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Jan van der Graaf
1937 - 2022 (85 years)
Jan van der Graaf was a Dutch church administrator and engineer. He was General Secretary of the Reformed Association in the Dutch Reformed Church between 1973 and 2000. Van der Graaf also wrote several books, was chief editor of the Reformed Association's magazine De Waarheidsvriend and associated with the Evangelische Omroep.
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Helen Dawes
1974 - Present (50 years)
Helen Elizabeth Dawes is a British academic administrator. Since 2021, she has been Principal of Westcott House, Cambridge. Before returning to Westcott House where she had trained for ordination, she served in parish ministry in the Dioceses of Ely, St Albans and Salisbury, and on the staff of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Aminah McCloud
1948 - Present (76 years)
Aminah Beverly McCloud is Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Islamic World Studies program at DePaul University. Her areas of expertise include Islam in America, Muslim women, Islamic studies and the history, geography, politics, religion and philosophy of Islam. She is the author and co-author of several books. Professor McCloud is also the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Islamic Law and Culture, and a member of the board of advisors of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding .
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Nathan Katz
1948 - Present (76 years)
Nathan Katz is an American writer who is Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, in the School of International and Public Affairs, Florida International University . He also served as the Bhagawan Mahavir Professor of Jain Studies, Founder-Director of the Program in the Study of Spirituality, Director of Jewish Studies, and Founding Chair of the Department of Religious Studies.
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David Thomas
1942 - 2017 (75 years)
David Thomas was a Welsh Anglican bishop. From 1996 to 2008, he served as the Provincial Assistant Bishop of the Church in Wales. In this role, he ministered to those who could not accept the ordination of women as priests.
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Broughton Knox
1916 - 1994 (78 years)
David Broughton Knox was principal of Moore Theological College from 1959 until 1985; and considered by some as the "Father of Contemporary Sydney Anglicanism". Knox was born in Adelaide and educated at Knox Grammar School and the University of Sydney. He was ordained deacon in 1941 and priest in 1942. After two years as a curate in Cambridge in England he was a RNVR chaplain during World War II. He began his long association with Moore Theological College in 1947.
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Bernadette Brooten
1951 - Present (73 years)
Bernadette J. Brooten is an American religious scholar and Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies at Brandeis University. Biography Brooten graduated from University of Portland with a B.A., and Harvard University with a Ph.D. in 1982. She studied theology at the University of Tübingen and at Hebrew University. She taught at the Claremont Graduate School, the University of Tübingen, Harvard Divinity School, and the University of Oslo with a 1998 Fulbright Fellowship. She served on the Advisory Committee for the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School from 1997 to 200...
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John Halliburton
1935 - 2004 (69 years)
Robert John Halliburton was an English priest and theologian within the Church of England, who served as a canon and Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral between 1989 and 2003. Early life and ordination Robert John Halliburton was born in March 1935 in Wimbledon, London, the son of Robert Halliburton and Katherine Margery Halliburton . He moved to Kent during the Second World War and was educated at Tonbridge School. He studied for a bachelor's degree at Selwyn College, Cambridge, reading modern languages for Part I of the Tripos but transferring to theology for Part II.
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Roy Harrisville
1922 - 2023 (101 years)
Roy Alvin Harrisville II was an American Lutheran theologian who wrote extensively on the interpretation of the New Testament. Harrisville was educated at Luther Theological Seminary, 1947 , Princeton Seminary, 1953, Princeton, New Jersey, and the University of Tübingen in Germany. He served as a pastor in Mason City, Iowa, before joining the faculty of Luther Theological Seminary as professor of New Testament . During his tenure at Luther Seminary, Roy received the Lutheran World Federation Scholarship, the Association of Theological Schools Fellowship, and the Fredrik A. Schoitz Fellowship....
Go to ProfileThe Rev. Dr. Larry D. Pickens is a graduate of North Park University and holds a master of theology degree and master of divinity degree from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, a doctorate in ministry from Chicago Theological Seminary, and a Juris Doctor from DePaul University College of Law. Larry is the executive director of the Pennsylvania Council of Churches. Larry is the former general secretary of the General Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns of the United Methodist Church. During his tenure as the ecumenical staff officer these significant events took place.
