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#1301

José María Vigil

#43279
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (78 years)
José María Vigil Gallego is a Latin American theologian who has played a significant role in the fields of liberation theology and spirituality, the theology of religious pluralism and the emergence of new paradigms. He has been a Claretian missionary since 1964 and a Catholic priest since 1971. He is a naturalised Nicaraguan and currently lives in Panama. He is known for his numerous writings, his editorial and online activity, his service to the Association of Theologians of the Third World , the coordination of Koinonia Services and the International Latin American Agenda, his theology of ...
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#1302

Christian Lee Novetzke

#52830
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (55 years)
Christian Lee Novetzke is an American Indologist and scholar of Religious Studies and South Asian Studies. He is Professor of International Studies and Comparative Religion at the University of Washington, where he holds an endowed professorship from the College of Arts and Sciences. His areas of interest include Indian cultural history and the theorization of religion. As an author, he has also been largely collected by libraries.
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#1303

Rolland D. McCune

#76606
Overall Influence
1934 - Present (90 years)
Rolland D. McCune was an American theologian and ordained Baptist minister . He was professor of Systematic Theology at the Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary in Allen Park, Michigan, where he had been the President of the Seminary for ten years and then Dean of the Faculty for six years. He was active at the Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary from 1981 to 2009.
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#1304

Bernd Moeller

#77204
Overall Influence
1931 - 2020 (89 years)
Bernd Moeller was a German Protestant theologian and church historian. Bernd Moeller studied Protestant theology as well as history. In 1956 he received his doctorate from the Protestant theological department of the University of Mainz with the dissertation Die Anfechtung bei Johann Tauler . Two years later his habilitation followed on Johannes Zwick und die Reformation in Konstanz at the University of Heidelberg. In 1964 he succeeded Ernst Wolf as the chair of church history with an emphasis on Reformation history at the University of Göttingen, and he taught there until his retirement in 1999 .
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#1305

Kuzhivelil Mathew

#86179
Overall Influence
1931 - Present (93 years)
Kuzhuvelil Varkey Mathew is an Indian biblical scholar and a member of the Society for Biblical Studies in India. Education Kuzhuvelil Varkey Mathew was born in Keezhuvaipur in Kerala to Rachel and K. T. Varkey. Mathew studied at the local CMS High School in Mallapally in Pathanamthitta District and later underwent pre-university studies at the CMS College in Kottayam.
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#1306

Tripp Fuller

#88977
Overall Influence
Tripp Fuller is an American theologian, minister, and broadcaster. He is the founder and host of Homebrewed Christianity, one of the most downloaded theology programs in podcasting. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Theology and Science at the University of Edinburgh.
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#1307

Jerry A. Johnson

#54489
Overall Influence
Jerry A. Johnson is the former President of the National Religious Broadcasters. He became president of NRB on November 1, 2013, succeeding Frank Wright. Before accepting that post, he was President of Criswell College, and former dean of academics at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He also held several positions during 14 years at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. From 2013 to 2014 he served as Chairman of the Nominating Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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#1308

William A. Beardslee

#72650
Overall Influence
1916 - 2001 (85 years)
William A. Beardslee was a professional theologian who made major contributions to the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible. As a member of the National Council of Churches, Professor Beardslee spent 16 years helping translate ancient texts to update the Bible. The groups work resulted in the New Revised Standard Version, published in 1990, which replaced the 1952 Revised Standard Version. He was professor of religion at Emory University until his retirement in 1984. After his retirement, he spent his last 16 years as a voluntary director of the Process and Faith Program at the Claremon...
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#1309

Huub Oosterhuis

Huub Oosterhuis
#59270
Overall Influence
1933 - 2023 (90 years)
Hubertus Gerardus Josephus Henricus "Huub" Oosterhuis was a Dutch theologian and poet. He is mainly known for his contribution to Christian music and liturgy in Dutch and also in German, used in both Protestant and Catholic churches. He authored over 60 books and over 700 hymns, songs, psalms , and prayers. Several of his songs were translated, and he received international awards and recognition.
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#1310

Bogdan Józef Wojtuś

Bogdan Józef Wojtuś
#99027
Overall Influence
1937 - 2020 (83 years)
Bogdan Józef Wojtuś was a Polish Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Gniezno from 1988 until 2012. Biography He was born on 4 July 1937, in Łąsko Wielkie. He graduated from high school in Sępólno Krajeńskie. As priest, he was ordained on 20 May 1961 in Gniezno by Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, the Primate of Poland.
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#1311

