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#951

Charles Farah

#65967
Overall Influence
1926 - 2001 (75 years)
Charles Farah, Jr. was a Professor of Theology and Historical Studies at Oral Roberts University. He taught at the school from 1967 to 1991 and from 1994 to 1995. He is known for his book, From the Pinnacle of the Temple, which suggested balancing biblical truths during the height of the Word of Faith movement. In the 1970s some proponents of this movement suggested that if one was not healed supernaturally by God that one did not have 'enough faith' or was 'in sin'. He complemented this perspective and refreshed the charismatic movement by pointing back to the doctrine of the sovereignty of God.
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#952

Dovid Gottlieb

#19482
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (74 years)
Dovid Gottlieb is a senior faculty member at Ohr Somayach in Jerusalem. An author and lecturer, Rabbi Gottlieb received his Ph.D. in mathematical logic at Brandeis University and later become Associate Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. A student of Jean Van Heijenoort, he received a doctorate in 1970 for his thesis The Use of Formal Systems in Logic and Mathematics. The Informed Soul was published by Artscroll in 1990, and has recently been reprinted.
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#953

Michael Lodahl

#44658
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (69 years)
Michael Lodahl is a theologian in the Church of the Nazarene. He graduated from Northwest Nazarene College in 1977, graduated summa cum laude from Nazarene Theological Seminary in 1981, and earned a Ph.D. from Emory University. He has pastored one church, La Puente Church of the Nazarene from 1981–1984, held professorship at Northwest Nazarene University, and currently teaches at Point Loma Nazarene University. He has published over 10 books, some of them held in many libraries. His best-known literary work is Story of God. His most widely held book is Shekhinah/spirit : divine presence in J...
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#954

William Schweiker

#52246
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (71 years)
William Schweiker is an American theological ethicist. He is the Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on globalization as an ethical problem, hermeneutic philosophy, theological humanism, the history of ethics, and comparative religious ethics.
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#955

Richard Muller

Richard Muller
#61225
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (76 years)
Richard A. Muller is an American historical theologian. Life Muller obtained his B.A. in history from Queens College, City University of New York in 1969, his M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary, New York in 1972, and his Ph.D. in Reformation studies from Duke University in 1976. He has taught at Fuller Theological Seminary , has been awarded a Mellon Post-Doctoral Research Grant and has held the Belle van Zuylenleerstoel at Utrecht University . He has served on the editorial boards of Sixteenth Century Journal and Reformation and Renaissance Review. He is P. J. Zondervan Professor of Hist...
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#956

Gene Savoy

Gene Savoy
#30648
Overall Influence
1927 - 2007 (80 years)
Douglas Eugene "Gene" Savoy was an American explorer, author, religious leader, and theologian. He served as Head Bishop of the International Community of Christ, Church of the Second Advent from 1971 until his death. Rising to prominence as one of the premier explorers of Peru in the 1960s, he is best known for his claims to have discovered more than 40 lost cities in Peru and is credited with bringing to light a number of Peru’s most important archeological sites, including Vilcabamba, the last refuge of the Incas during the Spanish conquest, and Gran Pajaten, which he named but did not di...
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#957

Basil Mitchell

#31876
Overall Influence
1917 - 2011 (94 years)
Basil George Mitchell was an English philosopher and at one time Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at the University of Oxford. Mitchell argued for the place of religious belief in public debate and criticized liberal humanism.
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#958

Walter Kaiser Jr.

#39572
Overall Influence
1933 - Present (91 years)
Walter C. Kaiser Jr. is an American Evangelical Old Testament scholar, writer, public speaker, and educator. Kaiser is the Colman M. Mockler distinguished Professor of Old Testament and former President of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, retired June 30, 2006. He was succeeded by James Emery White.
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#959

Susan Ashbrook Harvey

#68847
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (71 years)
Susan Ashbrook Harvey is the Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence and the Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor of History and Religion at Brown University. She specializes in late antique and Byzantine Christianity, with Syriac studies as her particular focus.
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#960

Paul Locatelli

#13867
Overall Influence
1938 - 2010 (72 years)
Paul Leo Locatelli, S.J. was an American Jesuit priest, academic and certified public accountant. Locatelli served as the president of Santa Clara University from 1988 until 2008 before becoming chancellor of Santa Clara in 2008. He also held the post of Secretary of Higher Education for the Society of Jesus in Rome.
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#961

