The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Religious Studies,
#1601
Andrei Orlov
#56231
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (64 years)
Andrei A. Orlov is an American professor of Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity at Marquette University. He "is a specialist in Jewish Apocalypticism and Mysticism, Second Temple Judaism, and Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. Within the field of Second Temple Jewish apocalyptic literature, Orlov is considered among the leading experts in the field of Slavonic texts related to Jewish mysticism and Enochic traditions." He "has established himself as a significant voice in the study of Second Temple Jewish traditions, especially those associated with 2 Enoch and other Slavonic Pseudepigrapha." Orl...
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Richard Foster
#45279
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (82 years)
Richard James Foster is a Christian theologian and author in the Quaker tradition. His writings speak to a broad Christian audience. Born in 1942 in New Mexico, Foster has been a professor at Friends University and pastor of Evangelical Friends churches. Foster resides in Denver, Colorado. He earned his undergraduate degree at George Fox University in Oregon and his Doctor of Pastoral Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, and received an honorary doctorate from Houghton College.
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Wolfgang Achtner
#96647
Overall Influence
1957 - 2017 (60 years)
Wolfgang Achtner was a theologist who played a key role as an ambassador for the science-and-religion dialogue in Germany. Career Achtner studied systematic theology and the Old Testament in Mainz, Göttingen, and Heidelberg. His dissertation focused on the science-and-religion dialogue in the work of Thomas F. Torrance. He then undertook a one-year research fellowship in Heidelberg. While a parish minister in Mainz, he earned an additional degree in mathematics.
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Bernhard Scheid
#80270
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (64 years)
Bernhard Scheid is an Austrian historian, academic, and Japanologist, affiliated to the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna . In addition, Scheid counts among the Austrian top players of the game of Go.
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William MacDonald
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Overall Influence
1917 - 2007 (90 years)
William MacDonald was President of Emmaus Bible College, teacher, Plymouth Brethren theologian and a prolific author of over 84 published books. Biography Early life and education William MacDonald was born on January 7, 1917, in Leominster, Massachusetts.
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Michael Barrett
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Overall Influence
1949 - Present (75 years)
Michael Paul Vernon Barrett is Academic Dean and Professor of Old Testament at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary and was formerly president of Geneva Reformed Seminary and an associate minister of Faith Free Presbyterian Church, Greenville, South Carolina, a congregation of the Free Presbyterian Church of North America.
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Doris Reisinger
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Overall Influence
1983 - Present (41 years)
Doris Reisinger is a German philosopher, theologian and author, and former nun. Early life and abuse Reisinger was born Doris Wagner in Ansbach in 1983 and joined the Catholic religious community at an age of 19. In 2008, aged 24, Reisinger alleges she was sexually assaulted by Austrian priest Hermann Geissler, a member of both "The Work" – FSO and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith . Geissler resigned from the CDF in January 2019 but denied the accusations against him.
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Daniel Patte
#87708
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (85 years)
Daniel Patte is a French-American biblical scholar and author. Patte is, since 2013, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, New Testament and Christianity at Vanderbilt University where he taught from 1971. He studied in both European and American schools: following his Baccalauréat in Philosophy he received a Baccalauréat en Théologie from the Faculté de Théologie Protestante, Montpellier, France, where he met his wife, Aline Teitelbaum; Licence en Théologie, from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and a Th.D. from the Jewish Christian Center at Chicago Theological Seminary. As a b...
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David G. Peterson
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Overall Influence
1944 - Present (80 years)
David G. Peterson, is a scholar of the New Testament. He was senior research fellow and lecturer in New Testament at Moore Theological College in Sydney and is an ordained minister of the Anglican Church of Australia. He now lectures at the college part-time.
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Jonathan A. Goldstein
#79622
Overall Influence
1929 - 2004 (75 years)
Jonathan A. Goldstein was a biblical scholar and author who wrote for the Anchor Bible Series. He was the author of books on I Maccabees and II Maccabees, as well as a book about competing religions in the ancient world.
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Charles Nyamiti
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Overall Influence
1931 - 2020 (89 years)
Charles Nyamiti was a Catholic theologian known for his pioneer work in African theology. Biography Nyamiti, a Wanyamwezi of Tanzania, was born in 1931 into a Christian home to Theophilus Chambi Chambigulu and Helen Nyasolo as one of three brothers and four sisters. He trained for the Catholic priesthood at Kipalapala Major Seminary in Tabora, Tanzania, and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1962. He went to Louvain University from 1963 to 1969, completing a doctorate in Systematic Theology and a certificate in Music Theory and Piano, and pursued a second doctorate in Cultural Anthropology and...
