The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Theology,
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Donald Fairbairn
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Overall Influence
1963 - Present (61 years)
Donald Fairbairn is a scholar specializing in patristic soteriology and Cyril of Alexandria who currently teaches at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Education Fairbairn graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with an A.B. in English literature. During his time at Princeton he was awarded the "Class of 1859 Prize" which was awarded to the student in the English department with the highest graduating GPA. He then began an M.Div program at Erskine Theological Seminary in Due West, South Carolina where he was awarded the Kenneth Fitzhugh Morris Award for excellence in Biblical studies.
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Rovshan Abdullaoglu
#57342
Overall Influence
1978 - Present (46 years)
Rovshan Abdulla oglu Abdullaev is an Azerbaijani writer, philosopher, psychologist, and a member of PEN America. He is the founder of the publishing house Gadim Gala, and director of its scientific department.
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Iakovos Garmatis
#85898
Overall Influence
1928 - 2017 (89 years)
Metropolitan Iakovos of Chicago was Metropolitan of Chicago under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople until his death on June 2, 2017. Biography Garmatis began his higher education in Athens, Greece, and continued his studies and service in the Boston area. He was appointed Archdiocesan Vicar of the Diocese of Detroit by Archbishop Iakovos in February 1968. One year later, he was elevated to the rank of Bishop by the Holy See of Constantinople. He was consecrated Bishop of Apameia on Christmas Day of 1969, and appointed to the Diocese of Detroit as Bishop of that district.
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Angelo Spinillo
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Overall Influence
1951 - Present (73 years)
Angelo Spinillo is an Italian bishop. Life and career He obtained a license in prophetic pastoral theology at the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Southern Italy. On 15 July 1978 he was ordained priest by the bishop Umberto Altomare.
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R. W. L. Moberly
#53064
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (72 years)
R. W. L. Moberly is an English theologian and professor of theology and biblical interpretation at Durham University. He was awarded an M.A. at Oxford and both an M.A., Ph.D. Cambridge, UK. He is also an ordained priest in the Church of England.
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Michael Hurley
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Overall Influence
1923 - 2011 (88 years)
Father Michael Hurley S.J. was an Irish Jesuit priest and theologian, who has been widely called the "father of Irish ecumenism" for promoting Christian unity. Hurley co-founded the Irish School of Ecumenics in 1970 and served as the school's director until 1980.
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Rainer Riesner
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Overall Influence
1950 - Present (74 years)
Rainer Riesner is a German pastor and theologian. He was ordained pastor in 1980, he has taught theology since 1998, with a focus on the New Testament, at TU Dortmund University. Since 1986 he has been married to Cornelia Riesner, a medical doctor. They have four children.
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Benedikt Paul Göcke
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Overall Influence
1981 - Present (43 years)
Benedikt Paul Göcke is a German philosopher and theologian. He is University Professor for the Philosophy of Religion and Philosophy of Science at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum and an associate member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. His research includes theoretical, practical and historical philosophy and can be divided into three main areas: philosophy of science and metaphysics, transhumanism and ethics of digitization, and German Idealism, in particular the philosophy of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause .
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Joseph Pathrapankal
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Overall Influence
1930 - 2022 (92 years)
Joseph Pathrapankal was an Indian New Testament Scholar and Syro-Malabar priest belonging to the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate. He first studied at the Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth in Pune and then went to the Pontifical Biblical Institute where he obtained a Licentiate in Sacred Scripture in 1960. He then became a Lecturer then Professor of New Testament, and from 1976 to 1979 and 1979 to 1985 the Vice-President and President at Dharmārām Vidya Kshetram , Bengaluru. On May 30, 1997 Pathrapankal received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University, Sweden.
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Samuel Ifor Enoch
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Overall Influence
1914 - 2001 (87 years)
Samuel Ifor Enoch was Professor of New Testament Studies and Principal of the Presbyterian United Theological College, Aberystwyth in Wales. Early life Samuel Ifor Enoch was born on 26 December 1914 at Ciliau Aeron, Cardiganshire, one of three sons of Jennie Enoch and J. Aeronydd Enoch. As a school boy in Ferryside in south Carmarthenshire Enoch grew up with serious breathing problems and he lost much of his grammar-school years due to recurring pneumonia. Enoch had pneumonia four times, once even surviving double pneumonia. Despite all this ill-health he continued to read and study and gaine...
