The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Religious Studies,
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Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan
#144657
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (73 years)
Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan is an African-American womanist theologian, professor, author, poet, and an elder in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. She is Professor-Emerita of Religion and Women's Studies and Director of Women's Studies at Shaw University Divinity School. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including the volume Women and Christianity in a series on Women and Religion in the World, published by Praeger.
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Maurice Couve de Murville
#63457
Overall Influence
1929 - 2007 (78 years)
Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville was a French-born British Roman Catholic bishop. He was the seventh Archbishop of Birmingham from 25 March 1982 until his retirement on 12 June 1999, having formerly been a priest of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton and chaplain of Fisher House, Cambridge.
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Marat Shterin
#158270
Overall Influence
Marat Shterin is an author, doctor and researcher of cults and new religious movements. He is also a lecturer in Sociology of Religion at King's College London, United Kingdom. Early life Marat Shterin was born and grew up in Moscow, Russia. As a youth, he showed promise as an athlete and gymnast, but chose instead to pursue his academic interests. He studied History at Moscow University before moving to London to continue his studies and began studying Sociology.
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Ahmad Ghabel
#62803
Overall Influence
1954 - 2012 (58 years)
Ahmad Ghabel was an Iranian Hojjatoleslam Shia Muslim cleric, theologian, seminary lecturer, researcher, and author. He was a follower of the dissident cleric Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri and was detained several times by the Iranian government. He died on 22 October 2012 while on hospital arrest.
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David Berger
#157942
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (81 years)
David Berger is an American academic, dean of Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, as well as chair of Yeshiva College's Jewish Studies department. He is the author of various books and essays on medieval Jewish apologetics and polemics, as well as having edited the modern critical edition of the medieval polemic text Nizzahon Vetus. Outside academic circles he is best known for The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference, a criticism of Chabad messianism.
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Kelvin Felix
#46085
Overall Influence
1933 - Present (91 years)
Kelvin Edward Felix, OBE, SLMH, DAH is the Roman Catholic Archbishop emeritus of Castries, St Lucia. He was born in Roseau, Dominica, on 15 February 1933. He became a cardinal at the papal consistory held on 22 February 2014.
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Jeanne Knoerle
#76446
Overall Influence
1928 - 2013 (85 years)
Sister Jeanne Knoerle, S.P., was an author, educator and theologian. A Roman Catholic religious sister, she was a member of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She was president of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana from 1968 to 1983. Other posts were with the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities and with the Lilly Endowment.
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Vernon K. Robbins
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Overall Influence
1939 - Present (85 years)
Vernon Kay Robbins is an American New Testament scholar and historian of early Christianity. He is currently Winship Distinguished Research Professor of New Testament and Comparative Sacred Texts at Emory University, as well as visiting professor of New Testament at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. He is a major figure in Markan scholarship and is the creator and a prominent proponent of socio-rhetorical criticism in New Testament studies.
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Beat Huwyler
#175386
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (63 years)
Beat Huwyler is a Swiss-born Reformist theologian who taught at University of Basel. Huwyler received a Doctor of Theology degree in 1995 after completing his thesis about the Book of Jeremiah. He was editor of the evangelical magazine "Life & Faith" from 2006 to 2008. He directed a research program founded by Swiss National Science Foundation in the University of Basel. He edited the book "Easter Monday" in 2008 and wrote "Jeremiah and the People" in 1997 with articulates the criterion that changes in biblical books must be repeated and serve a discernible and unifying purpose.
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Dianne M. Stewart
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Overall Influence
Dianne Marie Stewart is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Emory University. Dr. Stewart's work focuses on religion, culture and African heritage in the Caribbean and the Americas as well as womanist religious thought and praxis. Dianne M. Stewart is the author of Three Eyes for the Journey: African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious Experience , Black Women, Black Love: America’s War on African American Marriage and Obeah, Orisa and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume II, Orisa: Africana Nations and the Power of Black Sacred Imagination .
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Mark Cladis
#146961
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (66 years)
Mark S. Cladis is an author and the Brooke Russell Astor Professor of the Humanities at Brown University. Since arriving at Brown in 2004, he served as Chair for several 3-year terms. His teaching and scholarship are located at the various intersections of religious studies, philosophy, and environmental humanities. He has published five books. His current book project is Radical Romanticism, Democracy, and the Environmental Imagination. He has also published over sixty articles, essays, and chapters in edited books.
