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List Of Christian Theologians
This list includes Christian theologians theologians per se, as well as clergymen, authors, spiritual or Christian philosophers who have shaped the history of Christian theology.
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See New Testament , Apostolic Fathers , Fathers of the Church.
Roman Catholic Church
See also doctors of the Church and Catholic Theology.
Theologians of the Middle Ages
See also Scholastic
- Alain de Lille (c. 1128-1202), monk Cistercian
- Albertus Magnus (c. 1193-1280), Dominican
- Alcuin (c. 730-804)
- Alexander of Hales (1180 - 1245), Franciscan
- Anselm of Canterbury (c. 1033-1109), monk Benedictine and Bishop
- Anthony of Padua (1195 - 1231), Franciscan
- Venerable Bede (672 - 735)
- Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 - 1153), monk Cistercian
- Bagnorea Bonaventure (c. 1221-1274), Franciscan , cardinal
- Catherine of Siena (1347 - 1380), Dominican
- Duns Scotus (c. 1266-1308), Franciscan
- Meister Eckhart (1260 - 1327), Dominican
- Stephen Langton (c. 1155-1228), bishop
- Gerard Groote (1340 - 1384)
- William of Champeaux (1070 - 1121)
- William of Occam (c. 1285-1347), Franciscan
- Heloise Argenteuil (1001 - 1064)
- Henry Suso (1295 - 1366), Dominican
- Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179), a nun Benedictine
- Hugh of St. Victor (1096 - 1141)
- Jan van Ruysbroeck (1294 - 1381)
- Jean de Gerson (1363 - 1429)
- John Scotus Eriugena (c. 810-877)
- John Tauler (c.1300 -1361), Dominican
- Joachim of Flora (1132 - 1202), monk Cistercian
- Lanfranc (ca. 1010-1089), monk Benedictine and Bishop
- Nicolas of Cusa (1401 - 1464), cardinal
- Paschasius Radbert (c. 790-865), monk Benedictine
- Peter Abelard (1079 - 1142)
- Pierre d'Ailly (1351 - 1420)
- Peter Lombard (c. 1100-1160)
- Peter John Olivi (c. 1248-1298), Franciscan
- Raban Maur (c. 780-856), monk Benedictine
- Raymond Lull (c. 1235-1315)
- Robert Grosseteste (1175 - 1253)
- Robert de Sorbon (1201 - 1274)
- Roger Bacon (1214 - 1294), Franciscan
- Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
- Thomas Aquinas (circa 1225-1274), Dominican
Catholic theologians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- Antoine Arnauld (1612 - 1694)
- Baez Domingo (1528 - 1604), Dominican
- Caesar Baronius (1538 - 1607), cardinal
- Robert Bellarmine (1542 - 1621), Jesuit , Cardinal
- Berulle Stone (1575 - 1629), Oratory , Cardinal
- Charles Borromeo (1538 - 1584), cardinal
- Benignus Bossuet Jacques (1627 - 1704), bishop
- Bourdaloue Louis (1632 - 1704), Jesuit
- Lawrence of Brindisi (1559 - 1619), capuchin
- Peter Canisius (1521 -1597), Jesuit
- Melchior Cano (1509 -1560), Dominican
- Johannes Eck (1486 -1543)
- Erasmus (1469 - 1536)
- Fenelon (1651 - 1715), bishop
- Gnbrard Gilbert (1535 - 1597)
- Jean Duvergier of Hauranne said Saint-Cyran (1581 - 1643)
- John of the Cross (1542 - 1591), Carmelite
- Jacques Lainez (1512 - 1565), Jesuit
- Bartolome de Las Casas (1484 - 1566), Dominican
- Louis de Sacy Lemaistre Isaac (1613 - 1684)
- Lessius Leonardus (1554 - 1623), Jesuit
- Ignatius of Loyola (1491 - 1556), Jesuit
- Nicolas Malebranche (1638 - 1715), Oratorian
- Luis Molina (1536 - 1600), Jesuit
- Thomas More (1478 - 1535)
- Pierre Nicole (1625 - 1695)
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
- Johannes Reuchlin (1455 - 1522)
- Richelieu (1585 - 1642)
- Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622), bishop
- Silesius Angelus (1624 - 1677)
- Richard Simon (1638 - 1712), Oratorian
- Francisco Surez (1548 - 1617), Jesuit
- Domingo de Soto (1494 - 1560), Dominican
- Teresa of Avila (1515 - 1582), Carmelite
- Thomas de Vio says Cajetan (1469 - 1534), Dominican , Cardinal
- Francisco de Vitoria (c. 1483-1546), Dominican
- Juan Luis Vives (1492 - 1540)
Catholic theologians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- Dominic Barberi (1792 - 1849)
- Calmet (1672 - 1757), monk Benedictine
- Jean-Pierre Caussade (1675 - 1751), Jesuit
- Augustin Crampon (1826 - 1894)
- Victor Auguste Dechamps (1810 - 1883), cardinal
- Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger (1819 - 1883)
- Ignaz von Dllinger (1799 - 1890)
- Johann Sebastian Drey (1777 - 1853)
- Dupanloup Felix (1802 - 1878), bishop
- Franzelin Johann Baptist (1816 - 1886), Jesuit , Cardinal
- Thomas Gousset (1792 - 1866), cardinal
- Gratry Joseph (1805 - 1872), Oratorian
- Dom Prosper Guranger (1805 - 1875), monk Benedictine
- Wilhelm Emmanuel Freiherr von Ketteler (1811 - 1877), bishop
- Henri Lacordaire (1802 - 1861), Dominican
- Felicite Robert de Lamennais (1782 - 1854)
- Leo XIII (1810 - 1903), Pope
- Alphonsus Liguori (1696 - 1787)
- Henry Edward Manning (1808 - 1892), cardinal
- Jacques Paul Migne (1800 - 1875)
- Johann Adam Mhler (1796 - 1838)
- John Henry Newman (1801 - 1890), cardinal
- Carlo Passaglia (1812 - 1887), Jesuit
- Antonio Rosmini (1797 - 1855)
- Matthias Scheeben Joseph (1835 - 1888)
- Therese of Lisieux (1873 - 1897), Carmelite
- Nicholas Wiseman (1802 - 1865), cardinal
- Francesco Antonio Zaccaria (1714 - 1795), Jesuit
Catholic theologians of the XX and XXI centuries
- Karl Adam (1876 - 1966)
- Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905 - 1988), Jesuit until 1950, Cardinal
- Batiffol Pierre (1861 - 1929)
- Augustin Bea (1881-1968), Jesuit , Cardinal
- Paul Beauchamp (1924 - 2001), Jesuit
- Maurice Bellet (b. 1923)
- Besret Bernard (b. 1935)
- Maurice Blondel (1861 - 1949)
- Leonardo Boff (born 1938)
- Marie-mile Boismard (1916 - 2004), Dominican
- Louis Bouyer (1913 - 2004), Oratorian
- Stanislas Breton (1912 - 2005)
- Odo Casel (1886 - 1948), monk Benedictine
- Pierre Chaillet (1900 - 1972), Jesuit
- Yves Marie Joseph Congar (1904 - 1995), Dominican , Cardinal
- Joseph Comblin (1923)
- Georges Cottier (1922), Dominican , Cardinal
- Marie-Dominique Chenu (1895 - 1990), Dominican
- Louis-Marie Chauvet
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Jean Danilou (1905 - 1974), Jesuit , Cardinal
- Eugen Drewermann (b. 1940)
- Avery Dulles (1918 - 2008), Jesuit , Cardinal
- Jacques Dupuis (1923 - 2004), Jesuit
- Gaston Fessard (1897 - 1978), Jesuit
- Charles de Foucauld (1858 - 1916)
- Gardeil Ambrose (1859 - 1931), Dominican
- Gontran Marie Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange (1877 - 1964), Dominican
- Geffr Claude (born 1926), Dominican
- Gesch Adolphe (1928 - 2003)
- Etienne Gilson (1884 - 1978)
- Leonce de Grandmaison (1868 - 1927), Jesuit
- Romano Guardini (1885 - 1968)
- Jacques Guillet (1910 - 2001), Jesuit
- Gustavo Gutirrez (b. 1928)
- Bernard Haring (1912 - 1998)
- Charles Journet (1891 - 1974), cardinal
- Walter Kasper (born 1933), cardinal
- Hans Kng (born 1928)
- Laberthonniere Lucien (1860 - 1932), Oratorian
- Guy Lafon (b. 1930)
- Ghislain Lafont (born 1928)
- Marie-Joseph Lagrange (1855 - 1938), Dominican
