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List of the most influential people in Religious Studies,

#2501

Christian Wismer Ruth

#185278

Overall Influence

C. W. Ruth was one of the ten founding fathers of the Church of the Nazarene. Ruth grew up in Indianapolis, and from an early age was an evangelist for the Holiness Christian Church. In 1902 Ruth merged the Spokane, Washington holiness churches of the People's Mission into the Church of the Nazarene. He was considered a conservative, who also thought unity was the most important issue facing the Church of the Nazarene during the turn of the century.

#2502

Anita Monro

#189877

Overall Influence

Anita Monro is an Australian academic, theologian, and Uniting Church in Australia minister. She is the Principal of Grace College, one of the residential colleges of the University of Queensland, located on the St Lucia campus. She is also an Honorary Senior Fellow, in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, at the University of Queensland.

#2503

Albert-Marie de Monléon

#110834

Overall Influence

1937 - 2019 (82 years)

Albert-Marie Joseph Cyrille de Monléon was a French Roman Catholic bishop. De Monléon was born in France and was ordained to the priesthood in 1964. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pamiers from 1988 to 1999 and served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Meaux from 1999 to 2012.

#2504

Charles Edwin Herzig

#156769

Overall Influence

1929 - 1991 (62 years)

Charles Edwin Herzig was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the first bishop of the Diocese of Tyler in Texas from 1987 until his death in 1991. Biography Charles Herzig was born on August 14, 1929, in San Antonio, Texas. The grandson of a Lutheran minister, Herzig was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Galveston by Archbishop Robert Lucey on May 31, 1955.

#2505

Joseph Galdon

#132415

Overall Influence

1928 - 2010 (82 years)

Fr. Joseph Galdon, S.J. was a Jesuit priest and writer. He was a former dean at the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. He first went to the Philippines in the 1950s as a novice. He was ordained in the United States on June 20, 1959 by Cardinal Francis Spellman at Fordham University.

#2506

Frederick Gedicks

#69537

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Frederick Mark Gedicks is an expert on religion and law, especially the role of religion in public life. He is a professor of law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University . Biography Gedicks received his bachelor's degree in economics from BYU. He then earned his JD from the University of Southern California.

#2507

Terence Copley

#97426

Overall Influence

1946 - 2011 (65 years)

Terence Copley was a British academic and author. Terence Copley was Professor of Educational Studies at the University of Oxford, England and also Emeritus Professor of Religious Education at the University of Exeter, England.

#2508

Chanequa Walker-Barnes

#182953

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Chanequa Walker-Barnes is an American theologian and psychologist. Her research as a clinical psychologist has focused on African American health disparities, and as a womanist theologian she has written about the myth of the "StrongBlackWoman" and the need for the voices of women of color. She has written two books, Too Heavy a Yoke and I Bring the Voices of My People.

#2509

Andreas Pitsillides

#185756

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Andreas Pitsillides is a Cypriot theologian, politician, party member of DISY and former Member of the European Parliament. Since 2020, he has been a Chaser in the Cypriot version of The Chase quiz show.

#2510

Evangeline Anderson-Rajkumar

#189453

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Evangeline Anderson-Rajkumar is a feminist activist ecumenical theologian who taught at Serampore College, Serampore the United Theological College, Bangalore, . Evangeline Anderson-Rajkumar was the first permanent woman faculty to serve as faculty in the Theology Department of the renowned Serampore College, founded by William Carey when he came to India in 1792. She was the first Lutheran Woman to serve as first Vice President of the United Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India in 2006. She comes from a family of theologians - about 17 of them, her father, all eight siblings, and seven of the eight who married into the family.

#2511

José Antonio Dammert Bellido

#167618

Overall Influence

1917 - 2008 (91 years)

José Antonio Dammert Bellido was a Peruvian bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Bellido was born in Lima, Peru and ordained a priest on December 21, 1946. Bellido was appointed Auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Lima, along with Titular Bishop of Amathus in Palaestina, on April 14, 1958 and ordained bishop May 15, 1958. On March 15, 1962 he was appointed Bishop of Diocese of Cajamarca and would remain in post until his retirement on December 1, 1992.

#2512

John Arnold

#164273

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

John Robert Arnold, is a retired Anglican priest and author. He served as Dean of Rochester from 1978 to 1989, and then as Dean of Durham from 1989 until his retirement in 2002. Biography Arnold was educated at Christ's Hospital and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

#2513

David Applebaum

#38128

Overall Influence

1952 - 2003 (51 years)

David Applebaum was an American-born Israeli physician and rabbi. He was chief of the emergency room and trauma services of Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center. Applebaum was murdered in a Palestinian suicide bombing at Cafe Hillel in Jerusalem on September 9, 2003.

