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Classification System at Divinity Library :– author/person element

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AARA

Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240.

11

 

ABEP

Abelard, Peter (1079-1142)

10

 

ABLS

Abhishiktananda (Henri Le Saux)

18A

 

ADRN

Adorno, Theodor W. (1903-1969)

10

 

AHKR

‘Ā’ishah bint Abī Bakr c. 613/614 CE

11

 

ALIM

ImamʻAlī

 

 

ALSS

Ali, Shaheen Sardar [C21 scholar, University of Warwick, 2016]

 

 

ALRZ

Al-razi, Fakhr Al-din (1150-1210)

11A

 

AREH

Arendt, Hannah

10

 

ASAC

Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109.

10

 

ASJA

Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly (28 November 1624 – 29 January 1684)

8

 

AYDA

Āryadeva (fl. 3rd century CE)

 

 

ADWH

Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973)

20V

 

AGSC

Augustine of Canterbury (died 604, probably)

7

 

AGST

Augustine of Hippo (354-430)

7

 

ABND

Aurobindo, Sri (1872-1950)

16A

 

AVRR

Averroës (1126–1198)

 

 

 

 

 

B

B

B

B

 

BBMH

Baba Meher

17A

 

BCNF

Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)

10

 

BHUV

von Balthasar, Hans Urs

9

 

BQIM

Iman Muhammad al-Baqir (677-733)

 

 

BNMM

Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1895-1975)

 

 

BAOE

Bardaisan of Edessa

 

 

BTHK

Barth, Karl

9

 

BTRG

Barthes, Roland

10

 

BCAE

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 329-379.

7

 

BVNK

Bavinck, Herman, 1854-1921

9

 

BECS

Beckett, Samuel

20

 

BDSA

Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino. /

Benedict, Saint, ca. 480-543.

 

 

BENW

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

10

 

BRGS

Bergson, Henri (1859-1941)

10

 

BCLS

Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint

 

 

BLCE

Bloch, Ernst (1885-1977)

10

 

BKMK

Bockmühl, Klaus (1931-1989)

 

 

BVSC

Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal

9

 

BRCD

Broad, C. D (Charlie Dunbar), 1887-1971.

10

 

BBRM

Buber, Martin (1878-1965)

10

 

BULT

Bultmann, Rudolf

9

 

BUTJ

Butler, Joseph (1692-1752)

 

 

BTRJ

Butler, Judith Pamela (1956-)

10

 

BNJN

Bunyan, John (1628-1688)

 

 

BRNR

Burns, Robert

20V

 

 

 

 

C

C

C

 

 

CALJ

Calvin, John

6

 

CASN

Cassirer, Ernst (1874-1945)

10

 

CBPC

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales

 

 

CHAH

Chadwick, Henry (1920-2008)

 

 

CHDI

Chadrakirti (c. 600-650)

15

 

CRTH

Cranmer, Thomas (1489-1556)

 

 

CRTW

Cartwright, Thomas (1535 – 1603)

 

 

CSIE

Catherine, of Siena, Saint, 1347-1380

 

 

CHJO

Chrysostom, John

 

 

CCMT

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

 

 

CLSP

Clement I, Pope (died 97 AD) [“Clement of Rome”]

 

 

CLTA

Clement of Alexandria (150-215 AD)

 

 

CLST

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

 

 

CNDJ

Conrad, Joseph

 

 

CNWA

Conway, Anne (1631-1679)

10

 

CSNC

Nicholas, of Cusa, Cardinal, 1401-1464

 

 

CUPD

Cuppitt, Don (1934-)

 

 

CYRJ

Cyril, Saint, Bishop of Jerusalem, ca.315-386.  [Cyrillus Hierosolymitanus]

7

 

CYRX

Cyril, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, approximately 370-444.