Hossein Modarressi

#53952
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (72 years)
Hossein Modarressi Tabataba'i is a leading Muslim jurist and professor of law. Early life He attended the Islamic seminary at Qom where he received a complete traditional Islamic education in Islamic philosophy, theology and law, ending with a certificate of ijtihad, the highest degree in Islamic religious tradition. He also taught there for many years before pursuing his secular education which ended in 1982 with a D. Phil. from Oxford University. He has been a professor at Princeton University since 1983 where he is Bayard Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies. He has simultaneously been ...
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#1312

Emerich Coreth

#29013
Overall Influence
1919 - 2006 (87 years)
Emerich Coreth was an Austrian Philosopher, Jesuit and Catholic Priest. He is well known for his works on metaphysics and philosophical anthropology. A close associate of Karl Rahner, Coreth is a renowned neo-Thomist of 20th century. He was the Rector of the University of Innsbruck and the Provincial of the Austrian Province of the Society of Jesus.
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#1313

Martinus Petrus Maria Muskens

Martinus Petrus Maria Muskens
#85192
Overall Influence
1935 - 2013 (78 years)
Martinus Petrus Maria Muskens was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Breda, Netherlands. Ordained to the priesthood in 1962, Muskens was named bishop in 1994 and resigned in 2007. Notes
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#1314

Michael J. Buckley

#78753
Overall Influence
1931 - 2019 (88 years)
Michael Joseph Buckley was an American Jesuit priest and philosophical theologian. He was the Bea Professor of Theology at Santa Clara University. He also served as president of the Catholic Theological Society of America.
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#1315

Angelo Spinillo

#90510
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (73 years)
Angelo Spinillo is an Italian bishop. Life and career He obtained a license in prophetic pastoral theology at the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Southern Italy. On 15 July 1978 he was ordained priest by the bishop Umberto Altomare.
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#1316

Tine Lindhardt

Tine Lindhardt
#78895
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (67 years)
Tine Lindhardt , a Danish theologian, is the Lutheran bishop of the Diocese of Funen from 4 November 2012. Lindhardt studied theology at Aarhus University, graduating in 1984. She has worked as a parish priest and has also taught at as an external lecturer at Aarhus University. She was secretary general of the Danish Bible Society from 2003 to 2010 where she was responsible for coordinating a new translation of the Bible into Danish.
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#1317

David Augsburger

#73872
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (86 years)
David W. Augsburger is an American Anabaptist author with a Ph.D. from Claremont School of Theology and a BA and BD from Eastern Mennonite College and Eastern Mennonite Seminary respectively. He is one of six children, Fred, Donald, Anna Mary, Daniel and Myron, born to Clarence and Estella Augsburger. His brother Myron is a prominent Mennonite Church author, evangelist, and theologian.
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#1318

Gregory Collins

#79633
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (64 years)
Gregory Collins was the sixth Abbot of the Abbey of the Dormition in Jerusalem. Studies and priestly ordination Gregory Collins studied Byzantine Studies and Scholastic Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast and the British School of Archaeology in Athens. In 1989 Collins joined the Benedictine religious community at Glenstal Abbey. In 1991, he received his doctorate in Byzantine Studies in Belfast and was a teacher in Nigeria. From 1992 to 1996 he taught at Glenstal Abbey School. He professed in 1994 and received priestly ordination in 1995. After studying depth psychology at the C. G. Ju...
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#1319

Michael Haykin

Michael Haykin
#53735
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (24 years)
Michael A. G. Haykin is the Professor of Church History and Biblical Spirituality and Director of The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the general editor of The Complete Works of Andrew Fuller, a project that publishes "a modern critical edition of the entire corpus of Andrew Fuller's published and unpublished works." Though Haykin was trained as a Patristic scholar, he also developed himself in the area of 18th-century British evangelicalism, particularly the English Particular Baptist history and spirituality.
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#1320

Christine Downing

Christine Downing
#54698
Overall Influence
1931 - Present (93 years)
Christine Downing is a scholar, educator, and author in the fields of mythology, religion, depth psychology, and feminist studies. Early life and education Christine Downing was born in 1931 in Leipzig, Germany. Her mother, Herta Fischer Rosenblatt, was a pharmacist, poet, and co-founder of the Haiku Society of America. Her father, Dr. E. F. Rosenblatt, was a professor of Chemistry at the University of Leipzig. Dr. Rosenblatt, considered Jewish by the Nazi party, lost his professorial appointment in 1933, which prompted the family to emigrate to the United States. In 1935, they settled in New Jersey.
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#1321

