50 Influential Theologians Throughout History.

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Here are 50 influential theologians throughout history, listed in chronological order with Wiki Bio:

  1. Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
  2. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
  3. Martin Luther (1483-1546)
  4. John Calvin (1509-1564)
  5. John Wesley (1703-1791)
  6. Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
  7. Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834)
  8. Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
  9. Karl Barth (1886-1968)
  10. Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
  11. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
  12. Paul Tillich (1886-1965)
  13. Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976)
  14. Karl Rahner (1904-1984)
  15. Jurgen Moltmann (1926-present)
  16. Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988)
  17. John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
  18. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
  19. Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928-2014)
  20. John Hick (1922-2012)
  21. Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928-present)
  22. Elizabeth Johnson (1941-present)
  23. Hans Küng (1928-2021)
  24. John Polkinghorne (1930-2021)
  25. N.T. Wright (1948-present)
  26. Stanley Hauerwas (1940-present)
  27. Walter Brueggemann (1933-present)
  28. Jürgen Habermas (1929-present)
  29. David Bentley Hart (1965-present)
  30. Emil Brunner (1889-1966)
  31. Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984)
  32. Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936-present)
  33. Miroslav Volf (1956-present)
  34. Alister McGrath (1953-present)
  35. Dorothy Day (1897-1980)
  36. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
  37. Hans von Campenhausen (1903-1989)
  38. Phyllis Trible (1932-present)
  39. John Howard Yoder (1927-1997)
  40. Sarah Coakley (1951-present)
  41. James Cone (1938-2018)
  42. Desmond Tutu (1931-present)
  43. Rowan Williams (1950-present)
  44. William Lane Craig (1949-present)
  45. Moltmann-Wendel (1927-2016)
  46. Richard Dawkins (1941-present)
  47. Francis Schaeffer (1912-1984)
  48. A.T. Robertson (1863-1934)
  49. Gustaf Aulen (1879-1977)
  50. Paul Ricœur (1913-2005)

These theologians have made significant contributions to the fields of Christian theology, philosophy, and religious thought. They have influenced religious beliefs, theological frameworks, and the understanding of God and humanity throughout history.

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