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Christa Blanke
1948 - Present (76 years)
Rev. Christa Blanke-Weckbach is a German Lutheran theologian and animal welfare activist. She is the founder of the European animal protection organisation Animals' Angels. From 1995 to 1998 she chaired the animal welfare advisory board of the government of Hesse.
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Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo
1954 - Present (70 years)
Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as auxiliary bishop of São Salvador da Bahia from 1998 till 2004, when he became archbishop of Belo Horizonte. In 2010 he also became bishop for the Brazilian ordinariate for the faithful of eastern rite. In May 2019, he became head of the Brazilian Bishops conference.
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John Halliburton
1935 - 2004 (69 years)
Robert John Halliburton was an English priest and theologian within the Church of England, who served as a canon and Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral between 1989 and 2003. Early life and ordination Robert John Halliburton was born in March 1935 in Wimbledon, London, the son of Robert Halliburton and Katherine Margery Halliburton . He moved to Kent during the Second World War and was educated at Tonbridge School. He studied for a bachelor's degree at Selwyn College, Cambridge, reading modern languages for Part I of the Tripos but transferring to theology for Part II.
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Edmund Colledge
1910 - 1999 (89 years)
Edmund Colledge was an English academic, military officer, and Roman Catholic priest. He is chiefly known for his scholarly publications on European medieval literature, in particular spiritual writers from that era. His 1962 anthology, The Medieval Mystics of England, is still widely used in university courses to this day. Chief among his works is his edition of A book of showings to the anchoress Julian of Norwich which he co-edited with James Walsh.
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Christina Baxter
1947 - Present (77 years)
Christina Ann Baxter is a British theologian and an active member of the Church of England . From 1997 to 2012, she was Principal of St John's College, Nottingham, an Anglican theological college. Since 1979, she has been a Reader, a type of lay minister, in the C of E. She served as Chairwoman of the House of Laity of the General Synod of the C of E from 1995 to 2010 and was a member of the Archbishops' Council from 1999 to 2010. In October 2000, she was made an honorary canon of Southwell Minster.
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Paul Nimmo
1973 - 2000 (27 years)
Paul T Nimmo is a Scottish theologian who holds the position of King’s Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Aberdeen. Career Nimmo studied engineering and management studies at Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge before qualifying as an investment manager. His studies in divinity were undertaken at the University of Edinburgh, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of Tübingen. His first position was as an associate lecturer at the University of Cambridge as the research assistant to the Regius Professor of Divinity, David Ford. He was appointed i...
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David G. Buttrick
1927 - 2017 (90 years)
David G. Buttrick was an American Presbyterian minister who later joined the United Church of Christ and became the Drucilla Moore Buffington Professor of homiletics and liturgics at the Vanderbilt University Divinity School.
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Joseph N. Perry
1948 - Present (76 years)
Joseph Nathaniel Perry is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Chicago from 1998 to 2023. Perry is a past vice-president of the board of the National Black Catholic Congress, and chairman of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops Subcommittee on African-American Affairs. He is also a supporter and celebrant of the Traditional Latin Mass, and has celebrated pontifical high masses, ordinations, and confirmations according to the traditional rite.
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Steven J. Schloeder
1960 - Present (64 years)
Steven J. Schloeder is a theologian, architect, and author. Early life and career Steven Joseph Schloeder received the bachelor of architecture cum laude from Arizona State University in 1984. After acquiring professional registration in the State of Arizona, Schloeder received the Rotary International Graduate Scholarship and completed the Master in Architecture degree at the University of Bath, studying under Prof. Michael Brawne. His thesis, The Architecture of the Vatican Two Church, established a theory of sacramental architecture in criticism and rejection of the tenets of architectural...
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Chris Ferguson
1953 - Present (71 years)
Christopher Mackie Ferguson is a Canadian pastor, theologian and social justice advocate from the United Church of Canada. He served as general secretary of the World Communion of Reformed Churches from August 2014 through August 2021.
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Ernst Petzold
1930 - 2017 (87 years)
Ernst Petzold was a German Lutheran theologian and pastor. He was the father of Martin Petzold, a tenor. Career Born in Leipzig, Petzold attended the Thomasschule from 1940 to 1948 and was a member of the Thomanerchor under Günther Ramin. Until the spring of 1951, he sang as a guest with the boys' choir.
