The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Theology,
#801
Hans Karl LaRondelle
#80914
Overall Influence
1929 - 2011 (82 years)
Hans Karl LaRondelle was a respected Seventh-day Adventist theologian; a strong proponent of the gospel and salvation by faith alone. In a 1985 questionnaire of North American Adventist Theology lecturers, LaRondelle tied for fourth place among the Adventist authors who had most influenced them, and was number one amongst the under 39 age group. He died March 7, 2011.
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Gordon Hugenberger
#49223
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (76 years)
Gordon Paul Hugenberger was the senior pastor at historic Park Street Church, in Boston, Massachusetts . He announced on June 5, 2016 that he would leave that position by the end of June, 2017. He was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts, one of seven children. While working at a Salvation Army camp as a high schooler, he had a conversion experience and began to follow Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.
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David Fergusson
#57180
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (68 years)
David Alexander Syme Fergusson is a Scottish theologian and Presbyterian minister. Since 2021, he has been Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. Early life and education Fergusson was born on 3 August 1956 in Glasgow, Scotland. He studied philosophy at the University of Glasgow, graduating with an undergraduate Master of Arts degree in 1977. He then studied theology at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1980. He then undertook a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Christian philosophy at the University of Oxford; his DPhil was a...
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W. T. Purkiser
#84786
Overall Influence
1910 - 1992 (82 years)
Westlake Taylor Purkiser was an American preacher, scholar, and author in the Church of the Nazarene. Purkiser authored a book entitled The Gifts of the Spirit . In the book, Purkiser discussed the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the life of the individual Christian and the gathered congregation of the Church .
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Peter Carnley
#34082
Overall Influence
1937 - Present (87 years)
Peter Frederick Carnley is a retired Australian Anglican bishop and author. He was the Archbishop of Perth from 1981 to 2005 and Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia from 2000 until May 2005. He ordained the first women priests in Australia. In the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours list, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia. He is married to Ann Carnley. He also founded the school Peter Carnley Anglican Community School.
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Martin Lind
#70409
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (80 years)
Martin Claes Lind is bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Linköping in the Church of Sweden and former bishop of the Lutheran Church in Great Britain. He was Bishop of Linköping from 1 February 1995 to 2 March 2011. He was appointed bishop of the Lutheran Church in Great Britain in January 2014 and retired in 2019.
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Kurt Lüthi
#52930
Overall Influence
1923 - 2010 (87 years)
Kurt Lüthi was a Swiss Reformed theologian and a professor at the University Vienna. Life Lüthi studied Protestant theology in Bern and Basel, amongst his teachers were Karl Barth, Karl Ludwig Schmidt and Oscar Cullmann. In 1949 he became pastor at the Reformed church of the Canton of Bern, first in Beatenberg, later on in Biel. In 1955 he achieved his doctorate in theology at the University of Basel with a thesis on Judas Iscariot, in 1959 he habilitated at the University of Bern. From 1964 until his retirement 1990 Lüthi held the chair for systematic theology at the Protestant faculty of the University of Vienna.
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Amédée Grab
#102662
Overall Influence
1930 - 2019 (89 years)
Amédée Grab, O.S.B. was a Swiss prelate of the Catholic Church who served as bishop of Chur from 1998 to 2007. He was an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Lausanne from 1987 to 1995 and then bishop there until 1998.
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Annette Kurschus
#73645
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (61 years)
Annette Kurschus is a German Protestant theologian and pastor. She was Praeses of the Protestant Church of Westphalia from 2012 until 2023, in November 2015 she became Vice-President of the Council of the Protestant Church in Germany . She was President of the Council of the EKD from 2021 until 2023.
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Ched Myers
#43676
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (24 years)
Ched Myers is an American theologian specializing in biblical studies and political theology. Career Since the late 1970s, Myers has been involved in numerous issues including movement work for racial justice, economic equity, indigenous sovereignty, anti-nuclear activism and ecological justice and restoration. He has traveled as an "old-school" itinerant teacher for over twenty years teaching in homes, churches, retreat centers and more.
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Harm Klueting
#48444
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (75 years)
Harm Klueting is a German historian, theologian, university professor and a Roman Catholic priest converted from Lutheranism. His research focuses on church history and general history of the early modern period. But he also has books on the history of Westphalia presented.
