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List of the most influential people in Religious Studies,

#1401

Fatima Seedat

#40579

Overall Influence

Fatima Seedat is a South African feminist, Islamic scholar and women's rights activist. She is known for her scholarly work on gender and Islamic law, and Islam and feminism. Career Seedat researches gender and Islamic law, Islam and feminism, and Muslim masculinity. She completed her PhD at McGill University, and her dissertation focused on gender and legal theory.

#1402

David Aers

#62729

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

David Roland Aers is a James B. Duke Professor of English, historical theology and religion at Duke University. He has published widely on literature, sacramental culture and ideology in medieval and Renaissance England.

#1403

Martin Lind

#70409

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Martin Claes Lind is bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Linköping in the Church of Sweden and former bishop of the Lutheran Church in Great Britain. He was Bishop of Linköping from 1 February 1995 to 2 March 2011. He was appointed bishop of the Lutheran Church in Great Britain in January 2014 and retired in 2019.

#1404

Jean Honoré

#48872

Overall Influence

1920 - 2013 (93 years)

Jean Marcel Honoré was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and a former archbishop of Tours. He was born in Saint-Brice-en-Coglès. He was ordained on 29 June 1943 after studying at the seminary in Rennes, and from 1958 to 1964 was secretary general of the National Commission for Religious Education and director of the National Centre of Religious Teaching. He was made Bishop of Évreux in 1972 and Archbishop of Tours in 1981. Honoré was known as a specialist in the works of Cardinal Newman.

#1405

Amédée Grab

#102662

Overall Influence

1930 - 2019 (89 years)

Amédée Grab, O.S.B. was a Swiss prelate of the Catholic Church who served as bishop of Chur from 1998 to 2007. He was an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Lausanne from 1987 to 1995 and then bishop there until 1998.

#1406

Donald Fairbairn

Donald Fairbairn

#96660

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Donald Fairbairn is a scholar specializing in patristic soteriology and Cyril of Alexandria who currently teaches at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Education Fairbairn graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with an A.B. in English literature. During his time at Princeton he was awarded the "Class of 1859 Prize" which was awarded to the student in the English department with the highest graduating GPA. He then began an M.Div program at Erskine Theological Seminary in Due West, South Carolina where he was awarded the Kenneth Fitzhugh Morris Award for excellence in Biblical studies.

#1407

William R. Farmer

#85491

Overall Influence

1921 - 2000 (79 years)

William Reuben Farmer was an American New Testament scholar, professor of theology at Southern Methodist University, and advocate of ecumenism. Biography Farmer studied at Cambridge University in England and Union Theological Seminary in New York . He graduated seminary in 1952. Farmer was then ordained as a minister of the United Methodist Church. He became a professor at the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas in 1959 or 1960. There, he was known as an associate and ally to Albert Outler, a Protestant historian of the church who closely observed and studied the Catholic Church and supported both the paleo-orthodox and the ecumenical movement.

#1408

Zev Garber

#80410

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Zev Garber is an American academic. He is Professor Emeritus and Chair of Jewish Studies at Los Angeles Valley College, and the editor of Shofar, a peer-reviewed academic journal of Jewish Studies. He is the former president of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew. He was the subject of a Festschrift in 2009.

#1409

John H. Walton

#46058

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

John H. Walton is an Old Testament scholar and Professor Emeritus at Wheaton College. He was a professor at Moody Bible Institute for 20 years. He specializes in the Ancient Near Eastern backgrounds of the Old Testament, especially Genesis and its creation account, as well as interpretation of Job.

#1410

Arthur J. Dewey

#46853

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Arthur J. Dewey is an American teacher, writer, translator and commentator with particular distinction as a New Testament scholar and specialist on the Historical Jesus. He is a professor of Theology in the University Scholars honors department at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he began teaching in 1980.

#1411

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

#31500

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Kuruvilla Pandikattu Joseph, SJ, is an Indian Jesuit priest. He is Chair Professor of JRD Tata Foundation on Business Ethics at XLRI, Jamshedpur and Professor of Philosophy, Science and Religion at Jnana Deepa, Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Pune, Maharashtra, India. He is also Director of JDV Centre for Science-Religion Studies and Association of Science, Society and Religion , Pune.

