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Paul Badham
1942 - Present (82 years)
Paul Badham is professor emeritus of theology and religious studies at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David. Educated at Reading School, Badham studied theology, religious studies and the philosophy of religion at Oxford and Cambridge universities, and received his PhD from the University of Birmingham. He trained for the Anglican Ministry at Westcott House and worked as a curate in Birmingham for five years before his appointment at Lampeter in 1973. He became a professor in 1991 and has served as head of department, head of school and dean of the Faculty of Theology. He was direct...
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Jay Smith
1954 - Present (70 years)
Jay Smith is an American Christian evangelist. Since 1983, he has been a full-time missionary with the Brethren in Christ Church with a focus on apologetics and polemics among the Muslims of London.
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Duncan B. Forrester
1933 - 2016 (83 years)
Duncan Baillie Forrester was a Scottish theologian and the founder of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues at New College, University of Edinburgh. He was latterly honorary fellow and professor emeritus at New College.
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J. A. O. Preus II
1920 - 1994 (74 years)
Jacob Aall Ottesen Preus II was an American Lutheran pastor, professor, author, seminary president and church denominational president. He served as the eighth president of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod from 1969 to 1981. He was a major figure in the "Seminex" theological/political controversy, which resulted in a schism in the LCMS during the early 1970s.
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Otto Huth
1906 - 1998 (92 years)
Otto Huth was a German historian of religion and folklorist who was a member of the Ahnenerbe and held a professorial position at the Nazi Reichsuniversität Straßburg. Early life and education Huth was the son of a neurologist who was a friend of the völkisch publisher Eugen Diederichs. His sister later married , who headed the Ahnenerbe division of African studies. Born and educated in Bonn, he earned his PhD in 1932 from the University of Bonn under the supervision of Carl Clemen, with a dissertation on the Roman god Janus, and his habilitation in 1939 from the University of Tübingen after ...
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Barnabas Lindars
1923 - 1991 (68 years)
Barnabas Lindars was an English New Testament scholar. Born 11 June 1923, Lindars was educated at Altrincham Grammar School and then studied at St John's College, Cambridge. He was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1949. After teaching at the University of Cambridge , Lindars served as Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester from 1978 to 1990.
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Lorenz Bruno Puntel
1935 - Present (89 years)
Lorenz Bruno Puntel is a Brazilian philosopher based in Germany, who established the school of Structural-systematic philosophy. Professor emeritus at the University of Munich, Puntel has been named as one of the great contemporary philosophers, articulating his ideas from the most varied traditions.
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Reinhard Gregor Kratz
1957 - Present (67 years)
Reinhard Gregor Kratz is a German biblical scholar, historian of ancient Judaism, and Protestant theologian. He currently serves as professor of Old Testament, or Hebrew Bible, in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Göttingen, in Germany. In his various authorial, editorial, advisory, and administrative capacities, Kratz has had a sizeable impact on research into the Hebrew Bible and ancient Judaism.
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John Feinberg
1946 - Present (78 years)
John Samuel Feinberg is an American theologian, author, and professor of biblical and systematic theology. He is currently listed as Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He is noted for his expertise in theodicy.
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Ulrich Simon
1913 - 1997 (84 years)
Ulrich [Richard] Ernst Simon was an Anglican theologian of German Jewish origin. Simon had known Thomas Mann during his childhood in Berlin and Dietrich Bonhoeffer was another near neighbour. Simon's family were non-practising Jews but their lives were at risk from the Nazis and, after flirting with the Communists, Ulrich Simon was sent to England in 1933. His father, the composer James Simon, was murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. His older brother, Jörn Martin Simon, died in the Moscow Trials in 1937. His mother Anna Levy Simon, escaped to Switzerland where she died about 1975.
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Beverly Roberts Gaventa
1948 - Present (76 years)
Beverly Roberts Gaventa is Distinguished Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Baylor University and Helen H.P. Manson Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis Emerita at Princeton Theological Seminary.