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Naphtali Lewis
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Overall Influence
1911 - 2005 (94 years)
Naphtali Lewis was an American papyrologist who published extensively on subjects ranging from the ancient papyrus industry to government in Roman Egypt. He also wrote several social histories of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt to make his research more accessible to non-specialists. He was married to the psychoanalyst Helen Block Lewis , and they had two children, John Block Lewis and Judith Lewis Herman, a physician who followed in her mother's professional footsteps.
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Susan Ackerman
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Overall Influence
1958 - Present (66 years)
Susan Ackerman is an American Hebrew Bible scholar. She is Preston H. Kelsey Professor of Religion, Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, where she has taught since 1990. Before coming to Dartmouth she taught at the University of Arizona and Winthrop College in South Carolina. She specializes in the religion of ancient Israel and the religions of Israel's neighbors , especially women's religious history.
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Jan Joosten
#169887
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (65 years)
Jan Joosten is a Belgian biblical scholar, former pastor, and convicted sex offender. From 2014 to 2020, he was Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford. He was previously, and then concurrently, a professor at the University of Strasbourg, a position he started in 1994 and maintained alongside his chair in Oxford. In June 2020, he was found guilty of possessing child pornography, and was dismissed from his Chair at Oxford. He retired from his Strasbourg position in 2021.
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P. Kyle McCarter Jr.
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Overall Influence
1945 - Present (79 years)
Peter Kyle McCarter Jr. is an Old Testament scholar. He is William Foxwell Albright Professor Emeritus in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University. McCarter is best known for his work on the Books of Samuel: he wrote volumes on I and II Samuel for the Anchor Bible Series.
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Giacomo Morandi
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Overall Influence
1965 - Present (59 years)
Giacomo Morandi is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been named bishop of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla. He served as the undersecretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2015 to 2017 and then as secretary until 2022. He was made an archbishop in 2017 and retains that as his personal title.
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Steven Greenberg
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Overall Influence
1956 - Present (68 years)
Steven Greenberg is an American rabbi with a rabbinic ordination from the Orthodox rabbinical seminary of Yeshiva University . He is described as the first openly gay Orthodox-ordained Jewish rabbi, since he publicly disclosed he is gay in an article in the Israeli newspaper Maariv in 1999 and participated in a 2001 documentary film about gay men and women raised in the Orthodox Jewish world.
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Wolfgang Lipp
#151763
Overall Influence
1939 - 2021 (82 years)
Wolfgang Lipp is a German Lutheran theologian, pastor, university chaplain, academic and historian of art, architecture and culture. Works Architecture and cultural history Der Weg nach Santiago - Jakobswege in Süddeutschland, Ulm 1991, Bilder und Meditationen zum Marienportal des Ulmer Münsters, Langenau 1983, .Begleiter durch das Ulmer Münster, Langenau 1999, .Das Erbe des Jakobus. Zur Vorgeschichte und Geschichte, zur theologischen und religiösen Bedeutung der Jakobuswallfahrt. Mit einem Anhang über die deutschen Pilgerwege. Abbildungen und Fotografien von Fritjof Betz, Rainer Brockmann u...
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Cristian Bădiliță
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Overall Influence
1968 - Present (56 years)
Cristian Bădiliță is a theologian, essayist, translator and contemporary Romanian poet. Biography He was born in Săveni, Botoșani County, where he lived until the age of 14. He settled afterwards in Botoșani, where he studied at the A. T. Laurian High School. His debut was in 1982 when he published his first poems in Athenaeum magazine. In 1986 he had a second literary debut, again with poetry, in Chronicle, an important cultural magazine in Iași. After his traumatic experience in the communist compulsory military service , Bădiliță followed for two years the courses of the Faculty of Letters...
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John Applegate
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Overall Influence
1952 - Present (72 years)
John Applegate is a British Anglican priest who was Archdeacon of Bolton from 2002 until 2008. He was educated at the University of Bristol and ordained in 1985. After curacies in Collyhurst and Higher Broughton he was the Rector of Lower Broughton. He was the Area Dean of Salford from 1996 to 2002; and a Lecturer at the University of Manchester from 2001. Since 2008, he has been the Director of the Learning for Mission and Ministry, Southern North-West Training Partnership.