7

 

 

 

 

D

D

D

 

 

DLMA

Dalai Lama (as title/person)

15

 

DNTA

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321

 

 

DWCR

Darwin, Charles Robert (1809- 1882)

21B

 

DWRD

Dawkins, Richard (1941-)

10

 

DEEJ

Dee, John

 

 

DEZG

Deleuze, Gilles (1925-1995)

10

 

DERJ

Derrida, Jacques

10

 

DESR

Descartes, René (1596-1650)

10

 

DFYM

Dostoevsky, F. M. (Fyodor Mikhaĭlovich), 1821-1881

 

 

DMCS

Dominic, Saint (1170-1221)

 

 

DNNJ

John Donne 1572-1631

 

 

DNSS

John Duns Scotus (1265/66–1308)

10

 

DOUM

Douglas, Mary

 

 

DURW

Durand, William

 

 

DRKE

Durkheim, Émile

 

 

 

 

 

E

E

E

 

 

ECKM

Meister Eckhart

6

 

EDJN

Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758.

9

 

ELDM

Eliade, Mercia

18A

 

ELTG

Eliot George

 

 

ELTS

Eliot, T.S.

 

 

ENGF

Engels, Friedrich

 

 

ENJS

Erigena, John Scotus (815-877)

 

 

EUSC

Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 260- c.340)

7

 

EVPR

Evans-Pritchard, E.E.

 

 

 

 

 

F

F

F

 

 

FAAM

Farrer, Austin Marsden (1904-1968

 

 

FARF

Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William), 1831-1903.

 

 

FLGU

Flaubert, Gustave

 

 

FRBM

Farabi, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 874-950.

 

 

FCTM

Foucault, Michel

10

 

FRDS

Francis de Sales ; François de Sales; 21 August 1567 – 28 December 1622)

 

 

FRGB

Frege, Gottlob (1848-1925)

 

 

FRSA

Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226.

6

 

FRSI

Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939)

21Y

 

 

 

 

G

G

G

 

 

GRHG

Gadamer, Hans-Georg (1900-2002)

10

 

GNMK

Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand / Mahatma (1869-1948)

10 (!)

 

GALC

Galen (Claudius Galenus, 129 AD-c. 210 AD)

 

 

GHHM

Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī (1058 CE-1111 CE)

11A

 

GSPO

Gelasius, Saint, Pope I (died 496)

 

 

GTTO

Giotto (di Bondone, 1267-1337)

 

 

GODM

Godelier Maurice (1934-)

 

 

GRFB

Griffiths, Bede

18A

 

GTHJ

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)

 

 

GSVJ

Jīva Gosvāmī (c. 1513-1598)

16(A)

 

GRNG

Greene, Graham

6

 

GRNA

Gregory of Nazianzus (329-390)

6

 

GRNY

Gregory of Nyssa (335-395)

6

 

GRPA

Gregory Palamas (1296-1357/59)

6

 

GNKA

Gupta, Nolini Kanta (1889-1983)

 

 

GYON

Gyōnen (1240-1321)

 

 

 

 

 

H

H

H

 

 

HBSJ

Habermas, Jürgen (1929-)

10

 

HNBA

Hanbal, ibn Ahmad (780-855)

 

 

HARC

Hartshorne, Charles

 

 

HGWF

Hegel, George Wilhelm Friedrich

10

 

HDGM

Heidegger, Martin (1889-1976)

10

 

HCFH

Henry, Carl Ferdiand Howard (1913-2003)

 

 

HSEB

Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium

 

 

HRBT

Herbert, George

20V (&9)

 

HDVB

Hildegard of Bingen

6

 

HIAU

Hindiyya al-'Ujaimi (born Hannah al-‘Ujaimi; 1720-1798)

 

 

HPAP

Hippolytus, Antipope, approximately 170-235 or 236

 

 

HLFJ

Hall, Francis J. 1857-1932

9

 

HLPO

Hilary, Saint, Bishop of Poitiers, -367?

 

 

HOBT

Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)

10

 

HOMD

Hooker, Morna Dorothy

 

 

HNEN

Honen (1133-1212)

15(S)

 

HPGM

Hopkins, Gerard Manley

20

 

HWLP

Howell, Leonard Percival (1898-1981)

19S

 

HMDD

Hume, David (1711-1776)

10

 

HSSE

Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938.

 

 

HUSV

Hugh of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141.

6

 

HTFS

Hutcheson, Francis (1694-1746)

10

 

 

 

 

I

I

I

 

 

IBAQ

Ibn Aquil (AH 431 (1039/1040) to AH 513 (1119/1120)

 

 

IBAR

Ibn al’Arabi

 

 

IBTA

Ibn Taymīyah, Ahṃad ibn ʻAbd al-Hạlīm, 1263-1328.