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Marcia Bunge
1954 - Present (70 years)
Marcia J. Bunge is an American Lutheran theologian. She is Professor of Religion and the Bernhardson Distinguished Chair of Lutheran Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. Biography A graduate of St. Olaf College and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Bunge earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, specializing in hermeneutics and historical theology. Before accepting the Bernhardson Chair, she taught at Luther Seminary , Luther College , Gustavus Adolphus College , and Christ College, the Honors College of Valparaiso University . She has also pursued research and been a visiting professor at several academic institutions in Germany.
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V. C. Samuel
1912 - 1998 (86 years)
Vilakuvelil Cherian Samuel , called Samuel Achen was an Indian Christian philosopher, scholar, university professor, theologian, historian, polyglot and ecumenical leader. He was a priest of the Indian Orthodox Church. He was the author of many doctrinal books and papers including The Council of Chalcedon Re-Examined: Historical Theological Survey.
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Al Sharpton
1954 - Present (70 years)
Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. is an American civil rights and social justice activist, Baptist minister, politician, radio talk show host, and TV personality, who is also the founder of the National Action Network civil rights organization. In 2004, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election. He hosts a weekday radio talk show, Keepin' It Real, which is nationally syndicated by Urban One, and he is a political analyst and weekend host for MSNBC, hosting PoliticsNation.
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Mark D. Jordan
1953 - Present (71 years)
Mark D. Jordan is a scholar of Christian theology, European philosophy, and gender studies. He is currently the Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School and Professor of the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Park Soon-kyung
1923 - 2020 (97 years)
Park Soon-kyung was a South Korean Methodist theologian. Biography Born in Yeoju of Gyeonggi Province, Park first studied nursing before pursuing degrees in theology at Methodist Theological University in Seoul and philosophy at Seoul National University. She went for further studies in the United States, pursuing an M.Div. at Emory University and a Ph.D. at Drew University, completing a dissertation in 1966 on "Man in Karl Barth's doctrine of election."
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Charlotte Methuen
1964 - Present (60 years)
Charlotte Mary Methuen, is a British Anglican priest, historian, and academic. Since 2017, she has been Professor of Church History at the University of Glasgow. As an academic she specialises in the Reformation in Germany, 20th-century ecumenism, and women's ministry. She was previously a lecturer at Ruhr University Bochum , the University of Hamburg, the University of Oxford and Ripon College Cuddesdon. She has served as a priest in the Church of England, Scottish Episcopal Church, and the Old Catholic Church in Germany.
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David L. Clough
1968 - Present (56 years)
David L. Clough is a British author and academic with a focus on the Christian vegetarian and Christian vegan movements. He is Professor in Theology and Applied Sciences at the University of Aberdeen and a Methodist preacher. He is also the founder and a co-director of the CreatureKind project which focuses on the welfare of farmed animals as a faith issue.
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Robert J. Henle
1909 - 2000 (91 years)
Robert John Henle was an American Catholic priest, Jesuit, and philosopher who was the president of Georgetown University from 1969 to 1976. Born in Iowa, Henle entered the Society of Jesus in 1927. He taught high school classics and published a series of instructional books on Latin, one of which became widely used. He then became a professor at Saint Louis University and was known as one of the leaders of the revival of Thomistic philosophy and theology. He also served as a dean and vice president for nearly 20 years. In this latter capacity, he oversaw Saint Louis University's growing ind...
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Eamon Martin
1961 - Present (63 years)
Eamon Columba Martin KC*HS is an Irish Catholic prelate from Northern Ireland who has served as Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland since 2014. Early life and education Martin was born in Pennyburn, Derry, on 30 October 1961, one of twelve children to John James Martin and his wife Catherine . He attended primary school at St Patrick's Primary School, Pennyburn, and secondary school at St Columb's College.
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Ulrich B. Schmid
1962 - Present (62 years)
Ulrich B. Schmid is a German Protestant theologian and university teacher. Biography Ulrich Schmid is married and has a child. Education Schmid studied from 1982 to 1989 Protestant theology at the University of Tübingen and at Münster. The first ecclesiastical examination in 1989 was followed by a study of philosophy, ancient history and Byzantine studies in Münster from 1989 to 1992. From 1993 to 1995 followed the Vicariate and then in 1995 the 2nd ecclesiastical examination.