- Jules Lebreton (1873 -1956), Jesuit
- Marie-Joseph Le Guillou
- Lgaut Marcel (1900 - 1990)
- Karl Lehmann (born 1936), Cardinal
- Xavier Lon-Dufour (1913 - 2007), Jesuit
- Jean-Pierre Lintanf Orthodoxy
Orthodox theologians before the twentieth century
See also the Church Fathers
- Macarius the Egyptian
- Evagrius of Pontus
- St. John Cassian
- St. Diadochus of Photike
- St. Gregory of Nyssa
- St. Gregory Nazianzen
- St. John Chrysostom
- St. Basil of Caesarea
- St. Maximus the Confessor
- St. John Climacus (VI or VII century)
- St. John Damascene (676-749)
- St. Symeon the New Theologian (949 - 1024)
- St. Gregory Palamas (1296 - 1359)
- Nicolas Cabasilas (circa 1320 - after 1391)
- Aleksei Khomyakov (1804 - 1860)
- Vladimir Solovyov (1853 - 1900)
Orthodox theologians of the XX and XXI centuries
- Hilarion Alfeyev (b. 1966)
- Elisabeth Behr-Sigel (1907 - 2005)
- Nicolas Berdyaev (1874 - 1948)
- Sergius Bulgakov (1871 - 1944)
- Olivier Clement (1924 - 2009)
- Paul Evdokimov (1901 - 1970)
- Florensky Paul (1882 - 1937)
- Florovsky Georges (1893-1979)
- Lev Gillet (1893 - 1980)
- Nicolas Lossky (b. 1929)
- Vladimir Lossky (1903 - 1958)
- Alexander Men (1935-1990) Protestantism
Protestant theologians of the Renaissance in the seventeenth century
- Amyraut Moses (1596 - 1664)
- Jacobus Arminius (1560 - 1609)
- Theodore Beza (1519 - 1605)
- Jakob Bhme (1575 - 1624)
- Martin Bucer (1491 - 1551)
- John Calvin (1509 - 1564)
- Sebastian Castellon (1515 - 1563)
- Chamier Daniel (1564 - 1621)
- Thomas Cranmer (1489 - 1556)
- Guillaume Farel (1489 - 1565)
- Jeremy Ferrier (1576 - 1626)
- George Fox (1624 - 1691)
- Jan Hus (c. 1370-1415)
- Jurieu Pierre (1637 - 1713)
- John Knox (1513 - 1572)
- Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples (1455 - 1536 or 1538)
- Philipp van Limborch (1633 - 1712)
- Andre Lortie (?-?)
- Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
- David Martin (1639 - 1721)
- Philip Melanchthon (1497 - 1560)
- Thomas Muenzer (circa 1490 to 1525)
- Wolfgang Musculus (1497 - 1563)
- Ochino Bernardino (1487 - 1564)
- William Penn (1644 - 1718)
- Anton Praetorius (1560 - 1613)
- Michael Servetus (1511 - 1553)
- Lelio and Fausto Soccin (1525 - 1562 and 1539 - 1604)
- Roger Williams (1603 - 1684)
- John Wyclif (c. 1330-1384)
- Ulrich Zwingli (1484 - 1531)
Protestant theologians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- William Booth (1829 - 1912)
- William Ellery Channing (1780 - 1842)
- Athanase Coquerel father & son (1795 - 1868 and 1820 - 1875)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Johann Jakob Griesbach (1745 - 1812)
- Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
- John Keble (1792 - 1866)
- Sren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
- Abraham Kuyper (1837 - 1920)
- Johann Georg Hamann (1730 - 1788)
- Adolph von Harnack (1851 - 1930)
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831)
- Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744 - 1803)
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729 - 1781)
- Felix Pecaut (1828 - 1898)
- Walter Rauschenbusch (1861 - 1918)
- Albert Reville (1826 - 1906)
- John Reville (1854 - 1908)
- Albrecht Ritschl (1822 - 1889)
- Louis Auguste Sabatier (1839 - 1901)
- Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768 - 1834)
- Johann Salomo Semler (1725 - 1791)
- David Friedrich Strauss (1808 - 1874)
- Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 - 1772)
