The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Theology,
#1151
John W. Rogerson
#78004
Overall Influence
1935 - 2018 (83 years)
John William Rogerson was an English theologian, biblical scholar, and priest of the Church of England. He was professor of biblical studies at University of Sheffield. Early life He was born in 1935 in London and after serving in the Royal Air Force, where he worked in intelligence, he took a degree in theology at the University of Manchester. Among his teachers were H. H. Rowley, John M. Allegro, F. F. Bruce, S. G. F. Brandon, and Arnold Anderson. His ministerial training was at Ripon Hall, Oxford, followed by an honours degree in Oriental studies at Oxford, where he was taught by, among others, G. R.
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Gerard Timoner III
#76434
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (56 years)
Gerard Francisco Parco Timoner III is a Filipino Catholic priest who serves as the 88th Master of the Order of Preachers, better known as the Dominicans, since 13 July 2019, the first Asian to hold the position.
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Matthias Wolfes
#95851
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (63 years)
Matthias Wolfes is a German Protestant theologian. Biography and activities In 1998 he earned a PhD in systematic theology from the University of Heidelberg , Prof. Wolfgang Huber was his doctoral advisor. In 2002 he received another PhD degree under supervision of Prof. Michael Salewski . In 1999 he was ordained a minister of the Protestant Church in Berlin-Brandenburg, which is a United church .
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Pierre Courthial
#94751
Overall Influence
1914 - 2009 (95 years)
Pierre Courthial was a French pastor and Reformed Church theologian. His pastoral career was spent in Lyon, La Voulte-sur-Rhône, and Paris. He helped establish theological study centres in France, and in later life completed two volumes of theological writing.
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Vernon White
#81323
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (71 years)
Vernon Philip White is an English Anglican priest and theological scholar. Biography White was born in south-east London in 1953 and attended Eltham College. After leaving school he spent a year undertaking Voluntary Service Overseas in Africa. He was educated at Clare College, Cambridge and Oriel College, Oxford . He prepared for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He was ordained deacon in 1977 and priest in 1978 in the Church of England. He was a tutor in doctrine and ethics at Wycliffe Hall from 1977 to 1983, then Chaplain and Lecturer at the University of Exeter from 1983 to 1987. He t...
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Bruce G. Epperly
#91679
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (72 years)
Bruce Gordon Epperly is a theologian, minister, and author. He is one of the leading process theologians in the United States, having studied with John B. Cobb at Claremont Graduate University. Epperly currently serves as Professor of Practical Theology and Director of Continuing Education at Lancaster Theological Seminary. He is an ordained minister with standing in the United Church of Christ and Christian Church .
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Ivar Asheim
#91663
Overall Influence
1927 - 2020 (93 years)
Ivar Asheim is a Norwegian theologian known for his early research into Christian education and later publications investigating the moral theology of Martin Luther, including its relation to Aristotelian virtue ethics.
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Ermis Segatti
#52974
Overall Influence
1937 - Present (87 years)
Ermis Segatti , is a Catholic theologian and university Professor belonging to the Archdiocese of Turin, Italy. Biography Ermis Segatti, after completing his theological training at the Catholic Seminary of Turin, obtained a Laurea in German Literature discussing Friedrich von Spee and German Religious Poetry in the 17th century, and another one in History of Christianity, concerning Church and State Inquisitorial Trial on Magic, from the University of Turin. He is Professor of History of Christianity at the Theological University of Northern Italy - Turin Campus . Until 2013 he was also a t...
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Nathan MacDonald
#92552
Overall Influence
1975 - Present (49 years)
A British biblical scholar, Nathan MacDonald currently serves as Reader in the Interpretation of the Old Testament at Cambridge University as well as Fellow and College Lecturer in theology at St John's College, Cambridge. Much of his work has concentrated on the historical conception of monotheism in ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible. Through major research projects, publications, conference organization, and editorial undertakings, his academic endeavors have helped bridge Anglo-American and Continental biblical scholarship.
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Eric J. Lott
#109095
Overall Influence
1934 - Present (90 years)
Eric J. Lott is a religious scholar who taught in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Of the Indian languages, he knew Sanskrit, Telugu and Kannada. Background After theological studies at Richmond Methodist Theological College, he joined a graduate course in divinity at King's College, London and earned a B. D. degree in 1959.
