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Marcia Bunge
1954 - Present (70 years)
Marcia J. Bunge is an American Lutheran theologian. She is Professor of Religion and the Bernhardson Distinguished Chair of Lutheran Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. Biography A graduate of St. Olaf College and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Bunge earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, specializing in hermeneutics and historical theology. Before accepting the Bernhardson Chair, she taught at Luther Seminary , Luther College , Gustavus Adolphus College , and Christ College, the Honors College of Valparaiso University . She has also pursued research and been a visiting professor at several academic institutions in Germany.
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Hildegard Goss-Mayr
1930 - Present (94 years)
Hildegard Goss-Mayr is an Austrian nonviolent activist and Christian theologian. Life and commitment Daughter of Kaspar Mayr, founder of the Austrian branch of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, she studied Philosophy in Vienna and New Haven. In 1958, she married Jean Goss , a French peace activist; the couple had two children, Myriam and Etienne.
Go to ProfileEva Mroczek is a North American scholar of ancient Judaism, in particular the texts of the Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Apocrypha, and Jewish readers' and writers' engagement with these texts. She is the author of The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity .
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Nicola Denzey Lewis
1966 - Present (58 years)
Nicola Denzey Lewis is a Canadian academic of lived religion, early Christians, material culture of late antique Roman Empire, and women studies. She is a professor at Claremont Graduate University as the Margo L. Goldsmith Chair in Women's Studies in Religion.
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Philip Culbertson
1944 - Present (80 years)
Philip Leroy Culbertson was a scholar in practical theology. He was a lecturer at the University of Auckland School of Theology and was Director of Pastoral Studies at St John's Theological College until his retirement in 2007. Before this he taught at the School of Theology, University of the South, Sewanee, TN, from 1985 to 1992. He is an ordained priest of the Episcopalian tradition. He is also a psychotherapist in private practice and has taught at two training institutes in Auckland, New Zealand. He is well published in the fields of Pastoral ministry, counselling, gender and spirituality , and Jewish/Christian dialogue.
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Shreena Niketa Gandhi
1979 - Present (45 years)
Shreena Niketa Gandhi is a historian of religion, race, and empire at Michigan State University. Gandhi’s research demonstrates how American practices of yoga can be understood within the broader history of structural racism in the United States.
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David Kerr
1945 - 2008 (63 years)
David A. Kerr was a British scholar of Christian-Muslim relations and world Christianity. Biography Kerr was born and raised in London to Agape Jean, the daughter of Scottish missionaries in China and Wilfred Kerr, a minister of the United Reformed Church. He conducted his studies in Arabic and Islamic Studies at SOAS, University of London , theology at Mansfield College, Oxford , and a PhD at St Antony's College, Oxford . His doctoral work on church-state relations in Lebanon was supervised by the scholar of Middle Eastern studies, Albert Hourani.
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Ernst Petzold
1930 - 2017 (87 years)
Ernst Petzold was a German Lutheran theologian and pastor. He was the father of Martin Petzold, a tenor. Career Born in Leipzig, Petzold attended the Thomasschule from 1940 to 1948 and was a member of the Thomanerchor under Günther Ramin. Until the spring of 1951, he sang as a guest with the boys' choir.
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James Winston Morris
1949 - Present (75 years)
James Winston Morris is an American Islamic theologian, currently a professor in the Department of Theology at Boston College. Before teaching at Boston College, he held the Sharjah Chair of Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter.
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Michael Plekon
1948 - Present (76 years)
Yonkers born April 3, 1948UNDP, 2002UNDP, 2009UNDP, 2012Liturgical Press, 2017 Plekon's efforts to describe what holiness looks like in our time, the distinctive characteristics of women and men of faith, have been praised by colleagues. They see this work as an important "new hagiography" or writing about saints who are our contemporaries, like Dorothy Day, Mother Teresa, Thomas Merton or Daniel Berrigan.
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Allan Anderson
1949 - Present (75 years)
Allan Anderson is a British theologian and the Professor of Mission and Pentecostal Studies at the University of Birmingham. He is frequently cited as one of the foremost scholars on Global Pentecostalism.
