List of Christian

theologians

This is a list of notable Christian theologians list ed chronologically by century of birth.

1st century

Apost le Paul of Tarsus (died c. 60–65)

Papias of Hierapolis (c. 60 – c. 130)

Apost le James, Son of Zebedee

Apost le Simon Pet er

Apost le John, Son of Zebedee

Deacon Philip

Deacon St ephen t he Prot omart yr

Ignat ius of Ant ioch (c. 35 or 50 – bet ween 98 and 117)

Polycarp (c. 69 – c. 155)

Clement of Rome (fl. c. 96)

2nd century
 Valent inus (c. 100 – c. 160)

Quadrat us of At hens (fl. 124/125)

Basilides (died c. 132)

Arist ides t he At henian (died c. 133 or fl. c. 140)

Arist o of Pella (fl. c. 140)

Marcion (c. 110 – c. 160)

Just in Mart yr (c. 110 – c. 165)

Hegesippus (c. 110 – 180)

Melit o of Sardis (died c. 180)

At henagoras of At hens (c. 133 – c. 190)

Dionysius of Corint h (fl. c. 171)

Heracleon (fl. c. 175)

Apollinaris Claudius (fl. c. 177)

Pt olemy (fl. c. 180)

Pant aenus (died c. 200)

Irenaeus of Lyons (died c. 202)

Apollonius of Ephesus (fl. c. 180 – c. 210)

Serapion of Ant ioch (died 211)

Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 – 211 or 216)

Bardaisan (154–222/3)

Tert ullian (c. 160 – c. 220)

Origen (c. 184 – c. 253)

3rd century

Minucius Felix (2nd or 3rd cent ury)

Caius, Presbyt er of Rome (early 3rd cent ury)

 Hippolyt us of Rome (c. 170 – c. 236)

Origen of Alexandria (c. 184 – 254)

Sabellius (fl. c. 215)

Cyprian (c. 200 – c. 258)

Novat ian (c. 200 – 258)

Paul of Samosat a (c. 200 – c. 275)

Dionysius of Alexandria (died 265)

Gregory Thaumat urgus (c. 213 – c. 270)

Met hodius of Olympus (died c. 311)

Lucian of Ant ioch (c. 240 – 312)

Lact ant ius (c. 240 – c. 320)

Aphrahat (‫ܐܦܪܗܛ‬,c. 280 – c. 345)

At hanasius of Alexandria (296–373)

4th century

Ephrem t he Syrian (‫ܡܪܝ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ‬, c. 306–373)

Hilary of Poit iers (c. 310 – c. 367)

Arnobius of Sicca (died c. 330)

Basil of Caesarea (c. 330 – 379)

Gregory of Nyssa (c. 330 – c. 395)

Gregory Nazianzus (329–389)

Evagrius Pont icus]](345-399)

Ambrose (337/340 – 397)

John Chrysost om (347–407)

Jerome (347–420)

August ine (354–430)

 Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376 – 444)

Nest orius (c. 386 – c. 451)

5th century

Isaac of Ant ioch (fl. 5t h c.)

Boet hius (c. 477–525)

6th century

Gregory t he Great (540–604)

Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636)

Maximus t he Confessor (c. 580–662)

7th century

Isaac of Nineveh (died c. 700)

Bede (672/673–735)

John of Damascus (c. 675–749)

8th century

Paschasius Radbert us (785–865)

9th century

Claudius of Turin (died 839)

Johannes Scot us Eriugena (810–877)

11th century

Anselm (1033–1109)

Pet er Abelard (1079–1142)

Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153)

 Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)

12th century

Pet er Lombard (c. 1096–1159)

Francis of Assisi (c. 1181–1226)

13th century

Albert us Magnus (c. 1200–1280)

Bonavent ure (1221–1274)

Thomas Aquinas (1224–1274)

Pet er Quesnel (died 1299)

Meist er Eckhart (1260–1328)

Scot us Johannes Duns (c. 1265 – c. 1308)

William of Ockham (1285–1347)

14th century

Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro (1300–1342)

Bridget of Sweden (1303–1373)

John Wycliffe (c.1323–1384)

Cat herine of Siena (1347–1380)

Jan Hus (c. 1369–1415)

Thomas à Kempis (1380–1471)

15th century

Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464)

Desiderius Erasmus (1469–1536)

Mart in Lut her (1483–1546)

Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531)

 Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556)

Mart in Bucer (1491–1551)

Ignat ius of Loyola (c. 1491–1556)

Menno Simons (1496–1561)

Philip Melancht hon (1497–1560)

16th century

Alexander Alesius (1500–1565)

John of Avila (1500–1569)

Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575)

John Calvin (1509–1564)

Michael Servet us (1511–1553)

John Knox (c. 1513–1572)

Teresa of Avila (1515–1582)

Theodore Beza (1519–1605)

Pet er Baro (1534–1599)

Caspar Coolhaes (1536–1615)

Herman Wit sius (1636–1708)

Charles Borromeo (1538–1584)

John of t he Cross (1542–1591)

Johannes Piscat or (1546–1625)

Richard Hooker (1554–1600)

Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626)

Johannes Wt enbogaert (1557–1644)

William Perkins (1558–1602)

Jacob Arminius (1560–1609)

 Ant on Praet orius (1560–1613)

Daniel Tilenus (1563–1633)

Francis de Sales (1567–1622)

William Laud (1573–1645)

Willem van der Codde (1574 – c.1630)

Thomas Helwys (c. 1575 – c. 1616),

Jakob Boehme (1575–1624)

Samuel Brooke (1575–1631)

Eduard Poppius (c. 1576–1624)

Jacobus Taurinus (1576–1618)

Gerardus Vossius (1577–1649)

Thomas Jackson (1579–1640)

Johannes Arnoldi Corvinus (c. 1582–1650)

Johann Gerhard (1582–1637)

Simon Episcopius (1583–1643)

Hugo Grot ius (1583–1645)

Zachary Boyd (1585–1653)

Dirk Rafelsz Camphuysen (1586–1627)

Ét ienne de Courcelles (1586–1659)

Caspar Barlaeus (1584–1648)

John Goodwin (1593–1665)

Moses Amyraut (1596–1664)

17th century

Pet rus Serrarius (1600–1669)

Owen Felt ham (c. 1602–1668)

 Henry Hammond (1605–1660)

John Milt on (1608–1674)

Laurence Womock (1612–1686)

John Pearson (1613–1686)

Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667)

Richard Baxt er (1615–1691)

John Owen (1616–1683)

Francis Turret in (1623–1687)

George Fox (1624–1691)

Simon Pat rick (1626–1707)

John Flavel (1627–1691)

St ephen Charnock (1628–1680)

Philipp van Limborch (1633–1712)

George Bull (1634–1710)

Thomas Grant ham (1634–1692)

Thomas Burnet (c. 1635–1715)

Philipp Jakob Spener (1635–1705)

Edward St illingfleet (1635–1699)

Gilbert Burnet (1643–1715)

Isaac Jacquelot (1647–1708)

Fenelon (1651–1715)

Jean Leclerc (1657–1736)

Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772)

Johann Jakob Wet t st ein (1693–1754)

John Gill (1697–1771)

18th century
 Nicolas Ludwig Count von Zinzendorf (1700–1760)

Jonat han Edwards (1703–1758)

John Wesley (1703–1791)

Charles Wesley (1707–1788)

George Whit efield (1714–1770)

John Brown (1722–1787)

John Flet cher (1729–1785)

Thomas Hart well Horne (1780-1862)

Got t hold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781)

John Hey (1734–1815)

Thomas Coke (1747–1814)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

Aaron Bancroft (1755–1839)

Heinrich Paulus (1761–1851)

Adam Clarke (1762–1832)

Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834)

Archibald Alexander (1772–1851)

Lyman Beecher (1775–1863)

Nat han Bangs (1778–1862)

Richard Wat son (1781–1833)

Nat haniel William Taylor (1786–1858)

Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875)

Wilbur Fisk (1792–1839)

Charles Hodge (1797–1878)

19th century
John Henry Newman (1801–1890)

Christ ian Hermann Weisse (1801–1866)

Leonard Bacon (1802–1881)

Horace Bushnell (1802–1876)

Frederick Denison Maurice (1805–1872)

Horat ius Bonar (1808–1889)

C. F. W. Walt her (1811–1887)

Thomas Osmond Summers (1812–1882)

Franz Delit zsch (1813–1890)

Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855)

John Miley (1813–1895)

John McClint ock (1814–1870)

James St uart Russell (1816–1895)

