The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Theology,
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Ron Sider
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Overall Influence
1939 - 2022 (83 years)
Ronald James Sider , was a Canadian-born American theologian and social activist. He was the founder of Evangelicals for Social Action, a think-tank which seeks to develop biblical solutions to social and economic problems through incubating programs that operate at the intersection of faith and social justice.
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John T. Pawlikowski
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Overall Influence
1940 - Present (84 years)
John T. Pawlikowski, O.S.M. is a Servite Friar priest, Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics, and Former Director of the Catholic-Jewish Studies Program, part of The Bernardin Center for Theology and Ministry, at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He is currently in residence at Assumption Church in the River North section of Chicago.
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Jan Szarek
#80544
Overall Influence
1936 - 2020 (84 years)
Jan Szarek was a Polish bishop of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland. He was also the head of the Polish Ecumenical Council from 1993 to 2001. He held an honorary doctorate from the Christian Theological Academy in Warsaw.
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Rudolf Macúch
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Overall Influence
1919 - 1993 (74 years)
Rudolf Macuch was a Slovak linguist, naturalized as German after 1974. He was noted in the field of Semitic studies for his research work in three main areas: Mandaic studies, Samaritan studies and New Syriac language and literature. Although his scholarly work also covers the far larger range of Arabic and Iranian Studies as well as Theology and History of Religions, most of his monographs, and a large number of his numerous articles, are dedicated to the study of the languages and literatures of ethnic and religious minorities of the Near East, especially the Mandaeans, Samaritans and Nestorian Christians .
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Donald E. Messer
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Overall Influence
1941 - Present (83 years)
Donald E. Messer is an American United Methodist theologian and author, and former college and seminary president. He is known for his work to combat world hunger and HIV/AIDS. Messer earned a Ph.D. from Boston University in social ethics. He was president of Dakota Wesleyan University from 1971 to 1981, and president of Iliff School of Theology from 1981 to 2000. He was named both President Emeritus and the Henry White Warren Professor Emeritus of Practical Theology at The Iliff School of Theology. As of 2013, Messer is the Executive Director of the Center for the Church and Global AIDS.
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Kenneth E. Hagin
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Overall Influence
1917 - 2003 (86 years)
Kenneth Erwin Hagin was an American preacher. He is known for pioneering the Word of Faith movement. Biography Personal life Kenneth E. Hagin was born August 20, 1917, in McKinney, Texas, the son of Lillie Viola Drake Hagin and Jess Hagin. According to Hagin's testimony, he was born with a deformed heart and what was believed to be an incurable blood disease. He was not expected to live and at age 15 he became paralyzed and bedridden. In April 1933 he converted to Christianity. During a dramatic conversion experience, he reported dying, due to the deformed heart, three times in 10 minutes, each time seeing the horrors of hell and then returning to life.
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Bryan Stone
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Overall Influence
1959 - Present (65 years)
Bryan P. Stone is an American theologian who is the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and the E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism at Boston University School of Theology, and a Co-director of the Center for Practical Theology. Stone writes on topics related to both systematic theology and practical theology. He is associated with both postliberalism and Christian pacifism, having been influenced by thinkers such as John Howard Yoder, Stanley Hauerwas, Alasdair MacIntyre, and John Wesley, and in his earliest work with liberation theology and process theology.
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Stephen B. Bevans
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Overall Influence
1944 - Present (80 years)
Stephen Bennett Bevans, SVD is an American Roman Catholic, priest, theologian, and the Louis J. Luzbetak, SVD Professor of Mission and Culture, Emeritus at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He is known for his work Models of Contextual Theology.
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David Jasper
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Overall Influence
1951 - Present (73 years)
Dawid Kamil Patryk Jasper Wójcik is a streamer on twitch Professor Emeritus of Literature and Theology at the University of Pabianice. Jasper collected multiple degrees from Oxford in both English and Theology. He graduated in English from Jesus College and in Theology from St Stephen's House . He was ordained deacon in 1976 and priest in 1977. He later completed his doctorate at Durham University , where he also served as Chaplain until 1988.
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Peter Toon
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Overall Influence
1939 - 2009 (70 years)
Peter Toon was a priest and theologian and an international advocate of traditional Anglicanism. Early life and education Toon was born to Thomas Arthur and Hilda Toon in Yorkshire, England, in 1939. His younger siblings were Paul, David and Christine.
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Robin Boyd
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Overall Influence
1924 - 2018 (94 years)
Robin H. S. Boyd was an Irish theologian and missionary to India, ordained in the Irish Presbyterian Church. He also worked with the Student Christian Movement and was a presbyter in the Church of North India.
