- Sir Isaac Newton: Buried in 1727 near the quire screen
- Charles Darwin: Located in the scientists' corner
- Stephen Hawking: Ashes interred in 2018
- Ernest Rutherford: Renowned physicist
- Charles Dickens: Famous novelist
- Laurence Olivier: Renowned actor
- George Frideric Handel: Composer
- David Livingstone: Explorer
- Aphra Behn: One of the first English women to earn a living from writing
- William Wilberforce: Politician and abolitionist
The similar phrase 'Worldly Christianity' is one used by Bonhoeffer. It's J Gresham Machen that I want to line up most closely with. See his Christianity and culture here. Having done commentaries on Proverbs (Heavenly Wisdom) and Song of Songs (Heavenly Love), a matching title for Ecclesiastes would be Heavenly Worldliness. For my stance on worldliness, see 3 posts here.
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10 Famous People Buried in Westminster Abbey
A scientist and God
As far as I am aware the great scientist Ernest Rutherford (he split the atom) made no profession of faith but I was fascinated to read that when things got exciting in the laboratory (as they often did with him) he would burst into a raucous Onward Christian Soldiers for some reason.
I also came across this interesting quotation "Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner." Of course, Einstein would speak of God too but not meaning what we Christians mean. I'm not sure of the context for this statement.
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