The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Religious Studies,
#1451
John C. Wilkinson
#41239
Overall Influence
1934 - Present (90 years)
John Craven Wilkinson is a scholar of Islamic studies specializing in Ibadi studies. He is a British expert in the field of Ibadi studies. Biography Prior to his career in Islamic studies, he worked for international oil companies throughout the Middle East. He then returned to the UK to obtain his PhD at Oxford, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on the Ibadi Imamate of Oman. In 1969, he finished his PhD thesis titled Arab settlement in Oman: the origins and development of the tribal pattern and its relationship to the Imamate. Wilkinson then began a prolific career publishing on Ibadi Islam and Omani history.
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Claire Clivaz
#87235
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (53 years)
Claire Clivaz is a Swiss pastor and theology scholar. Head of Digital Enhanced Learning at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics , she leads research at the crossroad of New Testament and Digital Humanities.
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Vinay Samuel
#94865
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (82 years)
Vinay Kumar Samuel is an Indian Anglican evangelical theologian, known for his work in holistic mission. Biography Samuel was born in August 1942 in Hyderabad, India, as the eldest boy of four children. He became a Christian in his teenage years and studied theology at Union Biblical Seminary, Pune, and completed his graduate studies at the University of Cambridge. He was a minister of St. John's Church, Bangalore and was founding director of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies .
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John Norman Davidson Kelly
#58219
Overall Influence
1909 - 1997 (88 years)
John Norman Davidson Kelly was a British theologian and academic at the University of Oxford and Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, between 1951 and 1979, during which the hall transformed into an independent constituent college of the university and later a co-educational establishment.
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Hugh G. M. Williamson
#78999
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (77 years)
Hugh Godfrey Maturin Williamson is a theologian and academic. He was Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 2014, a position he now holds as Emeritus. Career Williamson has authored major commentaries on Ezra/Nehemiah in the Word Biblical Commentary series and a multi-volumed commentary of Isaiah 1-27 for the International Critical Commentary series. For the latter, volume 1 was published in 2006 and volume 2 in 2019.
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Erwin Fahlbusch
#88157
Overall Influence
1926 - 2007 (81 years)
Erwin Fahlbusch was a research consultant at Konfessionskundliches Institut in Bensheim and was an honorary professor of Systematic theology in the Faculty of Evangelical Theology at the University of Frankfurt for many years.
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Konrad Repgen
#33099
Overall Influence
1923 - 2017 (94 years)
Konrad Repgen was a German historian and a professor emeritus at the University of Bonn. He was revered for his work on contemporary church history. Life Konrad Repgen was born in 1923 at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Hütte, part of the conurbation of Troisdorf a short distance to the south-east of Cologne. His father was a teacher and an active member of the Catholic Centre Party. In January 1933, a régime change heralded a rapid switch to single-party government, and Repgen's father, identified as an activist member of one of the "wrong" parties, lost his teaching job the same year.
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Alan Jones
#70899
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (84 years)
Alan William Jones is an Episcopal priest and dean emeritus of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. A prominent lecturer in Episcopalian and academic circles both nationally and internationally, he is a prolific writer of books, articles, and editorial opinions.
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Henry de Stanton
#93401
Overall Influence
Henry de Stanton was an English medieval Canon law jurist, judge, churchman, and university chancellor. Henry de Stanton was a Professor of Canon law. Between 1280 and 1282, he was Chancellor of the University of Oxford. During his chancellorship, the university appointed a group of masters to investigate how to put the Will of William of Durham into effect to establish University College at Oxford.
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Hughes Oliphant Old
#104339
Overall Influence
1933 - 2016 (83 years)
Hughes Oliphant Old was an American theologian and academic. Until his retirement in 2014 he was the John H. Leith Professor of Reformed Theology and Worship at Erskine Theological Seminary. Previously he had taught at Princeton Theological Seminary.
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Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio
#96367
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (74 years)
Carlos Gustavo Castillo Mattasoglio is Peruvian prelate of the Catholic Church whom Pope Francis named Archbishop of Lima on 25 January 2019. Early career Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio was born in Lima on 28 February 1950. After attending the Dalton de Lince College and the San Agustín College of Lima, he studied at the National University of San Marcos from 1968 to 1973, earning a bachelor's degree in social sciences. At San Marcos, he joined the National Union of Catholic Students, led by Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, one of the principal voices in the Liberation Theology movement. He continued his studies at the Santo Toribio di Mogrovejo major seminary in Lima.