J. C. Ryle (1816–1900)

Ransom Dunn (1818–1900)

Philip Schaff (1819–1893)

Randolph Sinks Fost er (1820–1903)

Henry C. Sheldon (1820–1877)

Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910)

William Burt Pope (1822–1903)

Albrecht Rit schl (1822–1889)

James St rong (1822–1894)

Willibald Beyschlag (1823–1900)

A. A. Hodge (1823–1886)

William Alexander (1824–1911)

William Boot h (1829–1912)

Frederic William Farrar (1831–1903)

Heinrich Julius Holt zmann (1832–1910)

James St rong (1833–1913)

William Fairfield Warren (1833–1929)

Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892)

Henry Barclay Swet e (1835–1918)

August in Gret illat (1837–1894)

Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920)

Pet er Taylor Forsyt h (1842–1921)

Albert Benjamin Simpson (1843–1919)

Borden Parker Bowne (1847–1910)

Hugh Price Hughes (1847–1902)

Bernhard St ade (1848–1906)

Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930)

B. B. Warfield (1851–1921)

Franz Pieper (1852–1931)

Charles Taze "Past or" Russell (1852–1916)

Herman Bavinck (1854–1921)

Max Reischle (1858–1905)

Walt er Rauschenbusch (1861–1918)

Billy Sunday (1862–1935)

Geerhardus Vos (1862–1949)

Nicholas Timot hy Clerk (1862–1961)

Richard C. H. Lenski (1864–1936)

Rudolf Ot t o (1869–1937)

William Henry Chamberlin (1870–1921)

Sergei Bulgakov (1871–1944)

Lewis Sperry Chafer (1871–1952)

Louis Berkhof (1873–1957)

Albert C. Knudson (1873–1953)

Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948)

Karl Heim (1874–1958)

Albert Schweit zer (1875–1965)

Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange (1877–1964)

H. Ort on Wiley (1877–1961)

Mary Ely Lyman (1880s – 1975)

Nikolaj Velimirović (1880–1956)

Edwin Lewis (1881–1959)

John Gresham Machen (1881–1937)

William Temple (1881–1944)

Johannes Pedersen (1883–1977)

Edgar S. Bright man (1884–1953)

Rudolf Karl Bult mann (1884–1976)

Ét ienne Gilson (1884–1978)

E. St anley Jones (1884–1973)

Oliver Chase Quick (1885–1944)

Karl Bart h (1886–1968)

Paul Tillich (1886–1965)

Friedrich Gogart en (1887–1967)

Vincent Taylor (1887–1968)

Emil Brunner (1889–1966)

Diet rich von Hildebrand (1889–1977)

 Leonard Hodgson (1889–1969)

Anders Nygren (1890–1978)

Georgia Harkness (1891–1974)

Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971)

Dorot hy Sayers (1893–1957)

H. Richard Niebuhr (1894–1962)

Fult on Sheen (1895–1979)

Cornelius Van Til (1895–1987)

Henri de Lubac (1896–1991)

Mildred Barker (1897–1990)

Dorot hy Day (1897–1980)

A. W. Tozer (1897–1963)

C. S. Lewis (1898–1963)

John Murray (1898–1975)

20th century

Gerhard von Rad (1901–1971)

Gordon Clark (1902–1985)

Oscar Cullmann (1902–1999)

Wat chman Nee (1903–1972)

Dumit ru St ăniloae (1903–1993)

Yves Congar (1904–1995)

Bernard Lonergan (1904–1984)

Karl Rahner (1904–1984)

Hans Urs von Balt hasar (1905–1988)

Eric Lionel Mascall (1905–1993)

Mildred Bangs Wynkoop (1905–1997)

Diet rich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945)

Joseph Clifford Fent on (1906–1969)

Albert C. Out ler (1908–1989)

F. F. Bruce (1910–1990)

W. T. Purkiser (1910–1992)

John Walvoord (1910–2002)

George Eldon Ladd (1911–1982)

Frank St agg (1911–2001)

Alan Walker (1911–2003)

Jacques Ellul (1912-1994)

Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984)

Carl F. H. Henry (1913–2003)

Ant hony A. Hoekema (1913–1988)

Bolaji Idowu (1913–1993)

Thomas F. Torrance (1913–2007)

Leon Lamb Morris (1914–2006)

Thomas Berry (1914–2009)