Gordon Hugenberger

#49223
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (76 years)
Gordon Paul Hugenberger was the senior pastor at historic Park Street Church, in Boston, Massachusetts . He announced on June 5, 2016 that he would leave that position by the end of June, 2017. He was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts, one of seven children. While working at a Salvation Army camp as a high schooler, he had a conversion experience and began to follow Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.
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#962

Mary Elizabeth Moore

#64391
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (79 years)
Mary Elizabeth Moore is an educator, writer, and current dean of the Boston University School of Theology in Boston, Massachusetts. She has also been a professor of religion and education at the Claremont School of Theology, as well as Emory University, where she served as the director of the Women in Theology and Ministry Program. Moore has written on topics of socio-economic justice, and socio-ecological renewal, and throughout her career has significantly contributed to the dialogue between theology and education.
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#963

Hywel Lewis

#41663
Overall Influence
1910 - 1992 (82 years)
Hywel David Lewis was a Welsh theologian and philosopher. He was best known for his defence of dualism and personal survival. Life Lewis was born in Llandudno, Wales, and educated at Caernarfon grammar school, the University College of North Wales, Bangor , and Jesus College, Oxford .
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#964

Francesco Moraglia

#48628
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (71 years)
Francesco Moraglia is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. He has been Patriarch of Venice since March 2012; he is the first native of Genoa to hold that position. He was bishop of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato from 2008 to 2012.
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#965

Elizabeth Johnson

#43553
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (83 years)
Elizabeth A. Johnson is a Roman Catholic feminist theologian. She is a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Theology at Fordham University, a Jesuit institution in New York City and a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood. The National Catholic Reporter has called Johnson "one of the country's most prominent and respected theologians."
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#966

R. Tudur Jones

#36386
Overall Influence
1921 - 1998 (77 years)
Robert Tudur Jones , better known as R. Tudur Jones, was a Welsh nationalist and one of the country's leading theologianss. His nationalistic stance, combined with Calvinist doctrine, created an integrated vision that was significant to the religious life of Christian Wales in the later half of the 20th century.
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#967

Richard C. Gamble

#60169
Overall Influence
Richard C. Gamble is a reformed theologian and a professor. He is the Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh. He formerly served as an adjunct professor at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary and Westminster Theological Seminary, a professor at Reformed Theological Seminary, Calvin Theological Seminary, and Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He wrote the articles on Brevitas et Facilitas as the hermeneutical method of John Calvin. He is also an author, his most notable work being "The Whole Counsel Of God" Volumes 1, 2, and...
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#968

Shaul Magid

#46473
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (66 years)
Shaul Magid is the Distinguished Fellow in Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. From 2004-2018, he was a professor of religious studies and the Jay and Jeannie Schottenstein Chair of Jewish Studies in Modern Judaism at Indiana University as well as a senior research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. From 1996-2004, he was a professor of Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; he was chair of the Department of Jewish Philosophy from 2000-2004.
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#969

Beverly Mortensen

#36611
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (74 years)
Beverly P. Mortensen is a musician, composer, and scholar of ancient Jewish religion at Northwestern University. In 2006, she published the book The Priesthood in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan: Renewing the Profession , in which she strongly argues her thesis, that Targum Pseudo-Jonathan is a late 4th-century CE work and is meant as a manual for kohanim, Jewish priests.
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#970

Hans Boersma

#51773
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (63 years)
Hans Boersma is a Dutch-Canadian Anglican theologian specialising in patristics, sacramental theology, and nouvelle théologie. He is of Reformed background, but has become a convert and a priest in the Anglican Church in North America.
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#971

Stanislao Loffreda

Stanislao Loffreda
#47142
Overall Influence
1932 - Present (92 years)
Stanislao Loffreda, O.F.M., is an Italian Franciscan friar, archaeologist, Palestinian pottery expert and Bible scholar. Father Loffreda belongs to the Italian Province of S. Giacomo nelle Marche. He was ordained as a priest in the Order of Friars Minor in 1956. He is licentiate in Holy Scripture and laureate in theology with biblical specialization, M. A. in archeology on the Oriental Institute of Chicago in 1967. He served as a professor of biblical archeology and topography of Jerusalem and the director of Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem . In years 1968-1991 he was a co-directo...
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#972

Justo L. González

#54719
Overall Influence
1937 - Present (87 years)
Justo Luis González is a Cuban-American historical theologian and Methodist elder. He is a prolific author and an influential contributor to the development of Latin American theology. His wife, Catherine Gunsalus González, is a professor emerita at Columbia Theological Seminary, and the two have co-authored several books.
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#973

