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Sarhad Yawsip Jammo
1941 - Present (83 years)
Sarhad Yawsip Hermiz Jammo is a Chaldean Catholic prelate of the Chaldean Catholic Church who presided over the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Saint Peter the Apostle of San Diego in the United States. He had been the bishop of this diocese since its inception on July 25, 2002. His bishopric currently sits at St. Peter's Chaldean Catholic Cathedral in El Cajon, California. Mar Sarhad Jammo was born in Baghdad and ordained a priest on December 19, 1964. Following 38 years as a priest, he was elevated to the episcopate by the then Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Mar Raphael I Bidawid. Upon his installment, his first post was to serve as bishop of the newly created eparchy, St.
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Michael Voris
1961 - Present (63 years)
Gary Michael Voris is an American Catholic author, speaker and apologist. Voris was formerly the president of St. Michael's Media, a Christian right-wing outlet he founded to produce catechetical and news videos and articles on the website Church Militant. In November 2023, Voris was asked to resign as president by the board of directors, due to Voris "breaching the Church Militant morality clause." Voris confirmed his resignation on his personal X account.
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Samuel Koranteng-Pipim
1957 - Present (67 years)
Samuel Koranteng Pipim is a US-based Ghanaian author, speaker, and theologian. Trained in engineering and systematic theology, he based his office in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where, up until 2011, he ministered to students, faculty, and staff at the University of Michigan. He has authored and co-authored more than a dozen books. He has spoken around the world at events for youth, students, and young professionals. He helped begin and has sat on the board of directors for the Generation of Youth for Christ organization , a revival movement of Seventh-day Adventist youth in North America.
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J. Bryan Hehir
1940 - Present (84 years)
Joseph Bryan Hehir is an American Catholic priest, philosopher, and theologian in the United States. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1984. Career Hehir has served as the Secretary of Health and Social Services for the Archdiocese of Boston. He was also the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government until his retirement in 2021.
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Michael Homan
1966 - Present (58 years)
Michael Mathias Homan was a Professor of Theology and Department Head at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. He attended the University of Nebraska Omaha , and the University of California San Diego where he majored in Hebrew Bible and minored in Near Eastern Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern History and Religion. Homan taught courses in Hebrew Bible, Hebrew language, ancient Near Eastern religion, and a course about the cemeteries of New Orleans.
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Edward R. Dalglish
1931 - 2001 (70 years)
Edward Russell Dalglish was an American Biblical scholar and professor of the Old Testament. Education Dalglish earned his Bachelors in 1931 from Columbia University, and his Masters in 1946 from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, before earning his Ph.D. from Columbia. He also went on to further postgraduate work at Harvard University, Episcopal Theological Seminary, University of London, and University of Heidelberg.
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Georges Tavard
1922 - 2007 (85 years)
Georges Henri Tavard, AA was an ordained member of the Augustinians of the Assumption. He lectured extensively in the areas of historical theology, ecumenism, and spirituality. Early life Georges Tavard was born on February 6, 1922, in Nancy, France. He entered a religious community known as the Augustinians of the Assumption and was ordained in 1947. At that point, Tavard began doctoral studies at the Faculties theologiques de Lyon. He held the Doctor of Sacred Theology from Lyons, and he taught theology at Capenor House in Surrey, England from 1949 to 1951 and the Princeton Theological Seminary from 1951 to 1952.
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Stephen Pickard
1952 - Present (72 years)
Stephen Kim Pickard is an Australian academic and retired Anglican bishop, who served as an assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn since 24 March 2012, and as Executive Director of the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture from September 2013 until March 2022. He was consecrated in 2007 and previously served as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Adelaide from 2007 to 2010, and as head of St Mark's National Theological Centre from 1998 to 2006.
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Wolfgang Lipp
1939 - 2021 (82 years)
Wolfgang Lipp is a German Lutheran theologian, pastor, university chaplain, academic and historian of art, architecture and culture. Works Architecture and cultural history Der Weg nach Santiago - Jakobswege in Süddeutschland, Ulm 1991, Bilder und Meditationen zum Marienportal des Ulmer Münsters, Langenau 1983, .Begleiter durch das Ulmer Münster, Langenau 1999, .Das Erbe des Jakobus. Zur Vorgeschichte und Geschichte, zur theologischen und religiösen Bedeutung der Jakobuswallfahrt. Mit einem Anhang über die deutschen Pilgerwege. Abbildungen und Fotografien von Fritjof Betz, Rainer Brockmann u...