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Howard Schomer
1915 - 2001 (86 years)
Howard Schomer was a United Nations Commission on Human Rights aide, civil rights activist, scholar, drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and editor-at-large for The Christian Century. He received a B.S. from Harvard College in 1937; a D.D. from the Chicago Theological Seminary in 1954, and was ordained as a minister in the United Church of Christ in 1941. He was assigned to Civilian Public Service for refusing his ministerial exemption from the draft in World War II as a conscientious objector. Schomer was a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr. and remained a civil righ...
Go to ProfileAnne M. Blackburn is a historian of South and Southeast Asian Buddhism. She is Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University. Blackburn received her B.A. in Asian History and Religion in 1988 from Swarthmore College, her M.A. in Religious Studies in 1990 from University of Chicago Divinity School, and her Ph.D. in History of Religions in 1996 from the same institution. Blackburn's teachers include Steven Collins, Charles Hallisey, Frank E. Reynolds, and Donald Swearer.
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Clifton L. Ganus Jr.
1922 - 2019 (97 years)
Clifton L. Ganus Jr. was an American theologian and educator. He served as the third president of Harding College in Searcy, Arkansas from 1965 to 1987. He was closely associated with National Education Program, a conservative organization within the university that was later known as the American Studies Program. The involvement of Ganus and President Benson was with this group continued until 1954, when they disassociated with the group in order for the school to gain accreditation. He previously was a professor of history, chair of the department of history and social science, and vice president of the college.
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Alan T. Davies
1933 - Present (91 years)
Alan Trewartha Davies is a Canadian Christian minister and academic who is emeritus professor of religion at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is also an ordained minister in the United Church of Canada.
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Gioacchino Illiano
1935 - 2020 (85 years)
Gioacchino Illiano was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop. Illiano was born in Italy and was ordained to the priesthood in 1961. He served as the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nocera Inferiore-Sarno, Italy. from 1987 to 2011.
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Vincent Kwabena Damuah
1930 - 1992 (62 years)
Reverend Father Dr. Vincent Kwabena Damuah was a Catholic priest, theologian and politician in Ghana. He was a member of the Provisional National Defence Council government and was also the founder of the Afrikania Mission. He was also referred to as Osɔfo Okɔmfo Damuah. Dr. Dumuah received a Ph.D. in African Studies from Howard University in 1971.He was the first Ghanaian Catholic priest who diverted back to practice the African traditional religion and help in writing the first African Scriptures called EDU. He formed the African religious group called the Afrikian Mission which is widely ...
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Paul Nimmo
1973 - 2000 (27 years)
Paul T Nimmo is a Scottish theologian who holds the position of King’s Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Aberdeen. Career Nimmo studied engineering and management studies at Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge before qualifying as an investment manager. His studies in divinity were undertaken at the University of Edinburgh, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of Tübingen. His first position was as an associate lecturer at the University of Cambridge as the research assistant to the Regius Professor of Divinity, David Ford. He was appointed i...
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Wolfgang Vondey
1967 - Present (57 years)
Wolfgang Vondey is a German-born Pentecostal theologian who currently serves as Professor of Christian Theology and Pentecostal Studies at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, where he also directs the Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies.
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David L. Clough
1968 - Present (56 years)
David L. Clough is a British author and academic with a focus on the Christian vegetarian and Christian vegan movements. He is Professor in Theology and Applied Sciences at the University of Aberdeen and a Methodist preacher. He is also the founder and a co-director of the CreatureKind project which focuses on the welfare of farmed animals as a faith issue.
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Lukas Vischer
1926 - 2008 (82 years)
Lukas Vischer was a Swiss Reformed theologian, author, and advocate of ecumenical dialogue among the world's Christian churches. Vischer studied theology in Basel, Göttingen, and Strasbourg and spent one semester at Oxford University. He was ordained in 1950, received a doctorate of theology in 1952, and, in 1953, he was appointed as Reformed minister in Herblingen, a small Swiss industrial town near Schaffhausen.