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Paul Locatelli
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Overall Influence
1938 - 2010 (72 years)
Paul Leo Locatelli, S.J. was an American Jesuit priest, academic and certified public accountant. Locatelli served as the president of Santa Clara University from 1988 until 2008 before becoming chancellor of Santa Clara in 2008. He also held the post of Secretary of Higher Education for the Society of Jesus in Rome.
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José Tolentino de Mendonça
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Overall Influence
1965 - Present (59 years)
José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça is a Portuguese prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. A theologian and university professor, he is also regarded as one of the most original voices of modern Portuguese literature and a Catholic intellectual. His work includes poetry, essays and plays that he signs José Tolentino Mendonça.
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Francisco Lacueva
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Overall Influence
1911 - 2005 (94 years)
Francisco Lacueva was a Spanish missionary, writer, theologian, teacher, pastor, and canon. He was born on 28 September 1911 in Sant Celoni. He studied at the Pontifical University of Salamanca. His field of work included dogmatic theology and Christian eschatology. He was coadjutor bishop until 1962 for Tarazona Cathedral. He worked for Strict Baptist Mission in 1969. He married Enid-Beryl Beard. His children are Francesca White, Raquel Shaddick, and Alison Cave.
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R. S. Sugirtharajah
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Overall Influence
Rasiah S. Sugirtharajah, known as R. S. Sugirtharajah, is a biblical hermeneuticist and an emeritus professor at the University of Birmingham. He is known for his work in developing the field of postcolonial biblical criticism.
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Stephen Charles Mott
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Overall Influence
1940 - Present (84 years)
Stephen Charles Mott is a teacher among Evangelical Christians in the U.S., focusing on the teaching and academic study of social ethics since the early 1970s. Education He has a BD degree from Wheaton College, Illinois. He also received a Ph.D. degree from Harvard University, where he studied under New Testament scholar Krister Stendahl and social ethicist James Luther Adams.
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Ronald Wallace
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Overall Influence
1911 - 2006 (95 years)
Ronald Wallace was a theologian and Professor of Biblical Theology at Columbia Theological Seminary. He was also a member of the Torrance family of theologians. Career overview Brora, Minister without Charge1940 Minister, Pollock Church, GlasgowChurch of Scotland's Huts and Canteens1951 Minister, St Kentigern's Church, Lanark1958 Minister, Lothian Road Church, Edinburgh1964 Professor of Biblical Theology at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia1977 Near East School of Theology, Beirut
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Yaşar Nuri Öztürk
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Overall Influence
1951 - 2016 (65 years)
Yaşar Nuri Öztürk was a Turkish Islamic scholar, university professor of Islamic philosophy, lawyer, columnist and a former member of Turkish parliament. He has been described as a Quranist and has given many conferences on Islamic thought, humanity and human rights in Turkey, the USA, Europe, the Middle East and the Balkans. In 1999, members of a violent extremist group called Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front confessed that they had planned an assassination attempt that never took place.
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Bruce D. Marshall
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Overall Influence
1955 - Present (69 years)
Bruce D. Marshall is a Catholic theologian and Lehman Professor of Christian Doctrine at Southern Methodist University. His work focuses primarily on Trinitarian theology, Christology, the relation of philosophy and theology, and the links shared between Judaism and Christianity.
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Douglas Davies
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Overall Influence
1947 - Present (77 years)
Douglas James Davies, is a Welsh Anglican theologian, anthropologist, and academic, specialising in the history, theology, and sociology of death. He is Professor in the Study of Religion at the University of Durham. His fields of expertise also include anthropology, the study of religion, the rituals and beliefs surrounding funerary rites and cremation around the globe, Mormonism and Mormon studies. His research interests cover identity and belief, and Anglican leadership.
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Mitri Raheb
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Overall Influence
1962 - Present (62 years)
Mitri Raheb is a Palestinian Christian, the pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem , and the founder and president of the Diyar Consortium, a group of Lutheran-based, ecumenically-oriented institutions serving the Bethlehem area.
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Virginia Fabella
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Overall Influence
1950 - Present (74 years)
Virginia Fabella, M. M. is a Filipina theologian and Maryknoll sister, known for her works in Asian feminist theology and postcolonial theology. Biography Fabella was born in Manila, Philippines. After graduating from the Assumption Convent in Manila and receiving a BS from Mt. St. Vincent College in New York, Fabella joined the Maryknoll Sisters in 1952. She would later receive an MA in Religious Studies from the Maryknoll Seminary in 1980, a Certificate in Pastoral Studies from Union Theological in Chicago in 1988, and a DMin in Women’s Studies from San Francisco Theological Seminary in 1993.