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Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer
1955 - Present (69 years)
Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer was born in 1955. He currently holds the chairs of Protestant Theology and Sociology of Religion at the Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology and the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University. He is member and co-founder of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Religion and Society.
Go to ProfileMalcolm Grundy is an Anglican priest and theologian. Education and career Grundy first part trained as an architect before studying theology at King's College London.www.kcl.ac.uk/ His curacy from 1969 to 1972 was at Doncaster Parish Church, now Doncaster Minster. From there he moved to the Sheffield Industrial Mission becoming Senior Chaplain in 1974. discovery. Whilst there he founded 'Workshop 6' a training workshop for unemployed young adults. In 1980, he moved to the Diocese of London to be Director of Education and Community. From 1986 to 1991 he was Team Rector of Huntingdon in the Diocese of Ely.
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Robin Gill
1944 - Present (80 years)
Robin Morton Gill is a British Anglican priest, theologian, and academic, specialising in Christian ethics. Since 2012, he has been canon theologian of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar: he was acting dean from 2017 to 2020. He was William Leech Professor in Applied Theology at the University of Newcastle , and was then Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology and Professor of Applied Theology at the University of Kent. He has also served as a parish priest in the Church of England and the Scottish Episcopal church, serving in the dioceses of Coventry, of Edinburgh, of Newcast...
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Robert J. Henle
1909 - 2000 (91 years)
Robert John Henle was an American Catholic priest, Jesuit, and philosopher who was the president of Georgetown University from 1969 to 1976. Born in Iowa, Henle entered the Society of Jesus in 1927. He taught high school classics and published a series of instructional books on Latin, one of which became widely used. He then became a professor at Saint Louis University and was known as one of the leaders of the revival of Thomistic philosophy and theology. He also served as a dean and vice president for nearly 20 years. In this latter capacity, he oversaw Saint Louis University's growing ind...
Go to ProfileStephanie Paulsell is an American theologian, currently the Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies at Harvard Divinity School. Works Lamentations and the Song of Songs: A Theological Commentary on the Bible Honoring the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice The Scope of Our Art: The Vocation of the Theological Teacher
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Francisco Javier López Díaz
1949 - Present (75 years)
Francisco Javier López Díaz is a Spanish theologian and a priest of the Catholic Church incardinated in the personal prelature of Opus Dei. He currently teaches at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.
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Günter Weitling
1935 - Present (89 years)
Günter Weitling is a Lutheran theologian, historian, and author. Weitling was born in Haderslev, Haderslev County, Denmark. After graduating from Haderslev Katedralskole in 1955, he studied Theology and Eastern Studies at the Universities of Bethel/Bielefeld, Mainz, Kiel, and Copenhagen. This was followed by a study of pedagogy in Breklum and stay at the Seminary in Preetz. He then served as a Lutheran pastor from 1962 to 1963 in Jörl , from 1963 to 1965 in Sønderborg, and from 1965 to 1970 at the Højdevangskirke in Copenhagen. At the same time, he completed a clerkship at the gymnasium of Tårnby in religion, history and archaeology.
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Jorunn Økland
1964 - Present (60 years)
Jorunn Økland is a Norwegian gender studies expert and biblical scholar with a background in Classics. She is currently Director at the Norwegian Institute at Athens and Professor of Gender Studies in the Humanities at the University of Oslo , and former Director of its Centre for Gender Research . Her fields of expertise are Pauline Studies, ancient mediterranean material culture, feminist critique of religion, gender and sacred texts, Bible translation, and cultural/secular uses of the Bible.
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Elias Bongmba
1953 - Present (71 years)
Elias Kifon Bongmba is a Cameroonian-American theologian. Biography Bongmba received a BA from Sioux Falls College in 1987, an M.Div. from North American Baptist Seminary in Sioux Falls in 1989, an MA from the University of Iowa in 1991, and a Ph.D. from Iliff School of Theology in 1995. He is Professor of Religion at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and holds the Harry and Hazel Chair in Christian Theology. His research focuses on Global Christianity and African and African Diaspora religions. He currently serves as the editor of Journal of Religion in Africa, is a member of the American A...