#2514

Alla Selawry

#153957

Overall Influence

1913 - 1992 (79 years)

Alla Selawry , was a Russian scientist, Anthroposophist, doctor, homeopath, and theologian. Biography She was born in Moscow of Russian parents Sergei Ivanovich Selavri , a Sworn Attorney assistant and Antonina Georgievna Stasenkova , and was the older sister of Dr. Oleg Selawry . Her family moved from Russia to Germany in 1922 during the Russian Civil War.

#2515

Lauren Pfister

#189404

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Lauren Frederick Pfister is a Christian theologian and scholar of Confucianism. He is Professor Emeritus at Hong Kong Baptist University and is a founding fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities. He was awarded the honor of "Distinguished Scholar" at the Tenth International Symposium on the History of Christianity in Modern China.

#2516

Jofrid Wiik

#191062

Overall Influence

1934 - 2018 (84 years)

Jofrid Wiik, née Bjorland was a Norwegian theologian and politician for the Christian Democratic Party. Hailing from Nærbø, she graduated with the cand.theol. degree from the MF Norwegian School of Theology in 1963. After working at mission and bible schools she was a faculty member at the MF Norwegian School of Theology from 1975 to 1995. She served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Rogaland during the term 1969–1973. She met during 7 days of parliamentary session.

#2517

Love L. Sechrest

#169369

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Love L. Sechrest is Dean of the Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Columbia Theological Seminary and was previously an associate professor of the New Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California. Her research interests include race and justice in the New Testament, African American Christianity, and womanist biblical interpretation in the New Testament. She serves on the board of directors for Faith & Learning, International, a Christian mission and social entrepreneurship business incubator.

#2518

Harold O. J. Brown

#178775

Overall Influence

1933 - 2007 (74 years)

Harold O. J. Brown was a theologian, professor, activist, and author in the United States. He was a professor of theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was born in Tampa. An evangelical Christian he was part of a pan-Christian movement that developed in the wake of the 1960s counter culture. He cofounded the Christian Action Council which established crisis pregnancy centers.

#2519

Gareth Moore

#124614

Overall Influence

1948 - 2002 (54 years)

Gareth Edward Moore OP was an English theologian, author and Dominican friar. Early life and education Moore was the son of George Edward Moore, a stevedore, and his second wife Alice . He was born in Bermondsey and lived with his parents and his older half-brother, son of Alice in a previous marriage, in Rotherhithe. He attended Raine's Foundation Grammar School. Gareth was a successful student and taught himself Russian through independent study. He was the first pupil from the school to get a scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he graduated with a B.Litt degree, with his ...

#2520

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y García-Menocal

#145596

Overall Influence

1936 - 2014 (78 years)

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y García-Menocal was a Cuban Roman Catholic priest, theologian and writer. Biography He was born in Havana on 16 July 1936. He earned degrees in law and philosophy at the University of Havana. He studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University from 1959 to 1961. He was ordained a priest in Rome on 23 December 1961. He became vicar general of the Archdiocese of Havana. He was the rector of Havana's Seminary of Saint Charles and Saint Ambrose from 1966 to 1970 and general secretary of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba from 1970 to 1991.

#2521

Bernadette Porter

#90088

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Sister Dr. Bernadette Mary Porter is a British Roman Catholic nun, educator and academic administrator. She was educated at Merrow Grange Grammar School , Digby Stuart College and King's College London . She served as Vice-Chancellor, Roehampton University from 1999 to 2004, having previously held various posts at Roehampton Institute.

#2522

Geraldo João Paulo Roger Verdier

#172213

Overall Influence

1937 - 2017 (80 years)

Geraldo João Paulo Roger Verdier was a Roman Catholic bishop. Verdier was ordained to the priesthood in 1963. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Guajará-Mirim, Brazil from 1980 to 2011. See also Catholic Church in Brazil

#2523

Antônio Ribeiro de Oliveira

#40311

Overall Influence

1926 - 2017 (91 years)

Antônio Ribeiro de Oliveira was a Brazilian Roman Catholic Archbishop. Ordained to the priesthood in 1949, Ribeiro de Oliveira served as bishop of the Diocese of Ipameri Brazil, from 1975 to 1985. He had served as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Goiânia from 1961 to 1975 and then as archbishop of the archdiocese from 1985 to 2002.

#2524

Mohammad Vaez Mousavi

#180488

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Hujjat al-Islam Seyyed Mohammad Vaez Mousavi is an Iranian Shiite cleric and politician. He is a member of the 4th Assembly of Experts from electorate East Azerbaijan. Va'ez Mousavi won with 305,072 votes

#2525

Divo Zadi

#185999

Overall Influence

1931 - 2021 (90 years)

Divo Zadi was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop. Zadi was born in Italy and was ordained to the priesthood in 1953. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Civita Castellana, Italy, from 1989 to 2007.