#1412

Bernard M. Levinson

#64005

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Bernard Malcolm Levinson serves as Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies and of Law at the University of Minnesota, where he holds the Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible. He is the author of Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation, "The Right Chorale": Studies in Biblical Law and Interpretation, and Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel; and is the co-editor of The Pentateuch as Torah: New Models for Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance. He has published extensively on biblical and ancient Near Eastern law and on the reception of biblical literature in the Second Temple period.

#1413

Martin Abegg

#51560

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Martin G. Abegg Jr. is a Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, researcher, and professor. Abegg is responsible for reconstructing the full text of the Dead Sea Scrolls from the Dead Sea Scrolls concordance, a project that broke the lengthy publication monopoly held on the scrolls. He went on to co-direct the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute at Trinity Western University from 1995 to 2015. Here, Abegg held the Ben Zion Wacholder Professorship. Because Abegg is an influential Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, he has been honoured with a collection of essays written by his peers and students.

#1414

Wentzel van Huyssteen

#81267

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

J. Wentzel van Huyssteen was a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1992-2014. His official position was the James I. McCord Professor of Theology and Science. Born in South Africa, he was ordained as part of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa. He received his MA in philosophy from the Stellenbosch University in South Africa, and his PhD in philosophical theology from the Free University of Amsterdam. His areas of expertise are theology and science as well as religion and scientific epistemology. He was on the editorial board for the American Journal of Theology and Philoso...

#1415

Mark McIntosh

#84564

Overall Influence

1960 - 2021 (61 years)

Mark Allen McIntosh was an American Episcopal priest and theologian. He specialized in systematic theology, historical theology, and the history of Christian spirituality, engaging especially with Christian mysticism. From 2014 until his death, he was Professor of Christian Spirituality at Loyola University Chicago. He was previously, from 2009 to 2014, the Van Mildert Professor of Divinity at Durham University and a Canon Residentiary of Durham Cathedral.

#1416

Enrico Masseroni

#77341

Overall Influence

1939 - 2019 (80 years)

Enrico Masseroni was an Italian Roman Catholic archbishop. Masseroni was born in Italy and was ordained to the priesthood in 1963. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mondovi, Italy, from 1987 to 1996 and as archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vercelli, Italy, from 1996 to 2014.

#1417

Gilbert Bilezikian

#93718

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (97 years)

Gilbert Bilezikian is an American Evangelical Christian writer, professor, and lecturer. Along with Bill Hybels, Bilezikian is a co-founder of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois. In 2020, Willow Creek announced that allegations of sexual abuse had been made against Bilezikian.

#1418

Ellen van Wolde

Ellen van Wolde

#80539

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Ellen José van Wolde is a Dutch biblical scholar. In her research she focuses mainly on the Hebrew Bible, applying achievements of semiotics and linguistics. She became known to the general public mainly through her oration on the first three sentences of the book of Genesis. Since the summer of 2021 she is Emeritus Professor at the Radboud University Nijmegen.

#1419

Roger Duke

#81851

Overall Influence

Roger D. Duke is an author, theologian, educator, itinerant preacher, and was a professor at several institutions of higher learning including Union University, Baptist College of Health Sciences, Liberty University, Memphis Theological Seminary, and Columbia Evangelical Seminary. Professor Duke also serves as a Consulting Editor for B & H Academic's Studies in Baptist Life and Thought series. He retired in 2016 to focus on a speaking and writing career by forming the Duke Consulting Group.

#1420

Avraham Gileadi

Avraham Gileadi

#49656

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Avraham Gileadi is a Dutch-born American scholar and professor specializing in the Hebrew language and analysis of Book of Isaiah. A longtime professor at Brigham Young University, he was one of the "September Six" of prominent scholars excommunicated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1993, but several years later Gileadi was formally readmitted into the church and insists that his excommunication was recognized by church leadership as "a mistake".

#1421

Jill Raitt

#96465

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Jill Raitt was the first woman to receive tenure at Duke University's Divinity School faculty. She has been influential in the increasing acceptance of women in professional ministerial positions. Early life Jill Raitt was born on May 1, 1931, in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Neysa Atherton Raitt and Arthur Taylor Raitt. She grew up with one older brother, Richard Arthur Raitt. As a child, Raitt enjoyed adventure and time spent outside. While working on a cattle ranch during high school, she developed an attachment to horses and farms that would follow her into adulthood.