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Norm Young
1938 - Present (86 years)
Norman Hugh Young is a Seventh-day Adventist Christian theologian and New Testament scholar. He recently retired as senior lecturer at Avondale College in New South Wales, Australia. Biography Norm was born in 1938, the son of an Australian soldier killed in the New Guinea campaign of World War II. Young trained as a fitter and turner before becoming a member of the Seventh-day Adventist church in early adulthood. He trained to become a minister of that religion at Avondale College and later completed doctoral studies under the prominent biblical scholar F. F. Bruce. His Ph.D. thesis entitle...
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Jim Thompson
1936 - 2003 (67 years)
James Lawton Thompson was a British Anglican bishop. He was firstly the suffragan Bishop of Stepney from 1978 to 1991 and later the diocesan Bishop of Bath and Wells in succession to George Carey who had become Archbishop of Canterbury. He retired in 2001.
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Emrullah İşler
1960 - Present (64 years)
Emrullah İşler is a Turkish theologian, university lecturer, and politician. On 25 December 2013, he was appointed as a deputy prime minister in the third cabinet of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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Anne Nasimiyu Wasike
Sister Anne Nasimiyu Wasike, LSOSF was a Ugandan Catholic theologian, religious sister, and author of books and articles on education, ethics and the empowerment of the poor. She was also editor of several publications. She was a member of a Franciscan African Order of nuns called "The Little Sisters of St Francis."
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Ahmad Ghabel
1954 - 2012 (58 years)
Ahmad Ghabel was an Iranian Hojjatoleslam Shia Muslim cleric, theologian, seminary lecturer, researcher, and author. He was a follower of the dissident cleric Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri and was detained several times by the Iranian government. He died on 22 October 2012 while on hospital arrest.
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Jan Kaczkowski
1977 - 2016 (39 years)
Jan Adam Kaczkowski was a Polish Roman Catholic priest, doctor of theological sciences, bioethicist, vlogger, and director of the Puck Hospice. Life Jan Kaczkowski was born on July 19, 1977, in Gdynia, Poland. After graduating from high school, Kaczkowski was admitted to the Gdańsk Theological Seminary, where in 2002 he defended his master's thesis in theology. The same year he was ordained a priest. Kaczkowski continued his studies, and in 2007 obtained a doctorate in theology at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, and a year later he completed postgraduate studies in bioethi...
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Gusztáv Bölcskei
1952 - Present (72 years)
Dr. Gusztáv Bölcskei is a Hungarian Reformed bishop and a theologian. He is the former clerical president of the Synod of the Reformed Church in Hungary and bishop of Debrecen. Bölcskei is Executive Committee Member of the World Communion of Reformed Churches, former president of WCRC Europe, and a professor of church sociology at Debrecen Reformed Theological University.
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Albert Schmidt
1948 - Present (76 years)
Albert Schmidt OSB is a German Benedictine monk and presiding abbot of the Beuronese Congregation, an association of eighteen mostly German or German-speaking Benedictine monasteries and convents, headed by Beuron Abbey in the upper Danube Valley. This makes him the Congregation's highest ranking dignitary and a High Superior in church law terms.
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Gastone Simoni
1937 - 2022 (85 years)
Gastone Simoni was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church serving as the bishop of Diocese of Prato from 1992 to 2021. Biography Simoni was born in Castelfranco di Sopra, in the province of Arezzo, Italy on 9 April 1937. He studied theology at Small Diocesan Seminary of Strada in Casentino and the Seminary of Fiesole. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1960 by the bishop of Fiesole, Antonio Bagnoli.
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Eric Osborn
1922 - 2007 (85 years)
Eric Francis Osborn was an Australian minister and theologian. He was the Professor of New Testament and Early Church History at the Theological Hall of Queen's College in Melbourne, Australia. Selected publications The Emergence of Christian Theology Clement of Alexandria He died in 2007
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James Winston Morris
1949 - Present (75 years)
James Winston Morris is an American Islamic theologian, currently a professor in the Department of Theology at Boston College. Before teaching at Boston College, he held the Sharjah Chair of Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter.