 

 

IGNL

Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)

6

 

IQBM

Iqbal, Muhammad Sir

 

 

IRLY

Irenaeus, Saint, Bishop of Lyon.

 

 

ISHC

Isherwood, Christopher (1904-1986)

 

 

 

 

 

JJJJ

JJJJ

JJJJ

 

 

JHIZ

Jahiẓ (776-868-9)

11

 

JASK

Jaspers, Karl

10

 

JRMS

Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420

7

 

JEWJ

Jewel, John

 

 

NTJN

John, the Apostle, Saint.

 

 

JSDA

John of Damscus

 

 

JOHP

John Paul II, see PPJP

 

 

JHSA

John of Salisbury (1120-1180)

10

 

JSFL

Josephus, Flavius (AD 37/38- AD 100)

 

 

JULE

Julian the Emperor

6

 

JULN

Julian of Norwich

6

 

JWIL

James, William (1842–1910)

10

 

JNGC

Jung, Carl Gustav (1875-1961)

21Y

 

JNLE

Jüngel, Eberhard

 

 

 

 

 

K

K

K

 

 

KFKF

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924

20

 

KBAR

Andreas Rudolph Bodenstein von Karlstadt (1486 – 24 December 1541)

 

 

KMLA

Kamalaśīla (c. 740-795)

15A

 

KHIH

Hazrat Inayat Khan  (1882-1927)

 

 

KGSA

Kierkegaard, Søren 1813-1855

 

 

KGML

King, Martin Luther (1929-1968)

10

 

KIRH

al-Kirmānī, Ḥamid al-Dīn (flourished 996–1021 CE)

 

 

KLBA

Abu Bakr al-Kalabadhi / Kalābād︠h︡ī, Muḥammad ibn ʾIbrāhīm, 10th cent.

 

 

KGHS

Küng, Hans (1928-)

 

 

 

 

 

L

L

L

L

 

LJME

Lacan, Jacques Marie Émile (1901-1981)

10

 

LARN

Lardner, Nathaniel, 1684-1768.

 

 

LTZU

Lao Tzu (Lao-Tze, or Laozi, 601 BC to 531 BC)

17T

 

LDWI

Laud, William (1573-1645)

 

 

LGWM

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)

10

 

LEVP

Levi, Primo

 

 

LVIE

Levinas, Emmanuel (1906-1995)

10

 

LSGE

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim (1729-1781)

10

 

LEWC

Lewis, C. S.

20

 

LBNS

Libianus (AD 314-393)

 

 

LNPA

Lingpa, Pema (or Padma, 1450-1521)

15?

 

LNPJ

Lingpa, Jigme (1729–1798)

15

 

LOCJ

Locke, John (1632-1704)

 

 

LOMP

Lombard, Peter

 

 

LNPA

Longchenpa / Klong-chen-pa Dri-med-ʼod-zer (1308-1363)

15

 

LBSF

Lonergan, Bernard Joseph Francis (1904-1984)

 

 

LBCH

Lubac, Henri-Marie Joseph Sonier de SJ (1896-1991)

9

 

NTLK

Luke, the Apostle, Saint.

 

 

LOIA

Loisy, Alfred (1857-1940)

 

 

LLRN

Lull, Ramon

 

 

LUTM

Luther, Martin

6

 

LYTR

Lyotard, Jean-François (1924—1998)

10

 

 

 

 

M

M

M

 

 

MCRE

Macrina the Older (before AD 270 – c. 340)

7

 

MCRY

Macrina the Younger (c. 330 – 19 July 379)

7

 

MAJL

Marion, Jean-Luc

10

 

MRTJ

Maritain, Jacques (1882-1973)

10

 

MRCL

Marcel, Gabriel Honoré (1889–1973)

 

 

MNAZ

Mary of Nazareth (Mother of Jesus)

 

 

MCBH

McCabe, Herbert (1926-2001)

 

 

MCKW

McKane, William (1921-2004)

 

 

MMAI

Maimonides, Moses (113?-1204)

4

 

MCOS

Marcion of Sinope(c. 85 – c. 160)

 

 

NTMK

Mark, the Apostle, Saint.