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Lukas Vischer
#44551
Overall Influence
1926 - 2008 (82 years)
Lukas Vischer was a Swiss Reformed theologian, author, and advocate of ecumenical dialogue among the world's Christian churches. Vischer studied theology in Basel, Göttingen, and Strasbourg and spent one semester at Oxford University. He was ordained in 1950, received a doctorate of theology in 1952, and, in 1953, he was appointed as Reformed minister in Herblingen, a small Swiss industrial town near Schaffhausen.
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Alwin Hammers
#85734
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (82 years)
Alwin Hammers is a German theologian. Hammers was born at Bitburg. He spent his childhood in Mürlenbach, Eifel. He studied philosophy and theology in Trier. He wanted to become a Roman Catholic priest. During his university studies he met his wife. He married and had two children. Hammers stopped to become a priest and studied psychology. He worked in Roman Catholic Diocese of Trier as teacher for Roman Catholic priests in divinity school. As professor Hammers worked in sector pastoral psychology.
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Wai-Ching Angela Wong
#102954
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (65 years)
Wai-Ching Angela Wong is a Hong Kong scholar of Asian feminist theology. She is the Vice President for Programs at the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia since 2016. Biography Growing up in Hong Kong, Wong received a BA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1985, a BD from South East Asia Graduate School of Theology in 1989, and an MA and PhD in Religious Studies from University of Chicago Divinity School. Her PhD thesis was later published as "The Poor Woman": A Critical Analysis of Asian Theology and Contemporary Chinese Fiction by Women . In 2000, she began teachin...
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Ernest Tatham
#86711
Overall Influence
1905 - 1997 (92 years)
Charles Ernest Tatham was a Canadian theologian, missionary, and author of books. Early life Tatham was born in Wellington, Ontario in 1905. He was the son of Charles Goodeve Tatham . He earned a B.A. degree in Theology from Toronto Bible College.
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Hans Schwarz
#102916
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (85 years)
Hans Schwarz is a German Lutheran theologian. Life and career After graduation from the Gymnasium in Schwabach Hans Schwarz studied theology and English literature at the Universities of Erlangen and Göttingen. In 1963 he passed the entrance exam of the Lutheran Church of Bavaria and obtained his Dr. theol. degree from the University of Erlangen. His thesis was on Das Verständnis des Wunders bei Heim und Bultmann . 1963-1964 he served as vicar at the church seminary in Nuremberg. The following year he obtained a WCC scholarship and a Fulbright Travel Grant to study at the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology in Oberlin, Ohio, USA.
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Maurice Taylor
#73098
Overall Influence
1926 - 2023 (97 years)
Maurice Taylor was a British Roman Catholic bishop. He served as the Bishop of the Diocese of Galloway in Scotland from 1981 until 2004. Born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, he attended St Cuthbert's Primary, Burnbank, before going on to St. Aloysius' College, Glasgow, and, later, Our Lady's High School, Motherwell. He studied philosophy at Blairs College, Kincardineshire, from 1942 to 1944 and then served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, at home, in India and in Egypt. He attended the Pontifical Scots College, Rome from 1947 to 1951, studying theology at the Gregorian University and being ordained a priest in Rome on 2 July 1950.
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Monica Coleman
#92687
Overall Influence
1974 - Present (50 years)
Monica A. Coleman is a contemporary theologian associated with process theology and womanist theology. She is currently Professor of Africana Studies and the John and Patricia Cochran Scholar for Inclusive Excellence at the University of Delaware, as well as the Faculty Co-Director Emerita for the Center for Process Studies. Her research interests include Whiteheadian metaphysics, constructive theology, philosophical theology, metaphorical theology, black and womanist theologies, African American religions, African traditional religions, theology and sexual and domestic violence, and mental health and theology.
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Hamish Swanston
#106361
Overall Influence
1933 - 2013 (80 years)
Hamish Francis Gambon Swanston was a British theologian and historian. Swanston was born in Great Yarmouth at Swanston House. His family originated from Swanston near Edinburgh. He graduated from Durham University in 1954 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. He was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in 1960. At the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1977, he became the first Catholic to head a Department of Theology at a British university since the Reformation. He lectured regularly on various topics, notably including seventeenth and eighteenth century European opera, on which he ha...
