Philosopher and educator Alexander Campbell Fraser was born on 3 September 1819. He was the eldest son of Reverend Hugh Fraser the parish minister of Ardchattan in Argyllshire and Maria Helen the daughter of a neighbouring laird. After years of home schooling, Alexander entered the University of Glasgow at fourteen. He stayed there for one term before moving on to the University of Edinburgh in 1834, where he attended Sir William Hamilton’s inaugural lecture as Professor of Logic.

Allan Douglas Galloway was Professor of Divinity at Glasgow University. He gave the Kerr Lectures at Glasgow University in 1966 and he delivered a series of Gifford Lectures in 1983–1984 also at Glasgow. His publications include The Cosmic Christ Basic Readings in Theology (editor 1964); Faith in a Changing Culture Kerr lectures delivered at Glasgow University (1966); a volume coedited with K. Gregor Smith entitled The Doctrine of God (1970) and a monograph on Wolfhart Pannenberg (1973).

Étienne Henri Gilson was born into a Roman Catholic family in Paris on 13 June 1884. He was educated at a number of Roman Catholic schools in Paris before attending lycée Henri IV in 1902, where he studied philosophy. Two years later he enrolled at the Sorbonne, graduating in 1907 after having studied under many fine scholars, including Lucien Lévy Bruhl, Henri Bergson and Emile Durkheim.

Charles Gore was born in 1853 in Wimbledon to the Honorable Charles Alexander Gore, the brother of the fourth Earl of Arran, and to the daughter of the fourth Earl of Bessborough. He was educated at Harrow and at Balliol College, Oxford, and was elected fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, in 1875. From 1880 to 1883, he was vice-principal of the theological college at Cuddesdon and then, in 1884, when Pusey House was founded at Oxford as a home for Dr Pusey’s library and as a centre for the propagation of his thought, Gore was appointed principal, a title which he held until 1893.

Born 30 July 1844 in Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire, Henry Melvill Gwatkin excelled in his early academic studies. The second son of Revd Richard Gwatkin and Ann Middleton studied for seven years at Shrewsbury School. Overcoming a childhood bout of scarlet fever, Gwatkin excelled in his studies. His academic prowess earned him a scholarship to St John’s College, Cambridge, in 1863, where he received three first classes in 1867. The following year he received the only first in theology and was duly elected a fellow of the college.

‘Only an incarnational anthropology such as that proposed by Aquinas can adequately explain the subjectivity of Heidegger’s Dasein and its very existence’ John Haldane has argued. Haldane is an individual able to wind together a medieval theology thread with one from social science and another from philosophy. Educated at the Wimbledon School of Art he received a BA in 1975 and another in philosophy in 1980 at the University of London. Four years later he was awarded a PhD also in philosophy.

Amateur geologist, outdoor enthusiast, trained in law, scholar in philosophy, MP—if anyone could be termed a Renaissance man, it would be Richard Burdon Haldane, born in 1856 to a well-known family of Gleneagles. Haldane’s inquisitive nature expressed itself early on. At sixteen, he was already studying at Edinburgh University. Two years later, he spent a formative six months studying philosophy and geology in Göttingen, Germany.

John Edmund Hare was born 26 July 1949 the son of British utilitarian philosopher and Oxford professor R. M. Hare. Dr. Hare is a classicist ethicist and currently Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School.

Born 24 July 1940 Hauerwas was educated at Yale Divinity School (BD 1965) and Yale University Graduate School (MA MPhil PhD 1968). He has since taught at Notre Dame and is presently Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School.