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Simon Chan
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Overall Influence
1951 - Present (73 years)
Simon Chan is a Singaporean Chinese Christian theologian and ordained minister of the Assemblies of God. Biography Chan received his M.Div. from Asian Theological Seminary and his MTheol in Systematic Theology from South East Asia Graduate School of Theology. He then completed his Ph.D. in Historical Theology from Cambridge University
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Edward R. Dalglish
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Overall Influence
1931 - 2001 (70 years)
Edward Russell Dalglish was an American Biblical scholar and professor of the Old Testament. Education Dalglish earned his Bachelors in 1931 from Columbia University, and his Masters in 1946 from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, before earning his Ph.D. from Columbia. He also went on to further postgraduate work at Harvard University, Episcopal Theological Seminary, University of London, and University of Heidelberg.
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Bengt Sundkler
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Overall Influence
1909 - 1995 (86 years)
Bengt G. M. Sundkler was a Swedish-Tanzanian Church historian, missiologist, professor and bishop of Bukoba. Biography Sundkler was the son of Gustaf Sundkler, a merchant, and Lilly Bergman. His father was the son of Carl Gustaf Sinclair , the last member of the Swedish Counts dynasty Sinclair. After studying at the universities of Uppsala, Strasbourg and Paris, Bengt Sundkler became doctor of divinity 1937 with a thesis on the breakthrough of missionary thinking in Sweden by the Swedish Lutheran Mission 1835-75. Earlier, he had already in 1933 published the book How old is the sacrament of i...
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Mary Grey
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Overall Influence
1941 - Present (83 years)
Mary Cecilia Grey is a Roman Catholic ecofeminist liberation theologian in the United Kingdom. She edited the journal Ecotheology for 10 years. She has previously been a professor teaching pastoral theology at the University of Wales, Lampeter; contemporary theology at the University of Southampton, La Sainte Union, and St Mary's University, Twickenham; and feminism and Christianity at the Catholic University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
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Gleason Archer Jr.
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Overall Influence
1916 - 2004 (88 years)
Gleason Leonard Archer Jr. was a biblical scholar, theologian, educator and author. Early life Gleason Archer was born in Norwell, Massachusetts in 1916 and became a Christian at a young age through the influence of his mother, Elizabeth Archer. His maternal grandfather was a pastor. Archer's father was Gleason Archer Sr., the founder of Suffolk Law School in Boston. Archer grew up in Boston and spent summers in Norwell. He graduated from Boston Latin School and in 1938 he graduated from Harvard University with a BA . He received an LL.B. from Suffolk Law School in Boston in 1939, the same year he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar.
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Reinhard Hütter
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Overall Influence
1958 - Present (66 years)
Reinhard Hütter is a Christian theologian and Professor of Fundamental and Dogmatic Theology at The Catholic University of America. During the 2012–2013 academic year, he held The Rev. Robert J. Randall Professor in Christian Culture chair at Providence College.
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Eric Osborn
#62807
Overall Influence
1922 - 2007 (85 years)
Eric Francis Osborn was an Australian minister and theologian. He was the Professor of New Testament and Early Church History at the Theological Hall of Queen's College in Melbourne, Australia. Selected publications The Emergence of Christian Theology Clement of Alexandria He died in 2007
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Johannes Wallmann
#79976
Overall Influence
1930 - 2021 (91 years)
Johannes Wallmann was a German Protestant theologian and emeritus professor of church history at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. He died from COVID-19 in Berlin during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.
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Kjell Magne Bondevik
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Overall Influence
1947 - Present (77 years)
Kjell Magne Bondevik is a Norwegian Lutheran minister and politician. As leader of the Christian Democratic Party, he served as the 33rd prime minister of Norway from 1997 to 2000, and from 2001 to 2005, making him, after Erna Solberg, Norway's second longest serving non-Labour Party prime minister since World War II. Currently, Bondevik is president of the Oslo Centre for Peace and Human Rights.
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Khalid Duran
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Overall Influence
1939 - 2010 (71 years)
Khalid Durán was a specialist in the history, sociology and politics of the Islamic world. He studied Middle Eastern languages and Islam in Bosnia and Morocco, and sociology and political science at the universities of Bonn and Berlin.