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Ademar Agostinho Sauthier
#115282
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (84 years)
Ademar Sauthier Augustine is a Brazilian Catholic priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Porto Alegre and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Pastoral of National Conference of Bishops of Brazil . Biography Ademar Sauthier studied philosophy and theology at the Our Lady Immaculate Conception Seminary in Viamão. He was ordained a priest on 20 December 1964. In 1989 Sauthier obtained a doctorate in philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. His studies included a specialization in Pastoral Theology. He was pastor of the Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida parish, in Porto Alegre from 1971 to 1977 and Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, in Porto Alegre.
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Rob Schenck
#10098
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (66 years)
Robert Leonard Schenck is an American Evangelical clergyman who has ministered to elected and appointed officials in Washington, D.C. and serves as president of a non-profit organization named for Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Schenck founded the organization Faith and Action in 1995 and led it until 2018. He is the subject of the Emmy Award-winning 2016 Abigail Disney documentary, The Armor of Light. Schenck stated that he was part of a group that paid Norma McCorvey to lie that she had changed her mind and become against abortion. Once a prominent anti-abortion activist, Schenck has since repudiated this work and expressed support for the legality of abortion.
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Anneli Aejmelaeus
#122485
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (76 years)
Anneli Pirjo Marjukka Aejmelaeus is professor emerita of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Culture and Literature in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki, and is the vice-director of the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence "Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions". Before this, she held from 1991 to 2009 the position of Professor of Old Testament and Septuagint Research in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Göttingen. In addition, from 1993 to 2000, Aejmelaeus was the Director of the research institute "Septuaginta-Unternehmen" at the Göttingen Academy of S...
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Christoph Auffarth
#68092
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (73 years)
Christoph Auffarth is a German religious scholar and theologian. Auffarth is a professor at the Institute of Religious Studies / Education at the University of Bremen with a focus on history and theologies of Christianity.
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Tom Greggs
#101468
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (74 years)
Tom Greggs FRSE is a British theologian and the Marischal Professor of Divinity at the University of Aberdeen. Early life and education Greggs was born and raised in Liverpool, where he was educated at Liverpool Blue Coat School. During his time there, he was head of school and now serves as a foundation guardian. In 1999 he entered Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied theology as an Open Scholar and graduated with the highest first class honours in his year for which he was awarded the Denyer and Johnson Prize. Before beginning his doctoral work, Greggs taught religion and philosophy at the Manchester Grammar School.
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Leanne Van Dyk
#90485
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (69 years)
Leanne Van Dyk is an American reformed theologian and theological educator. She has focused much of her work on atonement theology and the development of theological education. She is the tenth president of Columbia Theological Seminary.
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Guido del Mestri
#95276
Overall Influence
1911 - 1993 (82 years)
Guido del Mestri also Guido Del Mestri was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1940 to 1984. He was made a cardinal in 1991. Biography Guido del Mestri was born in Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina, then under Austro-Hungarian rule, on 13 January 1911 to an Italian father, Count Gian Vito Del Mestri, and an Austrian mother, Baroness Marianna de Grazia. He grew up speaking Croatian, Italian, and German. He studied at the Jesuit Lyceum of Kalksburg, Vienna, and then at the Almo Collegio Capranica. He also earned degrees in theology and canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
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Rolando de la Rosa
#77637
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (71 years)
Rolando V. de la Rosa, O.P., is the Provincial Archivist of the Dominican Province of the Philippines. Formerly, he served as the Rector Magnificus of the University of Santo Tomas , the oldest and the largest Catholic university in Asia. A religious leader and a seasoned educator, he was appointed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as the chairman of the Commission on Higher Education in 2004.
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Jean Guitton
#3947
Overall Influence
1901 - 1999 (98 years)
Jean Guitton was a French Catholic philosopher and theologian. Le Monde called him "the last of the great Catholic philosophers." Biography Born in Saint-Étienne, Loire in August 1901, he was the son of an industrialist. He studied at the Lycée du Parc in Lyon and was accepted at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1920. His principal religious and intellectual influence was from a blind priest, Francois Pouget. He finished his philosophical studies in the early 1920s and taught in a number of secondary schools. Guitton was a disciple of philosopher Henri Bergson.