Henning Toft Bro

Henning Toft Bro
#68180
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (68 years)
Henning Toft Bro is a Danish prelate who served as the Bishop of Aalborg, Denmark from 2010 until 2021. Education After graduation, Toft Bro went to the sea where he worked as a fisherman. Afterwards he was a port worker at the harbor in Thyborøn. A year and a half later he went to Nørre Nissum to study at the Nørre Nissum Seminarium and HF. After he went to Aarhus University to study theology. Here he became a graduate of cand.theol in the spring of 1985.
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#974

John Muddiman

John Muddiman
#51176
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (24 years)
John Muddiman was a British academic and Anglican priest. He was the G. B. Caird Fellow in New Testament Theology at Mansfield College, Oxford, from 1990 until his retirement in 2012. Early life and education Muddiman was educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton. He studied at Keble College, Oxford and Selwyn College, Cambridge, and trained for Holy Orders at Westcott House, Cambridge. He studied for his DPhil under the supervision of G. B. Caird.
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#975

Jamal Harrison Bryant

#33644
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (53 years)
Jamal Harrison Bryant is an American minister, author and former political candidate. He is the senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. Early life and education Jamal Harrison Bryant was born on May 21, 1971 in Boston, Massachusetts to John Richard and Cecelia Bryant . He has a younger sister. He was raised in Baltimore, Maryland, where, as a child, he attended his father's church Bethel A.M.E. Church. He preached his first sermon when he was just a bean head baby at Bethel titled "No Pain, No Gain."
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#976

Andreas Gotzmann

#72994
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (64 years)
Andreas Gotzmann is a German historian of Judaism and scholar of religion. He holds the Chair for Jewish Studies and Religious Studies at the University of Erfurt. Education Andreas Gotzmann graduated from the Center for Jewish Studies Heidelberg and Heidelberg University in 1988 with an M.A. in Jewish History, Rabbinics & Codices, and Jewish Art History. He received his Ph.D. in Jewish Studies at the Free University of Berlin in 1995. Between 1990-1995 he was a research fellow in New York and Jerusalem; from 1994-1997 he was first a research assistant, then assistant professor for Jewish His...
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#977

Antonio Guido Filipazzi

Antonio Guido Filipazzi
#61704
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (61 years)
Antonio Guido Filipazzi is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who works in the diplomatic service of the Holy See since 1992. Biography He was born in Melzo, in the Province of Milan, on 8 October 1963 and grew up in Gessate. After completing his classical studies, he studied at the Genoa Section of Theological Faculty of Northern Italy, obtaining a bachelor's degree in theology in 1987. On 10 October 1987 he was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Genoa by Cardinal Giuseppe Siri. On 1 September 1989, he was incardinated into the Diocese of Ventimiglia-San Remo.
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#978

Alden Thompson

#35268
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (81 years)
Alden Lloyd Thompson is a Seventh-day Adventist Christian theologian, author, and seminar presenter. He is also a professor of biblical studies at Walla Walla University in Washington, United States.
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#979

Eric Segelberg

#56355
Overall Influence
1920 - 2001 (81 years)
Eric Segelberg was a Swedish theologian and a priest of the Lutheran Church of Sweden. Biography Segelberg was born in Nyköping, Sweden. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1944, and he continued to study theology and classics at both Uppsala and Oxford Universities, receiving a doctorate in history of religion. His dissertation in 1958 was titled "Maşbūtā. Studies in the Ritual of the Mandæan Baptism". He became professor of classics at Dalhousie University, Canada, in 1968. As professor emeritus he returned to Sweden. Widely known in many fields, he specialized in study of patristics, the Mandeans and Gnosticism.
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#980

Carl Frederick Mengeling

#68270
Overall Influence
1930 - Present (94 years)
Carl Frederick Mengeling S.T.D is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Lansing in Michigan from 1996 to 2008. Biography Mengeling was born on October 22, 1930, in Hammond, Indiana, to Carl H. and Augusta Huke Mengeling. Raised in a Lutheran family, Mengeling converted to Catholicism at age nine. He attended St. Mary Elementary School in Griffith, Indiana, and graduated from Griffith High School in 1948. Mengeling then entered St. Meinrad College and Seminary in Saint Meinrad, Indiana.
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#981

Jeffrey J. Kripal

#18040
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (62 years)
Jeffrey John Kripal is an American college professor. He is the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His work includes the study of comparative erotics and ethics in mystical literature, American countercultural translations of Asian religions, and the history of Western esotericism from gnosticism to New Age religions.
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#982