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Charles Davis
1923 - 1999 (76 years)
Charles Alfred Davis was an English theologian and priest, and Professor of Theology at St Edmund's College, Ware, later Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alberta. In 1966, he caused considerable controversy in both the Catholic and Anglican communities by publicly leaving the Catholic Church on the basis of what he said at the time was an "intellectual rejection of the Papacy."
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Antoine Joubeir
1918 - 1994 (76 years)
Antoine Joubeir was an Archeparch of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Tripoli in Lebanon. Life Antoine Joubeir was consecrated priest on November 8, 1942. On 12 July 1975 he was appointed by Pope Paul VI auxiliary bishop of Tripoli and Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Syria dei Maroniti. Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, Anthony Peter Khoraish, consecrated him bishop on August 23, 1975, supported by the co-consecrators Elie Farah, Archeparch of Cyprus and Bishop Joseph Merhi, MLM, Eparch of Cairo. After the death of his predecessor Antoine Abed the Archeparchy of Tripoli became vacant. Joubei...
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Donald Lapointe
1936 - Present (88 years)
Donald Lapointe is a Canadian clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church and emeritus auxiliary bishop in Saint-Jérôme. Life On 23 May 1964 Donald Lapointe received the priestly ordination for the bishopric of Sherbrooke.
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Ralph Bohlmann
1932 - 2016 (84 years)
Ralph Arthur Bohlmann was the ninth president of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod , serving four terms from 1981 until 1992. Bohlmann graduated from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, in 1956 and was ordained on June 29, 1958, in Des Moines, Iowa, by his father, the Rev. Arthur E. Bohlmann. He later received his Ph.D. from Yale University.
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David Ninov
1972 - Present (52 years)
David is an Eastern Orthodox titular Bishop of Dremvit and Auxiliary Bishop of the Eparchy of Skopje of the Macedonian Orthodox Church. Formerly, he was titular Bishop of Stobi of the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric, an autonomous church under the supreme jurisdiction of Serbian Orthodox Church. While bishop of Stobi, he was also administrator of the Eparchy of Strumica.
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Cristian Bădiliță
1968 - Present (56 years)
Cristian Bădiliță is a theologian, essayist, translator and contemporary Romanian poet. Biography He was born in Săveni, Botoșani County, where he lived until the age of 14. He settled afterwards in Botoșani, where he studied at the A. T. Laurian High School. His debut was in 1982 when he published his first poems in Athenaeum magazine. In 1986 he had a second literary debut, again with poetry, in Chronicle, an important cultural magazine in Iași. After his traumatic experience in the communist compulsory military service , Bădiliță followed for two years the courses of the Faculty of Letters...
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Paul Kim
1952 - Present (72 years)
Paul Geun-Sang Kim is an Anglican bishop of the Diocese of Seoul and the former Primate of the Province of Korea. He was ordained in 1980 and was elected bishop in January 2008, to take the place of the soon-to-retire, Primate of Korea & Bishop of Seoul Francis Kyung Jo Park. He was consecrated on May 27, 2008 and succeeded Bishop Francis on January 15, 2009. In 2010, to succeed the Primate of Korea, Solomon Jong Mo Yoon, he was elected Primate of the Province of Korea.
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John Taylor
1929 - 2016 (87 years)
John Bernard Taylor was a British bishop and theologian who served as Bishop of St Albans. Education Taylor was educated at Watford Grammar School for Boys and Christ's College, Cambridge , and trained for the ministry at Ridley Hall and Jesus College, Cambridge ; he proceeded Cambridge Master of Arts .
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Dan Boone
1952 - Present (72 years)
Dan Boone is a Nazarene minister, author, and university president. Biography Dan Boone is a descendant of the frontiersman Daniel Boone. He has served as the senior pastor of North Raleigh Church of the Nazarene in Raleigh, North Carolina, Trevecca Community Church of the Nazarene in Nashville, Tennessee and College Church of the Nazarene in Bourbonnais, Illinois, which serves Olivet Nazarene University, as well as the Kankakee-Bradley-Bourbonnais, Illinois community.