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John S. Dunne
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Overall Influence
1929 - 2013 (84 years)
John S. Dunne, C.S.C. was an American priest and theologian of the Congregation of Holy Cross. He held the John A. O'Brien Professorship of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Youth and training Fr. Dunne was born on December 3, 1929, to John Scribner and Dorothy Dunne in Waco, Texas. The eldest of three children, his birth was followed by siblings Patrick and Carrin. He attended St. Edward's Academy on the campus of St. Edward's University, Austin, Texas, from 1943 to 1945, and then moved to Holy Cross Minor Seminary at the University of Notre Dame for his senior year of high school. Fr.
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Agostino Marchetto
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Overall Influence
1940 - Present (84 years)
Agostino Marchetto is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1968 to 1999 and then in the Roman Curia until his retirement in 2010. He is regarded as one of the principal historians of the Second Vatican Council.
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Walter Künneth
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Overall Influence
1901 - 1997 (96 years)
Walter Künneth was a German Protestant theologian. During the Nazi era, he was part of the Confessing Church, and in the 1960s took part in the debate around the demands of Rudolf Bultmann to 'de-mythologize' the New Testament as an advocate of a word-oriented interpretation of the Bible. The Walter Künneth Prize is named after him.
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Guy Erwin
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Overall Influence
2000 - Present (24 years)
R. Guy Erwin is an American Lutheran bishop. He was elected in 2013 to a six-year term as bishop of the Southwest California Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America . Since August 2020, he has served as president of the United Lutheran Seminary in Philadelphia.
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Alfredo Magarotto
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Overall Influence
1927 - 2021 (94 years)
Alfredo Magarotto was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop. Magarotto was born in Italy and was ordained to the priesthood in 1950. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chioggia, Italy, from 1990 to 1997 and as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Vittorio Veneto, Italy, from 1997 to 2003. He returned briefly after retirement to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Vittorio Veneto in the year 2007 as diocesan Administrator.
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Tikva Frymer-Kensky
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Overall Influence
1943 - 2006 (63 years)
Tikva Simone Frymer-Kensky was a professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She received her MA and PhD from Yale University. She had previously served on the faculties of Wayne State University, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Yale University, Ben Gurion University, and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where she served as director of Biblical studies.
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Antonio Guido Filipazzi
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Overall Influence
1963 - Present (61 years)
Antonio Guido Filipazzi is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who works in the diplomatic service of the Holy See since 1992. Biography He was born in Melzo, in the Province of Milan, on 8 October 1963 and grew up in Gessate. After completing his classical studies, he studied at the Genoa Section of Theological Faculty of Northern Italy, obtaining a bachelor's degree in theology in 1987. On 10 October 1987 he was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Genoa by Cardinal Giuseppe Siri. On 1 September 1989, he was incardinated into the Diocese of Ventimiglia-San Remo.
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Euler Renato Westphal
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Overall Influence
1957 - Present (67 years)
Euler Renato Westphal is a university professor, writer and Lutheran theologian. Biography Westphal earned a bachelor's degree in theology from Missions Seminary of St. Chrischona Pilgrim Mission . He worked eight years as a pastor in "Missão Evangélica União Cristã" , in Rio do Sul and Blumenau, Santa Catarina. He was also the founder of "Centro de Recuperação Nova Esperança" , a center for alcoholics and chemical dependents, and of a social work for poor families, the "Bom Amigo" , in Blumenau.
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Gabriel Said Reynolds
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Overall Influence
1973 - Present (51 years)
Gabriel Said Reynolds is an American academic and historian of religion, who serves as Jerome J. Crowley and Rosaleen G. Crowley Professor of Theology and assistant professor of Islamic Studies and Theology at the University of Notre Dame. His scholarship focuses on World Religions and World Church, History of Christianity, Qur'anic Studies, Origins of Islam, and Muslim-Christian relations.
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Ronald Goetz
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Overall Influence
1933 - 2006 (73 years)
Ronald Goetz was a theologian, professor, pastor, and author who held the Niebuhr Distinguished Chair in Christian Theology and Ethics at Elmhurst College from 1986 until 1999. Background and education Goetz was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He earned his B.S. from Northwestern University , his B.D. from Harvard Divinity School , and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University .
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Carol Harrison
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Overall Influence
1960 - Present (64 years)
Carol Harrison is a British theologian and ecclesiastical historian, specialising in Augustine of Hippo. Since January 2015, she has been Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford; she is the first woman and first lay person to hold this appointment. She is a fellow of Christ Church, Oxford and an honorary fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. On 27 April 2015, she was installed as a Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. She was previously Professor of the History and Theology of the Latin West at Durham University.