- Ernst Troeltsch (1865 - 1923)
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- Christian Hermann Weisse (1801 - 1866)
- Charles Wesley (1707 - 1788)
- John Wesley (1703 - 1791)
- George Whitefield (1774 - 1770)
Protestant theologians of the XX and XXI centuries
- Kurt Aland (1915 - 1994)
- Rubem Alves (born 1933)
- Karl Barth (1886 - 1968)
- Herman Bavinck (1854 - 1921)
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
- Pierre Bhler (born 1950)
- Donald Carson (born 1946)
- Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer (1903 - 1996)
- Birmel Andre (born 1949)
- Marc Boegner (1881 - 1970)
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945)
- Rudolph Bultmann (1884 - 1976)
- Emil Brunner (1889 - 1966)
- John B. Cobb (born 1925)
- Harvey Cox (born 1929)
- Oscar Cullmann (1902 - 1999)
- Martin Dibelius (1883-1947)
- Charles Harold Dodd (1884 - 1973)
- Andr Dumas (1918 - 1996)
- Gerhard Ebeling (1912 - 2001)
- Jacques Ellul (1912 - 1994)
- Marc Faessler (b. 1940)
- Lawrence Gagnebin of Warrants (b. 1939)
- Gisel Pierre (b. 1947)
- Isabelle Grellier (b. 1954)
- Gounelle Andre (born 1933)
- Billy Graham (b. 1918)
- Stanley Hauerwas (b. 1940)
- Josef Hromadka Lukla (1889 - 1969)
- Joachim Jeremias (1900 - 1979)
- Eberhard Jngel (b. 1938)
- Ksemann Ernst (1906 - 1998)
- Auguste Lecerf (1872 -1943)
- Paul Lehmann (1906 - 1994)
- Auguste Lematre (1887 - 1970)
- Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- John A. Mackay (1889 - 1983)
- Alphonse Maillot (1920 - 2003)
- Georges Marchal (1905 - 1982)
- Marguerat Daniel (b. 1943)
- Eric Lionel Mascall (1905 - 1993)
- Jose Miguez Bonino (born 1924)
- John Milbank (born 1952)
- Jrgen Moltmann (born 1926)
- Theodore Monod (1902 - 2000)
- Wilfred Monod (1867 - 1943)
- Denis Mller (born 1947)
- H. Richard Niebuhr (1894 - 1962)
- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971)
- Serge Dabrun Oberkampf (1948 - 2010)
- Rudolf Otto (1869 - 1937)
- Wolfhart Pannenberg (born 1928)
- Raphael Picon (b. 1968)
- Roland de Pury (1907 - 1979)
- France Qur (1936 - 1995)
- Gerhard von Rad (1901 - 1971)
- Arthur Michael Ramsey (1904 - 1988)
- Bernard Reymond (b. 1933)
- Richard Riess (b. 1937)
- John Arthur Thomas Robinson (1919 - 1983)
- Thomas Rmer (b. 1955)
- Jean de Saussure (1899 - 1977)
- Lars Olof Jonathan Sderblom (1866 - 1931)
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- Helmut Thielicke (1908 - 1986)
- Thurian Max (1921 - 1996)
- Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)
- Paul Van Buren (1924 - 1998)
- Willem Visser 't Hooft (1900 - 1985)
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- Colin Williams (born 1952)
Dates TBD
Contemporaries
- Olivier Abel
- Hans-Christoph Askani
- Henry Babel
- Henri Blocher
- Andr Malet (? - 1989)
- Richard Schaull
- Louis Schweitzer
- John Shelby Spong
- Gabriel Widmer
Jewish philosophers who influenced Christian theologians
- Philo of Alexandria (-12 - 54)
- Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975)
- Martin Buber (1878 - 1965)
- Shestov Leon (1866 - 1938)
- Moses Maimonides (1134 - 1204)
- Franz Rosenzweig (1886 - 1929)
- Simone Weil (1909 - 1943)
Related articles
- New Testament
- Apostolic Fathers
- Church Fathers
- Christian theology
- Christian theologians (various categories)
- List of authors contemporary Jesuits
- List of authors contemporary Dominican
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