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Franklin Littell
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Overall Influence
1917 - 2009 (92 years)
Franklin Hamlin Littell was an American Protestant scholar. He is known for his writings rejecting supersessionism and, in light of the Holocaust, advocated educational programs to improve relations between Christians and Jews.
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John Webster
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Overall Influence
1955 - 2016 (61 years)
John Bainbridge Webster was an Anglican priest and theologian writing in the area of systematic, historical, and moral theology. Born in Mansfield, England, on 20 June 1955, he was educated at the independent Bradford Grammar School and at the University of Cambridge. After a distinguished career, he died at his home in Scotland on 25 May 2016 at the age of 60. At the time of his death, he was the Chair of Divinity at St. Mary's College, University of St Andrews, Scotland.
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Christopher Hall
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Overall Influence
1950 - Present (74 years)
Christopher Alan Hall is an American Episcopal theologian who is a leading exponent of paleo-orthodox theology. He was the Chancellor of Eastern University, the dean of the Templeton Honors College, and, together with the United Methodist theologian Thomas C. Oden, another paleo-orthodox scholar, he edits the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture. He has stated that his goal as a theologian is, "to introduce modern Christians to the world of the early church, particularly because the Holy Spirit has a history."
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Antonio Moreno Casamitjana
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Overall Influence
1927 - 2013 (86 years)
Antonio Moreno Casamitjana was a Chilean Catholic archbishop. Archbishop Moreno was born in Santiago in 1927, son of Antonio Moreno and María Casamitjana. As a youth, he participated in Parroquia Nuestra Señora de Andacollo, Santiago. Ordained to the priesthood in 1949, he was appointed bishop in 1986 and became archbishop of the Archdiocese of Concepción, Chile in 1989 and retired in 2007.
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John Bowden
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Overall Influence
1935 - 2010 (75 years)
John Stephen Bowden was an English Anglican priest, publisher, and theologian. Life Born on 17 May 1935 in Halifax, Yorkshire, Bowden was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he came under the influence of Christopher Evans. He was ordained as a priest in the Diocese of Southwell in 1962.
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Paul Powell
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Overall Influence
1933 - 2016 (83 years)
Paul W. Powell was the retired Dean of Baylor University's George W. Truett Theological Seminary. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Baylor in 1956 and held a degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He received honorary degrees from Baylor, East Texas Baptist University, the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Campbell University and Dallas Baptist University.
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Friedrich Diedrich
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Overall Influence
1935 - 2015 (80 years)
Friedrich Diedrich was a German Roman Catholic theologian and Old Testament scholar. He lived in Buer. Life Born in Hannover in 1935, Diedrich obtained priesthood on 26 July 1962. He studied philosophy and Catholic theology in Paderborn, Innsbruck and Bonn. From 1972 to 2015, he was the assistant to Lothar Ruppert at the Ruhr University in Bochum, he earned a doctorate in the Old Testament. In the same compartment habilitation he in 1985 and was a lecturer at the University of Freiburg.
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Tord Godal
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Overall Influence
1909 - 2002 (93 years)
Tord Godal was a Norwegian theologian and bishop for the Diocese of Nidaros. He was decorated Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1969. Godal was also a Freemason. Godal was born on 27 June 1909 in Stavanger, Norway. He was educated in theology, receiving his cand.theol. degree in 1932 and his dr.theol. degree in 1947. He served as a pastor in various positions in the Diocese of Oslo between 1934 and 1940. He was a chaplain in Trondheim from 1940 to 1948, resident chaplain at Bakke Church in Trondheim from 1948 to 1956, and Dean of the Oslo Cathedral from 1956 to 1960. ...
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Jonathan Garb
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Overall Influence
1967 - Present (57 years)
Jonathan Garb is an Israeli scholar of Kabbalah. He is holder of the Gershom Scholem chair in Kabbalah in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Biography Jonathan Garb was born in 1967 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and immigrated to Israel in 1973. In the 1980s, Garb studied Talmud and Kabbalah in the Lithuanian Yeshiva world, where he also studied Mussar with R. Shlomo Wolbe and R. Reuven Leuchter. He also studied Kabbalah with Rabbi Eliezer Zvi Safrin of Komarno and Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Morgenstern. He later studied Talmud with Rabbi Professor David Weiss Halivni.
