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Oliver D. Crisp
1972 - Present (52 years)
Oliver D. Crisp is a British theologian who currently works as Professor of Analytic Theology at the University of St Andrews, and was formerly a professor of systematic theology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.
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Fergus Kerr
1931 - Present (93 years)
Fergus Gordon Thomson Kerr is a Scottish Roman Catholic priest of the English Dominican province. He has published significantly on a wide range of subjects, but is famous particularly for his work on Ludwig Wittgenstein and Thomas Aquinas.
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Geoffrey W. Bromiley
1915 - 2009 (94 years)
Geoffrey William Bromiley was an ecclesiastical historian and historical theologian. He was professor emeritus at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, having been Professor of Church History and Historical Theology there from 1958 until his retirement in 1987.
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Ian Bradley
1950 - Present (74 years)
Ian Campbell Bradley is a British academic, author and broadcaster. He is Emeritus Professor of Cultural and Spiritual History at the University of St Andrews, where he was Principal of St Mary's College, the Faculty and School of Divinity, and honorary Church of Scotland Chaplain.
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Joseph Stowell
1944 - Present (80 years)
Joseph M. Stowell III, born February 7, 1944, retired as the president of Cornerstone University in May 2021, and is author of over 20 Christian books. He is a graduate of Cedarville University and Dallas Theological Seminary and was honored with a Doctor of Divinity degree from The Master's College in 1987. His wife is Martie .
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George Hunsinger
1945 - Present (79 years)
George Hunsinger is an American theologian who is Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He served as director of the Seminary's Center for Karl Barth Studies from 1997 to 2001.
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H. Ray Dunning
1926 - Present (98 years)
Hubert Ray Dunning is a religious scholar in the Church of the Nazarene and retired professor of theology at Trevecca Nazarene University. He earned a PhD from Vanderbilt University in 1969. Dunning is the author of many books, including Grace, Faith and Holiness.
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Theodore Khoury
1930 - 2023 (93 years)
Adel Theodor Khoury was a Lebanese Catholic theologian and historian of Christianity and Islam. Biography Adel Theodor Khoury was born in Tebnine, Lebanon on 26 March 1930. After theological studies Khoury entered priesthood in 1953. He also pursued philosophy and Oriental studies in Beirut before receiving a doctoral degree in Lyon. From 1970 until his retirement in 1993 Khoury was professor of general religious studies in the Catholic-Theological Department of Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany, where he twice served as head of the department.
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Barnabas Lindars
1923 - 1991 (68 years)
Barnabas Lindars was an English New Testament scholar. Born 11 June 1923, Lindars was educated at Altrincham Grammar School and then studied at St John's College, Cambridge. He was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1949. After teaching at the University of Cambridge , Lindars served as Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester from 1978 to 1990.
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Jean-Marc Ela
1936 - 2008 (72 years)
Jean-Marc Ela was a Cameroonian sociologist and theologian. Working variously as a diocesan priest and a professor, Ela was the author of many books on theology, philosophy, and social sciences in Africa. His most famous work, African Cry has been called the "soundest illustration" of the spirit of liberation theology in sub-Saharan Africa. His works are widely cited as exemplary of sub-Saharan African Christian theology for their focus on contextualisation and their emphasis on community-centered approaches to theology.
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Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz
1943 - 2012 (69 years)
Ada María Isasi-Díaz was a Cuban-American theologian who served as professor emerita of ethics and theology at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. As a Hispanic theologian, she was an innovator of Hispanic theology in general and specifically of mujerista theology. She was founder and co-director of the Hispanic Institute of Theology at Drew University until her retirement in 2009.
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Tissa Balasuriya
1924 - 2013 (89 years)
Tissa Balasuriya was a Sri Lankan Roman Catholic priest and theologian. He was educated at St Patrick's College, Jaffna. Theological work In 1971 Balasuriya founded the Center for Society and Religion; four years later he founded the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians. In 1990, Balasuriya published the book Mary and Human Liberation. In 1994, the Sri Lankan bishops warned that the book included heretical content because it misrepresented the doctrine of original sin and cast serious doubts on the divinity of Christ. Balasuriya submitted a 55-page theological defense to the Con...