Pasquale Foresi

#72875
Overall Influence
1929 - 2015 (86 years)
Pasquale Foresi was an Italian priest and theologian. He was connected to the Focolare Movement co-founded by him, Chiara Lubich and Igino Giordani. The Focolare Movement is an international organization that promotes the ideals of unity and universal brotherhood with other religious movements.
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#1322

Burkhard Gladigow

#71834
Overall Influence
1939 - 2022 (83 years)
Burkhard Gladigow was a German scholar of religious studies and classical philology. He was professor at the University of Tübingen. Biography Burkhard Gladigow was born in Berlin on 8 November 1939. Gladigow studied classical philology, philosophy and religious studies at the Free University of Berlin. He received his PhD from the University of Tübingen in 1962 with a dissertation on the concepts of sophos and sophia from Homer to Aeschylus. He later became professor of general religious studies and classical philology at the University of Tübingen. His research focused on systematic religio...
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#1323

Ian Ker

#45112
Overall Influence
1942 - 2022 (80 years)
Ian Turnbull Ker was an English Roman Catholic priest, a former Anglican and a scholar and author. He was generally regarded as the world's authority on John Henry Newman, on whom he published more than 20 books.
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#1324

James A. Borland

#79440
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (80 years)
James Allen Borland is an American evangelical professor of biblical studies and theology at Liberty University and former president of the Evangelical Theological Society. Biography Borland was born on July 11, 1944, in Santa Monica, California. He earned his B.A. from Los Angeles Baptist College, his M.Div from Los Angeles Baptist Theological Seminary, his Th.M. from Talbot Theological Seminary, and his Th.D. from Grace Theological Seminary. While he was in seminary, he served as pastor of Stonehurst Community Chapel in California. He taught for a year at Central Baptist Theological Sem...
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#1325

C. Hassell Bullock

#96565
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (85 years)
Clarence Hassell Bullock is an American Old Testament scholar and former president of the Evangelical Theological Society. He was a professor at Wheaton College in Illinois from 1973 until his retirement in 2009.
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#1326

Giuseppe Nazzaro

Giuseppe Nazzaro
#73972
Overall Influence
1937 - 2015 (78 years)
Giuseppe Nazzaro, OFM was an Emeritus bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppo, Custodian of the Holy Land and a polyglot. Life Giuseppe Nazzaro was born on 22 December 1937 in San Potito Ultra in the Campania. In 1950 he enrolled in the Franciscan College of the Holy Land in Rome. Nazzaro continued his studies in Emmaus in Israel. His novitiate in the Order of Friars Minor began on 4 October 1956 in Bethlehem. His perpetual profession was filed on 18 December 1960. Nazzaro studied philosophy and theology at Bethlehem and Jerusalem in the Studium Theologicum Jerosolimitanum. On 29 June 196...
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#1327

Robert Faricy

#81120
Overall Influence
1926 - 2022 (96 years)
Fr. Robert Faricy, S.J. was a Jesuit priest and theologian who was an Emeritus Professor of Spirituality and lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was an Emeritus Professor of Spirituality at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
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#1328

Joseph Fahey

#78658
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (24 years)
Joseph Fahey is an American Catholic theologian who specializes in Labor Studies and Peace Studies. He received his B.A. in Philosophy and his M.A. in Theology from Maryknoll Seminary . He received his Ph.D. in Religion from New York University in 1974. He served as a professor of Theology and later Religious Studies at Manhattan College from 1966-2016. He was a co-founder of the College's B.A. in Peace Studies and the founder of the College's B.A. in Labor Studies. He has taught courses on Contemporary Moral Issues, Religious Dimensions of Peace, and the Labor Studies Colloquium. He ...
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#1329

Wolfgang Feneberg

#74463
Overall Influence
1935 - 2018 (83 years)
Wolfgang Feneberg was a German Roman Catholic, later an Evangelical Lutheran theologian of the New Testament, ex-Jesuit and Parson of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria and Professor. Feneberg was the founder of the "Bibelschule in Israel".
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#1330

Gro Steinsland

#36529
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (79 years)
Gro Steinsland is a Norwegian scholar of medieval studies and history of religion and since August 2009 has been the Scientific Director of the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
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#1331

John Navone

John Navone
#69575
Overall Influence
1930 - 2016 (86 years)
John J. Navone S.J. was a Jesuit priest, theologian, philosopher, educator, author, raconteur, and Professor Emeritus of Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. Having reached the mandatory age, he retired from the Gregorian, returned to the Society's Oregon Province, and taught at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA.
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#1332