Bruce D. Marshall

#47543
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (69 years)
Bruce D. Marshall is a Catholic theologian and Lehman Professor of Christian Doctrine at Southern Methodist University. His work focuses primarily on Trinitarian theology, Christology, the relation of philosophy and theology, and the links shared between Judaism and Christianity.
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#983

Otto Kaiser

#27629
Overall Influence
1924 - 2017 (93 years)
Otto Kaiser was a German Old Testament scholar. Biography Education Kaiser was born in Prenzlau, Germany, where he attended the Gymnasium in Eberswalde and went to the University of Berlin to study medicine, as well as philosophy with Nicolai Hartmann. He served in World War II on the Eastern Front and was wounded. Returning, he studied Protestant theology and Oriental Studies and Philosophy at the University of Tübingen. He received his Doctor of Divinity degree in 1961 and his habilitation less than a year later. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Jena, the University of T...
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#984

Andrew S. Park

#41148
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (73 years)
Andrew Sung Park is a Korean American Methodist theologian. Park teaches at United Theological Seminary in Trotwood, Ohio. He specializes in systematic theology, global theology, cross-cultural theology, Asian American liberation theology, Christian mysticism, and the relationship between religion and science. He has expanded the theology of emotional pain by exploring the Korean concept of han.
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#985

Harold M. Schulweis

#24384
Overall Influence
1925 - 2014 (89 years)
Harold M. Schulweis was an American rabbi and author. He was the longtime spiritual Leader at Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, California. Biography Schulweis was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1925 to secular parents who respected Zionism and Jewish traditions. His father was an editor of The Jewish Daily Forward. His early Jewish education was influenced by his grandfather, Rabbi Avraham Rezak, who introduced him to the Talmud. In 1945, Schulweis graduated Yeshiva University with a degree in philosophy. Later Schulweis enrolled in the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he studied under Mordecai Kaplan and Abraham Joshua Heschel.
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#986

Donald Eric Capps

#25476
Overall Influence
1939 - 2015 (76 years)
Donald Eric Capps was an American theologian and William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. Biography Donald Eric Capps was born in Omaha, Nebraska. After studying at Lewis & Clark College and Yale Divinity School and University of Chicago , he earned his Ph.D. also at the University of Chicago in 1970. His dissertation explored a psycho-historical analysis of the personality of the English theologian John Henry Cardinal Newman, and particularly his vocational struggles.
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#987

Richard A. McCormick

#31678
Overall Influence
1922 - 2000 (78 years)
Richard A. McCormick was a leading liberal Catholic moral theologian who reshaped Catholic thought in the United States. He wrote many journal articles on Catholic social teachings and moral theory. He was an expert in Catholic medical ethics and for many years wrote the "Notes on Moral Theology" column in Theological Studies. He was "particularly articulate" among the five moral theologians who in 1964 at the Kennedy Compound crafted a political position for the Kennedy clan that would permit abortion in law.
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#988

Juris Rubenis

#59162
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (63 years)
Juris Rubenis is a Latvian Lutheran pastor. Rubenis has written more than 20 original literature and theology books. Many of his books have been translated into Lithuanian, German and English. He has published more than 500 articles in German, English, Russian and other languages.
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#989

Kurtis Schaeffer

#72761
Overall Influence
Kurtis R. Schaeffer is Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia and Chair of the Religious Studies department. His primary topics of research are the history of the regions of Nepal, India, Tibet, and China, with a focus on the forms of Buddhism present in these areas, most especially Tibetan Buddhism. Some specific issues he has been concentrated on include Indo-Tibetan poetry, the development of classical learning and printed literature in Tibetan cultural regions, and the history of women, saints, and Dalai Lamas in Tibet. For his work, Schaeffer has received...
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#990

Nils Ole Oermann

#23093
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (51 years)
Nils Ole Oermann is a German academic and business ethicist. Education and academic career At the University of Leipzig, Oermann received his master's degree in Protestant theology in 1997 after studying theology, law, history and philosophy there and at Münster for four years. In 1996, he obtained his master’s degree and his D.Phil. in 1998 as he was a Rhodes Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford. His doctoral thesis was on colonial history. In 2013 he was appointed by the Rhodes Trust as its national secretary administering the Rhodes Scholarship for German nationals in Oxford.
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#991

René Padilla

#64200
Overall Influence
1932 - 2021 (89 years)
C. René Padilla was an Ecuadorian evangelical theologian and missiologist known for coining the term integral mission in the 1970s to articulate Christianity's dual priority in evangelism and social activism. He popularized this term in Latin American evangelicalism through the Latin American Theological Fellowship and through the global evangelical Lausanne Conference of 1974.
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#992