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Alwin Hammers
1942 - Present (82 years)
Alwin Hammers is a German theologian. Hammers was born at Bitburg. He spent his childhood in Mürlenbach, Eifel. He studied philosophy and theology in Trier. He wanted to become a Roman Catholic priest. During his university studies he met his wife. He married and had two children. Hammers stopped to become a priest and studied psychology. He worked in Roman Catholic Diocese of Trier as teacher for Roman Catholic priests in divinity school. As professor Hammers worked in sector pastoral psychology.
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Paul Gerhard Jahn
1925 - 2004 (79 years)
Paul Gerhard Jahn was a German professor and theologian. He was a founding principal of the Evangelic University of Hanover and Director of the Office for Community Service , the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover.
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Muriel Spurgeon Carder
1922 - Present (102 years)
Muriel Spurgeon Carder was a Canadian Baptist who was the first woman ordained as a Baptist minister in Ontario and Quebec; she was also a missionary in India. Life Childhood and studies Muriel Spurgeon was born in Woodford Green, England to Elizabeth Frances and Carey Bradford Spurgeon . Carder is related to Charles Spurgeon, a Reformed Baptist minister, and had a brother named David. Her mother, Elizabeth Frances , died in 1953. Her father was born in India to the Reverend Robert Spurgeon. He was a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and an associate of the Society of Actuaries; he was a...
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Albert Friedlander
1927 - 2004 (77 years)
Albert Hoschander Friedlander OBE was a rabbi and teacher. Early life and education Albert Friedlander was born on 10 May 1927 in Berlin, the son of a textile broker, Alex Friedlander and Sali Friedlander .
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Donniel Hartman
1958 - Present (66 years)
Donniel Hartman is an Israeli Modern Orthodox rabbi and author. He is President of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, Israel. Biography Donniel Hartman has a doctorate in Jewish philosophy from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Master of Arts in political philosophy from New York University, and a Master of Arts in religion from Temple University. He has rabbinic ordination from the Shalom Hartman Institute.
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Stewart Hoover
1951 - Present (73 years)
Stewart M. Hoover is a Professor of Media Studies and Professor Adjoint of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the founder and director of the Center for Media, Religion and Culture. His research interest centers on media audience and reception studies rooted in cultural studies, anthropology and qualitative sociology. He is known for his work on media and religion, particularly in the phenomenon of televangelism, and later in religion journalism. His most recent work involves household-level studies of media audience practices of meaning-making and identity. Sup...
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Veselin Kesich
1921 - 2012 (91 years)
Veselin Kesich was an Eastern Orthodox theologian, and university professor. He succeeded Alexander Schmemann as dean of the Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in 1983. Biography Veselin Kesich completed his elementary and secondary schooling in Banja Luka and started studies at the University of Belgrade. In 1941 left the university to join the army to fight the invading forces of Nazi Germany. When General Milan Nedić was entrusted with the administration of German-occupied Serbia, Kesich remained under the command of Nedić in the government called the Government of National Salvation.
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Angela Kim Harkins
1973 - Present (51 years)
Angela Kim Harkins is a Professor of New Testament and Professor Ordinaria at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. Early life and education Harkins was born in Seoul, South Korea and grew up in the northwest side of Chicago, Illinois. She completed her undergraduate at Loyola University, Chicago and went on to complete a M.A. degree in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, concentrating on biblical languages. She studied at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, 1997-98, with funding from a Fulbright fellowship, a year that coincided with the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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V. C. Samuel
1912 - 1998 (86 years)
Vilakuvelil Cherian Samuel , called Samuel Achen was an Indian Christian philosopher, scholar, university professor, theologian, historian, polyglot and ecumenical leader. He was a priest of the Indian Orthodox Church. He was the author of many doctrinal books and papers including The Council of Chalcedon Re-Examined: Historical Theological Survey.