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B. V. Subbamma
1925 - 2009 (84 years)
B. V. Subbamma also known as Bathineni Venkata Subbamma was an Indian theologian and scholar. Noted for founding Christian ashrams, she was widely recognized for her analysis of Christianity from a cultural perspective. She was one of the first women in India to attain theological training and was one of the inaugural women pastors ordained by the Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1999 at AELC-St. Matthews West Parish, Guntur.
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Otto Kaiser
1924 - 2017 (93 years)
Otto Kaiser was a German Old Testament scholar. Biography Education Kaiser was born in Prenzlau, Germany, where he attended the Gymnasium in Eberswalde and went to the University of Berlin to study medicine, as well as philosophy with Nicolai Hartmann. He served in World War II on the Eastern Front and was wounded. Returning, he studied Protestant theology and Oriental Studies and Philosophy at the University of Tübingen. He received his Doctor of Divinity degree in 1961 and his habilitation less than a year later. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Jena, the University of T...
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Donald Robinson
1922 - 2018 (96 years)
Donald William Bradley Robinson was an Australian bishop in the Anglican Church of Australia. He was Archbishop of Sydney from 1982 to 1992. Family and education Robinson was born in Lithgow, New South Wales on 9 November 1922, the son of Richard Bradley Robinson, sometime Archdeacon of North Sydney. His first year of secondary school studies was at North Sydney Boys High School; he was then educated at Sydney Church of England Grammar School, the University of Sydney and Queens' College, Cambridge. His undergraduate studies were interrupted by service in World War II. His niece is the retir...
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Frans Haarsma
1921 - 2009 (88 years)
Frans Haarsma was a Roman Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Utrecht. He was a theologian and emeritus Professor in Pastoral Theology at the Radboud University Nijmegen . In his boyhood there was hardly room enough in the big butcher's family and therefore young Frans grew up at the house of an uncle and aunt who were without children. There he could find his way through the seminaries to the priesthood and to higher studies, including a doctorate.
Go to ProfileAlexander Chow is a Chinese American theologian. He is Senior Lecturer in Theology and World Christianity and co-director of Centre for the Study of World Christianity at New College, University of Edinburgh. His research interests include contextual theology, Christianity in China, Chinese philosophy and religion, public theology, and digital theology.
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Samuel Rayan
1920 - 2019 (99 years)
Samuel Rayan was a Jesuit priest and the first indian liberation theologian. Biography Rayan was born in the village of Kumbalam in Kollam District, Kerala into a family of eight children . Rayan joined the Jesuit novitiate in 1939 and was ordained Catholic priest in 1955, taking his final vows as a Jesuit in 1958. He devoted many years to the study of Malayalam literature, mastered Sanskrit, and was well read in Indian religions and philosophy. He completed his theological studies in De Nobili College in Pune, before his doctorate in Rome.
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Mark L. Poorman
1954 - Present (70 years)
Mark L. Poorman is an American theologian, ethicist, and academic administrator who formerly served as the twentieth president of the University of Portland in Portland, Oregon, United States. Poorman was inaugurated as president of the University of Portland on September 26, 2014.
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Paul Schruers
1929 - 2008 (79 years)
Paul Schruers was the second Bishop of Hasselt in Belgium. Life Schruers was born in Hasselt on 25 October 1929. He experienced a sense of religious vocation from the age of 16. He studied at the minor seminary in Sint-Truiden and the Diocesan Seminary of Liège, where he was ordained to the priesthood in 1954.
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Heinrich Bedford-Strohm
1960 - Present (64 years)
Heinrich Bedford-Strohm is a German Lutheran bishop. Life His father was a Lutheran priest in Memmingen. Bedford-Strohm studied Lutheran theology at Erlangen, Heidelberg and Berkeley. In 1997, he became a pastor. From 2004 until 2011, he worked at the University of Bamberg. In 2011, he became bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. From 2014 to 2021 he was the chairman of the council of Evangelical Church in Germany, succeeding Nikolaus Schneider.