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J. Dudley Woodberry
1934 - Present (90 years)
Dr. J Dudley Woodberry is dean emeritus and senior professor of missions at Fuller Theological Seminary School of World Missions, specializing in Islamic studies. While most of Woodberry's time is currently spent teaching and writing for scholarly publications, he has also served as a missionary and teacher in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan . Woodberry has acted as editor for : Paradigm Shifts in Christian Witness: Insights from Anthropology, Communication, and Spiritual Power ; Resources for Peacemaking in Muslim-Christian Relations: Contributions from the Conflict Transformation Pr...
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David W. Graves
1953 - Present (71 years)
David W. Graves is an American educator and theologian who serves as a General Superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene. Education and family Graves was educated at Olivet Nazarene University and received a Master of Divinity degree from Nazarene Theological Seminary. Graves received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Olivet Nazarene University. Graves and his wife, Sharon, have four grown children.
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Sterling M. McMurrin
1914 - 1996 (82 years)
Sterling Moss McMurrin was a liberal Mormon theologian and Philosophy professor at the University of Utah. He served as United States Commissioner of Education in the administration of President John F. Kennedy.
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James E. Cheek
1932 - 2010 (78 years)
James Edward Cheek was president emeritus of Howard University. He was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. Howard University President In 1989, Cheek appointed Republican National Committee Chairman Lee Atwater as a member of the Howard University Board of Trustees. Students rose up in protest against Atwater's appointment, disrupting Howard's 122nd anniversary celebrations, and eventually occupied the university's administration building. Within days, both Atwater and Cheek resigned.
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Gilbert Bilezikian
1927 - Present (97 years)
Gilbert Bilezikian is an American Evangelical Christian writer, professor, and lecturer. Along with Bill Hybels, Bilezikian is a co-founder of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois. In 2020, Willow Creek announced that allegations of sexual abuse had been made against Bilezikian.
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Kenneth Cragg
1913 - 2012 (99 years)
Albert Kenneth Cragg was an Anglican bishop and scholar who commented widely on religious topics for more than fifty years, most notably Christian–Muslim relations. Early life and education Cragg was born on 8 March 1913. He was educated at Blackpool Grammar School and Jesus College, Oxford. He was awarded the Grafton Scholarship in 1934.
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Michael Plekon
1948 - Present (76 years)
Yonkers born April 3, 1948UNDP, 2002UNDP, 2009UNDP, 2012Liturgical Press, 2017 Plekon's efforts to describe what holiness looks like in our time, the distinctive characteristics of women and men of faith, have been praised by colleagues. They see this work as an important "new hagiography" or writing about saints who are our contemporaries, like Dorothy Day, Mother Teresa, Thomas Merton or Daniel Berrigan.
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Jean-Pierre Delville
1951 - Present (73 years)
Jean-Pierre Delville is a Belgian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the Bishop of Liège since 2013. His earlier career was devoted to church history and teaching, which he always combined with pastoral activity. He has been associated with the Saint Egidio Community since 1978.
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Heike Friis
1943 - 2015 (72 years)
Heike Friis was a Danish theologian and parish priest. She grew up in Sæd in South Denmark near the German border. She graduated from the University of Copenhagen in 1968 with a candidate thesis that won the university's gold medal titled "The Background in and outside of Israel for the Emergence of David's Empire". The thesis represented a break with the conservative tradition of Biblical exegesis, arguing that the Biblical historical narratives presuppose the Babylonian exile. This idea was important in introducing the narrative approach to exegesis that became the hallmark of the Copenhagen school in theology.
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Ilse Härter
1912 - 2012 (100 years)
Ilse Härter was a centenarian German Lutheran theologian. On her thirty-first birthday, in 1943, she was one of the first two women to be ordained in Germany. Life Provenance and early years Ilse Härter was born in Asperden, a small village to the south of Kleve, and positioned within walking distance of the Dutch border. She was the second of her parents' three daughters. The family was not a particularly religious one, and Härter's career choice surprised her parents. She was asked about this later, and recalled a funeral ceremony for an aunt at which the celebrating minister had reassured those present that after three days the dead aunt would be resurrected.