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Charles Taliaferro
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Overall Influence
1952 - Present (72 years)
Charles Taliaferro is an American philosopher specializing in theology and philosophy of religion. He is an emeritus professor of philosophy at St. Olaf College, a senior research fellow at the Institute for Faithful Research, and a member of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of twenty books, most recently The Image in Mind; Theism, Naturalism and the Imagination, co-authored with the American artist Jil Evans. He has been a visiting scholar or guest lecturer at a large number of universities, including Brown, Cambridge, Notre Dame, Oxford, Princeton, and the University of Chicago.
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Richard M. Davidson
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Overall Influence
1946 - Present (78 years)
Richard M. Davidson is an Old Testament scholar at Andrews University, Michigan, where he is currently the J. N. Andrews Professor of Old Testament Exegesis. Biography Davidson was the president of the Adventist Theological Society from 1996 to 1998. He is married to JoAnn Davidson.
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David Wenham
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Overall Influence
1945 - Present (79 years)
David Wenham is a British theologian and Anglican clergyman, who is the author of several books on the New Testament. Early life and education David Wenham was born in 1945, the son of theologian John Wenham. He was brought up in Durham and Bristol. He studied theology at Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967; as per tradition, his BA was later promoted to a Master of Arts degree. He undertook doctoral research under F. F. Bruce at the University of Manchester, completing his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1970.
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Michael Lodahl
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Overall Influence
1955 - Present (69 years)
Michael Lodahl is a theologian in the Church of the Nazarene. He graduated from Northwest Nazarene College in 1977, graduated summa cum laude from Nazarene Theological Seminary in 1981, and earned a Ph.D. from Emory University. He has pastored one church, La Puente Church of the Nazarene from 1981–1984, held professorship at Northwest Nazarene University, and currently teaches at Point Loma Nazarene University. He has published over 10 books, some of them held in many libraries. His best-known literary work is Story of God. His most widely held book is Shekhinah/spirit : divine presence in J...
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Paul Gauthier
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Overall Influence
1914 - 2002 (88 years)
Paul Gauthier was a Catholic theologian and humanist, known best for his contributions to liberation theology. Biography He was born in La Flèche in 1914. At some point he was a professor at a seminary in Dijon. He lived in Nazareth, Palestine, from 1956 to 1967, leaving shortly after the Six Days' War. Gauthier was invited by Georges Hakim, Archbishop of Galilee, to speak to the Second Vatican Council, where he called on the Church to take on a more active role in social justice. While in Palestine, he was part of a group called "Companions of Jesus the Carpenter", providing aid to poverty-stricken people.
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Wesley Ariarajah
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Overall Influence
1941 - Present (83 years)
Seevaratham Wesley Ariarajah is a theologian, professor, and former director of inter-religions relations at the World Council of Churches . Career Ariarajah studied Theology at King's College London. A Methodist minister from Sri Lanka, he served both in the pastoral ministry of the church and as lecturer in the history of religions and New Testament in Sri Lanka. In 1981 he was invited to join the staff of the World Council of Churches, where he led the Councils Interfaith Dialogue for over ten years. From 1992 he served as the Deputy General Secretary of the WCC. He has given lectures, cond...
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Ida Raming
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Overall Influence
1931 - Present (93 years)
Ida Raming is a German author, teacher and theologian. Life After school Raming studied Catholic theology, German and pedagogy at the University of Münster and the University of Freiburg. She finished university in 1973 and worked as a teacher at Gymnasium Martinum Emsdetten in Germany. She wrote several books concerning women's rights in the Roman Catholic Church.
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Enrico dal Covolo
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Overall Influence
1950 - Present (74 years)
Enrico dal Covolo SDB is a Catholic bishop and Italian theologian, Assessor of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences from 15 January 2019. He previously served as the rector of the Pontifical Lateran University from his appointment on 30 June 2010 until 2 June 2018. In addition he was also the postulator of the cause of canonization of Pope John Paul I from 2003 until 2016.
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Ann Louise Gilligan
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Overall Influence
1945 - 2017 (72 years)
Ann Louise Gilligan was an Irish theologian who taught at Saint Patrick's College, Drumcondra . A former nun, she was the wife of Katherine Zappone. In Zappone and Gilligan v. Revenue Commissioners , they unsuccessfully sought recognition of their Canadian marriage. Despite failing in the courts, Gilligan was a leading campaigner in Ireland's 2015 same-sex marriage referendum, and ultimately succeeded in having her marriage recognised in Irish law before her death in 2017.