 

 

MSBT

Martin, Saint, Bishop of Tours (316/366 to 397)

 

 

NTMT

Matthew, the Apostle, Saint.

 

 

MJFD

Maurice, John Frederick Denison

 

 

MAXC

Maximus the Confessor

 

 

MLLQ

Meillassoux, Quentin, 1967-

 

 

MGAL

Meinong, Alexius (1853-1920)

10

 

MNPP

Melanchthon, Philip (1497-1560)

 

 

MRLT

Merton, Louis Thomas (1915-1968)

9

 

MIJS

Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873)

 

 

MIWM

Miller, William (1782- 1849)

9

 

MLTJ

Milton, John

20

 

MRHY

More, Henry (1614-1687)

10

 

MDHI

Murdoch, Iris (1919-1999)

10 and 20

 

MRRJ

Murray, John (1898-1975)

 

 

MRXK

Marx, Karl (1918-1883)

 

 

 

 

 

N

N

N

 

 

NGJA

Nāgārjuna (c. 150 – c. 250 CE)

 

 

NEJH

Newman, John Henry (1801-1890) [Cardinal]

 

 

NWTN

Newton, Isaac

21P

 

NESC

Nestorius, Archbishop of Constantinople

 

 

NCDA

Nicolaus of Damascus

 

 

NIHR

Niebuhr, H. Reinhard

 

 

NOVD

Novak, David

 

 

NWJH

Newman, John Henry (1801-1890)

9

 

NWSI

Newton, Sir Isaac

 

 

NZFW

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900)

10

 

 

 

 

O

O

O

 

 

ORGN

Origen

7

 

 

 

 

P

P

P

 

 

PASB

Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)

10

 

NTPL

Paul, the Apostle, Saint.

5

 

PTVE

Peter, the Venerable (1092-1156)

 

 

PHIA

Philo of Alexandria (c. 25 BC – c. 50 AD)

4

 

PLAA

Plantinga, Alvin

10

 

PLAT

Plato

10

 

PLOT

Plotinus

10

 

PLNY

Polanyi, Michael (1891-1976)

 

 

PPFR

Pope Francis (1936-)

9

 

PPJL

Pope John Paul I (1912-1978)

9

 

PPJP

Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)

9

 

PKPD

Popper, Karl Raimund (1902-1994)

10

 

PRPH

Porphyry of Tyre (c. 234 CE to 305 CE)

10

 

PRHD

Prabhupada, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami (1896-1977)

16

 

PRMK

Pramukha, c Swami, |d 1921-2016.

16

 

PRSA

Prudentius, Aurelius Clemens (348 AD)

 

 

 

 

 

Q

Q

Q

 

 

QUTS

QUTB, Sayyid (1906-1966)

 

 

 

 

 

R

R

R

 

 

RBAW

Russell, Betrand Arthur William (1872-1970)

10

 

RBBL

Rabbula, Bishop of Edessa, approximately 350-435

 

 

RDHK

S. Radhakrishnan (Sarvepalli) (1888-1975)

16

 

RAHK

Rahner, Karl (1904-1984)

9

 

RWJH

Rawls, John (1921-2002)

 

 

RMAK

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa (1836–1886) 

 

 

RMAA

Sri Ramanuja, (1017–1137)

 

 

RMPD

Ramprasad, Sen/Sadhak (1718-1775)

16

 

RMAC

Ramsey, Michael Arthur (1904-1988; Archibishop of Canterbury)

 

 

RMPL

Ramsey, Paul (1913-1988, American Ethicist)

 

 

RSHD

Rashdall, Hastings (1858-1924)

9

 

RIAL

Richardson, Alan (1905–1975)

 

 

RIHH

Richards, Hubert J., 1921-2010. 

 

 

RISV

Richard, of St. Victor, d. 1173.

 

 

RICP

Ricœur, Paul

10

 

RITA

Ritschl, Albrecht (1822-1889)

 

 

RSGL

Rose, Gillian (1947-1995)

10

 

ROJJ

Rousseau, Jean-Jaques (1712-1778)

10

 

RUMI

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273)

 

 

RUSB

Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970.

