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LANKVATARA STRA:

LAO TZU (6th century B.C.):

LAUD, William (1573-1645):

LAW, William (1686-1761):

LAWRENCE, Brother (1605-1691):

LEACH, Ronald Edmund (1910-1987):

LEE, Ann (1736-1784):

LEE, Witness (?):

LEIBNIZ, Gottfried Wilhelm, Baron von (1646-1716):

LENIN, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924):

LESSING, Gotthold Ephraim (1729-1781):

LÉVI-BRUHL, Lucien (1857-1939):

LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude (1908-):

LEVIRATE MARRIAGE:

LEWIS, Clive Staples (1898-1963):

LIBERAL PROTESTANTISM:

LIEH-TZU (4th century B.C.):

LIVINGSTONE, David (1813-1873):

LLOYD-JONES, David Martyn (1899-1981):

LOCKE, John (1632-1704):

LOGICAL POSITIVISM:

LONERGAN, Bernard (1904-1984):

LOSSKY, Nikolai (1870-1965):

LOSSKY, Vladimir (1903-1958):

LOU, Tseng-Tsiang (1871-1949):

LOVEJOY, Arthur Oncken (1873-1962):

LOYOLA, Ignatius (1495-1556):

LUKE (1st century):

LUTHER, Martin (1483-1546):

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MACCABEES, BOOK OF:

found in that part of the HEBREW BIBLE regarding the APOCRYPHA which tells of the exploits of Judas Maccabeus (d. 160 B.C.) and his family who freed the Jews from Syrian rule during the second century B.C.