Religion
| Name | Class year | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| George Arthur Buttrick (1892–1980) | faculty member in 1955 | Professor of Christian Morals | |
| William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) | College 1798 | Unitarian leader | |
| Shubael Dummer (1636–1692) | College 1656 | Founder of the First Parish Congregational Church of York, the oldest church congregation in the state of Maine. Killed in the Candlemas Massacre. | |
| Karim Aga Khan IV (born 1936) | College 1958 | Spiritual leader of Shia Ismaili branch of Islam | |
| Bernard Francis Law (born 1931) | College 1953 | Cardinal Archbishop of Boston | |
| Aaron Lichtenstein (born 1933) | Phd English | Chief rabbi at yeshiva Har Etzion in Israel and son-in-law and disciple of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik | |
| Cotton Mather (1663–1728) | College 1678, A.M. 1681 | Minister, author | |
| Increase Mather (1639–1723) | College 1656 | Clergyman | |
| Theodore Parker (1810–1860) | Divinity | Unitarian leader | |
| William G. Sinkford (born 1946) | College 1968 | Unitarian Universalist leader | |
| Joshua Toulmin (1740–1815) | D.D. 1794 | English Radical Dissenting minister |
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“That, upon the whole, we may conclude that the Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“It is manifest therefore that they who have sovereign power, are immediate rulers of the church under Christ, and all others but subordinate to them. If that were not, but kings should command one thing upon pain of death, and priests another upon pain of damnation, it would be impossible that peace and religion should stand together.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)
“A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.”
—W. Winwood Reade (1838–1875)