Martin Buber (1878–1965)

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1. Martin Buber

   Author of I And Thou, On Judaism, The Legend of the Baal-Shem

2. Soren Kierkegaard

   Author of Fear and Trembling, The Sickness Unto Death, Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Volume II

3. Paul Tillich

   Author of The Courage to Be, The Shaking of the Foundations, Theology of Culture (Galaxy Books)

4. Abraham Joshua Heschel

   Author of God in Search of Man : A Philosophy of Judaism, Man Is Not Alone : A Philosophy of Religion, Between God and Man

5. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

   Author of Discipleship, Letters and Papers from Prison, Ethics

6. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

   Author of The Phenomenon of Man, The Divine Milieu, Hymn of the Universe

7. Philip Goodman

   Author of The Passover anthology, The Sukkot/Simhat Torah Anthology, The Jewish marriage anthology

8. William James

   Author of The Varieties of Religious Experience

9. Rudolf Bultmann

   Author of Jesus Christ and Mythology, Primitive Christianity in its contemporary setting, Jesus and the Word

10. Elie Wiesel

    Author of Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters, Messengers of God, A jew today.

11. Gershom Scholem

    Author of Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism (Mysticism & Kabbalah), The Messianic Idea in Judaism: And Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality

12. Reinhold Niebuhr

    Author of Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics, An Interpretation of Christian Ethics, Faith and history; a comparison of Christian and modern views of history

13. Simone Weil

    Author of Waiting for God

14. H. Richard Niebuhr

    Author of Christ & Culture, The Meaning of Revelation

15. Mircea Eliade

    Author of The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion

16. Walter A. Kaufmann

    Author of Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre, The Faith of a Heretic, Religion from Tolstoy to Camus

17. Simon Noveck

    Author of Contemporary Jewish thought; a reader, Great Jewish personalities in ancient and medieval times, Great Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. Edited with introductory essays

18. Dag Hammarskjöld

    Author of Markings

19. Rudolf Otto

    Author of The Idea of the Holy

20. Cecil Roth

    Author of A History of the Marranos, The Jews in the Renaissance, Personalities and events in Jewish history