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David Nekrutman
#93888
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (51 years)
David Nekrutman is an American-Israeli Orthodox Jewish theologian, writer, director, columnist, public speaker, and pro-Israel activist. He is a prominent figure and pioneer in the world of Jewish-Christian relations and is the former executive director and co-founder of the Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation , co-founder of the Day to Praise global interfaith initiative, and founder of the Blessing Bethlehem aid organization. Nekrutman currently serves as the Executive Director and co-founder of The Isaiah Projects, a ministry dedicated to helping Christians discover the Hebraic roots of their faith.
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Eibert Tigchelaar
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Overall Influence
1959 - Present (65 years)
Eibert Johannes Calvinus Tigchelaar is a leading authority and author on the subject of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Formerly he held the position of research associate at the Qumran Instituut , Rijksuniversiteit Groningen , was appointed to a professorship at Florida State University, before becoming research professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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Elmar Salumaa
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Overall Influence
1908 - 1996 (88 years)
Elmar Salumaa was an Estonian theologian. In 1935 he graduated from Tartu University in religion. From 1937 to 1940 and 1942 to 1944, he taught at Tartu University. From 1944 to 1945 he was a pastor at Laiuse Congregation. In 1945 he was arrested and until 1955 he was imprisoned. From 1956 to 1995 he was a professor at the Institute of Theology of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church. From 1969 to 1995 he was a pastor at Saarde Congregation.
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Didier Pollefeyt
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Overall Influence
1965 - Present (59 years)
Didier Pollefeyt is a Belgian catholic theologian, full professor at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies and vice rector for education policy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Research career After gaining the degree of license in the Religious Studies and Theology Pollefeyt obtained his doctoral degree in Theology with a dissertation on ethics after Auschwitz . Thereafter he became instructor , associate instructor , associate professor and full professor at the Faculty of Theology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Since 1986 his research focuses on the holocaust as a chal...
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Mohammad Ali Shomali
#57128
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (59 years)
Mohammad Ali Shomali is a Muslim scholar, academic, philosopher and theologian. His religious rank is Hujjat al-Islam. Early life and education Shomali was born 1965 in Tehran, Iran. He studied in the religious seminaries of Qom, and also completed a bachelors and masters degree in Western Philosophy from the University of Tehran. He then received his doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Manchester. Shomali's thesis was on ethical relativism, and his postdoctoral research was on ethical issues related to life and death.
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Tom Greggs
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Overall Influence
1950 - Present (74 years)
Tom Greggs FRSE is a British theologian and the Marischal Professor of Divinity at the University of Aberdeen. Early life and education Greggs was born and raised in Liverpool, where he was educated at Liverpool Blue Coat School. During his time there, he was head of school and now serves as a foundation guardian. In 1999 he entered Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied theology as an Open Scholar and graduated with the highest first class honours in his year for which he was awarded the Denyer and Johnson Prize. Before beginning his doctoral work, Greggs taught religion and philosophy at the Manchester Grammar School.
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Ben F. Meyer
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Overall Influence
1927 - 1995 (68 years)
Benjamin Franklin Meyer was a theologian and scholar of religion. Born in November 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, he studied with the Jesuits, his studies taking him to California, Strasbourg, Göttingen, and Rome, where he received his doctorate from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1965. He taught briefly at Alma College and at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley before joining the faculty at McMaster University in 1969, where he taught in the religious studies department until 1992. Meyer's areas of specialization included the historical Jesus, and the hermeneutics of Bernard Lonergan.
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Vernon White
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Overall Influence
1953 - Present (71 years)
Vernon Philip White is an English Anglican priest and theological scholar. Biography White was born in south-east London in 1953 and attended Eltham College. After leaving school he spent a year undertaking Voluntary Service Overseas in Africa. He was educated at Clare College, Cambridge and Oriel College, Oxford . He prepared for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He was ordained deacon in 1977 and priest in 1978 in the Church of England. He was a tutor in doctrine and ethics at Wycliffe Hall from 1977 to 1983, then Chaplain and Lecturer at the University of Exeter from 1983 to 1987. He t...
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Simon J. Gathercole
#99531
Overall Influence
1974 - Present (50 years)
Simon James Gathercole is a United Kingdom New Testament scholar, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, and Director of Studies at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Biography Gathercole completed a degree in Classics and Theology at Cambridge and then pursued doctoral research at Durham University under the supervision of James D. G. Dunn, with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the German Academic Exchange Service and Hatfield College. He also studied for short periods at the University of Tübingen and the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. He was formerly ...