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Donald Juel
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Overall Influence
1942 - 2003 (61 years)
Donald Harrisville Juel was an American educator and New Testament scholar. Donald Harrisville Juel was born in Alton, Illinois. His education included B.A. from St. Olaf College , B.D. from Luther Seminary , and Ph.D. in New Testament from Yale University .
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Jan Kaczkowski
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Overall Influence
1977 - 2016 (39 years)
Jan Adam Kaczkowski was a Polish Roman Catholic priest, doctor of theological sciences, bioethicist, vlogger, and director of the Puck Hospice. Life Jan Kaczkowski was born on July 19, 1977, in Gdynia, Poland. After graduating from high school, Kaczkowski was admitted to the Gdańsk Theological Seminary, where in 2002 he defended his master's thesis in theology. The same year he was ordained a priest. Kaczkowski continued his studies, and in 2007 obtained a doctorate in theology at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, and a year later he completed postgraduate studies in bioethi...
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Gusztáv Bölcskei
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Overall Influence
1952 - Present (72 years)
Dr. Gusztáv Bölcskei is a Hungarian Reformed bishop and a theologian. He is the former clerical president of the Synod of the Reformed Church in Hungary and bishop of Debrecen. Bölcskei is Executive Committee Member of the World Communion of Reformed Churches, former president of WCRC Europe, and a professor of church sociology at Debrecen Reformed Theological University.
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Leo Trepp
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Overall Influence
1913 - 2010 (97 years)
Leo Trepp was a German-born American rabbi who was the last surviving rabbi who had led a congregation in Nazi Germany during the early days of The Holocaust. Early life and work Trepp was born on March 4, 1913, in Mainz, Germany. He studied philosophy and philology at the University of Frankfurt and the University of Berlin and in 1935 received his doctorate from the University of Würzburg. He was ordained by the Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary in 1936. Trepp recalled having conducted his first seder in 1936 in Oldenburg, when he was a newly ordained rabbi in Nazi Germany, leading the 15 synagogues in the district.
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Albert Schmidt
#129547
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (76 years)
Albert Schmidt OSB is a German Benedictine monk and presiding abbot of the Beuronese Congregation, an association of eighteen mostly German or German-speaking Benedictine monasteries and convents, headed by Beuron Abbey in the upper Danube Valley. This makes him the Congregation's highest ranking dignitary and a High Superior in church law terms.
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Gastone Simoni
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Overall Influence
1937 - 2022 (85 years)
Gastone Simoni was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church serving as the bishop of Diocese of Prato from 1992 to 2021. Biography Simoni was born in Castelfranco di Sopra, in the province of Arezzo, Italy on 9 April 1937. He studied theology at Small Diocesan Seminary of Strada in Casentino and the Seminary of Fiesole. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1960 by the bishop of Fiesole, Antonio Bagnoli.
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Frank A. James III
#155069
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (71 years)
Frank Allison James III is an American theologian and academic administrator. He is the president of Missio Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He formerly served as Provost and Professor of Historical Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. His expertise is Reformation history, focusing especially on the life and thought of Peter Martyr Vermigli. He has authored and edited several books.
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Wolfgang Roth
#166487
Overall Influence
1930 - 2013 (83 years)
Wolfgang Max Wilhelm Roth , also known as W. M. W. Roth, was a German pastor of the United Church of Canada and an Old Testament scholar with major contribution to the growth of Old Testament scholarship for more than half a century from 1959 through 2013. Roth was a scholar in the line of Gerhard von Rad acknowledging the influence of the master-specialist of Old Testament ever since his study days at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Roth's writings drew the attention of the world of Old Testament scholarship through his writings which began appearing in journals like Catholic Biblica...