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Atle Sommerfeldt
#105065
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (73 years)
Atle Sommerfeldt is a Norwegian prelate, who resigned from being the Bishop of Borg late in 2021. Prior to becoming a bishop, he was Secretary General of the Norwegian Church Aid from 1994 to 2012. Biography Sommerfeldt was appointed Bishop of Borg on 28 October 2011 and was consecrated bishop on 29 January 2012 in Fredrikstad Cathedral. Sommerfeldt holds a degree in theology gained in 1980. He has previously been a priest in the Diocese of Oslo , general secretary of the Botswana Christian Council and general secretary of the Council on Ecumenical and International Relations of the Church o...
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Arthur J. Dewey
#46853
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (77 years)
Arthur J. Dewey is an American teacher, writer, translator and commentator with particular distinction as a New Testament scholar and specialist on the Historical Jesus. He is a professor of Theology in the University Scholars honors department at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he began teaching in 1980.
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Leonard Sweet
#25403
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (63 years)
Leonard I. Sweet is an American theologian, semiotician, church historian, pastor, and author. Sweet currently serves as the E. Stanley Jones Professor Emeritus at Drew Theological School at Drew University, in Madison, New Jersey; Charles Wesley Distinguished Professor of Doctoral Studies at Evangelical Seminary; Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tabor College; and Visiting Distinguished Professor at George Fox University in Portland, Oregon. Sweet is ordained in the United Methodist Church.
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Michael Bauman
#44002
Overall Influence
1950 - 2019 (69 years)
Michael E. Bauman was a Professor of Theology and Culture and Director of Christian Studies at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan. He was also a member of the faculty of Summit Ministries, in Manitou Springs, Colorado. He was for eight years Lecturer and Tutor in Renaissance Theology and Literature at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Oxford, where he also was Associate Dean of the Summer School.
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Fernando Segovia
#79213
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (76 years)
Fernando F. Segovia is a Cuban American biblical scholar, theologian, scriptural critic, and cultural critic. He is the Oberlin Graduate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. In his role as a practitioner of postcolonial biblical criticism, Segovia focuses upon the New Testament and the origins of Christianity. He is well known as a specialist in the Johannine literature and biblical hermeneutics.
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Gordon Keddie
#69853
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (80 years)
Gordon James Keddie was a British-American pastor and theologian of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America educated at George Heriot's School, the University of Aberdeen, the University of Edinburgh, Westminster Theological Seminary, and the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary. He served long pastorates in State College, Pennsylvania and Indianapolis, Indiana. He is best known for his extensive writings including many commentaries on books of the Bible that have been translated in multiple languages. His contributions to the Welwyn commentary series published by Evangelical...
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John Strugnell
#18647
Overall Influence
1930 - 2007 (77 years)
John Strugnell was an English Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Divinity School and a former editor-in-chief of the Dead Sea Scrolls project. Strugnell became, at 23, the youngest member of the team of scholars led by Roland de Vaux, formed in 1954 to edit the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem. He was studying Oriental languages at Jesus College, Oxford when Sir Godfrey Rolles Driver, a lecturer in Semitic philology, nominated him to join the Scrolls editorial team.
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Trygve Wyller
#95150
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (74 years)
Trygve Wyller is a Norwegian theologian. He was born in Stavanger. He took the cand.mag. degree in 1975, and the cand.theol. degree in 1982. He did not follow a straight academic path, as he worked as a journalist in Aftenposten from 1979 to 1983, and as a priest from 1984 to 1988. Then, he was a research fellow from 1989, and took the dr.theol. degree at the University of Oslo in 1994, on the thesis Troens tale og talen om verden. He was appointed as an associate professor at the same institution in 1996, and was promoted to professor of theology in 2002.
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Timothy Tennent
#78161
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (65 years)
Timothy C. Tennent is an American Methodist theologian. He is the current president of Asbury Theological Seminary. Education Tennent's education includes a B.A. from Oral Roberts University, an M.Div. from Gordon Conwell , a Th.M. from Princeton Theological Seminary , and a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh's Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World , where his dissertation was on Indian theologian Brahmabandhab Upadhyay.
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Mona Siddiqui
#12525
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (61 years)
Mona Siddiqui is a British academic. She is Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies at the University of Edinburgh, a member of the Commission on Scottish Devolution and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. She is also a regular contributor to Thought for the Day, Sunday and The Moral Maze on BBC Radio 4, and to The Times, The Scotsman, The Guardian, Sunday Herald.