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Günter Weitling
1935 - Present (89 years)
Günter Weitling is a Lutheran theologian, historian, and author. Weitling was born in Haderslev, Haderslev County, Denmark. After graduating from Haderslev Katedralskole in 1955, he studied Theology and Eastern Studies at the Universities of Bethel/Bielefeld, Mainz, Kiel, and Copenhagen. This was followed by a study of pedagogy in Breklum and stay at the Seminary in Preetz. He then served as a Lutheran pastor from 1962 to 1963 in Jörl , from 1963 to 1965 in Sønderborg, and from 1965 to 1970 at the Højdevangskirke in Copenhagen. At the same time, he completed a clerkship at the gymnasium of Tårnby in religion, history and archaeology.
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Francisco Javier López Díaz
1949 - Present (75 years)
Francisco Javier López Díaz is a Spanish theologian and a priest of the Catholic Church incardinated in the personal prelature of Opus Dei. He currently teaches at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.
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Ehrhart Neubert
1940 - Present (84 years)
Ehrhart Neubert is a retired German Evangelical minister and theologian. During its final decade he emerged as an opponent of the East German one-party dictatorship, becoming a member of the League of Evangelical Churches in the German Democratic Republic . Since the collapse of the East German political regime in 1989/90 he has participated prominently on committees and as an author seeking to understand and evaluate it.
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Roy Clyde Clark
1920 - 2014 (94 years)
Roy Clyde Clark was an American bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1980. Early life Clark was born on July 24, 1920, in Mobile, Alabama. His father, C. C. Clark, was a Methodist minister in Gulfport, Mississippi.
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Vladimir Petercă
1944 - 2022 (78 years)
Vladimir Petercă was a Romanian Roman Catholic theologian who served as rector of the from 1995 to 2006. Biography Vladimir Petercă was born on 24 April 1944, in Mircești village, Iași County. He graduated from the Roman Catholic University with science degree in 1968 and was ordained priest on 15 August 1968 by , Roman Catholic Bishop of Iași and titular bishop of Voli. Petercă was part of the same class as the future Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bucharest, Ioan Robu.
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James F. Linzey
1958 - Present (66 years)
James F. Linzey, M.Div. is an ordained minister in the Southern Baptist Convention and the author of numerous Bibles and books. The chief editor and executive director of the Modern English Version Bible, and the general editor of the New Tyndale Version, he is the author of The United States Space Force Hymn .
Go to ProfileStephanie Paulsell is an American theologian, currently the Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies at Harvard Divinity School. Works Lamentations and the Song of Songs: A Theological Commentary on the Bible Honoring the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice The Scope of Our Art: The Vocation of the Theological Teacher
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Noel Preston
1941 - Present (83 years)
Noel Preston was an Australian ethicist, theologian and social commentator. Education Preston completed a Certificate of Teaching with Kelvin Grove College of Advanced Education in 1961; a Bachelor of Arts degree with the University of Queensland in 1964; a Bachelor of Divinity degree with the University of Queensland in 1967; a Doctor of Theology degree with the Boston University School of Theology in 1972; and a Master of Education degree with the University of New England in 1988. His undergraduate studies at the University of Queensland included a major in political science and at Bosto...
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Pierangelo Sequeri
1944 - Present (80 years)
Pierangelo Sequeri is an Italian theologian of the Catholic Church who has been dean of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences since August 2016. He is also a writer, and a composer who wrote hymns and other music. He held posts as professor of philosophy and theology at the Major Seminary in Milan, doctor and musicologist of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, and lecturer in the aesthetics of the sacred at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera. He was professor of fundamental theology at the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy, later its dean. He has held s...
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Benedicta Ward
1933 - Present (91 years)
Benedicta Ward was a Church of England nun, theologian and historian. She was a member of the Anglican religious order, the Community of the Sisters of the Love of God and reader in early Christian spirituality at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. She was particularly known for her research on the Desert Fathers, popularising the collection of their writings known as the Apophthegmata Patrum. She wrote extensively on Anselm of Canterbury and Bede.