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John Pritchard
#62849
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (76 years)
John Lawrence Pritchard is a Church of England bishop. He was the Bishop of Oxford from 2007 to 2014. He is in the Open Evangelical tradition. Early life Pritchard was born in Salford, Lancashire. He was educated at Arnold School, then an all-boys direct grant grammar school in Blackpool, Lancashire. He read jurisprudence at St Peter's College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970; as per tradition, his BA was promoted to an Oxford Master of Arts in 1973.
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Klaus Berger
#142196
Overall Influence
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Richard Cartwright Austin
#104127
Overall Influence
1934 - Present (90 years)
Richard Cartwright Austin is an American writer and environmental theologian. Gaining experience Early life Austin was raised in Washington, DC, in a politically active family. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore College in 1956, a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in 1959, and a Doctor of the Science of Theology from San Francisco Theological Seminary in 1975.
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Elizabeth Stuart
#57625
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (61 years)
Revd Professor Elizabeth Stuart is a British theologian specialising in Queer Theology. Academic positions Stuart is Professor of Christian Theology at the University of Winchester and was founding chair of the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Sexuality. She is the founding editor of the academic journal Theology and Sexuality. In August 2008 she took up the position of Pro Vice-Chancellor, Academic. In 2011, she became the Senior Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Winchester. In 2013 she was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor. On 1 April 2021, Stuart became Acting Vice-Chancellor...
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Franz Jung
#80409
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (58 years)
Franz Jung is a German Roman Catholic bishop. Life Jung studied Roman Catholic theology and philosophy at Ducal Georgianum in Munich and at Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. On October 10, 1992 he became priest. In January 2009 Jung became Vicar general of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer. Since June 10, 2018 Jung is bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Würzburg. He succeeded German bishop Friedhelm Hofmann .
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Barbara Doherty
#60842
Overall Influence
1931 - 2020 (89 years)
Barbara Doherty was an educator and theologian. A Roman Catholic religious sister, she was a member of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She was president of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana from 1984 to 1998. Other posts have been as director of the Institute of Religious Formation at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, president of the Indiana Conference of Higher Education, and on national boards of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and the Women's College Coalition.
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Richard Turnbull
#90413
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (64 years)
Richard Duncan Turnbull is a Church of England clergyman. He was the Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, an Evangelical Anglican theological college which is part of the University of Oxford. He stepped down in June 2012 following a long-running dispute, becoming Director of the Centre For Enterprise, Markets and Ethics.
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John Bolt
#92422
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (77 years)
John Bolt is an American-Dutch Reformed theologian. He is a professor emeritus of systematic theology at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author and editor of several books. He edited Herman Bavinckk's Gereformeerde Dogmatiek into English as Reformed Dogmatics. Bavinck influenced him into theological method.
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Gerhard Müller
#142951
Overall Influence
1929 - Present (95 years)
Gerhard Müller is a German Lutheran theologian. He served as Landesbischof of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brunswick between 1982 and 1994. Life Müller was born on 10 May 1929 in Marburg. He studied evangelical theology at the University of Marburg, University of Göttingen and the University of Tübingen. Müller was professor of historical theology at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg for 15 years, from 1967 to 1982. He was editor of the Theologische Realenzyklopädie.
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Paul Gerhard Jahn
#105859
Overall Influence
1925 - 2004 (79 years)
Paul Gerhard Jahn was a German professor and theologian. He was a founding principal of the Evangelic University of Hanover and Director of the Office for Community Service , the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover.
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Sergiu Grossu
#62010
Overall Influence
1920 - 2009 (89 years)
Sergiu Grossu was a Romanian writer and theologian. Biography Sergiu Grossu was born to Ion and Maria Grossu on 14 November 1920 in Cubolta. In 1927, his family moved to Bălţi, where he was a classmate of Eugen Coşeriu. He published in Viaţa Basarabiei. He graduated from the University of Bucharest with degrees in theology, philosophy and modern philology. Following the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, he became a refugee in Bucharest. In the wake of the Soviet occupation of Romania, he joined Oastea Domnului , a spiritual renewal movement of lay volunteers as well as clerics, associated with the Romanian Orthodox Church.
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Walter Klaiber
#124022
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (84 years)
Walter Klaiber is a theologian, bishop of the Evangelical Methodist Church in Germany and was until the beginning of March 2007 Chairman of the Working Group of Christian Churches in Germany. Bibliography
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Meehyun Chung
#70096
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (61 years)
Meehyun Chung is a professor of the United Graduate School of Theology in Yonsei University and serving as the first female chaplain of Yonsei University. She was the editor of Korean Journal of Systematic Theology .