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Michael Haykin
#53735
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (24 years)
Michael A. G. Haykin is the Professor of Church History and Biblical Spirituality and Director of The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the general editor of The Complete Works of Andrew Fuller, a project that publishes "a modern critical edition of the entire corpus of Andrew Fuller's published and unpublished works." Though Haykin was trained as a Patristic scholar, he also developed himself in the area of 18th-century British evangelicalism, particularly the English Particular Baptist history and spirituality.
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Julián Herranz Casado
#14710
Overall Influence
1930 - Present (94 years)
Julián Herranz Casado is a Spanish cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as President of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts in the Roman Curia from 1994 to 2007, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 2003 by Pope John Paul II.
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Donald Eric Capps
#25476
Overall Influence
1939 - 2015 (76 years)
Donald Eric Capps was an American theologian and William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. Biography Donald Eric Capps was born in Omaha, Nebraska. After studying at Lewis & Clark College and Yale Divinity School and University of Chicago , he earned his Ph.D. also at the University of Chicago in 1970. His dissertation explored a psycho-historical analysis of the personality of the English theologian John Henry Cardinal Newman, and particularly his vocational struggles.
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Margaret Hebblethwaite
#70950
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (73 years)
Margaret Isabella Mary Hebblethwaite is a British writer, journalist, activist and religious worker. The daughter of wood engraver Mary Olive and historian George Speaight, Hebblethwaite is the sister of Antony Speaight, QC. She read theology and philosophy at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, and at the Gregorian University in Rome. In 1974, she met and married Peter Hebblethwaite, a Jesuit who left the priesthood after a decade in the ministry. After laicization, he worked as an editor, journalist and Vaticanologist. The couple married and had three children.
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Max Lackmann
#78732
Overall Influence
1910 - 2000 (90 years)
Max Lackmann was a German Lutheran ecumenist. Lackmann studied theology at Bonn and Basel as a pupil of Karl Barth. He wrote against Nazi ideology, and he had to move from Germany to Basel. When he returned to Germany, he was ordained in 1940 and became pastor in Confessing Church. His preaching in criticism of Nazi regime caused him to be sent to Dachau concentration camp. In there his stay in the "priest block" became to him a profound ecumenical experience, which led him later to dedicate his work to the reunion of the Christendom.
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Katherine Sonderegger
#68817
Overall Influence
Katherine Sonderegger is William Meade Chair in Systematic Theology at Virginia Theological Seminary. Biography Sonderegger received her AB in Medieval Studies from Smith College , an M.Div. and STM at Yale Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from Brown University in Western Religious Thought . Her Ph.D. dissertation was revised and published as That Jesus Christ was Born a Jew: Karl Barth's Doctrine of Israel . She has taught at Middlebury College and Bangor Theological Seminary and, since 2002, at Virginia Theological Seminary, where she became the William Meade Professor in 2014. She was ordai...
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G. I. Williamson
#34547
Overall Influence
1925 - Present (99 years)
Gerald Irvin Williamson was an American Reformed theologian, pastor, and author. Biography G. I. Williamson was a Christian minister for fifty years. He retired from the Orthodox Presbyterian Church ministry in 2011. Having learned to play clarinet and saxophone because of his enthusiasm for the music of famous dance bands such as Glenn Miller and the Dorsey brothers, Tommy and Jimmy he became a professional musician. After serving in the army during World War II and while working as a dance hall musician, Williamson converted to Christianity at age 21. He attended Hope College in Holland, Michigan for one year and then transferred to Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Marie-Dominique Philippe
#37460
Overall Influence
1912 - 2006 (94 years)
Marie-Dominique Philippe, OP was a Dominican philosopher and theologian. He was ordained in 1936. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Fribourg from 1945 to 1982 where he held the chair of Metaphysics. Before becoming the subject of sexual allegations, he was considered one of the most important French Catholic theologians after Vatican II. While remaining a Dominican friar, he founded the Community of St. John in 1975. In 2013, the community's prior general, Br. Thomas Joachim, made known the first complaints of sexual abuse against Philippe.
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Raymond Cottrell
#71283
Overall Influence
1911 - 2003 (92 years)
Raymond Forrest Cottrell was an Adventist theologian, missionary, teacher, writer and editor. He was an associate editor of both the Adventist Review and the Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary. Raymond Cottrell, is seen by some as a "progressive Adventist", as he disagreed with certain traditional positions of the church, including the investigative judgment, and served in an editorial role for the independently owned and operated magazine Adventist Today. He was a consulting editor to Spectrum magazine, another independent Adventist paper, both which leaned to progressive Adventist viewpoints.