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Scotty McLennan
1948 - Present (76 years)
William L. McLennan, Jr. , better known as Scotty McLennan, is an American Unitarian Universalist minister, lawyer, professor, published author, public speaker and senior administrator at Stanford University in Stanford, California. From January 1, 2001 until August 2014, McLennan served as the Dean for Religious Life at Stanford University, where he oversaw campus-wide religious affairs, supervised over 30 university student groups that constituted the Stanford Associated Religions, and was the minister of Stanford Memorial Church. He currently teaches about the moral and ethical aspects of...
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Bonaventura Duda
1924 - 2017 (93 years)
Bonaventura Duda was a Croatian Franciscan, theologian, biblical scholar, and a corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Early life and education Roko Duda was born in the Free State of Fiume and spent his childhood in the village of Kras on the island of Krk where he attended elementary school from 1929 to 1933. After finishing additional two years of civic school in Sušak in 1935, Duda attended Franciscan high school in Varaždin from which he graduated in 1944. He joined the Franciscan Order on 14 August 1941. He studied theology at the Catholic Theological Facul...
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Moshe Greenberg
1928 - 2010 (82 years)
Moshe Greenberg was an American rabbi, Bible scholar, and professor emeritus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Biography Moshe Greenberg was born in Philadelphia in 1928. Raised in a Hebrew-speaking Zionist home, he studied Bible and Hebrew literature from his youth. His father, Rabbi Simon Greenberg, was the rabbi of Har Zion Temple and one of the most important leaders of the Conservative movement. Moshe Greenberg received his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1954, studying Bible and Assyriology under E. A. Speiser; simultaneously, he studied post-Biblical Judaica at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America , where he was ordained as a rabbi.
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Ched Myers
2000 - Present (24 years)
Ched Myers is an American theologian specializing in biblical studies and political theology. Career Since the late 1970s, Myers has been involved in numerous issues including movement work for racial justice, economic equity, indigenous sovereignty, anti-nuclear activism and ecological justice and restoration. He has traveled as an "old-school" itinerant teacher for over twenty years teaching in homes, churches, retreat centers and more.
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Jo Ann Hackett
1949 - Present (75 years)
Jo Ann Hackett is an American scholar of the Hebrew Bible and of Biblical Hebrew and other ancient Northwest Semitic languages such as Phoenician, Punic, and Aramaic. Early life and education Hackett was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and grew up in Jeffersonville, Indiana. She graduated from Jeffersonville High School in 1966. She received her B.A. in Mathematics from DePauw University, 1970; her M.A. in Religious Studies from Indiana University, 1975; and her Ph.D in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University, 1980.
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Antonio Piolanti
1911 - 2001 (90 years)
Antonio Piolanti was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a Thomist theologian and dogmatist. He was from 1957 to 1969 Rector of the Pontifical Lateran University. Biography Piolanti was born on 7 August 1911 in Predappio, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He received priestly ordination in 1934. From 1938 to 1955 he was professor of theology at the Ateneo di Propaganda Fide , he also taught from 1945 at the Lateran University. From 1955 to 1962 he was dean of the theological faculty at the Urbania and 1957 at the Lateran University. From 1957 to 1969 Antonio Piolanti was rector of the Pontifical Lateran University.
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Jozo Zovko
1941 - Present (83 years)
Jozo Zovko, OFM is a Herzegovinian Croat Franciscan priest, most notable for being a parish priest in Medjugorje during the alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary in 1981. He was very active in the promotion of apparitions around the world. He is an adherent of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. Zovko is currently under a suspension imposed on him by his bishops in 1989, 1994 and 2004 for disobedience and is forbidden to perform priestly duties in his home Diocese of Mostar-Duvno.
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Dion Forster
1972 - Present (52 years)
Dion Angus Forster is an academic and clergyman. He serves as a professor of Public Theology in the Faculty of Religion and Theology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is a Research Fellow in the Department of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology, in the Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University where he previously served as full professor and head of department until October 2023. In addition, Prof Forster is a Research Fellow at Wesley House, Cambridge, and an Associate of the Allan Gray Centre for Values Based Leadership at the University of Cape Town, Graduate School of Business.