Tryggve Mettinger

#25228
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (84 years)
Tryggve Mettinger is a retired professor of Hebrew Bible, at Lund University, Sweden, where he taught from 1978 to 2003. Life and work Between 1960 and 1978, Mettinger studied various subjects, such as Semitics, Egyptology, Assyriology, and Comparative Literature, at the Universities of Lund and Copenhagen. He later earned his doctorate in 1971, worked as docent of Old Testament exegesis, and subsequently was appointed professor at Lund University, a capacity in which he served until his retirement in 2003. He has had visiting professor positions in the U.S., Israel, the Netherlands, and South Africa.
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#993

John Wijngaards

John Wijngaards
#41330
Overall Influence
1935 - Present (89 years)
Johannes Nicolaas Maria Wijngaards is a Catholic scripture scholar and a laicized priest. Since 1977 he has been prominent in his public opposition to the teaching of the Catholic Church on the impossibility of ordaining women to the priesthood. In 1998 he resigned from his priestly ministry in protest against Pope John Paul II’s decrees Ordinatio sacerdotalis and Ad Tuendam Fidem which prohibited further discussion of the women priests’ issue in the Catholic Church.
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#994

Ron Geaves

#23457
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (76 years)
Ron Geaves is a British scholar of religious studies who was professor of the comparative study of religion at Liverpool Hope University in England, retiring in December 2013. He was formerly Programme Leader and Chair in religious studies at the University of Chester in England and Head of Department at the University of Chichester . He was chair of the Muslims in Britain Research Network and instrumental in the creation of BRAIS , remaining on their advisory board.
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#995

Elsa Támez

#68863
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (74 years)
Elsa Támez is a Mexican liberation theologian and biblical scholar. Her writings on feminist theology and contextual biblical criticisms brought new perspectives to these fields of study, laying the foundation for later scholars. Her books include Bible of the Oppressed, The Amnesty of Grace, and Struggles for Power in Early Christianity: A Study of the First Letter of Timothy . She is Professor Emerita at the Universidad Biblica Latinamericana in Costa Rica. She was appointed president of Universidad Biblica Latinamericana in 1995, becoming their first woman president.
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#996

Stephen B. Bevans

#61585
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (80 years)
Stephen Bennett Bevans, SVD is an American Roman Catholic, priest, theologian, and the Louis J. Luzbetak, SVD Professor of Mission and Culture, Emeritus at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He is known for his work Models of Contextual Theology.
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#997

Constantine B. Scouteris

Constantine B. Scouteris
#61841
Overall Influence
1939 - 2009 (70 years)
Constantine B. Scouteris was a Greek theologian and Emeritus Professor at the University of Athens. Biography He studied Theology at the University of Athens and pursued post-graduate studies in France , England and Germany . He was awarded the Doctorate Degree of Theology from the University of Athens , the Doctorate Degree from the Doctoral School of Theology and Religious Sciences of the University of Strasbourg and received Honorary Doctorate Degrees from the Universities of Oradea and Cluj-Napoca and from the Moscow Theological Academy .
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#998

Martti Nissinen

#36513
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (65 years)
Martti Heikki Nissinen is a Finnish theologian, serving since 2007 as Professor of Old Testament studies in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki. He is known as an expert of the prophetic phenomenon in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East, but his research interests include also gender issues in the ancient Eastern Mediterranean. He has written and edited several books and a significant number of articles on topics related to prophecy, gender, and history of ancient Near Eastern religion.
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#999

Philip Sheldrake

#48497
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (78 years)
Philip Sheldrake is a religious historian and theologian with additional background in philosophy and political theory. His main work has been as a leading scholar in the overall multi-disciplinary field of spirituality. In particular, Philip Sheldrake has been closely involved internationally in the emergence of Christian Spirituality as an academic discipline. Sheldrake is a past president of the international Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality, linked to the American Academy of Religion . He has written or edited seventeen books, with another book pending, as well as numerous book essays and journal articles.
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#1000

A. K. M. Adam

A. K. M. Adam
#62319
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (67 years)
Andrew Keith Malcolm Adam , known as A. K. M. Adam, is a biblical scholar, theologian, author, priest, technologist and blogger. He is Tutor in New Testament and Greek at St. Stephen's House at Oxford University. He is a writer, speaker, voice-over artist, and activist on topics including postmodern philosophy, hermeneutics, education, and the social constitution of meaning.
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