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James Skillen
#39013
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (80 years)
James W. Skillen is a Christian political philosopher and author. He was the executive director and then president of the Center for Public Justice from 1981 to 2009, when he retired from the organization. He helped found the organization in 1977. From 1973 to 1982 he taught political theory and international relations at three Christian colleges. Today, Skillen speaks regularly both domestically and internationally and writes primarily in areas of biblical studies and political philosophy and practice. He also mentors a number of advanced students.
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Ursula King
#39892
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (86 years)
Ursula King is a German theologian and scholar of religion, who specialises in gender and religion, feminist theology, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Academic career King was Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Bristol from 1989 to 2002, and then President of Catherine of Siena College, University of Roehampton from 2008 to 2015. She had previously been a lecturer at the Coloma College of Education and at the University of Leeds. She has held multiple visiting appointments: visiting lecturer at the University of Delhi, Indian Institute of Technology, and the Ind...
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Gerhard Maria Wagner
#48670
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (70 years)
Gerhard Maria Wagner is an Austrian Roman Catholic priest. He was appointed auxiliary bishop of Linz by Pope Benedict XVI on 31 January 2009, but amidst controversy over his views that sin caused Hurricane Katrina, Wagner turned the post down on 15 February 2009.
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Jerome Hanus
#77125
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (84 years)
Jerome George Hanus, O.S.B. is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, presiding as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Dubuque in Iowa from 1995 until 2013. A member of the Order of Saint Benedict, Hanus served as abbot of Conception Abbey from 1977 to 1987. He also served as bishop of the Diocese of Saint Cloud in Minnesota from 1987 to 1994 and coadjutor archbishop of the Archdiocese of Dubuque from 1994 to 1995.
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John Francis Donoghue
#43354
Overall Influence
1928 - 2011 (83 years)
John Francis Donoghue was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the second bishop of the Diocese of Charlotte in North Carolina from 1984 to 1993 and as the fifth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta in Georgia from 1993 to 2004.
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Graham Twelftree
#39070
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (74 years)
Graham H. Twelftree is an Australian biblical scholar who currently serves as the Academic Dean of London School of Theology in London, UK. Education Upon earning his master's degree from Mansfield College, Oxford, Twelftree went on to study under New Testament scholar James D. G. Dunn at the University of Nottingham where he completing his doctoral dissertation Jesus, the Exorcist: A Contribution to the Study of the Historical Jesus.
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Stanisław Kur
#110218
Overall Influence
1929 - Present (95 years)
Stanisław Kur is Polish biblical scholar and Roman Catholic priest. Biography After studies at Metropolitan Higher Seminary in Warsaw ordained priest in 1953. He obtained a post-doctorate diploma in 1990 with a dissertation entitled Life of Marha Krestos. During the years 1982-1997 he was a rector of seminary in Warsaw.
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Dennis MacDonald
#43979
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (78 years)
Dennis Ronald MacDonald is the John Wesley Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the Claremont School of Theology in California. MacDonald proposes a theory wherein the earliest books of the New Testament were responses to the Homeric Epics, including the Gospel of Mark and the Acts of the Apostles. The methodology he pioneered is called Mimesis Criticism. If his theories are correct then "nearly everything written on [the] early Christian narrative is flawed." According to him, modern biblical scholarship has failed to recognize the impact of Homeric Poetry.
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Donald Hagner
#73819
Overall Influence
1936 - Present (88 years)
Donald Alfred Hagner is an American theologian, currently the George Eldon Ladd Professor Emeritus at Fuller Theological Seminary. He was born in 1936 in Chicago of a Polish mother and Swedish father and was educated at Northwestern University , Fuller Theological Seminary and the University of Manchester, UK . He served in the US Navy from 1958-62.
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Markus Vinzent
#72482
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (65 years)
Markus Vinzent is a historian of religion . He is professor in the Department of Theology & Religious Studies at King's College London, and fellow of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Social and Cultural Studies, Erfurt, Germany.