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Mark Dyer
1930 - 2014 (84 years)
James Michael Mark Dyer was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem from 1982 to 1995. Early life Dyer was born on June 7, 1930, in Manchester, New Hampshire, the son of James M. Dyer and Anna Mahoney, both of Irish descent. He was baptised as a Roman Catholic in the Church of St Anne in Manchester, New Hampshire, on June 21, 1930. He was educated at St Joseph's Cathedral High School and graduated in 1948. During the Korean War, he served in the US Navy. He was discharged on November 18, 1954, and studied at the American College of the University of Louvain in Belgium, where he studied contemporary philosophy between 1957 and 1959.
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Hughes Oliphant Old
1933 - 2016 (83 years)
Hughes Oliphant Old was an American theologian and academic. Until his retirement in 2014 he was the John H. Leith Professor of Reformed Theology and Worship at Erskine Theological Seminary. Previously he had taught at Princeton Theological Seminary.
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Kuruvilla Pandikattu
1957 - Present (67 years)
Kuruvilla Pandikattu Joseph, SJ, is an Indian Jesuit priest. He is Chair Professor of JRD Tata Foundation on Business Ethics at XLRI, Jamshedpur and Professor of Philosophy, Science and Religion at Jnana Deepa, Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Pune, Maharashtra, India. He is also Director of JDV Centre for Science-Religion Studies and Association of Science, Society and Religion , Pune.
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Bernd Jochen Hilberath
1948 - Present (76 years)
Bernd Jochen Hilberath is a German Roman Catholic theologian. Life From 1967 to 1972, Hilberath studied philosophy and Roman Catholic theology at the University of Mainz and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. From 1985 to 1989 he was professor of dogmatic theology and ecumenical theology at the University of Mainz. From 1989 to 1992 Hilberath was professor of dogmatic theology and fundamental theology at the Catholic University of Mainz. Since March 1992 he has been Professor of Dogmatic Theology and History of Economic Thought at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Tübingen.
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Michael Patella
1954 - Present (70 years)
Father Michael Patella, OSB, is a monk of Saint John's Abbey, an author, theologian, and professor of theology at Saint John's University in Minnesota, United States. He studied at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome and at the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem, Israel.
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John N. Oswalt
1940 - Present (84 years)
John N. Oswalt is an American scholar and distinguished professor of Old Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary. He teaches in theology, Old Testament and ancient semitic languages including Hebrew. He is the author of 11 scholarly books; foremost is the 2-volume commentary on the Book of Isaiah in the New International Commentary on the Old Testament series. Exodus: The Way Out is a recent work. Oswalt adheres to single, unitary authorship of the Book of Isaiah. Numerous scholarly journals, biblical encyclopedias and academic religious periodicals have included articles by him.
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Basil Mitchell
1917 - 2011 (94 years)
Basil George Mitchell was an English philosopher and at one time Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at the University of Oxford. Mitchell argued for the place of religious belief in public debate and criticized liberal humanism.
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Friedrich Dörr
1908 - 1993 (85 years)
Friedrich Dörr was a German Catholic priest and professor of theology, who is known as a hymnwriter. He shaped the first common German Catholic hymnal, Gotteslob, published in 1975. Life Friedrich Dörr was born in Obereschenbach to a family of bakers, the son of Georg Dörr, who was mayor of his hometown until 1933. Friedrich was a member of the of the humanist from age 11. After his Abitur in 1927, he studied philosophy and Catholic theology at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome, graduating in 1930 from the Pontifical Gregorian University. He was ordained as priest by Cardinal Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani on 29 October 1933.
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Rüdiger Bartelmus
1944 - Present (80 years)
Rüdiger Bartelmus is a Czech-born German theologian and a professor at the Institute of Old Testament Studies and Biblical Archaeology of the University of Kiel. Life Bartelmus studied in Munich, Erlangen, Heidelberg, and Zürich in Protestant and Catholic theology and philosophy. In 1969 he passed the First Theological Exam and so passed the entrance examination in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. From 1969 to 1974, he worked as a religion teacher at various schools in Munich. Only a year later, he was inducted into the countries' Council of Evangelical Lutheran Churches. He is a p...
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Thomas B. Warren
1920 - 2000 (80 years)
Thomas Bratton Warren was an American professor of philosophy of religion and apologetics at the Harding School of Theology in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, and was an important philosopher and theologian in the Churches of Christ during the latter half of the twentieth century.