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Sōiku Shigematsu
#75575
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (81 years)
Sōiku Shigematsu is a Japanese priest of Myoshin-ji branch of Rinzai School of Zen Buddhism, abbot of Shōgen-ji Temple in Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka, author and translator of books and essays on Zen that were instrumental in spreading interest in Zen literary tradition to the West in the latter half of the 20th century. Shigematsu taught English literature at Shizuoka University also visiting the United States on several occasions, most notably in 1985-6 as a Fulbright scholar. He won the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from The American Poetry Review in 1987.
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John Chryssavgis
#75205
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (66 years)
John Chryssavgis is an Orthodox Christian theologian who serves as advisor to the Ecumenical Patriarch on environmental issues. He is a clergyman of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. In January 2012, he received the title of Archdeacon of the Ecumenical Throne by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. In 2016, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by St. Vladimir's Theological Seminary. In 2020, he was elected Honorary Professor of Theology in the Sydney College of Divinity.
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Kęstutis Kėvalas
#95351
Overall Influence
1972 - Present (52 years)
The Most Rev. Mons. Kęstutis Kėvalas is the current Metropolitan Archbishop of Kaunas. Biography Kęstutis Kėvalas studied from 1990 to 1992 at Kaunas University of Technology. In 1993 he entered the Kaunas Priest Seminary, where he studied until 1997 Catholic theology and philosophy. He then continued his studies at the Seminary of St. Mary in Baltimore, where he earned a licentiate in theology. On 29 June 2000, he was ordained at the Cathedral Basilica of St Peter and St Paul.
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Antoine Wenger
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Overall Influence
1919 - 2009 (90 years)
Antoine Wenger was a French priest, Patristics scholar and journalist. After studies in Strasbourg and Paris he taught at the Institut Catholique in Lyons. Ordained priest in 1943 as an Assumptionist, he pursued that order's interest in Byzantine studies and journalism.
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Luise Schottroff
#95812
Overall Influence
1934 - 2015 (81 years)
Luise Schottroff was a German New Testament and feminist scholar. She was born in Berlin, Germany, and her father was a pastor in the Confessing Church. Schottroff studied theology at the University of Mainz, and then pursued a doctorate at the University of Göttingen, completing her degree in 1960. Her dissertation was entitled, "Die Bereitung zum Sterben: Studien zu den frühen reformatorischen Sterbebüchern." She then became an assistant professor in the faculty of Evangelical theology at the University of Mainz, in 1961. She completed her habilitation at the University of Mainz in 1969. Schottroff taught at the University of Mainz until 1986, reaching full professor by 1973.
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Thomas Joseph White
#88336
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (53 years)
Thomas Joseph White, O.P., is an American Roman Catholic priest and theologian. On September 14, 2021, he succeeded Michał Paluch, OP, as rector of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome .
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Birger Gerhardsson
#100034
Overall Influence
1926 - 2013 (87 years)
Birger Gerhardsson was a Swedish New Testament scholar and professor in the Faculty of Theology at Lund University, Sweden. His primary academic focus was on the transmission and development of the oral traditions of the New Testament gospels.
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Peter Skov-Jakobsen
#87347
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (65 years)
Peter Henrik Skov-Jakobsen is a Danish bishop and theologian. Since 2009 he has been the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Copenhagen and consequently the primus inter pares of the Church of Denmark. Education Skov-Jakobsen graduated from St. Canute High School in Odense in 1979, which was followed by two years of study in German. In 1992 he completed a Masters of Arts in Theological Understanding of Industrial Society at the University of Hull. This happened while he was studying theology at the University of Copenhagen. In July 1993, after completion of his studies, he became a Cand.theol.
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Elizabeth Stuart
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Overall Influence
1963 - Present (61 years)
Revd Professor Elizabeth Stuart is a British theologian specialising in Queer Theology. Academic positions Stuart is Professor of Christian Theology at the University of Winchester and was founding chair of the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Sexuality. She is the founding editor of the academic journal Theology and Sexuality. In August 2008 she took up the position of Pro Vice-Chancellor, Academic. In 2011, she became the Senior Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Winchester. In 2013 she was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor. On 1 April 2021, Stuart became Acting Vice-Chancellor...