10

 

RUUS

Ruusbroec, Jan van, 1293-1381

 

 

 

 

 

S

S

S

 

 

SBAB

Sai Baba of Shirdi (or: Shirdi Sai Baba), died 1918

16

 

SNDV

Sani-deva , or Shanti-deva, or Santideva(c. 685- c,763)

15A

 

SRHA

Saraha (Hindi: सरह), Sarahapa (Hindi: सरहपा, Odia: ସରହପା), Sarahapāda (Hindi: सरहपाद), (circa 8th century CE)

16

 

SHTA

Shantaraksita / Santaraksita (725–788)

15

 

SRJP

Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905-1980)

10

 

SCEC

Schillebeeckx, Edward Cornelius

9

 

SCHF

Schelling, F.W.J.

10

 

SFDE

Schleiermacher, F.D.E.

 

 

SCPA

Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860)

10

 

SCJD

Duns Scotus, John, approximately 1266-1308

 

 

SLGA

Selwyn, George August (1809-1878)

 

 

SEVN

Severus, of Antioch, ca. 465-538.

 

 

SHKA

Śaṅkarācārya (788 CE to 820 CE), Adi Shankara . Shankara

16

 

SHLM

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.

 

 

SHWI

Shakespeare, William

20

 

SIJY

al-Sijistani, Abu Yaqub (active 971 CE)

 

 

SRIB

Singer, Isaac Bashevis (1904-1991)

 

 

SMAN

St. Margaret of Antioch (289-304)

 

 

SMJJ

Smart, John Jamieson Carswell (1920-2012)

10

 

SMRN

Smart, Ninian, 1927-2001

10 / 16 / 18

 

SCRT

Socrates (470 – 399 BC)

10

 

SOLV

Solovʹev, Vladimir (1853-1900)

 

 

SPBD

Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677

10

 

SRAL

Schweitzer, Albert (1875-1965)

9

 

STJV

Staupitz, Johannes von (1460-1524)

 

 

STNE

Stein, Edith

10

 

STNG

Steiner, George

 

 

STRL

Strauss, Leo (1899-1973)

 

 

SUZD

Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro (1870-1966)

 

 

SUZS

Suzuki, Shunryu (1904-1971)

 

 

SWAQ

Suhrawardī, ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1097-1168.

 

 

SWMY

Swaminarayan

16

 

SWBN

Swinburne, Richard (1934-)

10

 

 

 

 

T

T

T

 

 

TAYJ

Taylor, Jeremy (1613-1667)

 

 

TAGR

Tagore, Rabindranath

16

 

TRTA

Taranatha (1575–1634)

15

 

TEMW

Temple, William (1881-1944)

 

 

TLHD

Teilhard, Pierre de Chardin (1881-1955)

10

 

THHD

Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)

 

 

THQS

Aquinas, Thomas

 

 

THRS

Thomas, R. S. (Ronald Stuart), 1913-2000.

 

 

TLPA

Tillich, Paul (1886-1965)

10

 

TMHM

al-Tirmidhi, Al-Hakim. (d. ca. 869)

 

 

TLST

Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910)

 

 

TOTF

Torrance, Thomas Forsyth (1913-2007)

 

 

 

 

 

U

U

U

 

 

UPAB

Upādhyāẏa, Brahmabāndhaba, 1861-1907

16

 

 

 

 

V

 

 

 

 

VVES

Vivekananda, Swami (1863-1902)

16

 

 

 

 

W

W

W

 

 

WADF

Wallace, David Foster.

20

 

WAIW

Wainright, William J. (1935-)

10

 

WEBM

Weber, Max (1864-1920)

 

 

WLSE

Weil, Simone (1909-1943)

10

 

WESJ

Wesley, John (1703-1791)

9

 

WHAN

Whitehead, Alfred North

10

 

WIGF

Wingred, Gustav F. (1910-2000)

 

 

WLOC

William of Ockham (1285-1347)

10

 

WILR

Williams, Rowan, 1950-

9

 

WLJJ

Wittgenstein , Ludwig Josef Johann (1889-1951)

10

 

WOCC

World Council of Churches

 

 

WOLC

Wolf, Christa (1929-2011)

20

 

WRAI

Al-Warraq, Abu Isa (889-994)

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Y

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Z

Z

 

 

 

ZZJD

Zizioulas, John D. (1931-) / Jean

9