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Helga Weippert
#74277
Overall Influence
1943 - 2019 (76 years)
Helga Weippert was a German scholar of the Old Testament. Life Helga Klumpp was born and raised in Stuttgart, Germany and attended local schools before pursuing the study of protestant theology and learning Hebrew in Basel, Switzerland. She earned her master's degree in Göttingen and then received her doctorate in 1971 from the University of Basel under the direction of Hans Joachim Stoebe on The Prose Speeches of the Book of Jeremiah.
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Irene Dingel
#97048
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (68 years)
Irene Dingel is a German historian and a Protestant theologian. Irene Dingel studied Protestant theology and Romance studies in Heidelberg and Paris. From 1981 until 1982 she was an "Élève à titre étranger" at the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses, and she also worked as an editor at the same time. Between 1982 and 1993 she was a scientific assistant at the theological faculty of Heidelberg University, where she also received several research grants. In 1986 she finished her doctorate in Heidelberg, which was followed by her habilitation in 1993. After that Dingel was a substitu...
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Rich Nathan
#46702
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (69 years)
Rich Nathan is an American pastor and author who has been the senior Pastor of Vineyard Columbus since 1987. In January 2021, Pastor Nathan handed the Senior Pastor role to Eric and Julia Pickerill. He is still on staff as Founding Pastor and in charge of the Pastors Residency Program.
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Ian Markham
#93664
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (62 years)
Ian Stephen Markham is an Episcopal priest and the Dean and President of Virginia Theological Seminary since August 2007. Previously, he served at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut as Dean and Professor of Theology and Ethics.
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Arnold Huijgen
#134998
Overall Influence
1978 - Present (46 years)
Arnold Huijgen is a Dutch theologian and professor of dogmatic theology at the Protestant Theological University in Amsterdam. He was previously professor of systematic theology at the Theological University of Apeldoorn.
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Jim Forest
#51972
Overall Influence
1941 - 2022 (81 years)
James Hendrickson Forest was an American writer, Orthodox Christian lay theologian, educator, and peace activist. Biography As a young man, Forest served in the US Navy, working with a meteorology unit at the US Weather Bureau headquarters near Washington, DC. It was during this period that he became a Catholic. His military service ended with an early discharge on grounds of conscientious objection.
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Pamela Cooper-White
#75716
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (69 years)
Pamela Cooper-White is the Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor Emerita and Dean Emerita of Psychology and Religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York. She was previously the Ben G. and Nancye Clapp Gautier Professor of Pastoral Theology, Care and Counseling at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA and Co-Director of the Atlanta Theological Association's Th.D. program in Pastoral Counseling. She is an ordained Priest in the Episcopal Church 1992–present . She was the Fulbright-Freud Visiting Scholar of Psychoanalysis in Vienna, Austria 2013–14.
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Ira F. Stone
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Overall Influence
1949 - Present (75 years)
Rabbi Ira F. Stone is a leading figure in the contemporary renewal of the Musar movement, a Jewish ethical movement. Career Stone was ordained as a rabbi at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1979, and proceeded to serve congregations in Seattle and Philadelphia while also teaching at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He served as rabbi of Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel in Philadelphia from 1988 until his retirement in 2015. Stone became the founding director of the Center for Contemporary Mussar in 2017.
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David Wilkinson
#70500
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (61 years)
David Adam Wilkinson, FRAS is a British Methodist minister, theologian, astrophysicist and academic. He is the current Principal of St John's College, Durham, and a professor in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University. He is the author of several books on the relationship between science and religion, and a regular contributor to Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4. He has a PhD in astrophysics and is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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Susan Gillingham
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Overall Influence
1951 - Present (73 years)
Susan E. Gillingham is a British theologian, academic, and Anglican deacon. She specialises in the Hebrew Bible, the Psalms, and Jewish history from the Israelites to the Second Temple. She has been Fellow and Tutor in theology at Worcester College, Oxford since 1995, and was Professor of the Hebrew Bible at the University of Oxford from 2014 to 2019. She is the first British woman to have been awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree by the University of Oxford.
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