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Dorothy Lee
1953 - Present (71 years)
Dorothy Ann Lee is an Australian theologian and Anglican priest, formerly dean of the Trinity College Theological School, Melbourne, a college of the University of Divinity, and continuing as Frank Woods Distinguished Professor of New Testament. Her main research interests include the narrative and theology of the Gospels, particularly the Gospel of John, spirituality in the New Testament, the Transfiguration and Anglican worship.
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Oliver Davies
1956 - Present (68 years)
Anthony Oliver Davies is a British systematic theologian. He has made contributions to the study of medieval mysticism , early medieval Welsh and Irish spirituality, and contemporary Systematic Theology. He presently works in the fields of neuroscience, theology and social transformation. Davies is the originator together with Paul Janz and Clemens Sedmak of ‘Transformation Theology’. Since 2004 he has held the chair of Christian Doctrine at King's College London, as a Roman Catholic layman. He is founding director of the Centre for Social Transformation at King's College London, which spec...
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Philipp Harnoncourt
1931 - 2020 (89 years)
Philipp Harnoncourt or Philipp Graf de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt was an Austrian theologian, priest and musician. Born into a noble family, he grew up in Graz and decided to become a priest at age 17. He studied in Graz and Munich. In 1963 he founded a department of church music at the later Kunstuniversität Graz. He was appointed professor at the University of Graz in 1972 and was head of the institute of liturgics, Christian art and hymnology until his retirement in 1999.
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Ben F. Meyer
1927 - 1995 (68 years)
Benjamin Franklin Meyer was a theologian and scholar of religion. Born in November 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, he studied with the Jesuits, his studies taking him to California, Strasbourg, Göttingen, and Rome, where he received his doctorate from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1965. He taught briefly at Alma College and at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley before joining the faculty at McMaster University in 1969, where he taught in the religious studies department until 1992. Meyer's areas of specialization included the historical Jesus, and the hermeneutics of Bernard Lonergan.
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George Christopher Stead
1913 - 2008 (95 years)
The Revd George Christopher Stead was British patristic scholar and Church of England clergyman who was the last Ely Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He is best known for his work on the philosophy of the Church Fathers. He studied under G.E. Moore and Ludwig Wittgenstein while an undergraduate at Cambridge. His academic career was combined with ministry as a college chaplain and then residentiary Canon of the Ely Cathedral; he also served briefly as Curate of St. John's, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1939.
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Tissa Balasuriya
1924 - 2013 (89 years)
Tissa Balasuriya was a Sri Lankan Roman Catholic priest and theologian. He was educated at St Patrick's College, Jaffna. Theological work In 1971 Balasuriya founded the Center for Society and Religion; four years later he founded the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians. In 1990, Balasuriya published the book Mary and Human Liberation. In 1994, the Sri Lankan bishops warned that the book included heretical content because it misrepresented the doctrine of original sin and cast serious doubts on the divinity of Christ. Balasuriya submitted a 55-page theological defense to the Con...
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Richard Shaull
1919 - 2002 (83 years)
Millard Richard Shaull was an American theologian, author and a Presbyterian missionary noted for his support for pedagogical thinking in Latin America. Biography Shaull was born November 24, 1919, in Felton, Pennsylvania, to Millard and Anna Shaull. He earned a B.A. from Elizabethtown College in 1938, and a Th.B. and Th.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary. He served as a missionary to Colombia and later taught ecumenics at Princeton Theological Seminary until he retired in 1980, in addition to serving with the World Student Christian Federation.
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Peter Lampe
1954 - Present (70 years)
Peter Lampe is a German Protestant theologian and chaired Professor of New Testament Studies/History of Early Christianity at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Life After studies in theology, philosophy and archaeology at Bielefeld and Göttingen and Rome he received his Ph.D. and his Dr. habil. at the University of Bern in Switzerland with works about the social history of the early Christians in the city of Rome in the first two centuries and about the concept of unity and community in the Pauline letters. Scholarships of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation supported his university education and PhD studies.