Go to ProfileMark S. Massa, SJ is the Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. From 2010 to 2016 he was Dean of the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. Massa founded the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham in 2001 and served as its director until 2010. He was also the first holder of the Karl Rahner Chair in Theology at Fordham University.
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Antonius Lambertus Maria Hurkmans
1944 - Present (80 years)
Antonius Lambertus Maria Hurkmans is Bishop emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch. His motto is: Sancti Spiritus In virtute . Early years and calling to the priesthood Antoon Hurkmans was born in Somernen and grew up in a farming family of nine children. He took his vegetable and grocery diploma and had really his own grocery store in Echt, Netherlands. Because he felt called to the priesthood, he sold his shop and then studied at the College for Late Vocations in Warnsveld. In 1966 he went to the Latin School in Gemert and three years later he spent some time in the Grimbergen Abbey, Belgium.
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Emanuel Rackman
1910 - 2008 (98 years)
Rabbi Emanuel Rackman was an American Modern Orthodox Rabbi, president of the RCA, vice-president of Yeshiva University. President of Bar-Ilan University from 1977 to 1986. He held pulpits in major congregations and helped draw attention to the plight of Refuseniks in the then-Soviet Union and attempted to resolve the dilemma of the Agunah, a woman who cannot remarry because her husband will not grant a Get, the required religious divorce decree that would free her to remarry under Halacha.
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Peter J. Gomes
1942 - 2011 (69 years)
Peter John Gomes was an American preacher and theologian, the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School and Pusey Minister at Harvard's Memorial Church — in the words of Harvard's president "one of the great preachers of our generation, and a living symbol of courage and conviction."
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Robert Duncan
1948 - Present (76 years)
Robert William Duncan is an American Anglican bishop. He was the first primate and archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America from June 2009 to June 2014. In 1997, he was elected bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh. In 2008, a majority of the diocesan convention voted to leave the diocese and the Episcopal Church and, in October 2009, named their new church the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh. Duncan served as bishop for the new Anglican diocese until 10 September 2016 upon the installation of his successor, Jim Hobby.
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Elaine Graham
1959 - Present (65 years)
Elaine L. Graham is the Grosvenor Research Professor at the University of Chester. She was until October 2009 the Samuel Ferguson Professor of Social and Pastoral Theology at the University of Manchester. In March 2014, she was installed as Canon Theologian of Chester Cathedral.
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J. Alan Groves
1952 - 2007 (55 years)
James Alan Groves was a Hebrew Bible scholar, theologian, educator, and church elder. Born in Springfield, Missouri, he earned a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Engineering from Dartmouth College in 1975, a Master of Arts in Religion and Master of Theology from Westminster Theological Seminary.
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Douglas Davies
1947 - Present (77 years)
Douglas James Davies, is a Welsh Anglican theologian, anthropologist, and academic, specialising in the history, theology, and sociology of death. He is Professor in the Study of Religion at the University of Durham. His fields of expertise also include anthropology, the study of religion, the rituals and beliefs surrounding funerary rites and cremation around the globe, Mormonism and Mormon studies. His research interests cover identity and belief, and Anglican leadership.
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Angela Tilby
1950 - Present (74 years)
Angela Clare Wyatt Tilby is British Anglican priest, author and former producer. She began her career working as a producer within the BBC's Religious Department. She was then ordained in the Church of England, and was a parish priest in the Diocese of Ely alongside working at Westcott House, a theological college in Cambridge, and as a lecturer with the Cambridge Theological Federation. She moved to Oxford where she was a Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford . In retirement, she is canon emeritus of Christ Church Cathedral, and a chaplain and honorary canon at Portsmouth Cathedral.
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Samuele Bacchiocchi
1938 - 2008 (70 years)
Samuele R. Bacchiocchi was a Seventh-day Adventist author and theologian, best known for his work on the Sabbath in Christianity, particularly in the historical work From Sabbath to Sunday, based on his doctoral thesis from the Pontifical Gregorian University. Bacchiocchi defended the validity of the Feasts of the Lord, situated in Leviticus 23, he wrote two books on the subject. He was also known within the Seventh-day Adventist church for his opposition to rock and contemporary Christian music, jewelry, the celebration of Christmas and Easter, certain dress standards and alcohol.
