Irenaeus (c. 130-c. 200) : early Christian spirituality
Origen of Alexandria (c. 185-c. 254) : Alexandrian spirituality
Antony (c. 251-355) : the desert fathers
Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335-c. 395) : the Cappadocians
Augustine of Hippo (354-430) : the birth of western spirituality
Patrick (c. 390-c. 460) : Celtic spirituality
Benedict of Nursia (c. 480-547) : western monasticism
Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022) : experiencing the spirit
Anselm (1033/4-1109) : medieval spirituality I
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) : medieval spirituality II
Francis of Assisi (1181/2-1226) : the Mendicants
Gregory Palamas (1296-1359) : Hesychasm
Julian of Norwich (1342-c. 1420) : the English mystics
Martin Luther (1483-1546) : Reformation I
Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) : the Jesuits
John Calvin (1509-1564) : Reformation II
Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582) : the Spanish mystics
George Herbert (1593-1633) : Anglican spirituality
John Bunyan (1628-1688) : the non-conformists
Jean-Pierre de Caussade (1675-1751) : the sacrament of the present moment
John and Charles Wesley (1703-1791 / 1707-1788) : Methodism
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) : the spirituality of paradox
R.A. Torrey (1856-1928) : Fundamentalism
Amy Carmichael (1867-1951) : the spirituality of missions
Thérèse of Lisieux (1873-1897) : spiritual childhood
Maria Skobtsova (1891-1945) : martyrdom
Donald Gee (1891-1966) : Pentecostal spirituality
Dorothy Day (1897-1980) : the Catholic Worker Movement
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) : solitude
Madeleine l'Engle (1918-2007) : narrative spirituality
John S. Mbiti (b. 1931) : African Christian spirituality
Rosemary Radford Ruether (b. 1936) : feminist spirituality.