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Björn Vikström
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Overall Influence
1963 - Present (61 years)
Björn Håkan Vikström is a Finnish prelate who served as Bishop of Borgå between 2009 and 2019. Biography Vikström was born on 17 July 1963 in Turku, Finland. He was ordained a priest in 1988, after which he has served as a pastor in Hanko and in the Matteus Church of Helsinki, as well as a chaplain for 15 years in the parish of Kimito and Västanfjärd. He acquired his doctorate in theology in 2000 from Åbo Akademi University.
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Derek Thomas
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Overall Influence
1953 - Present (71 years)
Derek W. H. Thomas is a Reformed pastor and theologian known for his teaching, writing and editorial work. He is currently the senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Columbia, South Carolina and distinguished visiting professor of systematic and historical theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Benjamin Myers
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Overall Influence
1978 - Present (46 years)
Benjamin Myers is an Australian theologian at Alphacrucis University College, and a research fellow of the Centre for Public and Contextual Theology at Charles Sturt University. From 2009 to 2017 Myers was a lecturer at United Theological College within the School of Theology of Charles Sturt University. Prior to taking up a post at CSU, Myers was a researcher at the University of Queensland's Centre for the History of European Discourses. He has also been a member of Princeton's Center of Theological Inquiry and a visiting scholar at Fuller Theological Seminary.
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Elsa Támez
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Overall Influence
1950 - Present (74 years)
Elsa Támez is a Mexican liberation theologian and biblical scholar. Her writings on feminist theology and contextual biblical criticisms brought new perspectives to these fields of study, laying the foundation for later scholars. Her books include Bible of the Oppressed, The Amnesty of Grace, and Struggles for Power in Early Christianity: A Study of the First Letter of Timothy . She is Professor Emerita at the Universidad Biblica Latinamericana in Costa Rica. She was appointed president of Universidad Biblica Latinamericana in 1995, becoming their first woman president.
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James Childress
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Overall Influence
1940 - Present (84 years)
James Franklin Childress is a philosopher and theologian whose scholarship addresses ethics, particularly biomedical ethics. Currently he is the John Allen Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and teaches public Policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He is also Professor of Medical Education at this university and directs its Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life. He holds a B.A. from Guilford College, a B.D. from Yale Divinity School, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. He was vice-...
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Anthony B. Pinn
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Overall Influence
1964 - Present (60 years)
Anthony B. Pinn is an American professor working at the intersections of African-American religion, constructive theology, and humanist thought. Pinn is the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University. He is also the founder and executive director of the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning in Houston, Texas, and Director of Research for the Institute for Humanist Studies in Washington, D.C.
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Monika Hellwig
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Overall Influence
1929 - 2005 (76 years)
Monika Konrad Hildegard Hellwig was a German-born British academic, author, educator and theologian, who spent much of her life in the United States. A former Religious Sister, she left her community to pursue her academic career, becoming a professor at Georgetown University and later being named as President/Executive Director of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities .
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William J. Webb
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Overall Influence
1957 - Present (67 years)
William J. Webb is a theologian, ordained Baptist minister and former professor of New Testament at Heritage Seminary, Ontario. He is currently adjunct professor at Tyndale Seminary in Toronto. He is notable for developing the "redemptive-movement" hermeneutic in his book Slaves, Women & Homosexuals: Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysis . This book argues for full role equality of men and women in the church and family while concluding that homosexuality is not a biblically sanctioned lifestyle. Craig Blomberg argues that Webb's "proposals concerning redemptive trajectories are amon...
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James M. Houston
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Overall Influence
1922 - Present (102 years)
James Macintosh Houston is a British-born Canadian theologian and academic who was Professor of Spiritual Theology and the first Principal of Regent College in Vancouver. Biography Born on 21 November 1922, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Houston moved to Oxford in 1945 for doctoral studies in geography at the University of Oxford. He received his doctorate in . His thesis was titled The Social Geography of the Huerta of Valencia. Houston was a fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, where he served as a geography lecturer.
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Frank Stagg
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Overall Influence
1911 - 2001 (90 years)
Frank Stagg was a Southern Baptist theologian, seminary professor, author, and pastor over a 50-year ministry career. He taught New Testament interpretation and Greek at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary from 1945 until 1964 and at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky from 1964 until 1978. His publications, recognitions and honors earned him distinction as one of the eminent theologians of the past century. Other eminent theologians have honored him as a "Teaching Prophet."