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Phyllis Granoff
1947 - Present (77 years)
Phyllis Emily Granoff is a specialist in Indic religions. In July 2004, she joined Yale University as a Professor of World Religions. She also serves as the editor of the Journal of Indian Philosophy.
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Charles Pietri
1932 - 1991 (59 years)
Charles Pietri was a 20th-century French historian and university professor. Biography A former pupil at the , Pietri entered the École normale supérieure in 1952 and obtained his agrégation d'histoire. He spent some times at the École française de Rome. In 1961, he was a research associate at the CNRS, and was an assistant at the Sorbonne from 1963 to 1966. He then became an assistant professor at the University of Lille, then a lecturer at Paris-Nanterre. He dedicated his doctoral thesis, published in 1976, to the study of Roma Christiana from 311 to 440. In 1975, he succeeded Henri-Irénée Marrou and held the chair of history of Christianity at the University Paris-Sorbonne.
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Vladimir Petercă
1944 - 2022 (78 years)
Vladimir Petercă was a Romanian Roman Catholic theologian who served as rector of the from 1995 to 2006. Biography Vladimir Petercă was born on 24 April 1944, in Mircești village, Iași County. He graduated from the Roman Catholic University with science degree in 1968 and was ordained priest on 15 August 1968 by , Roman Catholic Bishop of Iași and titular bishop of Voli. Petercă was part of the same class as the future Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bucharest, Ioan Robu.
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Christopher Budd
1937 - 2023 (86 years)
Hugh Christopher Budd was a British Roman Catholic prelate who served as the 8th Bishop of Plymouth. Early life and education Born in Romford, Essex , United Kingdom, to John and Phyllis Mary Budd, he was educated at St Mary's Primary School, Hornchurch and at St Ignatius College, Stamford Hill. Budd studied at Cotton College, a minor seminary, before moving to St Thomas' Seminary, Grove Park, and completing his studies at the Venerable English College in Rome in 1962. Budd was ordained a priest in Rome on 8 July 1962 for service in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brentwood. Budd was studying a...
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Jean Borella
1930 - Present (94 years)
Jean Borella is a Christian philosopher and theologian. Borella's works are inspired by Ancient and Christian Neoplatonism, but also by the Traditionalist School of René Guénon and Frithjof Schuon.
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Emil Aloysius Wcela
1931 - 2022 (91 years)
Emil Aloysius Wcela was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Wcela served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre in New York State from 1988 to 2007. Biography Early life Emil Wcela was born in Bohemia, New York, on May 1, 1931. He attended St. John Nepomucene School in Bohemia, then went to Seton Hall High School in Patchogue, New York. For his higher education, Wcela attended St. Francis College and Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington, New York.
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Zevulun Charlop
1929 - Present (95 years)
Zevulun Charlop is an American rabbi, currently serving as Dean Emeritus of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary , an affiliate of Yeshiva University . Career Zevulun Charlop served as president of the American Committee for the United Charities in Israel, General Israel Orphans Home for Girls in Jerusalem, and the National Council of Young Israel rabbis.
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Giovanni Ricchiuti
1948 - Present (76 years)
Giovanni Ricchiuti is an Italian archbishop of the Catholic church. On 15 October, he's been appointed as archbishop of the diocese of Altamura-Gravina-Acquaviva delle Fonti. Life Giovanni Ricchiuti was born on 1 August 1948 in Bisceglie, in the Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani. He studied at the middle school of the seminary of Bisceglie and he attended the high school and seminaries in Molfetta. On 9 September 1972, he was ordained as presbyter by archbishop Giuseppe Carata. After the ordainment, he continued to study inside the Pontificio Istituto Biblico, Rome.
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Hans Bietenhard
1916 - 2008 (92 years)
Hans Bietenhard was a Swiss Protestant Reformed pastor, theologian and professor emeritus of New Testament at the University of Bern. Life and work Hans Bietenhard was a son of Rudolf Bietenhard and his wife Rosa Müller, and he grew up in Bern, where he also attended school. From 1945 to 1969 he worked as a Protestant Reformed pastor in Sonnenfeld-Schwäbis, which belongs to Steffisburg.
