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BABEL, TOWER OF:

BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY:

BACH, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750):

BACON, Francis (1561-1626):

BACON, Roger (1214-1292):

BAHĀ'Ī FAITH:

BAILEY, Alice (1880-1949):

BAKER-EDDY, Mary (1821-1910):

BALLARD, Edna Anne Wheeler (1886-1971):

BALLARD, Guy (1878-1939):

BALTHASAR, Hans Urs von (1905-):

BARLAAM AND JOASAPH:

BARMEN DECLARATION:

BARTH, Karl (1886-1968):

BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY MASSACRE:

BASIL, RULE OF:

BATSON, Gregory (1904-1980):

BAUER, Bruno (1809-1882):

BAUR, Ferdinand Christian (1792-1860):

BAVINCK, Herman (1854-1921):

BAVINCK, J. H. (1895-1964):

BAXTER, Richard (1615-1691):

BAYLE, Pierre (1647-1706):

BEATIFIC VISION:

BECKET, Thomas à(1118-1170):

BEDE, the Venerable (673-735):

BELGIC CONFESSION:

BELLARMINE, Robert (1542-1621):

BENDA, Julien (1867-1956):

BENEDICT OF NURSIA (480-547):

BENEDICT, RULE OF:

BENEDICTINE ORDER:

BENTHAM, Jeremy (1748-1832):

BERDYAEV, Nikolai (1874-1948):

BERG, David, "Moses" (1919):

BERGER, Peter L. (1934-):

BERGSON, Henri Louis (1859-1941):

BERKELEY, George (1685-1753):

BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX (1090-1153):

BERNARDETTE OF LOURDES (1844-1879):

BESANT, Annie (1847-1933):

BEZA, Theodore (1519-1605):

BHAGAVAD-GĪTA:

BIBLICAL CRITICISM:

BLAKE, William (1757-1827):

BLAVATSKY, Helena Petrovna (1831-1891):

BLOCH, Ernst (1880-1959):

BOAS, Franz (1858-1942):

BODIN, Jean (1530-1596):

BOEHME, Jacob (1575-1624):

BOETHIUS, Ancius Maniatus Severinus (480-524 A.D.):

BONAVENTURE (1217-1274):

BONHOEFFER, Dietrich (1906-1946):

BONIFACE (680-754):

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER:

BOOK OF THE DEAD:

BOOTH, William (1829-1912):

BRADLAUGH, Charles (1833-1891):

BRADLEY, Francis Herbert (1846-1924):

BRAHE, Tycho (1546-1601):

BRĀHMO SAMĀJ:

BRANHAM, William Marion, "Bill" (1909-1966):

BREATHING CONTROL:

BRETHREN OF THE COMMON LIFE:

BRITISH ISRAELITES:

BRUNNER, Emil (1889-1966):

BRUNO (1032-1101):

BRUNO, Giordano (1548-1600):

BUBER, Martin (1878-1965):

BUCER, Martin (1491-1551):

BUCHMANN, Frank (1878-1961):

BUDDHAGHOSA (4th-5th century A.D.):

BUDDHIST SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT:

BULTMANN, Rudolf (1884-1976):

BUNYAN, John (1628-1688):

BURKE, Edmund (1729-1797):

BURNS, Robert (1759-1796):

BUSHNELL, Horace (1802-1876):

BUTLER, Joseph (1692-1752):

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NOMINALISM:

the theory of knowledge which teaches that UNIVERSAL CONCEPTS, such as "human" "tree" etc., have no independent separate REALITY but are simply names used to identify things with similar characteristics. The most extreme nominalist was WILLIAM OF OCKHAM who argued that only individuals exist and that universal concepts are no more than sounds.