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Vincent Strudwick
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Overall Influence
1932 - Present (92 years)
Vincent Noel Harold Strudwick is a British Church of England priest, theologian and educationalist. His areas of expertise include sixteenth-century English history and the ecclesiology of Richard Hooker.
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Mark Lewis Taylor
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Overall Influence
1951 - Present (73 years)
Mark Lewis Taylor is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Theology and Culture at Princeton Theological Seminary. His major interests are in the political philosophy of religious practices and theological discourse, particularly in Christian communities and also broader social movements. He served as Chair of the Religion & Society Committee at Princeton Seminary. Taylor received the Best General Interest Book Award for his earlier book, The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America . He is also founder of Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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Charles Scriven
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Overall Influence
1945 - Present (79 years)
Charles Scriven is a Seventh-day Adventist theologian who served as President of Kettering College from 2000 through 2013. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Kettering foundation and chair of the board of Adventist Forums, publisher of Spectrum magazine.
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Stephen Joseph Rossetti
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Overall Influence
1951 - Present (73 years)
Stephen Joseph Rossetti is an American Catholic priest, author, educator, licensed psychologist and expert on psychological and spiritual wellness issues for Catholic priests. He has appeared on such television shows as Meet the Press and Larry King Live. He served as president and CEO of Saint Luke Institute in Silver Spring, Maryland from 1996 to 2009 and as president from 2013 to 2014. In October, 2009 Rossetti stepped down from this position and in January 2010, joined the faculty of The Catholic University of America to teach in the School of Theology and Religious Studies. Since 2009, h...
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Joseph Fahey
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Overall Influence
2000 - Present (24 years)
Joseph Fahey is an American Catholic theologian who specializes in Labor Studies and Peace Studies. He received his B.A. in Philosophy and his M.A. in Theology from Maryknoll Seminary . He received his Ph.D. in Religion from New York University in 1974. He served as a professor of Theology and later Religious Studies at Manhattan College from 1966-2016. He was a co-founder of the College's B.A. in Peace Studies and the founder of the College's B.A. in Labor Studies. He has taught courses on Contemporary Moral Issues, Religious Dimensions of Peace, and the Labor Studies Colloquium. He ...
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Gleason Archer Jr.
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Overall Influence
1916 - 2004 (88 years)
Gleason Leonard Archer Jr. was a biblical scholar, theologian, educator and author. Early life Gleason Archer was born in Norwell, Massachusetts in 1916 and became a Christian at a young age through the influence of his mother, Elizabeth Archer. His maternal grandfather was a pastor. Archer's father was Gleason Archer Sr., the founder of Suffolk Law School in Boston. Archer grew up in Boston and spent summers in Norwell. He graduated from Boston Latin School and in 1938 he graduated from Harvard University with a BA . He received an LL.B. from Suffolk Law School in Boston in 1939, the same year he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar.
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Markus Mühling
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Overall Influence
1969 - Present (55 years)
Markus Mühling is a Protestant systematic theologian and philosopher of religion whose work focuses largely on the doctrine of God, eschatology, the atonement and the dialogue between the natural sciences and theology.
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Adrian Hastings
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Overall Influence
1929 - 2001 (72 years)
Adrian Hastings was a Roman Catholic priest, historian and author. He wrote a book about the Wiriyamu Massacre during the Mozambican War of Independence and became an influential scholar of Christian history in Africa.
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Hans Werner Debrunner
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Overall Influence
1923 - 1998 (75 years)
Hans Werner Debrunner was a Swiss German historian and theologian whose work mainly covered mission history, West Africa and the African diaspora. He also carried out academic research on history relating to missiology in northern, eastern and southern Africa. Upon his death in 1998, his private library and archive were donated to the Carl Schlettwein Foundation. The "independent, self-contained collection" comprises more than 3100 books and single journal issues on his area of specialty, published mostly in the first half to mid-twentieth century. Furthermore, Debrunner’s academic archives a...
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Alan Jones
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Overall Influence
1940 - Present (84 years)
Alan William Jones is an Episcopal priest and dean emeritus of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. A prominent lecturer in Episcopalian and academic circles both nationally and internationally, he is a prolific writer of books, articles, and editorial opinions.