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Max Turner
1947 - Present (77 years)
Max Turner is a British New Testament scholar. He is evangelical, and a Baptist minister, although as a young Christian he was associated with the Elim Pentecostal Church. His charismatic roots have generated an interest in the theology of the Holy Spirit, especially in Luke-Acts.
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Michael Northcott
1955 - Present (69 years)
Michael Stafford Northcott is Professor Emeritus of Ethics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is best known for his contributions to environmental theology and ethics. Life Born in London on 13 May 1955 to James and Betty Northcott, Michael Northcott was raised in Kent, England, and attended schools in Beckenham and Cranbrook. He was married in 1977 to Jill Benz, with whom he has two daughters and a son.
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Pierre Grelot
1917 - 2009 (92 years)
Pierre Grelot was a French Roman Catholic priest, biblical scholar and theologian. He had an expert knowledge of aramaic and was a specialist in Paul's letters. Biography Grelot studied at St. Louis School, in Montargis. He decided to follow religious life and he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1941. He became a teacher at the Seminary of Orléans and afterwards at the Institut Catholique de Paris, from 1961 to 1983. He became an honorary teacher of the Institute in 1985.
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Robert Spitzer
1952 - Present (72 years)
Robert J. Spitzer is a Jesuit priest, philosopher, educator, author, speaker, and retired President of Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Spitzer is founder and currently active as president of the Magis Center of Reason and Faith, a non-profit organization dedicated to developing educational materials on the complementarity of science, philosophy, and faith. He is also president of the Spitzer Center of Ethical Leadership, dedicated to helping Catholic and for-profit organizations develop leadership, constructive cultures, and virtue ethics.
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Mark W. Muesse
1957 - Present (67 years)
Mark William Muesse is an American philosopher, theologian, and teacher. Education Muesse was born in Waco, Texas and attended University High School. He received a B.A. in English, summa cum laude, from the Honors College of Baylor University and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Muesse earned the M.T.S., A.M., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. He has also pursued post-doctoral studies at the International Buddhist Meditation Centre, Wat Mahadhatu, Bangkok, Thailand; the Himalayan Yogic Institute, Kathmandu, Nepal; the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey; and the Subodhi...
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Myron Augsburger
1929 - Present (95 years)
Myron Augsburger is an American Mennonite pastor, professor, theologian, and author. He is the former president of both Eastern Mennonite College and the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.
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Arthur Patrick
1934 - 2013 (79 years)
Arthur Nelson Patrick was a Seventh-day Adventist theologian and historian. At the time of death, he was an honorary senior research fellow at Avondale College in New South Wales, Australia. He also worked in pastoral ministry, evangelism, religion teaching, academic administration, and hospital chaplaincy for the Seventh-day Adventist church.
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David Augsburger
1938 - Present (86 years)
David W. Augsburger is an American Anabaptist author with a Ph.D. from Claremont School of Theology and a BA and BD from Eastern Mennonite College and Eastern Mennonite Seminary respectively. He is one of six children, Fred, Donald, Anna Mary, Daniel and Myron, born to Clarence and Estella Augsburger. His brother Myron is a prominent Mennonite Church author, evangelist, and theologian.
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Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru
1951 - Present (73 years)
Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru is a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who has been secretary of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts since 15 February 2007. A bishop since 2008, he has held several other appointments in the Roman Curia.
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Jane Dempsey Douglass
1933 - Present (91 years)
E. Jane Dempsey Douglass is an American Presbyterian theologian and ecclesiastical historian. She was a professor at Claremont Graduate School before becoming the Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Historical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. Douglass served as the President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches from 1990 to 1997, making her the first woman to head a worldwide communion of churches.
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Hermann Spieckermann
1950 - Present (74 years)
Hermann Spieckermann is a German biblical scholar, historian of ancient Near Eastern religion, and Protestant theologian. He currently holds a chair for Old Testament, or Hebrew Bible, in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Göttingen, in Germany. Through extensive authorial, editorial, and organizational undertakings, Spieckermann has exerted considerable influence on Hebrew Bible research.