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Richard Muller
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Overall Influence
1948 - Present (76 years)
Richard A. Muller is an American historical theologian. Life Muller obtained his B.A. in history from Queens College, City University of New York in 1969, his M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary, New York in 1972, and his Ph.D. in Reformation studies from Duke University in 1976. He has taught at Fuller Theological Seminary , has been awarded a Mellon Post-Doctoral Research Grant and has held the Belle van Zuylenleerstoel at Utrecht University . He has served on the editorial boards of Sixteenth Century Journal and Reformation and Renaissance Review. He is P. J. Zondervan Professor of Hist...
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Hmida Ennaifer
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Overall Influence
1942 - Present (82 years)
Hmida Ennaifer or H'mida Ennaïfar is a Tunisian scholar and theologian. He was born into an aristocratic family of Tunis, originally from Iraq and settled in Sfax in 1714. He obtained a master's degree in Arabic letters and a Ph.D. from the University of Tunis Zaytuna and Sorbonne in Paris. In the 1970s, he was very active in Islamic circles in Tunis and provided a Friday sermon in the mosque in Halfaouine M'hamed Bey. He and Rached Ghannouchi and Abdelfattah Mourou, leaders of the Islamist movement in Tunisia, gave birth to the Movement of Islamic trend in 1981.
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Elisabeth Dons Christensen
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Overall Influence
1944 - Present (80 years)
Elisabeth Dons Christensen is a Danish Lutheran theologian who served as bishop for the Diocese of Ribe from 2003 until her retirement in 2014 at the age of 70. Biography Dons Christensen was one of several brothers and sisters, born and raised in the country village of Vester Ørum near Vejle in the east of Jutland. She studied history and religious studies at Aarhus University, graduating in 1973. She received a doctorate in theology in 1993. From 1973, she was a high school and theological college teacher in Esbjerg and Ribe. During the same period, she served as an assistant pastor in Ribe Cathedral.
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Yochanan Muffs
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Overall Influence
1932 - 2009 (77 years)
Yochanan Muffs was an American professor of the Bible and religion at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. Biography Muffs grew up in a Conservative Jewish home in Flushing, Queens. His parents were Barney and Mary Muffs. Muffs had one sister, Civia, an artist. He did his undergraduate degree in Humanities at Queens College and studied for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he began teaching in 1954. He pursued his Ph.D. in Near Eastern studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Jon Zens
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Jon Zens is an American author, speaker, scholar and theologian on Christian topics. Zens is best known for pioneering New Covenant Theology. Zens is also an expert on the Anabaptist history and theology.
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Boris Stark
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Overall Influence
1909 - 1996 (87 years)
Boris Georgevich Stark was a Russian missionary and priest. Biography Boris Georgevich Stark was born on 15 July 1909 in Kronstadt, Russia. His father was admiral Georgy Karlovich Stark, commander of the Siberian fleet, who emigrated to France in 1922. Boris joined his father in Paris in 1925, when he was sixteen years old. He continued his education in France, graduating as electrical engineer from the Technical Institute in Paris. During his student years he was active in the Russian Students' Christian Movement and he abandoned his engineering career, studying theology and specializing in...
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Cahal Daly
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Overall Influence
1917 - 2009 (92 years)
Cahal Brendan Cardinal Daly KGCHS was a Roman Catholic prelate, theologian and writer from Northern Ireland. Daly served as the Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh from late 1990 to 1996, the oldest man to take up this role for nearly 200 years. He was later created a Cardinal-Priest of S. Patrizio by Pope John Paul II in the consistory of 28 June 1991.
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Robert B. Sloan
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Overall Influence
1949 - Present (75 years)
Robert Bryan Sloan Jr. is an American academic and theologian. He has been the president of Houston Christian University since 2006. Education and background Sloan was born in Coleman, Texas, and grew up in Abilene, Texas. He earned his B.A. from Baylor University in 1970, and his M.Div from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1973. After post-graduate research at the University of Bristol, he earned his D.Th., the Doktor der Theologie degree, from the University of Basel, Switzerland, in 1978.
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Shalom Carmy
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Overall Influence
1949 - Present (75 years)
Shalom Carmy is an Orthodox rabbi teaching Jewish studies and philosophy at Yeshiva University, where he is Chair of Bible and Jewish philosophy at Yeshiva College and an affiliated scholar at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He is also Editor Emeritus of Tradition, an Orthodox theological journal, and formerly wrote a regular column in First Things.
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