#2526

Bruno Forte

#65009

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Bruno Forte is an Italian Roman Catholic theologian and ecclesiastic, currently Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto. Biography Archbishop Forte was born in Naples. He was ordained a priest on 18 April 1973. He studied at Tübingen University associated with Hans Küng, Joseph Ratzinger and Walter Kasper. He also spent time in Paris, before gaining a Laurea degree in philosophy from Naples University.

#2527

Mieczysław Cieślar

#182313

Overall Influence

1950 - 2010 (60 years)

Mieczysław Cieślar was a Lutheran theologian and bishop of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland. He died on April 18, 2010, in a car accident, returning home from attending state funeral services for Lech Kaczyński, Poland's president, who died in the 2010 Smolensk plane crash.

#2528

Jutta Jokiranta

Jutta Jokiranta

#191495

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Jutta Maria Jokiranta is a Finnish theologian and, since 2018, a Professor in Hebrew Bible and cognate studies at the University of Helsinki. She is a former university lecturer of the Hebrew Bible at the University of Helsinki and an Academy Research Fellow of the Academy of Finland. Her area of specialization is Qumran studies and Second Temple Judaism. She is currently leader of the team in "Society and Religion in Late Second Temple Judaism" in the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in "Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions" . She was elected president of the International Organizat...

#2529

Anne Hege Grung

#135327

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Anne Hege Grung is a Norwegian professor of interreligious studies and feminist, and the President of Norway's preeminent women's and girls' rights NGO, the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights ; she succeeded supreme court justice Karin M. Bruzelius as NKF President in 2020.

#2530

David Crawley

#164539

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

David Perry Crawley was Archbishop of Kootenay and Metropolitan of British Columbia and Yukon from 1994 to 2004. He was born in 1937, the son of the Rev. Canon George Antony Crawley and Lucy Lillian Ball, and educated at the University of Manitoba and the University of Kent at Canterbury. He was ordained in 1961 and was the incumbent at St Thomas', Sherwood Park until 1966. He was Canon Missioner at All Saints Cathedral, Edmonton from 1967 until 1970 and Rector of St Matthew's, Winnipeg from 1971 until 1977. He was Archdeacon of Winnipeg from 1974 to 1977 and of Rupert's Land until 1981. ...

#2531

Piet Meiring

#191561

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Piet Meiring is a South African theologian and academic. He is a Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa minister and the former director of the Centre for Public Theology at the University of Pretoria. He served on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

#2532

W. R. F. Browning

#164676

Overall Influence

Wilfred Robert Francis Browning is an Anglican clergyman and theologian. He was Canon Residentiary of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford and of Blackburn Cathedral. He is now an honorary priest and honorary canon. He previous lectured in New Testament Studies at the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education and at Cuddesdon College in Oxford.

#2533

Robert Henricks

#163913

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Robert Henricks is an American theologian, currently the Preston Kelsey Professor of Religion, Emeritus at Dartmouth College, specializing in Asian literature and religion.

#2534

Toño Cedeño

#190963

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Toño Cedeño is a doctor in art history, theologian, oculist, visual artist and founder of the Oqli Collection. Studies He studied optometry at the Superior School of Medicine Instituto Politécnico Nacional, IPN. He later studied for a master's degree in Theology at the Universidad Iberoamericana. In 2005 he obtained a Doctorate in Art History from Casa Lamm, with the thesis 'The female image on Mexican banknotes'.

#2535

Marianne Sághy

#170825

Overall Influence

1961 - 2018 (57 years)

Marianne Sághy was a Hungarian expert on the religious and social culture of Late Antiquity, with an especial focus on the cult of saints and hagiography. She was associate professor at the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, and at the Department of Medieval and Early Modern Universal History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

#2536

Claudia Camp

#191706

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Claudia V. Camp is an American biblical scholar. She is John F. Weatherly Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University. Camp's scholarship emphasizes feminists interpretation and identity formation in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple period. Her recent scholarship has emphasized the metaphors of the Strange Woman and Lady Wisdom in the Book of Proverbs and the book of Ben Sira.

#2537

Lee Tom Perry

#80364

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Lee Tom Perry is a business professor, Latter-day Saint church leader, and hymnwriter. He is the son of L. Tom Perry, who was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1974 until his death in 2015.

#2538

John William Wevers

#153338

Overall Influence

1919 - 2010 (91 years)

John William Wevers was an American professor emeritus in the Department of Near Eastern and Middle Studies, at the University of Toronto. He is one of the scholars well known for his studies in the Septuagint.