#1422

Jouette Bassler

#86477

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Jouette M. Bassler is an American biblical scholar and expert in Pauline theology who is Professor Emeritus of New Testament at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. Her Ph.D. is from Yale University, and she taught at Georgetown University before moving to SMU. In 1979 Bassler was elected a member of the Catholic Biblical Association of America. She has written a number of books and served as general editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature from 1995 to 1999. She also served as New Testament editor for the HarperCollins Study Bible. Her 1994 article on the Pastoral Ep...

#1423

Michael Jensen

#84132

Overall Influence

Michael P. Jensen , is an Australian clergyman, author, and lecturer. He has served as the rector in the Anglican parish of St Mark's Church, Darling Point since 2013; and was formerly a professor of theology at Moore College, Sydney. He is a son of the former archbishop of Sydney, The Most Reverend Peter Jensen.

#1424

Vincent Strudwick

#61639

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Vincent Noel Harold Strudwick is a British Church of England priest, theologian and educationalist. His areas of expertise include sixteenth-century English history and the ecclesiology of Richard Hooker.

#1425

Paul Avis

#89249

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Paul David Loup Avis is an English Anglican priest, theologian, and ecumenist. He was General Secretary of the Church of England's Council for Christian Unity from 1998 to 2011, theological consultant to the Anglican Communion Office, London, from 2011 to 2012, and Canon Theologian of Exeter Cathedral from 2008 to 2013. He was honorary professor in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University 2017-2021 and Honorary Professor in the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh 2022-. At the University of Exeter he was visiting professor of theology from 2009 to 2017 and is currently honorary research fellow.

#1426

Ralf van Bühren

#44455

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Ralf van Bühren is a German art historian, architectural historian, church historian, and theologian. He is professor of art history at the School of Church Communications at the Pontifical University of Santa Croce in Rome, and also lecturing at the Pontificia Università Gregoriana. His courses on Sacred Art and Architecture in Rome are open to students of US universities with campus in Rome.

#1427

Halvor Moxnes

#100165

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Halvor Moxnes is a Norwegian theologian. He was born in Stokke on 13 September 1944. He received his Doctor of Theology degree in 1978 with the thesis Theology in Conflict: Studies in Paul's Understanding of God in Romans, and was appointed as a professor of the New Testament at the University of Oslo in 1984. In 2005 he received an honorary degree at the University of Copenhagen and he is also a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. In 2006 ran for election as the dean of the Faculty of Theology, but lost to Trygve Wyller.

#1428

Trygve Wyller

#95150

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Trygve Wyller is a Norwegian theologian. He was born in Stavanger. He took the cand.mag. degree in 1975, and the cand.theol. degree in 1982. He did not follow a straight academic path, as he worked as a journalist in Aftenposten from 1979 to 1983, and as a priest from 1984 to 1988. Then, he was a research fellow from 1989, and took the dr.theol. degree at the University of Oslo in 1994, on the thesis Troens tale og talen om verden. He was appointed as an associate professor at the same institution in 1996, and was promoted to professor of theology in 2002.

#1429

Carol A. Newsom

#79256

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Carol Ann Newsom is an American biblical scholar, historian of ancient Judaism, and literary critic. She is the Charles Howard Candler Professor Emerita of Old Testament at the Candler School of Theology and a former senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. She is a leading expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Wisdom literature, and the Book of Daniel.

#1430

Joachim Gauck

#20693

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Joachim Wilhelm Gauck is a German politician who served as President of Germany from 2012 to 2017. A former Lutheran pastor, he came to prominence as an anti-communist civil rights activist in East Germany.

#1431

Jane Williams

#73328

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Hilary Jane Williams, Lady Williams of Oystermouth , is an English Anglican theologian and writer. Williams was born on 4 March 1957 in Trivandrum, India, one of five sisters. Her father, Geoffrey Paul, former Bishop of Bradford, was then serving as a missionary priest at Palayamkottai and later Kerala. Her father was a member of the faculty and later became the principal of the Kerala United Theological Seminary at Kannammoola, where she spent part of her childhood. She studied theology at Clare College, Cambridge, and then worked in theological publishing and education. For three years she ...