Bernard Orchard

#43353
Overall Influence
1910 - 2006 (96 years)
Dom Bernard Orchard was an English Catholic Benedictine monk, headmaster and biblical scholar. Early life and education John Archibald Henslowe Orchard, the son of a farmer, was born in Bromley, Kent. He was educated at Ealing Priory School , and on leaving in 1927 became its first pupil since foundation in 1902 to go to university, winning a place at Fitzwilliam House, in the University of Cambridge, where he read History and Economics. At Ealing Priory he shared classes with Reginald C. Fuller with whom he would in later life collaborate on scholarly projects.
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#1333

Yairah Amit

#84301
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (83 years)
Yairah Amit is an Israeli biblical scholar. Amit studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before doing a PhD at Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Meir Sternberg. She is currently Professor of Biblical Studies at Tel Aviv University. In 2012 a Festschrift was published in her honor. Words, Ideas, Worlds: Biblical Essays in Honour of Yairah Amit included contributions from Athalya Brenner, Cheryl Exum, and Yael Feldman.
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#1334

Markus Vinzent

#72482
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (65 years)
Markus Vinzent is a historian of religion . He is professor in the Department of Theology & Religious Studies at King's College London, and fellow of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Social and Cultural Studies, Erfurt, Germany.
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#1335

B. V. Subbamma

#41000
Overall Influence
1925 - 2009 (84 years)
B. V. Subbamma also known as Bathineni Venkata Subbamma was an Indian theologian and scholar. Noted for founding Christian ashrams, she was widely recognized for her analysis of Christianity from a cultural perspective. She was one of the first women in India to attain theological training and was one of the inaugural women pastors ordained by the Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1999 at AELC-St. Matthews West Parish, Guntur.
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#1336

Michael Theobald

#91007
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (76 years)
Michael Theobald is a German academic theologian who is Professor of New Testament in the Catholic Theological Faculty at the University of Tübingen. Theobald's research focuses on the New Testament, particularly the Passion Narratives, the Gospel of John, and New Testament epistolary literature .
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#1337

D. S. Satyaranjan

#48753
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (85 years)
D. S. Satyaranjan was a Silver Jubilee Pastor, a New Testament Scholar, and an Administrator who served as the Registrar of the Senate of Serampore College , the nation's first University {a University under Section 2 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956} with degree-granting authority validated by a Danish Charter and ratified by the Government of West Bengal.
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#1338

Raymond Cottrell

#71283
Overall Influence
1911 - 2003 (92 years)
Raymond Forrest Cottrell was an Adventist theologian, missionary, teacher, writer and editor. He was an associate editor of both the Adventist Review and the Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary. Raymond Cottrell, is seen by some as a "progressive Adventist", as he disagreed with certain traditional positions of the church, including the investigative judgment, and served in an editorial role for the independently owned and operated magazine Adventist Today. He was a consulting editor to Spectrum magazine, another independent Adventist paper, both which leaned to progressive Adventist viewpoints.
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#1339

Nechama Leibowitz

#30950
Overall Influence
1905 - 1997 (92 years)
Nechama Leibowitz was an Israeli Bible scholar and commentator who rekindled interest in Bible study. Biography Nechama Leibowitz was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Riga two years after her elder brother, the philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz. The family moved to Berlin in 1919. In 1930, Leibowitz received a doctorate from the University of Marburg for her thesis, Techniques in the Translations of German-Jewish Biblical Translations. That same year 1930, she immigrated to Mandate Palestine with her husband Yedidya Lipman Lebowitz. She taught at a religious Zionist teachers' seminar for the next twenty-five years.
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#1340

Jane Dempsey Douglass

#68305
Overall Influence
1933 - Present (91 years)
E. Jane Dempsey Douglass is an American Presbyterian theologian and ecclesiastical historian. She was a professor at Claremont Graduate School before becoming the Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Historical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. Douglass served as the President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches from 1990 to 1997, making her the first woman to head a worldwide communion of churches.
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#1341

Friedrich Dörr

#71221
Overall Influence
1908 - 1993 (85 years)
Friedrich Dörr was a German Catholic priest and professor of theology, who is known as a hymnwriter. He shaped the first common German Catholic hymnal, Gotteslob, published in 1975. Life Friedrich Dörr was born in Obereschenbach to a family of bakers, the son of Georg Dörr, who was mayor of his hometown until 1933. Friedrich was a member of the of the humanist from age 11. After his Abitur in 1927, he studied philosophy and Catholic theology at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome, graduating in 1930 from the Pontifical Gregorian University. He was ordained as priest by Cardinal Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani on 29 October 1933.
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#1342

