This site from The Galileo Project of Rice University provides an outline of important facts about Chrisiaan Huygens. The topics collected include important dates, father information, nationality, education, religion, scientific...

Three essays from the famous French visitor to America, Alexis de Tocqueville, in which he examines how religion in early nineteenth century America supported democratic tendencies.

Excellent discussion of Leibniz's famous attempt at resolving the "problem of evil." Addresses Leibniz's different arguments in justification of the Christian God, many of which are still debated by contemporary philosophy of religion....

This resource presents a brief biographical sketch of Billy Sunday, a popular evangelist and social activist in the early 1900s.

John Calvin (or Jean Calvin) (10 July 1509 - 27 May 1564) was a French Protestant theologian during the Protestant Reformation and was a central developer of the system of Christian theology called Calvinism or Reformed theology. In...