#1432

Joseph N. Perry

#74814

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Joseph Nathaniel Perry is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Chicago from 1998 to 2023. Perry is a past vice-president of the board of the National Black Catholic Congress, and chairman of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops Subcommittee on African-American Affairs. He is also a supporter and celebrant of the Traditional Latin Mass, and has celebrated pontifical high masses, ordinations, and confirmations according to the traditional rite.

#1433

Boaz Huss

#48679

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Boaz Huss is a professor of Kabbalah at the Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is a leading scholar in contemporary Kabbalah. Early life and education Boaz Huss was born in Jerusalem, Israel. He completed his undergraduate and graduate work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he earned a B.A. in Philosophy and History of Jewish Thought in 1986 and a Ph.D. in History of Jewish Thought in 1993. His doctoral thesis, Ketem Paz – The Kabbalistic Doctrine of Rabbi Simeon Lavi in His Commentary to the Zohar, was supervised by Professor Mos...

#1434

Ada Rapoport-Albert

Ada Rapoport-Albert

#58601

Overall Influence

1945 - 2020 (75 years)

Ada Rapoport-Albert was an Israeli-British scholar whose scholarship focused on Jewish mysticism, Sabbateanism, and gender in Hasidic Judaism. Rapoport-Albert also served as the president of the Jewish Historical Society of England.

#1435

Michael Lattke

#85147

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Michael Stephan Lattke Lattke was born in Stettin, Germany . He was brought up in Solingen and, after attending the Volksschule Wittkuller Straße and Humboldt-Gymnasium before completing his Abitur at Gymnasium Schwertstraße, studied at Bonn, Tübingen, Münster, Augsburg and München. In spite of his Roman Catholic background, at Tübingen he also studied Protestant theology, especially under the leading Protestant New Testament scholar Ernst Käsemann. He received the Dipl.-Theol. from Tübingen in 1968, the Dr. theol. from Freiburg in 1974, and the Dr. theol. habil. from Augsburg in 1979.

#1436

Mohammad-Bagher Bagheri

#70202

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (98 years)

Mohammad-Bagher Bagheri Kani born in 1926, is an Iranian Shia Mujtahid. He was one of 82-86 Mujtahids to be elected in the First, Second, and Fourth terms in the Assembly of Experts. Life and education Mohammad Bagher was born in 1926, in Kan Tehran. He is the father of Ali Bagheri and older brother of Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani. He was taught Islamic jurisprudence and Interpretation of Quran under Ruhollah Khomeini, Hossein Borujerdi, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, and Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani while attending his Islamic Studies in Qom Seminary. He was also the head of Imam Sadiq University from...

#1437

Barbara Doherty

Barbara Doherty

#60842

Overall Influence

1931 - 2020 (89 years)

Barbara Doherty was an educator and theologian. A Roman Catholic religious sister, she was a member of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She was president of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana from 1984 to 1998. Other posts have been as director of the Institute of Religious Formation at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, president of the Indiana Conference of Higher Education, and on national boards of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and the Women's College Coalition.

#1438

Janet Afary

#33364

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Janet Afary is an author, feminist activist and researcher of history, religious studies and women studies. She is a professor and the Mellichamp Chair in Global Religion and Modernity at the University of California, Santa Barbara .

#1439

David M. Carr

#65695

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

David McLain Carr is Professor of Old Testament at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He is a leading scholar of the textual formation of the Hebrew Bible. Carr received his B.A. from Carleton College in 1980, his M.T.S., from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in 1983, and his Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate School in 1988.

#1440

Thomas Joseph Tobin

#35373

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Thomas Joseph Tobin is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was bishop of the Diocese of Providence in Rhode Island from 2005 to 2023. Tobin previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Youngstown in Ohio from 1995 to 2005 and as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania from 1992 to 1995.