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Luis G. Pedraja
#65289
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (61 years)
Luis G. Pedraja is a Cuban-born theologian, philosopher, author, scholar and educator. Pedraja is an influential contributor to the development of Latino/a theology. He is also noted for his work in process philosophy and postmodernism, as well as his work in higher education.
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Jamie T. Phelps
#70215
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (83 years)
Jamie Theresa Phelps, O.P. is an American Catholic theologian. Phelps, who is African American, is known for her contributions to womanist theology. Biography Phelps was born in Alabama, the youngest of six children of a Catholic household. She became an Adrian Dominican Sister in 1959.
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Hayyim Angel
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Overall Influence
Rabbi Hayyim Angel is an American rabbi, academic, author and editor who is the National Scholar of the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals . Angel has taught advanced Bible courses to undergraduate, graduate, and rabbinical students at Yeshiva University since 1996, and lectures widely. He also serves on the Tanakh Faculty of the Beit Midrash of Teaneck, and is the Tanakh Education Scholar at Yeshivat Ben Porat Yosef school in Paramus, New Jersey. Angel previously served as rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City , and as rabbinic scholar at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in ...
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Hamilton Moore
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Overall Influence
Hamilton Moore is a Baptist theologian and lecturer. Moore holds a Bachelor of Divinity, a Master of Theology, and a PhD. In 1990, Moore became principal and New Testament tutor at the Irish Baptist College in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. He is also adjunct professor at Emanuel University in Oradea, Romania. Prior to that, he worked in pastoral and evangelistic ministry from 1968.
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Philip Clayton
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Overall Influence
1956 - Present (68 years)
Philip Clayton is an American philosopher of religion and philosopher of science. His work focuses on the intersection of science, ethics, and society. He currently holds the Ingraham Chair at Claremont School of Theology and serves as an affiliated faculty member at Claremont Graduate University. Clayton specializes in the philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, and philosophy of religion, as well as in comparative theology.
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Samuel Rayan
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Overall Influence
1920 - 2019 (99 years)
Samuel Rayan was a Jesuit priest and the first indian liberation theologian. Biography Rayan was born in the village of Kumbalam in Kollam District, Kerala into a family of eight children . Rayan joined the Jesuit novitiate in 1939 and was ordained Catholic priest in 1955, taking his final vows as a Jesuit in 1958. He devoted many years to the study of Malayalam literature, mastered Sanskrit, and was well read in Indian religions and philosophy. He completed his theological studies in De Nobili College in Pune, before his doctorate in Rome.
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Ulrich Simon
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Overall Influence
1913 - 1997 (84 years)
Ulrich [Richard] Ernst Simon was an Anglican theologian of German Jewish origin. Simon had known Thomas Mann during his childhood in Berlin and Dietrich Bonhoeffer was another near neighbour. Simon's family were non-practising Jews but their lives were at risk from the Nazis and, after flirting with the Communists, Ulrich Simon was sent to England in 1933. His father, the composer James Simon, was murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. His older brother, Jörn Martin Simon, died in the Moscow Trials in 1937. His mother Anna Levy Simon, escaped to Switzerland where she died about 1975.
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Rolando de la Rosa
#77637
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (71 years)
Rolando V. de la Rosa, O.P., is the Provincial Archivist of the Dominican Province of the Philippines. Formerly, he served as the Rector Magnificus of the University of Santo Tomas , the oldest and the largest Catholic university in Asia. A religious leader and a seasoned educator, he was appointed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as the chairman of the Commission on Higher Education in 2004.
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Léonce-Albert Van Peteghem
#99196
Overall Influence
1916 - 2004 (88 years)
Léonce-Albert Van Peteghem was a Belgian Roman Catholic Bishop. He served as the twenty-eighth Bishop of Ghent between 1964 and 1991: it was an unusually long incumbency. Life Early years Van Peteghem was born a short distance to the north of Ghent, the youngest of his parents' twelve children. His parents were farm workers. He spent some of his childhood in nearby Lochristi after his parents relocated to obtain work, and more of it in De Pinte for the same reason. He received a Classics and Humanities focused education at Sint-Lievenscollege in Ghent, before undertaking higher leve...
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James Leo Garrett Jr.