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Phyllis Bird
1934 - Present (90 years)
Phyllis Ann Bird is an American feminist scholar in biblical hermeneutics. She is Professor Emerita of Old Testament Interpretation at Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary and McCarthy Professor of Biblical Studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute. Bird is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, and was one of the translators of the New Revised Standard Version.
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Ademar Agostinho Sauthier
1940 - Present (84 years)
Ademar Sauthier Augustine is a Brazilian Catholic priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Porto Alegre and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Pastoral of National Conference of Bishops of Brazil . Biography Ademar Sauthier studied philosophy and theology at the Our Lady Immaculate Conception Seminary in Viamão. He was ordained a priest on 20 December 1964. In 1989 Sauthier obtained a doctorate in philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. His studies included a specialization in Pastoral Theology. He was pastor of the Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida parish, in Porto Alegre from 1971 to 1977 and Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, in Porto Alegre.
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Mark D. Jordan
1953 - Present (71 years)
Mark D. Jordan is a scholar of Christian theology, European philosophy, and gender studies. He is currently the Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School and Professor of the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Earl K. Fernandes
1972 - Present (52 years)
Earl Kenneth Fernandes is a Catholic prelate who has served as the 13th Bishop of Columbus in Ohio since 2022. Fernandes is the first Indian-American bishop of the Latin Church in the United States, the first person of color to serve as the bishop of Columbus, and the youngest diocesan bishop in the United States.
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Anthony Raymond Ceresko
1942 - 2005 (63 years)
Anthony Raymond Ceresko was an Old Testament scholar. History Ceresko was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA, on 20 August 1942. After completing studies at the local Salesian High School in Detroit, Ceresko entered the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales in Childs, Maryland and was professed on 21 August 1962.
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Ruth C. Duck
1947 - Present (77 years)
Ruth Carolyn Duck is an ordained pastor in the United Church of Christ, a liturgical theologian and retired professor of worship who taught for 27 years at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. Duck is best known for her work as a composer, writer and adaptor of hymns. In 1973, she was part of the committee at the Ecumenical Women's Center of Chicago that produced Because We Are One People, the first 20th century collection of original and adapted hymns that promoted the use of “non-sexist language”. Since that time, Duck has written over 150 hymns, edited three boo...
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J. Bryan Hehir
1940 - Present (84 years)
Joseph Bryan Hehir is an American Catholic priest, philosopher, and theologian in the United States. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1984. Career Hehir has served as the Secretary of Health and Social Services for the Archdiocese of Boston. He was also the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government until his retirement in 2021.
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Albert Welter
1952 - Present (72 years)
Albert Welter is a scholar of East Asian Buddhism, particularly Chinese Buddhism in the Tang to Song Dynasty transition. From 2013, he has served as Professor and Head of the East Asian Studies Department at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and was formerly Chair of the Department of Religion and Culture at the University of Winnipeg , where he also initiated the East Asian Languages and Cultures program. Welter's work also encompasses a broader interest in Chinese administrative policies toward Buddhism, including Chinese notions of secularism and their impact on religious beliefs and practices.
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Sergiu Grossu
1920 - 2009 (89 years)
Sergiu Grossu was a Romanian writer and theologian. Biography Sergiu Grossu was born to Ion and Maria Grossu on 14 November 1920 in Cubolta. In 1927, his family moved to Bălţi, where he was a classmate of Eugen Coşeriu. He published in Viaţa Basarabiei. He graduated from the University of Bucharest with degrees in theology, philosophy and modern philology. Following the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, he became a refugee in Bucharest. In the wake of the Soviet occupation of Romania, he joined Oastea Domnului , a spiritual renewal movement of lay volunteers as well as clerics, associated with the Romanian Orthodox Church.
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Anneli Aejmelaeus
1948 - Present (76 years)
Anneli Pirjo Marjukka Aejmelaeus is professor emerita of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Culture and Literature in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki, and is the vice-director of the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence "Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions". Before this, she held from 1991 to 2009 the position of Professor of Old Testament and Septuagint Research in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Göttingen. In addition, from 1993 to 2000, Aejmelaeus was the Director of the research institute "Septuaginta-Unternehmen" at the Göttingen Academy of S...