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Columba Cary-Elwes
1903 - 1994 (91 years)
Dom Columba Cary-Elwes, OSB was an English Benedictine monk who professed vows at Ampleforth Abbey in York, England. As a missionary he travelled to Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya and has written books on Christianity. He was the founding prior of the Priory of Saints Louis and Mary in Saint Louis, Missouri.
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Hartmut Zinser
1944 - Present (80 years)
Hartmut Zinser is a German scholar in the field of religious studies, history of religions, and ethnology. Biography Education and Career Zinser studied religious studies at the Free University of Berlin, Germany where he received his PhD in 1975 and made his post-doctorate in 1980. From 1984 to 1988 he had a Professorship for religious studies at the Free University of Berlin and, after a short break , received a call to the Free University in 1990 where he has been a professor at the Institute for the Scientific Study of Religion ever since.
Go to ProfileGeorge Karakunnel is an Indian theologian. He is a Catholic priest of the Eparchy of Kothamangalam. He teaches systematic theology in St. Joseph's Pontifical Institute, Mangalapuzha, Aluva, Kerala, India. He has a Doctorate in theology from Gregorian University, Rome. He also has a Master's Degree in the Philosophy of Religions from the University of London. He is a member of the International Theological Commission in Vatican.
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Johnnie Colemon
1920 - 2014 (94 years)
Johnnie Colemon was an influential minister and teacher in the New Thought movement. She is often referred to as the “First Lady of New Thought”. Colemon founded several large organizations within the African-American New Thought movement, including Christ Universal Temple and the Universal Foundation for Better Living . The Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary is named in her honor.
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Xavier Koodopuzha
1934 - Present (90 years)
Dayaraya Xavier Koodapuzha Ramban Professor Emeritus of Paurastya Vidhya Peedam was born on 28 February 1934 in Chenapady, Kanjirappally. His parents are Joseph Chacko and Annamma Koodapuzha. After completing his primary schooling, he did his tertiary studies at the St. Berchmans College in Changanacherry. He joined Parel St. Thomas Seminary in the year 1951 and did priestly studies at the Propaganda Fide College in Rome. He received a doctorate in theology and a master's degree in philosophy from the Urban University in Rome and masters degrees in Oriental sciences and Oriental canon law from the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome.
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Paul D. Murray
1964 - Present (60 years)
Paul D. Murray is a British theologian. He is currently Professor of Systematic Theology at Durham University's Department of Theology and Religion, and he is the founding Dean-Director of Durham's Centre for Catholic Studies , the only established academic unit dedicated to Catholic studies located within a British public institution. A prolific author and editor, he was Treasurer of the Society for the Study of Theology , President of the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain and he has also worked with the American Academy of Religion, the world's largest scholarly organisation in the field.
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Elizabeth Templeton
1945 - 2015 (70 years)
Elizabeth Anne Templeton was a Scottish freelance theologian and educationalist. Early life and education Templeton was born 8 June 1945 in Drumoyne in Glasgow. Her father was a clerk, who became a teacher and was a conscientious objector and mother a primary school teacher in Govan.
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M. Thomas Thangaraj
1942 - Present (82 years)
M. Thomas Thangaraj is an Indian theologian and psalmist. He is the former D.W. and Ruth Brooks Professor Emeritus of World Christianity of Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Thangaraj is currently serving as a Visiting Professor of World Christianity at Boston University School of Theology.
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Ruth Page
1935 - 2015 (80 years)
Ruth Page was the first female principal of New College, Edinburgh . She had been teaching in New College since 1979, until her retirement in 2000. Her prominent work includes God and the Web of Creation and Ambiguity and the Presence of God .
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Allan Anderson
1949 - Present (75 years)
Allan Anderson is a British theologian and the Professor of Mission and Pentecostal Studies at the University of Birmingham. He is frequently cited as one of the foremost scholars on Global Pentecostalism.
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Sigurd Bergmann
1956 - Present (68 years)
Sigurd Bergmann is a German-Swedish theologian and scholar of religion. He is a professor at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, and an alumni fellow of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
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