List of Christian theologians
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This is a list of notable Christian theologians. They are listed by century. If a particular theologian crosses over two centuries, they may be listed in the latter century or in the century with which they are best identified.
See also: History of theology
Contents
1st century
- Paul (c. 3 – 66)
2nd century
- Marcion (c. 110-160)
- Polycarp (c. 70 – 160)
- Justin Martyr (c. 110 - 165)
3rd century
- Clement of Alexandria (c.150 - c.215)
- Irenaeus (ca. 120 - 203)
- Origen (ca. 184 - 254)
- Tertullian
- Cyprian
4th century
- Athanasius (296 - 373)
- Basil of Caesarea (c. 330 - 379)
- Gregory of Nyssa (c. 330 - c. 395)
- Gregory Nazianzus (329 - 389)
- John Chrysostom (347 - 407)
5th century
9th century
- Johannes Scotus Eriugena (810 - 877)
12th century
- Peter Abelard (1079-1142)
- Anselm (1033 - 1109)
- Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 - 1153)
13th century
- Albertus Magnus (c.1200 - 1280)
- Thomas Aquinas (1224 - 1274)
14th century
- Scotus Johannes Duns (1265? - 1308?)
- Meister Eckhart (1260 - 1328)
15th century
- Thomas à Kempis (1380 - 1471)
- Julian of Norwich (c.1342 - 1416)
- Nicholas of Cusa (1401 - 1464)
16th century
- Alexander Alesius (1500-1565)
- Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575)
- Theodore Beza (1519-1605)
- John Calvin (1509-1564)
- Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556)
- Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536)
- Richard Hooker (1554-1600)
- John Knox (c. 1513-1572)
- Ignatius of Loyola (c. 1491-1556)
- Martin Luther (1483-1546)
- Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560)
- Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531)
- William Perkins (1558-1602)
17th century
- James Arminius (1560-1609)
- Moses Amyraut (1596-1664)
- Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
- Jakob Boehme (1575-1624)
- Zachary Boyd (1585-1653)
- Owen Feltham (c. 1602-1668)
- John Milton (1608-1674)
- John Flavel (1627-1691)
- George Fox (1624-1691)
- Hugo Grotius (1583-1645)
- John Owen (1616-1683)
- Anton Praetorius (1560-1613)
- Francis Turretin (1623-1687)
- Herman Witsius (1636-1708)
18th century
- George Bull (1634-1710)
- Thomas Burnet (1635?-1715)
- Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
- John Fletcher (1729-1785)
- John Gill (1697-1771)
- Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
- Philipp Jakob Spener (1635-1705)
- Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772)
- Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
- John Wesley (1703-1791)
- George Whitefield (1774-1770)
19th century
- Archibald Alexander (1772-1851)
- Nathan Bangs (1778-1862)
- William Booth (1829-1912)
- Borden Parker Bowne (1847-1910)
- Adam Clarke (1762-1832)
- Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875)
- Wilbur Fisk (1792-1839)
- A. A. Hodge (1823-1886)
- Charles Hodge (1797-1878)
- Hugh Price Hughes (1847-1902)
- John Miley (1813-1895)
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
- Heinrich Paulus (1761-1851)
- William Burt Pope (1822-1903)
- Philip Schaff (1819-1893)
- Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834)
- Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892)
- Bernhard Stade (1848-1906)
- Richard Watson (1781-1833)
- Christian Hermann Weisse (1801-1866)
20th century
- Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988)
- Karl Barth (1886-1968)
- Louis Berkhof (1873-1957)
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
- Edgar S. Brightman (1884—1953)
- F.F. Bruce (1910-1990)
- Rudolf Karl Bultmann (1884-1976)
- Gordon Clark (1902-1985)
- Edmund Clowney (1917–2005)
- John B. Cobb (1925– )
- Yves Congar (1904-1995)
- Oscar Cullmann (1902-1999)
- Dorothy Day (1897—1980)
- Ignacio Ellacuria (1930-1989)
- Avery Cardinal Dulles (1918– )
- Frederic William Farrar (1831-1903)
- Peter Taylor Forsyth (1842-1921)
- Hans Wilhelm Frei (1922-1988)
- Greg Bahnsen (1948-1995)
- J. Kenneth Grider (1921- )
- Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928– )
- Georgia Harkness (1891-1974)
- Adolf von Harnack (1851-1930)
- Carl F. H. Henry (1913-2003)
- Anthony A. Hoekema (1913-1988)
- Heinrich Julius Holtzmann (1832-1910)
- E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973)
- Albert C. Knudson (1873-1953)
- Hans Küng (1928– )
- Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920)
- C. S. Lewis (29 November 1898 - 22 November 1963)
- Edwin Lewis (1881-1959)
- Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984)
- Henri de Lubac (1896-1991)
- J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937)
- Martin E. Marty (1928- )
- Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
- Johann Baptist Metz (1928– )
- John Murray (1898-1975)
- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
- H. Richard Niebuhr (1894-1962)
- Rudolf Otto (1869-1937)
- Albert C. Outler (1908-1989)
- J. I. Packer (1926- )
- Karl Rahner (1904-1984)
- Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929)
- Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936– )
- Francis Schaeffer (1912-1984)
- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
- Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
- Albert Benjamin Simpson (1843-1919)
- John Stott (1921- )
- Paul Tillich (1886-1965)
- Thomas F. Torrance (1913- )
- Cornelius Van Til (1895-1987)
- John Walvoord (1910-2002)
- B. B. Warfield (1851-1921)
- H. Orton Wiley (1877-1961)
- Karol Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II) (1920-2005)
- John Howard Yoder (1927-1997)
21st century
- Dale Allison
- Marcella Althaus-Reid
- Nathan Lloyd Braun
- Marva Dawn
- Richard Foster
- John Frame (1939- )
- Chris Glaser
- Bob Goss
- Stanley Grenz (1950-2005)
- Wayne Grudem
- Stanley Hauerwas (1940- )
- Michael Horton
- Scott J. Jones (1954- )
- John J McNeill
- Alister McGrath (1953- )
- Jürgen Moltmann (1926- )
- Thomas C. Oden (1931- )
- Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928- )
- Eugene Peterson (1932- )
- Clark Pinnock
- John Polkinghorne
- Andrew Purves
- Robert L. Reymond
- Edward Schillebeeckx (1914- )
- R. C. Sproul
- Elizabeth Stuart
- David Tracy (1939-)
- Miroslav Volf
- Mona West
- William Willimon (1946- )
- Nancy Wilson
- William Lane Craig
- Josh McDowell
- Norman Geisler
- J.P. Moreland
- Gary Habermas
See also:
- List of Catholic philosophers and theologians
- Doctor of the Church (Catholicism / Orthodox Christianity)
- List of Methodist theologians
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