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Eliyahu Ben Haim
1940 - Present (84 years)
Eliyahu Ben Chaim is a Sephardi rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and Orthodox halachist. He is the Av Beit Din of Mekor Haim in Queens, New York, and a prominent leader of New York's Sephardi Jewish community.
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Trystan Owain Hughes
1972 - Present (52 years)
Trystan Owain Hughes is a Christian theologian, historian and author. He is noted for his work in church history, theology and spirituality. Biography Hughes was born in Penmaenmawr, North Wales, UK, and is a Welsh language speaker. He attained a Master of Theology from Oxford University and a PhD from Bangor University, Wales. He was Chaplain at Cardiff University and was head of Theology at Trinity University College, Carmarthen, Wales. He is now Vicar at Christ Church, Roath Park in Cardiff, also working as director of theological studies at St. Padarn's Institute.
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Pierangelo Sequeri
1944 - Present (80 years)
Pierangelo Sequeri is an Italian theologian of the Catholic Church who has been dean of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences since August 2016. He is also a writer, and a composer who wrote hymns and other music. He held posts as professor of philosophy and theology at the Major Seminary in Milan, doctor and musicologist of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, and lecturer in the aesthetics of the sacred at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera. He was professor of fundamental theology at the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy, later its dean. He has held s...
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Paul N. Anderson
1956 - Present (68 years)
Paul N. Anderson is an American New Testament scholar conducting research on the historical, cultural, and theological background of the Gospel of John, the historical Jesus, Quakers and Spirituality studies. He is Professor of Biblical and Quaker Studies at George Fox University since 1989 and was a founding member of the John, Jesus, and History Project at the Society of Biblical Literature . He also serves as Extraordinary Professor of Religion at North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa and has served as a visiting professor or researcher at Haverford College, Yale Divinity Sc...
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David Aune
1936 - Present (88 years)
David Edward Aune is an American New Testament scholar. He is the emeritus Walter Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the University of Notre Dame. Aune studied at Wheaton College, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Chicago. He taught at Saint Xavier College and Loyola University Chicago before taking up an appointment at the University of Notre Dame.
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Katharine Massam
1963 - Present (61 years)
Katharine Massam is a professor of church history based at the University of Divinity in Melbourne, Australia. Early life and education Katharine Therese Massam grew up in Perth, Western Australia. She completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Western Australia and a Diploma of Education at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, before going on to completing her PhD at the University of Western Australia in 1992. Her doctoral thesis was later published as Sacred Threads: Catholic Spirituality in Australia.
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James Lewis Heft
1952 - Present (72 years)
James Lewis Heft is an American theologian currently the Alton M. Brooks Professor of Religion at University of Southern California.
Go to ProfileMathew P. John was a Biblical Scholar and President of the Society for Biblical Studies in India. Studies M. P. John studied Bachelor of Divinity from 1943–1949 at Serampore College, Serampore during the Principalship of G. H. C. Angus.
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Sigurd Bergmann
1956 - Present (68 years)
Sigurd Bergmann is a German-Swedish theologian and scholar of religion. He is a professor at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, and an alumni fellow of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
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Baby Varghese
1953 - Present (71 years)
Baby Varghese, born in India, is a Malankara Orthodox priest and a Church historian and scholar in Syriac Liturgical Theology. Education After graduating from CMS College in Kottayam, Varghese joined Orthodox Theological Seminary in Kottayam. He earned his bachelor's degree in divinity from Serampore University with first class and first rank. In 1981, he earned his doctorate of theology from the Catholic University of Paris. Four years later he earned his Ph.D. in liturgical studies at the University of Paris - Sorbonne in 1985 Varghese has also earned a Syriac diploma from École pratique de...
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Philipp Harnoncourt
1931 - 2020 (89 years)
Philipp Harnoncourt or Philipp Graf de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt was an Austrian theologian, priest and musician. Born into a noble family, he grew up in Graz and decided to become a priest at age 17. He studied in Graz and Munich. In 1963 he founded a department of church music at the later Kunstuniversität Graz. He was appointed professor at the University of Graz in 1972 and was head of the institute of liturgics, Christian art and hymnology until his retirement in 1999.