#1441

J. Dudley Woodberry

#73101

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Dr. J Dudley Woodberry is dean emeritus and senior professor of missions at Fuller Theological Seminary School of World Missions, specializing in Islamic studies. While most of Woodberry's time is currently spent teaching and writing for scholarly publications, he has also served as a missionary and teacher in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan . Woodberry has acted as editor for : Paradigm Shifts in Christian Witness: Insights from Anthropology, Communication, and Spiritual Power ; Resources for Peacemaking in Muslim-Christian Relations: Contributions from the Conflict Transformation Pr...

#1442

Guido del Mestri

Guido del Mestri

#95276

Overall Influence

1911 - 1993 (82 years)

Guido del Mestri also Guido Del Mestri was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1940 to 1984. He was made a cardinal in 1991. Biography Guido del Mestri was born in Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina, then under Austro-Hungarian rule, on 13 January 1911 to an Italian father, Count Gian Vito Del Mestri, and an Austrian mother, Baroness Marianna de Grazia. He grew up speaking Croatian, Italian, and German. He studied at the Jesuit Lyceum of Kalksburg, Vienna, and then at the Almo Collegio Capranica. He also earned degrees in theology and canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University.

#1443

J. B. Torrance

#95020

Overall Influence

1923 - 2003 (80 years)

James B. Torrance was a Scottish theologian, biblical scholar and academic. He was Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Aberdeen. Biography Born in China into the Torrance family of Scottish theologians, to Scottish missionaries to China Thomas Torrance and Annie Elizabeth Torrance , James was a younger brother to Thomas F. Torrance and father of Alan Torrance. Torrance was educated in Edinburgh, receiving first class degrees in philosophy and theology. Following this he continued his studies in Marburg and Basel, where he studied with Karl Barth, and then continued researc...

#1444

Brian Brock

#60889

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Brian Brock is an American theologian. He holds a Personal Chair in Christian Ethics at the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy, University of Aberdeen. Early life and education Brock was born and raised in Baytown, Texas, where he was educated at Robert E. Lee High School. Before training as a theologian, he worked as an investigative reporter and editorialist from 1997 to 1999 for the Baytown Sun.

#1445

Ernest A. Fitzgerald

#79324

Overall Influence

1925 - 2001 (76 years)

Ernest A. Fitzgerald was an American bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1984. Birth and family He was born in Crouse, North Carolina. He married Sarah Frances Perry of Wingate, North Carolina 24 August 1945. The Fitzgeralds have two children: son Jimmy and wife Phyllis; and daughter Patty and husband Charles Poole. The Fitzgeralds also have three grandchildren.

#1446

Stanisław Kur

#110218

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (95 years)

Stanisław Kur is Polish biblical scholar and Roman Catholic priest. Biography After studies at Metropolitan Higher Seminary in Warsaw ordained priest in 1953. He obtained a post-doctorate diploma in 1990 with a dissertation entitled Life of Marha Krestos. During the years 1982-1997 he was a rector of seminary in Warsaw.

#1447

Thomas Smail

#78384

Overall Influence

1928 - 2012 (84 years)

Thomas Allan Smail was a leading Scottish theologian in the charismatic movement in the United Kingdom. Life Smail studied under Karl Barth, and in 1953 he was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in the Church of Scotland. From 1968 to 1972, he served in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, and then on the Roll of Ministers of the United Reformed Church In 1979, he became a Church of England priest.

#1448

Allen Vigneron

#42142

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Allen Henry Vigneron is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the current archbishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit in Michigan and Ecclesiastical Superior of the Cayman Islands, serving since 2009. Vigneron previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Oakland in California from 2003 to 2009 and as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Detroit from 1996 to 2003.

#1449

Eckhard J. Schnabel

#84052

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Eckhard J. Schnabel is a German evangelical theologian and professor of the New Testament. He is the author of numerous scholarly books, Bible commentaries, specialist articles and lexical contributions.

#1450

Giuseppe Veltri

Giuseppe Veltri

#90795

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Giuseppe Veltri is professor of Jewish studies and philosophy. Born and graduated in Italy, he obtained his PhD and habilitation from the Free University of Berlin. From 1997 to 2014, he was professor of Jewish Studies at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. Since 2014, he is professor of Jewish philosophy and religion at the University of Hamburg and director of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies as well as director of the Academy of World Religions in Hamburg since 2017.

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