John Wycliffe's reformist religious teachings were influential in Herefordshire, and Lollardry was widespread at the end of the 14th century and the beginning of the 15th.
Confucius' teachings remain enormously influential in China and beyond, yet little is known in the West about the man himself beyond his famous sayings, or analects.
Christian theologian R.C. Sproul, an influential teacher who took seminary teachings to homes, walking trails, cars and churches, died Dec. 14 at the age of 78.
He wrote his thesis on how the evangelist preacher Jerry Falwell somehow embodied the teachings of the influential theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who wrote extensively, in books like Moral Man and Immoral Society, about the intersection of faith, politics and social action, and who was a major influence on Martin Luther King.
His teachings are widely influential through his SreeTips blog and his site sree.net.net
Two distinctive aspects of Paul's moral teachings have been very influential in the history of Christianity and thus in the history of the Western world.
Phillipps ascribes this mainly to the teachings of Eric Ries, an influential tech guru whose "lean startup" philosophy encourages failure's embrace.
His teachings on logic were influential both in England and on the Continent.
* Master Larry Sang, founder of the American Feng Shui Institute, is one of the most influential practitioners in the philosophy and teachings of Feng Shui.
866), one of the most influential teachers in Chan history, took these teachings to their iconoclastic extreme, dismissing the great Buddhist scriptures as "hitching posts for donkeys" and encouraging anyone who happened to see "the Buddha" on the road to kill him.
