Religion
As Uppsala University has one of only two faculties of Theology in Sweden, and the older one of the two (the other one is in Lund), most Swedish churchmen of note have actually graduated from the university.
- Nicolaus Olai Campanius (1593-1624), priest
- Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772), scientist, philosopher and religious mystic
- Lars Levi Laestadius (1800–1861), clergyman and botanist, founder of the conservative laestadian movement.
- Nathan Söderblom (1866–1931), professor of comparative religion. Later archbishop of Uppsala and Nobel peace laureate in 1931
- Gustaf Unonius (1810–1902), Episcopalian priest
- Israel Acrelius (1714–1800), Lutheran missionary to New Sweden and author who wrote History of New Sweden
- Johan Campanius (1601–1683), Lutheran clergyman assigned to New Sweden
- Carl Aaron Swensson (1857–1904), American Lutheran minister and founder of Bethany College
Read more about this topic: List Of Uppsala University People
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“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)
“The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.”
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