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Halvor Moxnes
#100165
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (80 years)
Halvor Moxnes is a Norwegian theologian. He was born in Stokke on 13 September 1944. He received his Doctor of Theology degree in 1978 with the thesis Theology in Conflict: Studies in Paul's Understanding of God in Romans, and was appointed as a professor of the New Testament at the University of Oslo in 1984. In 2005 he received an honorary degree at the University of Copenhagen and he is also a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. In 2006 ran for election as the dean of the Faculty of Theology, but lost to Trygve Wyller.
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Martti Nissinen
#36513
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (65 years)
Martti Heikki Nissinen is a Finnish theologian, serving since 2007 as Professor of Old Testament studies in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki. He is known as an expert of the prophetic phenomenon in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East, but his research interests include also gender issues in the ancient Eastern Mediterranean. He has written and edited several books and a significant number of articles on topics related to prophecy, gender, and history of ancient Near Eastern religion.
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Charles D. Provan
#36018
Overall Influence
1955 - 2007 (52 years)
Charles D. Provan was a Christian theologian, one-time Holocaust denier, and author based in Monongahela, Pennsylvania who later in life rejected Holocaust denial after his investigations led him to conclude that eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust were believable. He attended Bob Jones University for a few years and then transferred to the University of Pittsburgh to study history, although he never graduated. Provan was a manager of Zimmer Printing of Monongahela, Pennsylvania. Married and the father of 10 children, he died of natural causes on December 11, 2007, at the age of 52.
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Kęstutis Kėvalas
#95351
Overall Influence
1972 - Present (52 years)
The Most Rev. Mons. Kęstutis Kėvalas is the current Metropolitan Archbishop of Kaunas. Biography Kęstutis Kėvalas studied from 1990 to 1992 at Kaunas University of Technology. In 1993 he entered the Kaunas Priest Seminary, where he studied until 1997 Catholic theology and philosophy. He then continued his studies at the Seminary of St. Mary in Baltimore, where he earned a licentiate in theology. On 29 June 2000, he was ordained at the Cathedral Basilica of St Peter and St Paul.
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Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio
#96367
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (74 years)
Carlos Gustavo Castillo Mattasoglio is Peruvian prelate of the Catholic Church whom Pope Francis named Archbishop of Lima on 25 January 2019. Early career Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio was born in Lima on 28 February 1950. After attending the Dalton de Lince College and the San Agustín College of Lima, he studied at the National University of San Marcos from 1968 to 1973, earning a bachelor's degree in social sciences. At San Marcos, he joined the National Union of Catholic Students, led by Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, one of the principal voices in the Liberation Theology movement. He continued his studies at the Santo Toribio di Mogrovejo major seminary in Lima.
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Glen Stassen
#48441
Overall Influence
1936 - 2014 (78 years)
Glen Harold Stassen was an American ethicist and Baptist theologian. He was known for his work on theological ethics, political philosophy, and social justice and for developing the Just Peacemaking Theory regarding the comparative ethics of war and peace. Stassen died in Pasadena, California at the age of 78. He was the son of former Minnesota governor Harold Stassen.
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Karen Kilby
#69549
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (60 years)
Karen Kilby is an American lay Catholic theologian. She is currently the Bede Professor of Catholic Theology in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University. Early life and education Born in England and raised in Connecticut, Kilby graduated with a BA Summa Cum Laude in Mathematics and Religious Studies from Yale University in 1986. She also earned a MASt. in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge before completing her PhD in Theology at Yale University , studying under George Lindbeck and Kathryn Tanner . Her thesis focused on the theology of the Catholic theologian ...
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John H. Thomas
#39494
Overall Influence
The Rev. John H. Thomas was the General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ , a mainline Protestant Christian denomination. Elected in 1999, he served as one of five officers of the UCC who comprise the Collegium of Officers, which oversees national ministries. As General Minister and President, Thomas was the premier spokesperson for the United Church of Christ, officially representing the UCC in ecumenical and interfaith relations. His term ended in October 2009.
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Ian Ker
#45112
Overall Influence
1942 - 2022 (80 years)
Ian Turnbull Ker was an English Roman Catholic priest, a former Anglican and a scholar and author. He was generally regarded as the world's authority on John Henry Newman, on whom he published more than 20 books.
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Joseph Stowell
#59256
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (80 years)
Joseph M. Stowell III, born February 7, 1944, retired as the president of Cornerstone University in May 2021, and is author of over 20 Christian books. He is a graduate of Cedarville University and Dallas Theological Seminary and was honored with a Doctor of Divinity degree from The Master's College in 1987. His wife is Martie .
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