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Julius J. Lipner
1946 - Present (78 years)
Julius Lipner , who is of Indo-Czech origin, was Professor of Hinduism and the Comparative Study of Religion at the University of Cambridge. Early life Lipner was born and brought up in India, for the most part in West Bengal. After his schooling in India, he obtained a Licentiate in Theology in the Pontifical Athenaeum in Pune, and then spent two years studying for an M.A. in Indian and Western philosophy at Jadavpur University in Kolkata/Calcutta.
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Iain Provan
1957 - Present (67 years)
Iain William Provan is a British Old Testament scholar, now living in Canada. He was Marshall Sheppard Professor of Biblical Studies at Regent College in Vancouver from 1997 until his retirement on December 31, 2022.
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Heup Young Kim
1949 - Present (75 years)
Heup Young Kim is a Korean Christian theologian and a scholar of East Asian religions , specialized in Asian constructive theology, interfaith dialogue, and religion and science. He is the founding director of the Korea Forum for Science and Life and was the Distinguished Asian Theologian in Residence at Graduate Theological Union. He was Professor of Systematic Theology at Kangnam University in South Korea where he also served as a dean of the College of Humanities and Liberal arts, the Graduate School of Theology, and the University Chapel. Kim is one of the founding members and fellows of ...
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Antonio Spadaro
1966 - Present (58 years)
Antonio Spadaro, SJ is an Italian Jesuit priest, journalist and writer. Career Spadaro has been the editor in chief of the Jesuit-affiliated journal La Civiltà Cattolica since 2011. He is also a consultor to both the Pontifical Council for Culture and the Secretariat for Communications .
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James Skillen
1944 - Present (80 years)
James W. Skillen is a Christian political philosopher and author. He was the executive director and then president of the Center for Public Justice from 1981 to 2009, when he retired from the organization. He helped found the organization in 1977. From 1973 to 1982 he taught political theory and international relations at three Christian colleges. Today, Skillen speaks regularly both domestically and internationally and writes primarily in areas of biblical studies and political philosophy and practice. He also mentors a number of advanced students.
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R. N. Whybray
1923 - 1997 (74 years)
Roger Norman Whybray was a biblical scholar and specialist in Hebrew studies. Whybray read French and Theology at Oxford and was ordained as priest in the Church of England. After a number of minor teaching posts, he held the position of Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Central Theological College, Tokyo, 1952–1965. He returned to Oxford in 1960–61 to prepare for a DPhil under G. R. Driver, his thesis subsequently being published as Wisdom in Proverbs: The Concept of Wisdom in Proverbs 19. In 1965 he became lecturer in Theology in the University of Hull, becoming Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Studies in 1978.
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Buist M. Fanning
1949 - Present (75 years)
Buist Martin Fanning III is an American scholar of biblical Greek and a professor of New Testament studies at Dallas Theological Seminary. He was one of the translators who worked on the 1995 update of the New American Standard Bible. Fanning earned his BA from the College of Charleston, his ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary and his DPhil from Oxford University.
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Christopher Evans
1909 - 2012 (103 years)
Christopher Francis Evans was an English Anglican priest and theologian who became known as an authority on the New Testament. He also served as lecturer in theology at Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford from 1948 to 1958 and was later made an Emeritus Fellow.
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Jan N. Bremmer
1944 - Present (80 years)
Jan N. Bremmer is a Dutch academic and historian. He served as a professor of Religious Studies and Theology at the University of Groningen. He specializes in history of ancient religion, especially ancient Greek religion and early Christianity.
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Ismar Schorsch
1935 - Present (89 years)
Ismar Schorsch is the Chancellor emeritus of The Jewish Theological Seminary and the Rabbi Herman Abramovitz Professor of Jewish history. Schorsch served as the sixth Chancellor at JTS for approximately 20 years, from March 1986 until his retirement in June 2006. He was succeeded by Arnold Eisen.