Hebe Charlot t e Kohlbrugge (1914–2016)

Ant hony of Sourozh (Andrei Borisovich Bloom, 1914–2003)

Vernon Grounds (1914–2010)

Edward Schillebeeckx (1914–2009)

Markus Bart h (1915–1994)

Thomas Mert on (1915–1968)

Derek Prince (1915–2003)

Marie-Émile Boismard (1916–2004)

William Ragsdale Cannon (1916–1997)

St anley Monroe Hort on (1916–2014)

Vict or Paul Wierwille (1916–1985)

C. K. Barret t (1917–2011)

G. B. Caird (1917–1984)

Edmund Clowney (1917–2005)

Avery Dulles (1918–2008)

Billy Graham (1918–2018)

J. Rodman Williams (1918–2008)

Langdon Gilkey (1919–2004)

John Macquarrie (1919–2007)

Cat harina Halkes (1920–2011)

Karol Wojt yła (Pope John Paul II) (1920–2005)

J. Kennet h Grider (1921–2006)

George Wesley Buchanan (1921–2019)

Alexander Schmemann (1921–1983)

John St ot t (1921–2011)

Hans Wilhelm Frei (1922–1988)

John Hick (1922–2012)

Meredit h G. Kline (1922–2007)

John Alexander Mot yer (1924-2016)

John B. Cobb (born 1925)

James Leo Garret t Jr. (1925–2020)

John J McNeill (1925–2015)

Charles Ryrie (1925–2016)

Frederick Buechner (born 1926)

H. Ray Dunning (born 1926)

Jurgen Molt mann (born 1926)

J. I. Packer (1926–2020)

Thomas J. J. Alt izer (1927–2018)

Gerhard Forde (1927–2005)

Chuck Smit h (1927-2013)

Joseph Rat zinger (Pope Benedict XVI) (born 1927)

John Howard Yoder (1927–1997)

Mary Daly (1928–2010)

Gust avo Gut iérrez (born 1928)

Hans Küng (1928–2021)

Mart in E. Mart y (born 1928)

Johann Bapt ist Met z (1928–2019)

Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928–2014)

William St ringfellow (1928–1985)

Carl Braat en (born 1929)

Kwesi Dickson (1929–2005)

Kosuke Koyama ( 小山晃佑, 1929–2009)

Dorot hee Soelle (1929–2003)

James D. St rauss (1929–2014)

Joseph A. Bracken (born 1930)

Ignacio Ellacuría (1930–1989)

Michael Green (1930–2019)

John Polkinghorne (1930–2021)

Robert Jenson (1930–2017)

David Pawson (1930–2020)

Pat ricia Reif (1930–2002)

William L. Lane (1931–1999)

John S Mbit i (1931–2019)

Thomas C. Oden (1931–2016)

Adrian Rogers (1931–2005)

John Shelby Spong (1931–2021)

John Zizioulas (born 1931)

Millard Erickson (born 1932)

Norman Geisler (1932–2019)

Eugene H. Pet erson (1932–2018)

Alvin Plant inga (born 1932)

Robert L. Reymond (1932–2013)

Charles St anley (born 1932)

Rubem Alves (1933–2014)

Walt er Brueggemann (born 1933)

Roger T. Forst er (born 1933)

Walt er Kaiser Jr. (born 1933)

Michael Novak (1933–2017)

Marjorie Hewit t Suchocki (born 1933)

Charles E. Curran (born 1934)

Gordon Fee (born 1934)

I. Howard Marshall (1934–2015)

Mercy Oduyoye (born 1934)

Henry Wansbrough (born 1934)

Dallas Willard (1935–2013)

Rosemary Radford Ruet her (born 1936)

Just o Gonzalez (born 1937)

Clark Pinnock (1937–2010)

Ant hony Thiselt on (born 1937)

Richard Thomas France (1938-2012)

Leonardo Boff (born 1938)

David J. A. Clines (born 1938)

James Hal Cone (1938–2018)

Jack Cot t rell (born 1938)

Ronald M. Enrot h (born 1938)

Elisabet h Schüssler Fiorenza (born 1938)

James Mont gomery Boice (1938-2000)

Keit h Ward (born 1938)

James Dunn (1939–2020)

John Frame (born 1939)

John F. MacArt hur (born 1939)

R. C. Sproul (1939–2017)

Mat t hew Fox (born 1940)

