baker

English monk

William Whiston

Anglican priest and mathematician

R.C. Zaehner

British historian

Thomas Chubb

British theologian

Edmer

English biographer and historian