#2539

Gregory Ochiagha

#176396

Overall Influence

1931 - 2020 (89 years)

Gregory Obinna Ochiagha was a Nigerian Roman Catholic bishop. He was the first Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orlu, a position he held until he retired in 2008 and handed over to Bishop Augustine T. Ukwuoma his successor.

#2540

Jan A. Aertsen

#190196

Overall Influence

1938 - 2016 (78 years)

Jan Adrianus Aertsen was a Dutch philosopher and theologian. Born in Amsterdam, Aertsen received his PhD title at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and taught there from 1984 up to his death. From 1993 to 2004, he served as a professor at the University of Cologne, and was the founding director of Thomas Instituut te Utrecht. He wrote several works on Thomism, starting from his doctoral thesis, Nature and Creature. Thomas Aquinas’s Way of Thought , published in Dutch four years later.

#2541

Francesco Zerrillo

#183039

Overall Influence

1931 - 2022 (91 years)

Francesco Zerrllo was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate. Zerrillo was born in Italy and was ordained to the priesthood in 1954. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tricarico, Italy from 1986 to 1997 and served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lucera-Troia, Italy, from 1997 until his retirement in 2007.

#2542

Ernesto Vecchi

#183356

Overall Influence

1936 - 2022 (86 years)

Ernesto Vecchi was an Italian Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop. Vecchi was born in Italy and was ordained to the priesthood for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bologna, Italy, in 1963. He served as titular bishop of Lemellefe and as auxiliary bishop of the Bologna Archdiocese from 1998 until his retirement in 2011. Vecchi also served as the apostolic administrator of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Terni-Narni-Amelia, Italy, in 2013 and 2014.

#2543

Bruno Schettino

#182353

Overall Influence

1941 - 2012 (71 years)

Bruno Schettino was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Capua, Italy. Ordained to the priesthood in 1964, Schettino was made bishop in 1987 and died while in office. Notes

#2544

Hugh Anderson

#173976

Overall Influence

1920 - 2003 (83 years)

Hugh Anderson FRSE was a Scottish theologian who served as Professor of the New Testament at the University of Edinburgh for over 20 years. Life Anderson was born in Galston, Ayrshire on 18 May 1920, the son of Jeannie Muir and her husband Hugh Anderson . He was educated at Galston Primaty School then Kilmarnock Academy, going on to study Classics and Semitic Languages at the University of Glasgow.

#2545

Aida Besancon Spencer

#191411

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Aida Besancon Spencer is a Dominican-American New Testament professor and Presbyterian minister. Career Spencer is Professor of New Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. She has written on The Apostle Paul, Paul's Literary Style, Women in Christianity and the New Testament from a Hispanic perspective.

#2546

Bolesław Pylak

#178222

Overall Influence

1921 - 2019 (98 years)

Bolesław Pylak was a Polish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was one of the oldest Roman Catholic bishops in Poland. Pylak was born in Łopiennik Górny, Poland and was ordained a priest on 29 June 1948 from Archdiocese of Lublin. Pylak was appointed Auxiliary bishop of the Lublin diocese as well as Titular bishop of Midica on 14 March 1966, and ordained a bishop on 29 May 1966. Pylak was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Lublin on 27 June 1975 and served in that capacity until his retirement on 14 June 1997.

#2547

Cosimo Zene

#191822

Overall Influence

Cosimo Zene is an Italian anthropologist and Professor in the Study of Religions and World Philosophies at SOAS, University of London. He is known for his works on anthropology of religion. Books Dialoghi Nulesi - Storia, Memoria, identita' di Nule nell'antropologia di Andreas F. W. Bentzon, Nuoro, Italy: Edizioni ISRE 2009The Rishi of Bangladesh. A History of Christian Dialogues, London: Routledge Curzon 2002

#2548

Robert Cowton

#191710

Overall Influence

Robert Cowton was a Franciscan theologian active at the University of Oxford early in the fourteenth century. He was a follower of Henry of Ghent, and in the Augustinian tradition. He was familiar with the doctrines of Duns Scotus and Thomas Aquinas, and attempted a synthesis of them.

#2549

Leila Leah Bronner

#182915

Overall Influence

1930 - 2019 (89 years)

Rebbetzin Leila Leah Bronner was an American historian and biblical scholar. Biography She was born in Czechoslovakia and immigrated to the United States in 1937, growing up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

#2550

Mihail Neamțu

#191259

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Mihail Neamțu , born 1978, is a Romanian conservative politician. He received a PhD in theology from King's College London and has written several books on politics, religion, and culture. Life and career

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