List of Christian theologians

This is a list of notable Christian theologians. They are listed by century. If a particular theologian crosses over two centuries, he may be listed in the latter century or in the century with which he is best identified.

See also: History of theology

1st century

*Paul (c. 3 – 66)

2nd century

*Marcion (c. 110-160)
*Polycarp (c. 70 – 160)
*Justin Martyr (c. 110 - 165)

3rd century

*Clement of Alexandria (c.150 - c.215)
*Irenaeus of Lyons (ca. 120 - 203)
*Origen of Alexandria (ca. 184 - 254)
*Tertullian
*Cyprian

4th century

*Athanasius (296 - 373)
*Basil of Caesarea (c. 330 - 379)
*Gregory of Nyssa (c. 330 - c. 395)
*Gregory Nazianzus (329 - 389)
*John Chrysostom (347 - 407)

5th century

*Augustine (354 - 430)
*Jerome (c. 347 - 420)
*Cyril of Alexandria (ca. 378 - 444)
*Nestorius (ca. 386–c. 451)

9th century

*Claudius of Turin (? - 839)
*Johannes Scotus Eriugena (810 - 877)

12th century

*Peter Abelard (1079-1142)
*Anselm (1033 - 1109)
*Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 - 1153)

13th century

*Albertus Magnus (c.1200 - 1280)
*Thomas Aquinas (1224 - 1274)

14th century

*Scotus Johannes Duns (1265? - 1308?)
*Meister Eckhart (1260 - 1328)
*William of Ockham (1285 - 1347)
*Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro (1300 - 1342)

15th century

*Thomas à Kempis (1380 - 1471)
*Julian of Norwich (c.1342 - 1416)
*Nicholas of Cusa (1401 - 1464)

16th century

*Alexander Alesius (1500-1565)
*Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575)
*Theodore Beza (1519-1605)
*John Calvin (1509-1564)
*Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556)
*Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536)
*Richard Hooker (1554-1600)
*John Knox (c. 1513-1572)
*Ignatius of Loyola (c. 1491-1556)
*Martin Luther (1483-1546)
*Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560)
*Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531)
*William Perkins (1558-1602)

17th century

*James Arminius (1560-1609)
*Moses Amyraut (1596-1664)
*Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
*Jakob Boehme (1575-1624)
*Zachary Boyd (1585-1653)
*Owen Feltham (c. 1602-1668)
*John Milton (1608-1674)
*John Flavel (1627-1691)
*George Fox (1624-1691)
*Hugo Grotius (1583-1645)
*John Owen (1616-1683)
*Anton Praetorius (1560-1613)
*Francis Turretin (1623-1687)
*Herman Witsius (1636-1708)

18th century

*George Bull (1634-1710)
*Thomas Burnet (1635?-1715)
*Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
*John Fletcher (1729-1785)
*John Gill (1697-1771)
*Philipp Jakob Spener (1635-1705)
*Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772)
*Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
*John Wesley (1703-1791)
*George Whitefield (1774-1770)

19th century

*Archibald Alexander (1772-1851)
*William Alexander (bishop) (1824 -1911)
*Nathan Bangs (1778-1862)
*William Booth (1829-1912)
*Borden Parker Bowne (1847-1910)
*Adam Clarke (1762-1832)
*Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875)
*Wilbur Fisk (1792-1839)
*A. A. Hodge (1823-1886)
*Charles Hodge (1797-1878)
*Hugh Price Hughes (1847-1902)
*Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
*John Miley (1813-1895)
*John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
*Heinrich Paulus (1761-1851)
*William Burt Pope (1822-1903)
*Philip Schaff (1819-1893)
*Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834)
*Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892)
*Bernhard Stade (1848-1906)
*Richard Watson (1781-1833)
*Christian Hermann Weisse (1801-1866)