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Giacomo Guido Ottonello
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Overall Influence
1946 - Present (78 years)
Giacomo Guido Ottonello is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who has spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He was Apostolic Nuncio to Slovakia from 2017 to 2021 and Nuncio to Ecuador from 2005 to 2017.
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Kenneth Cracknell
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Overall Influence
1935 - 2013 (78 years)
Kenneth R. Cracknell was a British theologian who specialised in interfaith dialogue and the Christian theology of religions. Cracknell has written many articles and books on interfaith dialogue and other subjects, including Towards a New Relationship , Justice Courtesy and Love , An Introduction to World Methodism , and In Good and Generous Faith . A festschrift, A Great Commission edited by Martin Forward, Stephen Plant and Susan White, includes scholarly articles by numerous friends and colleagues on the occasion of Cracknell's 65th birthday. He has pioneered a sensitive and respectful C...
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Bernard Orchard
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Overall Influence
1910 - 2006 (96 years)
Dom Bernard Orchard was an English Catholic Benedictine monk, headmaster and biblical scholar. Early life and education John Archibald Henslowe Orchard, the son of a farmer, was born in Bromley, Kent. He was educated at Ealing Priory School , and on leaving in 1927 became its first pupil since foundation in 1902 to go to university, winning a place at Fitzwilliam House, in the University of Cambridge, where he read History and Economics. At Ealing Priory he shared classes with Reginald C. Fuller with whom he would in later life collaborate on scholarly projects.
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Ellen van Wolde
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Overall Influence
1954 - Present (70 years)
Ellen José van Wolde is a Dutch biblical scholar. In her research she focuses mainly on the Hebrew Bible, applying achievements of semiotics and linguistics. She became known to the general public mainly through her oration on the first three sentences of the book of Genesis. Since the summer of 2021 she is Emeritus Professor at the Radboud University Nijmegen.
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Petros Vassiliadis
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Overall Influence
1945 - Present (79 years)
Petros B. Vassiliadis is a Greek biblical scholar and Professor Emeritus of the Department of Theology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , honorary president of the Center of Ecumenical, Missiological and Environmental Studies “Metropolitan Panteleimon Papageorgiou” and the World Conference of Associations and Theological Institutions and Educators .
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Hugh Turner
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Overall Influence
1907 - 1995 (88 years)
Henry Ernest William "Hugh" Turner was an English Anglican priest, theologian, and academic. Having served his curacy in the Diocese of Carlisle, Turner spent most of the next four decades of his ordained ministry as a scholar priest. From 1935 to 1950, he served as a fellow and tutor in theology at Lincoln College, Oxford: he also held other appointments at his college, including chaplain, librarian and senior tutor. He served as a Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve chaplain during the Second World War.
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Markus Meckel
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Overall Influence
1952 - Present (72 years)
Markus Meckel is a German theologian and politician. He was the penultimate foreign minister of the GDR and a member of the German Bundestag. Early life Markus Meckel was born on 18 August 1952 in Müncheberg, Brandenburg. He had to leave high school in 1969 for political reasons. From 1969 to 1971, he studied at Kirchenoberseminar Hermannswerder, a boarding school operated by the church whose diploma allowed its students to study theology or sacred music only. From 1971 to 1978, Meckel studied theology in Naumburg and Berlin.
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Ignatius Anthony Catanello
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Overall Influence
1938 - 2013 (75 years)
Ignatius Anthony Catanello was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. From 1994 to 2010 he served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn. Early life One of two children, Catanello was born in Brooklyn, New York, July 23, 1938 to Nicholas Catanello and Mary DeFalco. He attended Most Holy Trinity School and High School in Williamsburg. After high school he entered the novitiate of the Order of Augustinian Recollects in Kansas City, Kansas, and then spent a year in their seminary before deciding to pursue the life of a secular priest. He then returned to New York for studies at Cathedral College, the college-level seminary of the Brooklyn Diocese.
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Yung-Han Kim
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Overall Influence
1946 - Present (78 years)
Yung-Han Kim is a South Korean theologian and ordained minister. He served for 34 years as professor of systematic theology and Christian Philosophy at Soongsil University. He founded the Korea Reformed Theological Society in 1996, and served as the 1st, 2nd, 3rd president of the Society. He set up the Graduate School of Christian Studies in Soongsil University, served as the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th Dean. Founder of Academia Christiana, he also has served as the president of Academia Christiana since 1988. He made the Shalomnabi, a civic organization, in 2010, has been serving as its chair...