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Overall Influence
1925 - 2020 (95 years)
James Leo Garrett Jr. was an American theologian. He held the position of Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Personal Garrett was born in Waco, Texas to James Leo Garrett Sr., a business teacher at Baylor University and his wife, Grace Hasseltine Jenkins Garrett. He was converted in 1935 and was baptized into membership at the Seventh and James Baptist Church in Waco. He was licensed and ordained to the gospel ministry by the First Baptist Church of Waco
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Alain Desreumaux
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Overall Influence
1944 - Present (80 years)
Alain Desreumaux is a French historian of religion, specializing on Syrian and Aramaic christo-palestinian communities. He has uncovered manuscripts and inscriptions and published works on codicology and epigraphy.
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Stanley Jedidiah Samartha
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Overall Influence
1920 - 2001 (81 years)
Stanley Jedidiah Samartha was an Indian theologian and a participant in inter-religious dialogue. Samartha's major contribution was through the World Council of Churches sub-unit "Dialogue with People of Living Faiths and Ideologies" of which he was the first director.
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Mary Healy
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Overall Influence
1964 - Present (60 years)
Mary Healy is a Catholic theologian and an international speaker. She teaches sacred scripture at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, Michigan. Her main interests include faith healing, evangelization, and Catholic spirituality. Healy was one of the first women appointed by Pope Francis in 2014 to the Pontifical Biblical Commission.
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Mark Lewis Taylor
#70729
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (73 years)
Mark Lewis Taylor is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Theology and Culture at Princeton Theological Seminary. His major interests are in the political philosophy of religious practices and theological discourse, particularly in Christian communities and also broader social movements. He served as Chair of the Religion & Society Committee at Princeton Seminary. Taylor received the Best General Interest Book Award for his earlier book, The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America . He is also founder of Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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William Lee Bradley
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Overall Influence
1918 - 2007 (89 years)
The Reverend Doctor William Lee Bradley , was a scholar of comparative religion, ethics, and theology, as well as a philanthropist. Early life and education Bradley was born in Oakland to Kathryn Lee Culver, an author and artist, and Dwight Jaques Bradley, author and Congregational Church leader. He was raised in El Paso, Texas, Webster Groves, Missouri, and Newton Centre, Massachusetts. In 1947, he married Paula Anne Elliott, later a New Hampshire State Representative . He received his B.A. from Oberlin College , B.D. from Andover Newton Theological School , and Ph.D. from University of Edinburgh, Scotland .
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Frans Haarsma
#91329
Overall Influence
1921 - 2009 (88 years)
Frans Haarsma was a Roman Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Utrecht. He was a theologian and emeritus Professor in Pastoral Theology at the Radboud University Nijmegen . In his boyhood there was hardly room enough in the big butcher's family and therefore young Frans grew up at the house of an uncle and aunt who were without children. There he could find his way through the seminaries to the priesthood and to higher studies, including a doctorate.
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Robert N. Schaper
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Overall Influence
1922 - 2007 (85 years)
Robert Newell Schaper was an American evangelical preacher and theologian who served as dean of the chapel and Arthur DeKruyter/Christ Church Oak Brook Professor of Preaching and Practical Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary.
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Yaakov Elman
#77630
Overall Influence
1943 - 2018 (75 years)
Yaakov Elman was an American professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies where he held the Herbert S. and Naomi Denenberg Chair in Talmudic Studies. He was the founder of the field now known as Irano-Talmudica, which seeks to understand the Babylonian Talmud in its Middle-Persian context.
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Bruce G. Epperly
#91679
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (72 years)
Bruce Gordon Epperly is a theologian, minister, and author. He is one of the leading process theologians in the United States, having studied with John B. Cobb at Claremont Graduate University. Epperly currently serves as Professor of Practical Theology and Director of Continuing Education at Lancaster Theological Seminary. He is an ordained minister with standing in the United Church of Christ and Christian Church .
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Paul Schruers
#90557
Overall Influence
1929 - 2008 (79 years)
Paul Schruers was the second Bishop of Hasselt in Belgium. Life Schruers was born in Hasselt on 25 October 1929. He experienced a sense of religious vocation from the age of 16. He studied at the minor seminary in Sint-Truiden and the Diocesan Seminary of Liège, where he was ordained to the priesthood in 1954.