St anley Hauerwas (born 1940)

Walt er Klaiber (born 1940)

John N. Oswalt (born 1940)

St ephen Tong (born 1940)

Elizabet h Johnson (born 1941)

Erwin Lut zer (born 1941)

David Hocking (born 1941)

George Newlands (born 1941)

Marcus Borg (1942–2015)

Grant R. Osborne (1942–2018)

Paige Pat t erson (born 1942)

Lamin Sanneh (1942–2019)

Marilyn McCord Adams (1943–2017)

John Lennox (born 1943)

Douglas St uart (born 1943)

Garet h Lee Cockerill (born 1944)

Klyne Snodgrass (born 1944)

John Ankerberg (born 1945)

Kwame Bediako (1945–2008)

Keit h Drury (born 1945)

D. A. Carson (born 1946)

John Piper (born 1946)

Vern Poyt hress (born 1946)

Andrew Purves (born 1946)

John Sailhamer (1946-2017)

William Willimon (born 1946)

William J. Abraham (1947–2021)

Paul S. Fiddes (born 1947)

Jesse Mugambi (born 1947)

Greg Bahnsen (1948–1995)

David Brown (born 1948)

Marva Dawn (1948–2021)

Sinclair Ferguson (born 1948)

Bob Goss (born 1948)

Wayne Grudem (born 1948)

Scot t y McLennan (born 1948)

J.P. Moreland (born 1948)

Michael Plekon (born 1948)

N. T. Wright (born 1948)

William Lane Craig (born 1949)

Ray Comfort (born 1949)

Chris Glaser (born 1950)

St anley Grenz (1950–2005)

Gary Habermas (born 1950)

Timot hy J. Keller (born 1950)

Kat herine Sonderegger (born 1950)

Rowan Williams (born 1950)

Nancy Wilson (born 1950)

Ken Ham (born 1951)

Ben Wit heringt on (born 1951)

Marcella Alt haus-Reid (1952–2009)

Joel R. Beeke (born 1952)

Greg Laurie (born 1952)

Alist air Begg (born 1952)

Kennet h J. Collins (born 1952)

Roger E. Olson (born 1952)

Carst en Pet er Thiede (1952–2004)

Daniel B. Wallace (born 1952)

Kent Hovind (born 1953)

Musimbi Kanyoro (born 1953)

Cat herine Keller (born 1953)

Randy L. Maddox (born 1953)

William D. Mounce (born 1953)

Alist er McGrat h (born 1953)

Adele Reinhart z (born 1953)

Scot t J. Jones (born 1954)

Thomas R. Schreiner (born 1954)

Tina Beat t ie (born 1955)

Craig Blomberg (born 1955)

Michael L. Brown (born 1955)

Skip Heit zig (born 1955)

Don Thorsen (born 1955)

Graham Ward (born 1955)

Robert Jeffress (born 1955)

Joel B. Green (born 1956)

Miroslav Volf (born 1956)

Gregory A. Boyd (born 1957)

Douglas Groot huis (born 1957)

Scot t Hahn (born 1957)

Daniela Müller (born 1957)

Kevin J. Vanhoozer (born 1957)

Gavin D'Cost a (born 1958)

Robert A. J. Gagnon (born 1958)

James Alison (born 1959)

R. Albert Mohler Jr. (born 1959)

Timot hy Tennent (born 1959)

Yves-Marie Adeline (born 1960)

 Mark Dever (born 1960)

Craig S. Keener (born 1960)

Frank Turek (born 1961)

Pet er Enns (born 1961)

Paul Washer (born 1961)

Willie James Jennings (born 1961)

Paul Copan (born 1962)

Elizabet h St uart (born 1963)

Michael Hort on (born 1964)

Seung-Moo Ha ( 하승무, born 1963)

David Bent ley Hart (born 1965)

Thomas Jay Oord (born 1965)

R. C. Sproul, Jr. (born 1965)

Ken Schenck (born 1966)

Robert Arp (born 1970)

Ulrich L. Lehner (born 1976)

John L. Drury (born 1978)

21st century

See also

List of Cat holic philosophers and t heologians

Doct or of t he Church (Catholicism / Orthodox Christianity)

List of Met hodist t heologians

List of Reformed Bapt ist s

List of Renewal t heologians

Christ ian t heologian

References

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