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James E. Cheek
1932 - 2010 (78 years)
James Edward Cheek was president emeritus of Howard University. He was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. Howard University President In 1989, Cheek appointed Republican National Committee Chairman Lee Atwater as a member of the Howard University Board of Trustees. Students rose up in protest against Atwater's appointment, disrupting Howard's 122nd anniversary celebrations, and eventually occupied the university's administration building. Within days, both Atwater and Cheek resigned.
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Elizabeth Mburu
1968 - Present (56 years)
Elizabeth W. Mburu is a Kenyan theologian who is a professor of New Testament and Greek at the International Leadership University, Africa International University and Pan Africa Christian University in Nairobi. Her book, African Hermeneutics, seeks to provide a uniquely African approach to interpreting the Bible.
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Linda Hogan
1964 - Present (60 years)
Linda F. Hogan is an Irish ethicist, ecumenist and academic, specialising in Christian ethics, political ethics, human rights, gender, and ecumenism. She is Professor of Ecumenics at Trinity College Dublin, where she was also its vice-provost from 2011 to 2016. She worked as a lecturer at the University of Chester and University of Leeds before joining the staff of Trinity College, Dublin.
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Richard D. Nelson
1945 - Present (79 years)
Richard Donald Nelson is an American Old Testament scholar. He is W. J. A. Power Professor of Biblical Hebrew and Old Testament and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University.
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Alexandru Șafran
1910 - 2006 (96 years)
Alexandru Şafran was a Romanian and, after 1948, Swiss rabbi. As chief rabbi of Romania , he intervened with authorities in the fascist government of Ion Antonescu in an unusually successful attempt to save Jews during the Holocaust.
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Gail R. O'Day
1954 - 2018 (64 years)
Gail Radcliffe O'Day was an American biblical scholar. Early life and education O'Day was born in Muhlenberg, New Jersey, on 2 December 1954, while her father Arthur F. O'Day served in the Korean War. Upon the end of his military service, Arthur and his wife Sally Wilcox O'Day moved to her hometown, Scituate, Massachusetts. The family moved to Chappaqua, New York, in 1965, where O'Day was a student at Horace Greeley High School. She earned a bachelor's of arts degree at Brown University in 1976, followed by a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and a Ph.D. in New Testament from Emory University.
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Peter Tarlow
1946 - Present (78 years)
Peter E. Tarlow is a rabbi and was the executive director of Texas A&M Hillel from 1983 to 2013. He is a scholar in the area of tourism safety, a consultant for the tourism industry, and the founder of Tourism & More Inc. He worked as a security consultant to the city of Arlington, Texas, in preparation for Super Bowl XLV. Tarlow's scholarship in tourism and security has been relied upon by mainstream media for his expertise. He is the author of "Event Risk Management and Safety," which was reviewed by Security Management magazine in 2003 and 2005. In 2007 he was a speaker at The Intelligence Summit.
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Khanna Omarkhali
1981 - Present (43 years)
Khanna Omarkhali, also known as Khanna Usoyan , is a Yezidi-Kurdish religion researcher. Biography She studied Iranian philology at the Saint Petersburg State University, from where she obtained a Ph.D. in 2006, as well as a BSc in 2002 and a MSc in 2004. In 2005, she joined the University of Göttingen as an Academic Assistant in the DFG project “Cultural memory of the Yezidi community in Germany with regard to religious questions", from 2007 to 2010 she was a bursar of the DFG Graduiertenkolleg 896/2 “Götterbilder - Gottesbilder - Weltbilder”, with the project “Yezidi Religious Texts: Their Theological Implications with some References to the Ahl-e Haqq Religious Tradition”.
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Muriel Orevillo-Montenegro
1954 - Present (70 years)
Muriel Orevillo-Montenegro is a Filipina theologian known for her writings in Asian feminist theology. She is a Human Rights activist and Peace and Justice advocate. Biography Orevillo-Montenegro's parents and grandparents were amongst the first generation of Protestant converts in the Philippines.
Go to ProfileThe Reverend Lloyd Alexander "Tony" Lewis, Jr. served on the faculty of Virginia Theological Seminary from 1978 through 1991 and from 2000 to his retirement in 2012. He was the Molly Laird Downs Professor of New Testament.
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