John Dewey (/ ˈ d uː i /; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.

John Durie (1537–1600) was one of the first Presbyterian ministers in Edinburgh after the Reformation in Scotland. He was born at Mauchline in Ayrshire in 1537, and educated at Ayr. He became one of the Benedictine monks of Dunfermline, but being suspected of heresy was ordered to be shut up until death.

John Durie, 1596-1680's was born in Edinburgh in 1596. Durie came from a renowned family of outspoken Scottish Presbyterian theologians. Durie's grandfather, also called John Durie, had been a convert from Catholicism to the reformed faith and a staunch devotee of John Knox.

John Durie [Dury] (1596–1680) The son of the noted Church of Scotland minister, Robert Durie, and Elizabeth Ramsay, Durie was born in Edinburgh in 1596. His early life was marked by his father’s banishment from Scotland in 1606, following his conviction for treason for participating in the banned religious Assembly in Aberdeen in 1605.

The Scottish-born theologian John Dury (1596–1680) spent most of his life in a quixotic attempt to reunite the Lutheran and Calvinist wings of the divided Protestant religious tradition. His efforts encompassed philosophical writings, polemics, and personal travels around Europe, which brought him into contact with many of the leading ...

The man for the job was cer-tainly John Durie who was possibly the most well-known man in Europe at the time and one whom countless crowned heads, church leaders, politicians, gen-erals, educators, social reformers and humble men and women loved and respected.

Scottish Protestant minister. In Prussia he devised plans for the reunion of the non-RC Churches, especially the Lutherans and Calvinists. In 1634 he was ordained priest in the C of E. He continued to travel in the cause of religious unity.

John Dury (1596-1680) A Scottish Calvinist minister and Westminster Divine. Today, many Christians are turning back to the puritans to, “walk in the old paths,” of God’s word, and to continue to proclaim old truth that glorifies Jesus Christ.

John Dury [1] (1596 in Edinburgh [2] – 1680 in Kassel) was a Scottish Calvinist minister and an intellectual of the English Civil War period. He made efforts to re-unite the Calvinist and Lutheran wings of Protestantism, hoping to succeed when he moved to Kassel in 1661, but he did not accomplish this. He was also a preacher, pamphleteer, and ...