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Uriel Molina
1932 - Present (92 years)
Father Uriel Molina is one of the most prominent leaders of the liberation theology-oriented "popular church" in Sandinista-era Nicaragua. Tomás Borge was a childhood friend of his. In Molina's personal memoirs, he analyzes the connection between the impact of the revolution and the integral part that the Catholic Church and the beliefs of the people played in its successes and failures. As a native of Nicaragua, ordained in Rome as a Franciscan, and an honors student with cum laude status in possession of a doctorate in theology, Molina is knowledgeable about the Somoza regime and the escalating conflicts between the country's government and its people.
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Romano Amerio
1905 - 1997 (92 years)
Romano Amerio was a Swiss-Italian theologian and a late critic of post-Conciliar evolutions in liturgy and ecclesiology. His magnum opus is Iota Unum. It is a work dedicated to the study of the ruptures in Church teaching and tradition following the Second Vatican Council.
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William J. Webb
1957 - Present (67 years)
William J. Webb is a theologian, ordained Baptist minister and former professor of New Testament at Heritage Seminary, Ontario. He is currently adjunct professor at Tyndale Seminary in Toronto. He is notable for developing the "redemptive-movement" hermeneutic in his book Slaves, Women & Homosexuals: Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysis . This book argues for full role equality of men and women in the church and family while concluding that homosexuality is not a biblically sanctioned lifestyle. Craig Blomberg argues that Webb's "proposals concerning redemptive trajectories are amon...
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James Childress
1940 - Present (84 years)
James Franklin Childress is a philosopher and theologian whose scholarship addresses ethics, particularly biomedical ethics. Currently he is the John Allen Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and teaches public Policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He is also Professor of Medical Education at this university and directs its Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life. He holds a B.A. from Guilford College, a B.D. from Yale Divinity School, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. He was vice-...
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Ann Heberlein
1970 - Present (54 years)
Ann Helen Heberlein is a Swedish academic and author, who writes extensively on theology and ethics. She is best known for her autobiographical account of life with bipolar disorder, Jag vill inte dö, jag vill bara inte leva .
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Ellen Ueberschär
1967 - Present (57 years)
Ellen Ueberschär is a German Evangelical Theologian. Early life and education Ueberschär was born in 1967 in East Berlin where she also grew up. After finishing school she intended to study medicine, yet the East German authorities refused permission. In 1988 she began to study theology at the Sprachenkonvikt Berlin. After reunification she continued her studies at Heidelberg University as well as in Berlin, graduating in 1995.
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Lieven Boeve
1966 - Present (58 years)
Lieven Boeve [‘li:vən ‘bu:və] is a Belgian Catholic theologian, and is full professor of Systematic Theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where he currently also serves as Dean of the Faculty. Since 2012 he is also the chair of the Centre for Academic Teacher’s Training, KU Leuven. On 1 August 2014 he became the Director General of the Flemish Secretary for Catholic Education .
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Stephen Charles Mott
1940 - Present (84 years)
Stephen Charles Mott is a teacher among Evangelical Christians in the U.S., focusing on the teaching and academic study of social ethics since the early 1970s. Education He has a BD degree from Wheaton College, Illinois. He also received a Ph.D. degree from Harvard University, where he studied under New Testament scholar Krister Stendahl and social ethicist James Luther Adams.
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Johannes Møllehave
1937 - 2021 (84 years)
Johannes Volf Møllehave was a Danish Lutheran priest, author, and lecturer. Education and career Møllehave was born in Frederiksberg. He graduated in theology in 1963. His wide range of interests extended to some 40 different topics but he was particularly well known for his interest in Søren Kierkegaard, H. C. Andersen and Storm P.
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Timothy Gorringe
1946 - Present (78 years)
Timothy Jervis Gorringe is an English Anglican priest and theologian who is St Luke's Professor of Theological Studies at the University of Exeter, Devon, England. Life Born in 1946, Timothy Gorringe was educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford , and Sarum Theological College . He was ordained deacon in 1972 and priest in 1973 and served as Assistant Curate at Chapel Allerton and Oxford St Mary the Virgin with St Cross and St Peter . From 1979 until 1986, he taught theology at Tamilnadu Theological Seminary. He was Official Fellow, Chaplain, and Tutor in Theology at St John's College, Oxford, 1986...
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