20th century

*Greg Bahnsen (1948-1995)
*Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988)
*Karl Barth (1886-1968)
*Louis Berkhof (1873-1957)
*Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
*Edgar S. Brightman (1884—1953)
*F.F. Bruce (1910-1990)
*Emil Brunner (1889-1966)
*Rudolf Karl Bultmann (1884-1976)
*Gordon Clark (1902-1985)
*Edmund Clowney (1917–2005)
*John B. Cobb (1925– )
*James Hal Cone (1938- )
*Yves Cardinal Congar (1904-1995)
*Oscar Cullmann (1902-1999)
*Dorothy Day (1897—1980)
*Ignacio Ellacuria (1930-1989)
*Avery Cardinal Dulles (1918– )
*Frederic William Farrar (1831-1903)
*Paul S. Fiddes (1947-)
*Peter Taylor Forsyth (1842-1921)
*Hans Wilhelm Frei (1922-1988)
*Justo Gonzalez (1937- )
*J. Kenneth Grider (1921- )
*Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928– )
*Georgia Harkness (1891-1974)
*Adolf von Harnack (1851-1930)
*Carl F. H. Henry (1913-2003)
*Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889-1977)
*Leonard Hodgson (1889-1969)
*Anthony A. Hoekema (1913-1988)
*Heinrich Julius Holtzmann (1832-1910)
*E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973)
*Albert C. Knudson (1873-1953)
*Hans Küng (1928– )
*Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920)
*C. S. Lewis (29 November 1898 - 22 November 1963)
*Edwin Lewis (1881-1959)
*Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984)
*Henri de Lubac (1896-1991)
*John F. MacArthur (1939-)
*J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937)
*John Macquarrie (1919-)
*Martin E. Marty (1928- )
*Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
*Johann Baptist Metz (1928– )
*John Murray (1898-1975)
*Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
*H. Richard Niebuhr (1894-1962)
*Rudolf Otto (1869-1937)
*Albert C. Outler (1908-1989)
*J. I. Packer (1926- )
*Johannes Pedersen (1883-1977)
*Karl Rahner (1904-1984)
*Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
*Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936– )
*Francis Schaeffer (1912-1984)
*Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
*Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
*Albert Benjamin Simpson (1843-1919)
*Frank Stagg (1911-2001)
*John Stott (1921- )
*Paul Tillich (1886-1965)
*Thomas F. Torrance (1913-2007)
*Cornelius Van Til (1895-1987)
*Nikolaj Velimirović (1880-1956)
* Geerhardus Vos
*John Walvoord (1910-2002)
*Henry Wansbrough
*B. B. Warfield (1851-1921)
*H. Orton Wiley (1877-1961)
*Karol Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II) (1920-2005)
*John Howard Yoder (1927-1997)

21st century

*Dale Allison
*Marcella Althaus-Reid
*Gregory Boyd
*Nathan Lloyd Braun
*William Lane Craig
*Marva Dawn
*Richard Foster
*John Frame (1939- )
*Chris Glaser
*Larry W. Gaiters (1963-)
*Norman Geisler
*Bob Goss
*Stanley Grenz (1950-2005)
*Wayne Grudem
*Gary Habermas
*Stanley Hauerwas (1940- )
*Michael Horton
* Paul House
*Scott J. Jones (1954- )
*John F. MacArthur (1939-)
*Alister McGrath (1953- )
*Josh McDowell
*John J McNeill
*Jürgen Moltmann (1926- )
*J.P. Moreland
*George Newlands (1941- )
*Thomas C. Oden (1931- )
*Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928- )
*Eugene Peterson (1932- )
*Clark Pinnock
*John Piper
*John Polkinghorne
*Andrew Purves
*Robert L. Reymond
*Edward Schillebeeckx (1914- )
*R. C. Sproul
*Elizabeth Stuart
*Carsten Peter Thiede (1952-2004)
* Anthony Thiselton (1937- )
*David Tracy (1939- )
*Miroslav Volf
*Graham Ward (1955- )
*Mona West
* Dallas Willard
* J. Rodman Williams
*William Willimon (1946- )
*N. T. Wright
*Nancy Wilson

ee also

*List of Catholic philosophers and theologians
*Doctor of the Church ("Catholicism / Orthodox Christianity")
*List of Methodist theologians