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Vasudha Narayanan
1953 - Present (71 years)
Vasudha Narayanan is an American scholar of Hinduism at University of Florida and former President of the American Academy of Religion. Biography Vasudha Narayan has degrees from the University of Madras, University of Bombay, and Harvard University. From 1996 to 1998 she was the president of the society for Hindu-Christen studies. Vasudha Narayan was named Florida's Teacher of the Year in 2010. With the University of Florida, Vasudha Narayan made the nation's first Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions named CHiTra for research and study.
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Joseph Obiri Yeboah Mante
1957 - Present (67 years)
Joseph Obiri Yeboah Mante also known as J.O.Y. Mante is a Ghanaian theologian and Presbyterian minister who currently serves as the 18th Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana , equivalent to the chief executive officer or managing director of the national church organisation. Prior to his appointment as moderator he served as the President of the Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon for 7 years. In August 2018, Joseph Obiri Yeboah Mante was elected the new Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana to succeed Cephas Narh Omenyo, the t...
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David Penchansky
1951 - Present (73 years)
David Penchansky is a professor in the field of Hebrew Bible. In his writing, he applies the methodology of literary criticism to the Old Testament, particularly its Wisdom Literature . Both Marxism and Deconstruction have influenced his approach.
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Duncan Ryūken Williams
1969 - Present (55 years)
Duncan Ryūken Williams is a scholar, writer, and Soto Zen Buddhist priest who is currently professor of religion and East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Southern California. He also serves as the director of the USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture. His research focuses on Zen Buddhism, Buddhism in America, and the mixed-race Japanese experience.
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Lewis B. Smedes
1921 - 2002 (81 years)
Lewis Benedictus Smedes was a renowned Christian author, ethicist, and theologian in the Reformed tradition. He was a professor of theology and ethics for twenty-five years at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. His 15 books, including the popular Forgive and Forget: Healing the Hurts We Don't Deserve, covered some important issues including sexuality and forgiveness.
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William Marshner
1943 - Present (81 years)
William Harry Marshner is a retired Emeritus Professor of Theology at Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia. He is a former Chairman of the Theology Department and a Founding Professor, who created that institution's theology and philosophy curricula. He has written extensively on Ethics and Thomistic Theology, and is most widely read as the co-author of Cultural Conservatism: A New National Agenda.
Go to ProfileNikolaos P. Xionis is Professor of Systematic Theology in the Faculty of Theology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Born in Volos, he studied theology at the Aristotle University of Thessalonica. He pursued postgraduate studies at the Jesuit Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology at Frankfurt and at the Centre for Eastern Christian Studies in Ratisbon .
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Philip Esler
1952 - Present (72 years)
Philip Francis Esler is the Portland Chair in New Testament Studies at the University of Gloucestershire. He is an Australian-born higher education administrator and academic who became the inaugural chief executive of the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council in 2005, remaining in that role until 2009. From 1995 to 2010 he was professor of Biblical criticism at St Andrews University. From 1998 to 2001 he was vice-principal for research and provost of St Leonard’s College at St Andrews. During the years 1999 to 2003 he served as a member of the board of Scottish Enterprise Fife. From October 2010 to March 2013 he was principal at St Mary’s University College Twickenham.
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Fritz Lobinger
1929 - Present (95 years)
Fritz Lobinger is a German prelate of the Catholic Church who spent his career as a missionary in South Africa where, as head of the Lumko Missiological Institute, he developed the concepts of small Christian communities and Bible sharing. He was Bishop of Aliwal from 1987 to 2004. He has advocated the ordination of teams of married men as priests to serve communities that otherwise lack regular access to the sacraments, with their functions designed to distinguish them from celibate priests.
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Malcolm Clemens Young
1967 - Present (57 years)
Malcolm Clemens Young is an Episcopal priest, author, theologian and the ninth Dean of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, the third largest Episcopal cathedral in the United States. He was installed as dean in September 2015. He is the author of The Invisible Hand in the Wilderness: Economics, Ecology and God and The Spiritual Journal of Henry David Thoreau.
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