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Józef Stala
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Overall Influence
1966 - Present (58 years)
Józef Stala is a Polish Catholic priest, theologian, and philosopher. He was ordained on May 25, 1991. Biography From 1985 until 1991 Stala studied Philosophy and Theology, 1985 and 1986 at the Seminary Gościkowo-Paradyż and from 1986 to 1991 in Tarnów. On May 31, 1991, he finished his studies with Magister of Theology at the Pontifical academy in Kraków . After studies at the Warsaw Theological Academy
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Ernst Dammann
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Overall Influence
1904 - 2003 (99 years)
Ernst Karl Alwin Hans Dammann was a German Africanist. With Walter Markov, he was one of the founders of African Studies in the DDR, and as a student of Carl Meinhof and the successor of Diedrich Hermann Westermann, was part of the "second wave" of German Africanists. A prodigious scholar of African languages and a one-time missionary in Tanga, Tanzania, he was an early member of the Nazi party, and his scientific work was criticized as imbued with racist ideology.
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Esther Mombo
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Overall Influence
1957 - Present (67 years)
Esther Mombo is a Kenyan Anglican theologian who teaches church history and theologies from women's perspectives. Biography Born in Birongo village of Kisii County, Kenya to a Seventh-day Adventist father and a Quaker mother, Mombo received a BD from St Paul's United Theological College and an MPhil from the Irish School of Ecumenics of Trinity College Dublin. She returned to Kenya to teach at an Anglican bible college, where she became an Anglican herself. Mombo completed a PhD in 1998 at School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh as part of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World.
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Donald Lapointe
#166443
Overall Influence
1936 - Present (88 years)
Donald Lapointe is a Canadian clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church and emeritus auxiliary bishop in Saint-Jérôme. Life On 23 May 1964 Donald Lapointe received the priestly ordination for the bishopric of Sherbrooke.
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Joseph Fielding McConkie
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Overall Influence
1941 - 2013 (72 years)
Joseph Fielding McConkie was a professor of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University and an author or co-author of over 25 books. McConkie was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the son of Bruce R. McConkie and Amelia Smith McConkie. In 1966, he married Brenda Kempton in the Salt Lake Temple.
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Samuel Ayete-Nyampong
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Overall Influence
Samuel Ayete-Nyampong is a Ghanaian theologian and Presbyterian minister who was elected the Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana making him the chief ecclesial officer of the church. The role is equivalent to the rank of executive secretary or secretary-general of the national church, serving from 2012 to 2019. He is also the Vice President of the World Communion Communion of Reformed Churches based in Hanover, Germany, and the Theological Consultant to the Evangelical Mission in Solidarity based in Stuttgart, Germany. He is a Lecturer in Pastoral Care and Coun...
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Jan P. Fokkelman
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Overall Influence
1940 - Present (84 years)
Jan P. Fokkelman is a Dutch biblical scholar. Fokkelman was born in Batavia, in the Dutch East Indies. He studied, and then taught, at the University of Leiden. Fokkelman is perhaps best known for his 4-volume, 2400-page work on the Books of Samuel. Fokkelman is a central figure in the "narrative revolution" in biblical studies, which emphasises a literary approach to the text.
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Klaus Koschorke
#156342
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (76 years)
Klaus Koschorke is a German historian of Christianity and was a Professor of Early and Global History of Christianity at the University of Munich in Germany from 1993 to 2013. Biography After studying Protestant theology in Berlin, Heidelberg, Edinburgh, Tübingen and Heidelberg from 1967–1973, Klaus Koschorke completed his doctoral degree in Heidelberg in 1976 with a dissertation on the newly discovered Coptic-Gnostic texts from Nag Hammadi. He was a research assistant in Heidelberg and assistant professor in Bern, where he qualified as a university lecturer in 1991 with his habilitation thesis on 4th century Greek ecclesiology .
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William Dumbrell
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Overall Influence
1926 - 2016 (90 years)
William John Dumbrell was an Australian biblical scholar. Dumbrell was converted in 1951, and studied at Moore Theological College before being ordained as priest in the Anglican church in February 1957. He undertook further studies at the University of Sydney , the University of London and Harvard University . Dumbrell had served on the faculty of Regent College, Macquarie University, Moore Theological College, the University of Sydney, Trinity Theological College, Singapore and Emmaus Bible College.
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Bernard Jacqueline
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Overall Influence
1918 - 2007 (89 years)
Bernard Jacqueline was a French prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the Roman Curia and served as Nuncio to Burundi and Morocco. Biography Bernard Henri René Jacqueline was born on 18 March 1918 in Saint-Lô, Normandy, France. He studied at the institute Saint-Lô d'Agneaux and the seminary Saint-Sulpice in Paris. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Coutances on 12 March 1944 in Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris.
