List of Christ myth theory proponents
A
- John M. Allegro (1923–1988) – English archaeologist.[2]
B
- Dan Barker (born 1949) – American atheist activist.[3]
- Bruno Bauer (1809–1882) – German philosopher and historian.[4]
- Albert Bayet (1880–1961) – French sociologist.[5]
- Gustaaf Adolf van den Bergh van Eysinga (1874–1957) – Dutch theologian.[6]
- Gerard Bolland (1854–1922) – Dutch philosopher and scholar.[7]
- Emilio Bossi (1870–1920) – Swiss journalist and lawyer.[8]
- Georg Brandes (1842–1927) – Danish literary critic.[9]
- Thomas L. Brodie (born 1943) – Irish Roman Catholic priest.[10]
C
- Richard Carlile (1790–1843) – English journalist, radical and secularist.[11]
- Edward Carpenter (1844–1929) – English socialist poet, philosopher and anthologist.[12]
- Richard Carrier (born 1969) – American historian, author, and atheist activist.[13]
- Paul-Louis Couchoud (1879–1959) – French philosopher.[14]
- Herbert Cutner (1881–1969) – English artist, etcher and freethought writer.[15]
D
- Earl Doherty (born 1941) – Canadian writer.[16]
- Arthur Drews (1865–1935) – German historian and philosopher.
- Édouard Dujardin (1861–1949) – French novelist and writer.[17]
- Charles-François Dupuis (1742–1809) – French scientist.[18]
E
- Alvar Ellegård (1919–2008) – Swedish linguist.[19]
F
- David Fitzgerald (born 1964) – American atheist activist and writer.[20]
- Brian Flemming (born 1966) – American film director.[21]
G
- Peter Gandy – British writer.[22]
- Marshall Gauvin (1881–1978) – Canadian atheist and freethought writer.[23]
- Gilbert T. Sadler (1871–1939) – British Congregational minister.[24]
- Kersey Graves (1813–1883) – American freethought writer.[25]
- Edward Greenly (1861–1951) – English geologist.[26]
H
- Tom Harpur (1929–2017) – Canadian theologian and writer.[27]
- Arthur Heulhard (1849–1920) – French journalist.[28]
J
- Peter Jensen (1861–1936) – German orientalist.[29]
- Edward Johnson (1842–1901) – English historian.[30]
K
- Albert Kalthoff (1850–1906) – German Protestant theologian.[18]
- Shūsui Kōtoku (1871–1911) – Japanese socialist and anarchist.[31]
- Sergey Kovalev (1886–1960) – Russian scholar of classical antiquity.[32]
- Iosif Kryvelev (1906–1991) – Russian historian of Judaism and Christianity.[33]
- Alvin Boyd Kuhn (1880–1963) – American Theosophist.[34]
L
- Harold Leidner (1916–2008) – American patent attorney.[35]
- Logan Mitchell (1802–1881) – British freethinker.[36]
- Abraham Dirk Loman (1823–1897) – Dutch theologian.[37]
- Samuel Lublinski (1868–1910) – Literary historian, critic, and philosopher of religion.[38]
M
- M. M. Mangasarian (1859–1943) – American rationalist and secularist.[39]
- Michael Martin (1932–2015) – American philosopher.[40]
- Gerald Massey (1828–1907) – English poet and spiritualist.
- Dennis McKinsey (1940–2009) – American atheist writer.[41]
- Myles McSweeney (1814–1881) – Irish Chartist, mythologist and secularist writer.[42]
N
- Andrzej Niemojewski (1864–1921) – Polish social and political activist.[43]
O
- Michel Onfray (born 1959) – French philosopher.[44]
P
- Minas Papageorgiou (born 1983) - Greek journalist and author.[45]
- Allard Pierson (1831–1896) – Dutch theologian and historian.[18]
- Robert M. Price (born 1954) – American theologian,New Testament scholar and writer.[46]
R
- Abram Ranovich (1885–1948) – Russian scholar of classical antiquity and religion.[32]
- Salomon Reinach (1858–1932) – French archaeologist and historian.
- Samuel Maximilian Rieser (1893–1981) – American lawyer and philosopher.[47]
- Jonathan M. Roberts (1821–1888) – American lawyer and spiritualist medium.[48]
- J. M. Robertson (1856–1933) – Scottish journalist, politician and writer.[49]
- Rudolf Steck (1842–1924) – Swiss reformed theologian.[50]
- Nikolai Rumyantsev (1892–1956) – Russian historian.
- L. Gordon Rylands (1862-1942) – British criminologist and writer.[17]
S
- Acharya S (1961–2015) – American writer.[51]
- Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb (1841–1895) – American genealogist and writer.[52]
- Homer William Smith (1895–1962) – American physiologist and science writer.[53]
- William Benjamin Smith (1850–1934) – American professor of mathematics.[18]
T
- Robert Taylor (1784–1844) – Freethinker and radical.[54]
- Thomas L. Thompson (born 1939) – Danish Biblical scholar and theologian.[55]
- Farrell Till (1933–2012) – American skeptic.[56]
V
- Charles Virolleaud (1879–1968) – French archaeologist.[57]
- Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (1757–1820) – French historian and philosopher.[18]
W
- Barbara G. Walker (born 1930) – American feminist writer.[58]
- George Albert Wells (1926–2017) – English Professor of German and writer.[59]
- Joseph Wheless (1868–1950) – American lawyer.[60]
- Thomas Whittaker (1856–1935) – English metaphysician and critic.[49]
- Robert Wipper (1859–1954) – Russian historian.[32]
Z
- Frank Zindler (born 1939) – American atheist writer.[61]
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