Ernest Tatham

#86711
Overall Influence
1905 - 1997 (92 years)
Charles Ernest Tatham was a Canadian theologian, missionary, and author of books. Early life Tatham was born in Wellington, Ontario in 1905. He was the son of Charles Goodeve Tatham . He earned a B.A. degree in Theology from Toronto Bible College.
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#1343

John Saward

#71646
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (77 years)
John Saward is a Roman Catholic priest. He is Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars in the University of Oxford in England. He previously held the posts of lecturer in dogmatic theology at St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw , Professor of Systematic Theology at St Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , Professor of Dogmatic Theology in the International Theological Institute, Gaming, Austria, and Visiting Professor in Systematic Theology and Christology in the same institute.
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#1344

Jan Milíč Lochman

Jan Milíč Lochman
#77142
Overall Influence
1922 - 2004 (82 years)
Jan Milíč Lochman was a Czechoslovakian-Swiss Protestant theologian. Life Lochman came from a family with reformed tradition. He graduated from high school in Náchod in 1941. After the Czech part of Charles University was reopened in 1945, he studied theology and philosophy at the Comenius Protestant Theological Faculty and received his doctorate in 1948. Afterwards he was ordained pastor of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren. After a short time as a Preacher, he returned to the Comenius Faculty in Prague, where he habilitated and worked as a lecturer. From 1960 he taught there as a professor of philosophy and systematic theology.
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#1345

Steven Collins

#62719
Overall Influence
1951 - 2018 (67 years)
Steven Collins was a British-born Buddhist studies scholar. He earned a master's degree and doctorate from the University of Oxford and lectured at the University of Bristol before joining the University of Chicago faculty in 1991, where he was named the Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities. Collins died in New Zealand, where he was attending a seminar, on 15 February 2018, at the age of 66.
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#1346

Leonard Swidler

#57579
Overall Influence
1929 - Present (95 years)
Leonard J. Swidler is Professor of Catholic Thought and Interreligious Dialogue at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1966. He is the co-founder and editor of the Journal of Ecumenical Studies . He is also the founder/president of the Dialogue Institute , the senior advisor for iPub Global Connection a book publisher, and the founder and past president of the Association for the Rights of Catholics in the Church .
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#1347

Chrysostomos Savvatos

Chrysostomos Savvatos
#85061
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (63 years)
Bishop Chrysostomos Savvatos , born in the Athens suburb of Peristeri in 1961, is a theologian in the Greek Orthodox Church and a professor in the Theology Faculty of the University of Athens. He has earned degrees from Rome and Strasbourg. In mid-2007 he was ordained as the metropolitan bishop of Messenia but continues also to fulfil the obligations of his university chair.
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#1348

John N. Oswalt

#71921
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (84 years)
John N. Oswalt is an American scholar and distinguished professor of Old Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary. He teaches in theology, Old Testament and ancient semitic languages including Hebrew. He is the author of 11 scholarly books; foremost is the 2-volume commentary on the Book of Isaiah in the New International Commentary on the Old Testament series. Exodus: The Way Out is a recent work. Oswalt adheres to single, unitary authorship of the Book of Isaiah. Numerous scholarly journals, biblical encyclopedias and academic religious periodicals have included articles by him.
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#1349

David L. Petersen

#59720
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (81 years)
David L. Petersen is the Franklin Nutting Parker Professor of Old Testament in the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. He is also an ordained Presbyterian minister. Petersen received his Bachelor of Arts in 1965 from College of Wooster, a small Ohio liberal arts college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church. In 1968 he earned a Bachelors in Divinity at Yale University followed by a Masters in Philosophy in 1970 and a Ph.D. in 1972 from the same school.
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#1350

Ahn Byung-Mu

#86131
Overall Influence
1922 - 1996 (74 years)
Ahn Byung-Mu was a Korean New Testament scholar and founding father of minjung theology. Biography Ahn was born in South Pyongan Province as the first son of a traditional doctor. When he was one year old, his family fled Japanese-colonized Korea to Manchuria. He was introduced to Christianity in primary school and entered a secondary school run by the Canadian Presbyterian mission. He went to Japan in 1941 to study sociology and philosophy at Taisho University and Waseda University. Although this was interrupted, he continued his studies in sociology with a minor in religion at Seoul National University .
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