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Joseph Obiri Yeboah Mante
1957 - Present (67 years)
Joseph Obiri Yeboah Mante also known as J.O.Y. Mante is a Ghanaian theologian and Presbyterian minister who currently serves as the 18th Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana , equivalent to the chief executive officer or managing director of the national church organisation. Prior to his appointment as moderator he served as the President of the Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon for 7 years. In August 2018, Joseph Obiri Yeboah Mante was elected the new Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana to succeed Cephas Narh Omenyo, the t...
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Kenneth Lee Carder
1940 - Present (84 years)
Kenneth Lee Carder is a retired American bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1992. Carder distinguished himself as a pastor, a member of Annual Conference and General U.M. agencies, a bishop, seminary professor, and an author.
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Robert Hanhart
1925 - Present (99 years)
Robert Hanhart is a Swiss Protestant theologian known for his scholarship of the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Jewish scriptures. He is a professor emeritus of the Old Testament at the Faculty of Theology, University of Göttingen and served as the director of the , an institute of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities dedicated to creating critical editions of works of the Septuagint.
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Veselin Kesich
1921 - 2012 (91 years)
Veselin Kesich was an Eastern Orthodox theologian, and university professor. He succeeded Alexander Schmemann as dean of the Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in 1983. Biography Veselin Kesich completed his elementary and secondary schooling in Banja Luka and started studies at the University of Belgrade. In 1941 left the university to join the army to fight the invading forces of Nazi Germany. When General Milan Nedić was entrusted with the administration of German-occupied Serbia, Kesich remained under the command of Nedić in the government called the Government of National Salvation.
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Jelle Faber
1924 - 2004 (80 years)
Jelle Faber was a Dutch-Canadian theologian. After obtaining his Doctor of Theology degree at the Theological University of the Reformed Churches in Kampen at the age of 45, he emigrated to Canada and served as Professor of Dogmatology and Principal of the Canadian Reformed Theological Seminary from 1969 to 1989. In 1989, a Festschrift was published in his honor: Unity and Diversity: Studies Presented to Prof. Dr. Jelle Faber on the Occasion of his Retirement.
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Serge-Thomas Bonino
1961 - Present (63 years)
Serge-Thomas Bonino is a French Catholic theologian and religious of the Dominican Order. He became the secretary of the International Theological Commission in 2011 and was appointed Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome in 2014.
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Helen Dawes
1974 - Present (50 years)
Helen Elizabeth Dawes is a British academic administrator. Since 2021, she has been Principal of Westcott House, Cambridge. Before returning to Westcott House where she had trained for ordination, she served in parish ministry in the Dioceses of Ely, St Albans and Salisbury, and on the staff of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Tony Jones
1968 - Present (56 years)
Tony Jones is a leader in the Christian emerging church movement, a theologian, and an author. Personal life Jones grew up near Edina, Minnesota, and graduated from Edina High School in 1990. He later graduated from Dartmouth College and attended both Fuller Theological Seminary and Princeton University, pursuing a doctorate from the latter. Jones divorced his first wife, Julie McMahon, in 2009. In July 2011, Jones wedded Courtney Perry in a religious marriage, but not legally by the laws of Minnesota or the United States in solidarity with non-heterosexual couples who could not wed: "It was...
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Nicholas Perrin
1950 - Present (74 years)
Nicholas Perrin is an American academic administrator and religious scholar, currently serving as the 16th president of Trinity International University, a Christian university located in Deerfield, Illinois.
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Joseph S. O'Leary
1949 - Present (75 years)
Joseph Stephen O’Leary is an Irish Roman Catholic theologian. Born in Cork, 1949, he studied literature and theology at Maynooth College . He also studied at the Gregorian University, Rome and in Paris . Ordained for the Diocese of Cork and Ross in 1973, he was a chaplain at University College Cork . He taught theology at the University of Notre Dame and Duquesne University before moving to Japan in August, 1983. He worked as a researcher at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Nanzan University, Nagoya , where he later held the Roche Chair for Interreligious Research . He taught...
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Tullio Vinay
1909 - 1996 (87 years)
Tullio Vinay was a Waldensian pastor and theologian, as well as an Italian politician, who was born in La Spezia on May 13, 1909 and died in Rome on September 2, 1996. Recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations and founder of two important church institutions, he is one of the leading figures of Italian Protestantism in the 20th century.
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