List of Methodist theologians

Proto-Methodist theologians

* Jacobus Arminius - ordained pastor of the Dutch Reformed church, studied under Theodore Beza and rejected the teachings of John Calvin, inspired the Remonstrance and the soteriological system now known as Arminianism.
* Hugo Grotius - playwright, poet, and humanist philosopher of the Aristotelian tradition, systematized Arminianism and developed the moral government theory of Christ's atonement.

18th century

* John Wesley
* Charles Wesley
* John Fletcher

19th century

* Adam Clarke - Biblical theologian uncomfortable with systematic approaches to Christian theology, argued that Christ's Sonship began with the Incarnation.
* Richard Watson - outspoken British abolitionist, wrote against Clarke in defense of the eternal Sonship of Christ, one of the first theologians to systematize Wesley's theology.
* Wilbur Fisk - religious educator, favored ending slavery progressively (rather than in the revolutionary way proposed by other notable abolitionists, so as to avoid a split in the Church), early influence on the temperance movement.
* Nathan Bangs - Arminian apologist, first editor of the Methodist magazine "Christian Advocate", opposed the antinomianism of the New Light Baptist community.
* Hugh Price Hughes - Welsh social reformer, first editor of the "Methodist Times" and first superintendent of the West London Methodist Mission.
* William Burt Pope
* John Miley
* James Strong
* Borden Parker Bowne

20th century

* Edgar S. Brightman - Christian pacifist, associated with process philosophy and liberal theology of the school known as "Boston personalism".
* Justo Gonzalez
* José Miguez Bonino
* E. Stanley Jones
* Albert C. Knudson
* Edwin Lewis
* H. Orton Wiley
* Georgia Harkness
* Albert C. Outler - influenced the paleo-orthodox movement, coined the term "Wesleyan Quadrilateral" with respect to John Wesley's method of theological reflection.
* J. Kenneth Grider - scholar of the Wesleyan holiness tradition, served on the translation committee for the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible.
* John B. Cobb
* Young-Ho Chun
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21st century

* Marcella Althaus-Reid - first female professor of theology at the University of Edinburgh in 160 years, associated with feminist, liberation, and queer theology.
* Thomas C. Oden - responsible in large part for founding the theological school known as paleo-orthodoxy, associated also with the confessing movement connected with neo-evangelicalism.
* Mercy Oduyoye - Ghanaian feminist theologian.
* Stanley Hauerwas - theological ethicist and outspoken anti-nationalist Christian pacifist, studied under neo-orthodox theologian H. Richard Niebuhr, associated with narrative theology and was influential in the formation of the Ekklesia Project.
* Christopher Morse - developed a prescriptive type of negative theology, described as "faithful disbelief."
* Scott J. Jones - bishop of the United Methodist Church, international evangelist, and prominent Protestant ecumenical figure who has been involved in relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the World Methodist Council.
* Marjorie Suchocki - current director of the Whitehead International Film Festival, one of the leading thinkers in the field of process theology.
* William H. Willimon - bishop of the United Methodist Church, sometimes associated with postliberal narrative theology, named one of the top twelve best preachers in the English-speaking world in a 1996 Baylor University survey.
* Geoffrey Wainwright
* Andrew S. Park - systematic theologian and pioneer in Asian American liberation theology, associated with Christian mysticism and the debate over the relationship between religion and science.
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