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John Drane
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Overall Influence
1946 - Present (78 years)
John William Drane is a Christian theologian and author. He is probably best known for his two books on the Bible, Introducing the Old Testament and Introducing the New Testament. Biography Drane studied at the University of Aberdeen, where he was a student of I. Howard Marshall, and later obtained a PhD from the University of Manchester, where his mentor was F. F. Bruce. His doctoral research focused on Gnosticism in relation to early Christian thought and practice.
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Bernd Jochen Hilberath
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Overall Influence
1948 - Present (76 years)
Bernd Jochen Hilberath is a German Roman Catholic theologian. Life From 1967 to 1972, Hilberath studied philosophy and Roman Catholic theology at the University of Mainz and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. From 1985 to 1989 he was professor of dogmatic theology and ecumenical theology at the University of Mainz. From 1989 to 1992 Hilberath was professor of dogmatic theology and fundamental theology at the Catholic University of Mainz. Since March 1992 he has been Professor of Dogmatic Theology and History of Economic Thought at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Tübingen.
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Theodor Gaster
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Overall Influence
1906 - 1992 (86 years)
Theodor Herzl Gaster was a British-born American Biblical scholar known for work on comparative religion, mythology and the history of religion. He is noted for his books, Thespis: Ritual, Myth, and Drama in the Ancient Near East , The Dead Sea Scriptures, about the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as his one-volume abridgement of Sir James Frazer's massive 13-volume work The Golden Bough, to which Gaster contributed updates, corrections and extensive annotations.
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Nachman Bulman
#60804
Overall Influence
1925 - 2002 (77 years)
Nachman Bulman was an American rabbi associated with Orthodox Judaism. He was born to Rabbi Meir and Etil Bulman after a blessing from the Rebbe of Ger, Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter. He grew up on the Lower East Side, Manhattan, and was, for a brief period, part of the circle of the Rebbe of Modzitz, remaining close to the Rebbe until the latter's death.
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Rüdiger Bartelmus
#94811
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (80 years)
Rüdiger Bartelmus is a Czech-born German theologian and a professor at the Institute of Old Testament Studies and Biblical Archaeology of the University of Kiel. Life Bartelmus studied in Munich, Erlangen, Heidelberg, and Zürich in Protestant and Catholic theology and philosophy. In 1969 he passed the First Theological Exam and so passed the entrance examination in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. From 1969 to 1974, he worked as a religion teacher at various schools in Munich. Only a year later, he was inducted into the countries' Council of Evangelical Lutheran Churches. He is a p...
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Olivier de Germay
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Overall Influence
1960 - Present (64 years)
Olivier Jacques Marie Certain de Germay de Cirfontaine is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who has been metropolitan archbishop of Lyon since December 2020. He served as bishop of Ajaccio from 2012–2020. Before taking up his clerical career, he served as a paratrooper in the French army.
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Kent P. Jackson
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Overall Influence
1949 - Present (75 years)
Kent Phillips Jackson is an American scholar who was a professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University . He has written on Joseph Smith's translation of and commentary on the Bible. Early life and education Jackson was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on August 9, 1949. He received his bachelor's degree in ancient studies from Brigham Young University . Jackson holds a master's degree and a PhD in Near Eastern studies from the University of Michigan.
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David C. Fisher
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Overall Influence
1943 - Present (81 years)
David Charles Fisher is an American author, professor, and a pastor who was the senior pastor at Park Street Church in Boston from 1989 to 1995 and the senior pastor at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York from 2004 to 2013.
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Kwabena Opuni Frimpong
#88209
Overall Influence
Kwabena Opuni Frimpong is a Ghanaian academic and Presbyterian minister who served as the General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana , equivalent to the chief executive officer of the ecumenical organisation. He is also a lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology .
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Wai-Ching Angela Wong
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Overall Influence
1959 - Present (65 years)
Wai-Ching Angela Wong is a Hong Kong scholar of Asian feminist theology. She is the Vice President for Programs at the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia since 2016. Biography Growing up in Hong Kong, Wong received a BA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1985, a BD from South East Asia Graduate School of Theology in 1989, and an MA and PhD in Religious Studies from University of Chicago Divinity School. Her PhD thesis was later published as "The Poor Woman": A Critical Analysis of Asian Theology and Contemporary Chinese Fiction by Women . In 2000, she began teachin...
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