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Johannes Karavidopoulos
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Overall Influence
1937 - 2023 (86 years)
Johannes Karavidopoulos was a Greek New Testament scholar. He was professor of the Theological School at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In 1993 he was appointed to the textual committee for the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testament, or Novum Testamentum Graece, at the same time as Barbara Aland, to replace retired earlier committee members Matthew Black and Allen Wikgren.
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Göran Larsson
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Overall Influence
1949 - Present (75 years)
Göran Larsson is a Swedish Theologian, ordained in the Church of Sweden and best known for his knowledge about and contacts with Judaism. Life Larsson studied theology at Lund University receiving his Bachelor of Theology in 1973 and his Ph.D. in 1980. He was the director of the Swedish Theological Institute in Jerusalem 1979-1993 and senior research fellow at the University of Chicago Divinity School 1991–1992. He has published several books and articles about the relationship between Christianity and Judaism.
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Kenneth Lee Carder
#61504
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (84 years)
Kenneth Lee Carder is a retired American bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1992. Carder distinguished himself as a pastor, a member of Annual Conference and General U.M. agencies, a bishop, seminary professor, and an author.
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R. Darrell Bock
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Overall Influence
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Graham Hill
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Overall Influence
1969 - Present (55 years)
Graham Joseph Hill is an Australian theologian who is a former associate professor of the University of Divinity. He is the State Leader of Baptist Mission Australia . Hill's research focuses on World Christianity but he is also known for his work on biblical egalitarianism and women theologians of global Christianity. He has published in the areas of missiology, applied theology, and global and ecumenical approaches to missional ecclesiology.
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Thomas G. Long
#86122
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (78 years)
Thomas Grier Long is the Bandy Professor of Preaching at Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his BA degree from Erskine College in 1968, the Master of Divinity from Erskine Theological Seminary in 1971, and the Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1980. He began his career as a preacher at McElroy Memorial Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church near Atlanta, Georgia and since that time has taught at a number of seminaries, including Erskine, Columbia, Princeton, and Candler.
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Bärbel Wartenberg-Potter
#93270
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (81 years)
Bärbel Wartenberg-Potter is a German theologian. After serving as director over programs for women and children with the World Council of Churches, teaching theology in Jamaica, and serving a pastorate in Stuttgart, Wartenberg-Potter became the president of the . In 2001 she began a seven-year term as the third woman serving as a Bishop of a Lutheran Church in Germany.
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Christian Schaller
#97698
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (57 years)
Christian Schaller is a German Roman Catholic theologian from Munich. In June 2013, he was co-recipient, with Richard A. Burridge, of the Ratzinger Prize. Life Schaller was born in Munich in 1967. He studied at the faculty of theology of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Already during his diploma thesis , he dealt with one aspect of the theology of Joseph Ratzinger, soon to be Benedict XVI: The Eucharistic Ecclesiology in the context of the sacramentality of the Church was the title of the paper presented by Gerhard Ludwig Müller.
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Michael Volland
#112239
Overall Influence
1974 - Present (50 years)
Michael John Volland is a British Anglican priest and academic, specialising in mission and practical theology. Since November 2023, he has been Bishop of Birmingham, the diocesan bishop of the Church of England's Diocese of Birmingham. From 2017 to 2023, he was Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge, an Anglican theological college in the Open Evangelical tradition. He was previously Director of Mission at Cranmer Hall, Durham, and Director of Context-based Training at Ridley Hall. He was consecrated as bishop on 30 November 2023.
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Corey D. B. Walker
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Overall Influence
Corey D. B. Walker is a professor who specializes in African American social, political, and religious thought. He is the author of A Noble Fight: African American Freemasonry and the Struggle for Democracy in America, published by the University of Illinois Press. Walker also acted as editor of a special issue on "Theology and Democratic Futures" of the journal Political Theology and was the Associate Editor of SAGE's Encyclopedia of Identity. He is a Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities in the English department at Wake Forest University, where he is the director of the African American S...
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C. Richard Wells
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Overall Influence
C. Richard Wells is an American evangelical pastor, theologian, and college president. Wells was a member of the founding faculty of Beeson Divinity School, where he taught Ancient Greek, former President of Criswell College , Pastor of South Canyon Baptist Church in Rapid City, South Dakota, from 2004–2009, and Dean of Chapel at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee from 2009 through 2011.
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