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Robert P. Scharlemann
1929 - 2013 (84 years)
Robert P. Scharlemann was a radical theologian best known for his theological works on the being of God and as an interpreter of Paul Tillich. Scharlemann taught at the University of Iowa and the University of Virginia.
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Luis G. Pedraja
1963 - Present (61 years)
Luis G. Pedraja is a Cuban-born theologian, philosopher, author, scholar and educator. Pedraja is an influential contributor to the development of Latino/a theology. He is also noted for his work in process philosophy and postmodernism, as well as his work in higher education.
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Diana L. Eck
1945 - Present (79 years)
Diana L. Eck is a scholar of religious studies who is Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies at Harvard University, as well as a former faculty dean of Lowell House and the Director of The Pluralism Project at Harvard. Among other works, she is the author of Banaras, City of Light, Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India, Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras, A New Religious America: How a Christian Country Became the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation, and "India: A Sacred Geography." At Harvard, she is in the Department of South Asian Studies, the Committee on the Study of Religion, and is also a member of the Faculty of Divinity.
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William Schweiker
1953 - Present (71 years)
William Schweiker is an American theological ethicist. He is the Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on globalization as an ethical problem, hermeneutic philosophy, theological humanism, the history of ethics, and comparative religious ethics.
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Jon Paulien
1949 - Present (75 years)
Jonathan K. Paulien is a Seventh-day Adventist theologian. Biography Paulien has a BA from Atlantic Union College, and an M.Div. and Ph.D. from Andrews University. His doctoral thesis, Decoding Revelation’s Trumpets: Literary Allusions and Interpretation of was completed in 1987. Prior to his Ph.D., he worked as a Seventh-day Adventist church pastor for several years in New York City.
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Jane Williams
1957 - Present (67 years)
Hilary Jane Williams, Lady Williams of Oystermouth , is an English Anglican theologian and writer. Williams was born on 4 March 1957 in Trivandrum, India, one of five sisters. Her father, Geoffrey Paul, former Bishop of Bradford, was then serving as a missionary priest at Palayamkottai and later Kerala. Her father was a member of the faculty and later became the principal of the Kerala United Theological Seminary at Kannammoola, where she spent part of her childhood. She studied theology at Clare College, Cambridge, and then worked in theological publishing and education. For three years she ...
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Ahn Byung-Mu
1922 - 1996 (74 years)
Ahn Byung-Mu was a Korean New Testament scholar and founding father of minjung theology. Biography Ahn was born in South Pyongan Province as the first son of a traditional doctor. When he was one year old, his family fled Japanese-colonized Korea to Manchuria. He was introduced to Christianity in primary school and entered a secondary school run by the Canadian Presbyterian mission. He went to Japan in 1941 to study sociology and philosophy at Taisho University and Waseda University. Although this was interrupted, he continued his studies in sociology with a minor in religion at Seoul National University .
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Oto Mádr
1917 - 2011 (94 years)
Mons. ThDr. Oto Mádr, dr. h. c. was a Czech Roman Catholic priest, theologian, university professor, long-time political prisoner and the chief editor of Theological Texts . Life Mádr studied at the Archbishop's high school in the Bubeneč district of Prague, before continuing his education at the Charles University School of Theology . He was ordained as a priest in 1942 and began as a parish priest. After the end of World War II, he continued his study of moral theology at the Gregorian University in Rome . He then returned to Czechoslovakia, where he was awarded the title of Doctor of Theology for his study on the works of Francisco Suárez.
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Daniel Migliore
1935 - Present (89 years)
Daniel L. Migliore is a Christian theologian and author. He is Professor Emeritus of Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. His works include:Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology Rachel's Cry: Prayer of Lament and Rebirth of Hope The Power of God and the Gods of Power Called to Freedom: Liberation Theology and the Future of Christian Doctrine The Power of God The Lord's Prayer: Perspectives for Reclaiming Christian Prayer Hope for the Kingdom and Responsibility for the World Protestant Theology at the Crossroads: How to Face the Crucial Tasks for Theology in the Twenty-First Century The Church and Israel: Romans 9-11 About: He holds a B.D.
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