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Erik Gunnes
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Overall Influence
1924 - 1999 (75 years)
Erik Gunnes was a Norwegian historian. He was born in Bodø to Bjørnulf Røe Gunnæs and Antonie Berg. He studied theology in France, and served as Catholic priest in Oslo until 1965. He then focused on the study of Norwegian Middle Age history. From 1977 to 1991 he was appointed at the University of Oslo, eventually with a professorship in history.
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Christopher Hall
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Overall Influence
1950 - Present (74 years)
Christopher Alan Hall is an American Episcopal theologian who is a leading exponent of paleo-orthodox theology. He was the Chancellor of Eastern University, the dean of the Templeton Honors College, and, together with the United Methodist theologian Thomas C. Oden, another paleo-orthodox scholar, he edits the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture. He has stated that his goal as a theologian is, "to introduce modern Christians to the world of the early church, particularly because the Holy Spirit has a history."
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Thomas M. King
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Overall Influence
1929 - 2009 (80 years)
Thomas Mulvihill King, S.J. was a professor of theology at Georgetown University. King entered the Society of Jesus in 1951 after completing undergraduate studies in English at the University of Pittsburgh. As a Jesuit, he undertook further studies at Fordham University and Woodstock College and was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1964. After completing a doctorate in theology at the University of Strasbourg in 1968, King began teaching at Georgetown. A member of the American Teilhard Association, he has written or edited several books on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, including Teilhard's ...
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Christoph Schmauch
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Overall Influence
1935 - Present (89 years)
Christoph Schmauch Schmauch is a retired Lutheran pastor, who also served as the director of the World Fellowship Center in Albany, New Hampshire for 32 years. Schmauch is the son of Werner Schmauch, who helped to found the Christian Peace Conference. After graduating from high school in 1955, he studied Protestant theology at three separate universities, before becoming ordained as a pastor by the United Lutheran Church in 1958. In the early 1960s, he married Kathryn 'Kit' Hively , a school teacher from Columbus, Ohio and they subsequently had four children, three sons and one daughter. In ...
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Ron Benefiel
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Overall Influence
Ron Benefiel was the eighth president of Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. His term as president was July 2000 – June 2011. Benefiel currently serves as the Dean of the School of Theology and Christian Ministry at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego California.
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Thomas Smail
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Overall Influence
1928 - 2012 (84 years)
Thomas Allan Smail was a leading Scottish theologian in the charismatic movement in the United Kingdom. Life Smail studied under Karl Barth, and in 1953 he was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in the Church of Scotland. From 1968 to 1972, he served in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, and then on the Roll of Ministers of the United Reformed Church In 1979, he became a Church of England priest.
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Theo Hobson
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Overall Influence
1972 - Present (52 years)
Theo Hobson is a British theologian and author. Biography He was educated at St Paul's School in London; he read English literature at the University of York, then theology at the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of Hughes Hall. He focused on the strongest voices of the Protestant tradition: Martin Luther, Søren Kierkegaard, and Karl Barth. His PhD thesis became the basis of his first book, The Rhetorical Word: Protestant Theology and the Rhetoric of Authority , a study of the role of authoritative rhetoric in Protestantism.
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Jan van der Graaf
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Overall Influence
1937 - 2022 (85 years)
Jan van der Graaf was a Dutch church administrator and engineer. He was General Secretary of the Reformed Association in the Dutch Reformed Church between 1973 and 2000. Van der Graaf also wrote several books, was chief editor of the Reformed Association's magazine De Waarheidsvriend and associated with the Evangelische Omroep.
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Celia Deane-Drummond
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Overall Influence
1956 - Present (68 years)
Celia Deane-Drummond is director of the Laudato Si’ Research Institute and senior research fellow in theology at Campion Hall, University of Oxford. She is also honorary visiting professor in theology and science at the University of Durham, UK and was professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame from 2011 to 2019. She teaches systematic theology in relation to biological science - especially evolution, ecology, genetics; bioethics - especially sustainability, ecotheology, and public theology.
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Thomas Worcester
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Overall Influence
1955 - Present (69 years)
Thomas Worcester is an American academic and university administrator. He served on the faculty of College of the Holy Cross and is the 11th President of Regis College, Toronto. Biography Worcester was born and raised in Burlington, Vermont. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1977 and received his master's degree from Harvard Divinity School and the Weston School of Theology. He also obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1983 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1991.
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