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Paul Kim
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Overall Influence
1952 - Present (72 years)
Paul Geun-Sang Kim is an Anglican bishop of the Diocese of Seoul and the former Primate of the Province of Korea. He was ordained in 1980 and was elected bishop in January 2008, to take the place of the soon-to-retire, Primate of Korea & Bishop of Seoul Francis Kyung Jo Park. He was consecrated on May 27, 2008 and succeeded Bishop Francis on January 15, 2009. In 2010, to succeed the Primate of Korea, Solomon Jong Mo Yoon, he was elected Primate of the Province of Korea.
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Raymond Collins
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Overall Influence
1935 - Present (89 years)
Raymond Francis Collins is an American Roman Catholic priest of the Diocese of Providence, and an exegete of the New Testament. Recently retired, he has taught as a professor at a variety of institutions of higher education, including most prominently Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Catholic University of America. He also served the American College of the Immaculate Conception as its ninth rector.
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Columba Cary-Elwes
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Overall Influence
1903 - 1994 (91 years)
Dom Columba Cary-Elwes, OSB was an English Benedictine monk who professed vows at Ampleforth Abbey in York, England. As a missionary he travelled to Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya and has written books on Christianity. He was the founding prior of the Priory of Saints Louis and Mary in Saint Louis, Missouri.
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Smadar Rosensweig
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Overall Influence
Smadar Rosensweig is an adjunct assistant professor of Bible at Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women. Prior to that she served as lecturer of Judaic studies and history at Touro College. Smadar Rosensweig received her B.A. from Barnard College and M.A. from Azrielli Barnard College. She delivers shiurim and lectures extensively throughout the New York metropolitan area.
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Robert A. Rees
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Overall Influence
1935 - Present (89 years)
Robert A. Rees is an American educator, scholar and poet. Beginning in 1998 he was director of education and humanities at the Institute of HeartMath in Boulder Creek, California. Currently, he is a visiting professor and director of Mormon studies at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.
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William Johnston
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Overall Influence
1925 - 2010 (85 years)
William Johnston was a Jesuit priest and a Zen meditation advocate. His family was a supporter of Irish Republican Army and suffered terror under the Irish Civil War. He studied in Liverpool University and at the National University of Ireland, then joined the Jesuit Order and in 1951 moved to postwar Japan, where he resided ever since.
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Gerard Mannion
#141361
Overall Influence
1970 - 2019 (49 years)
Gerard Mannion was an Irish theologian. He published extensively in the fields of ecclesiology, ethics, and public theology, as well as on other subjects in the area of systematic theology and philosophy.
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Martyn C. Cowan
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Overall Influence
Martyn C. Cowan FRHistS is an Irish Presbyterian minister and lecturer in Historical Theology at the Union Theological College, Belfast. Biography Early life and education Cowan was educated at Friends' School Lisburn and went on to study philosophy at undergraduate and postgraduate level at Queen’s University Belfast. He was a student on the Cornhill Training Course and trained for ordination at Oak Hill Theological College , and Union Theological College . He subsequently completed doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge with a dissertation entitled ’The prophetic preaching of John ...
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Crispin Varquez
#133412
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (64 years)
Crispin Barrete Varquez is a prelate of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. He is the current Bishop of Borongan in Eastern Samar. His previous appointment was as Vicar General of the Diocese of Tagbilaran in January 2007.
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Jean-Pierre Delville
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Overall Influence
1951 - Present (73 years)
Jean-Pierre Delville is a Belgian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the Bishop of Liège since 2013. His earlier career was devoted to church history and teaching, which he always combined with pastoral activity. He has been associated with the Saint Egidio Community since 1978.
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Charles Villa-Vicencio
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Overall Influence
Charles Villa-Vicencio is an Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town. He is also a Visiting research professor at Georgetown University. He was a director of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which organised the public hearings on the atrocities committed during apartheid.
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Daniel E. Fleming
#99341
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (67 years)
Daniel Edward Fleming is an American biblical scholar and Assyriologist whose work centers on Hebrew Bible interpretation and cultural history, ancient Syria, Emar, ancient religion, and the interplay of ancient Near Eastern societies. Since 1990, he has served as a professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, where he has spent his whole career.
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