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.

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

Augustine (354 - 430)
Jerome (c. 347 - 420)

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)