List of Theologians

This is a list of notable 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 of Tarsus (d. c. 60-65)
 * John the Evangelist
 * Ignatius of Antioch (c. 35 or 50 – between 98 and 117)
 * Clement of Rome (fl. c. 96)

2nd century

 * Polycarp (c. 69 – c. 155)
 * Papias of Hierapolis (d. c. 155?)
 * Valentinus (c. 100 - c.160)
 * Quadratus of Athens (fl. 124/125)
 * Basilides (d. c. 132)
 * Aristides the Athenian (d. c. 133 or fl. c. 140)
 * Aristo of Pella (fl. c. 140)
 * Marcion (c. 110 - c. 160)
 * Justin Martyr (c. 110 - c. 165)
 * Hegesippus (c. 110 - 180)
 * Melito of Sardis (d. c. 180)
 * Athenagoras of Athens (c. 133 - c. 190)
 * Dionysius of Corinth (fl. c. 171)
 * Heracleon (fl. c. 175)
 * Apollinaris Claudius (fl. c. 177)
 * Ptolemy (fl. c. 180?)
 * Pantaenus (d. c. 200)
 * Irenaeus of Lyons (d. c. 202)
 * Apollonius of Ephesus (fl. c. 180 - c. 210)
 * Serapion of Antioch (d. 211)
 * Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 - 211 or 216)
 * Bardaisan (154 - 222/3)
 * Tertullian (c. 160 - c. 220)

3rd century

 * Minucius Felix (2nd or 3rd century)
 * Caius, Presbyter of Rome (early 3rd century)
 * Hippolytus of Rome (c. 170 - c. 236)
 * Origen of Alexandria (c. 184 - 254)
 * Sabellius (fl. c. 215)
 * Cyprian (d. 258)
 * Novatian (c. 200 - 258)
 * Paul of Samosata (c. 200 - c. 275)
 * Dionysius of Alexandria (d. 265)
 * Gregory Thaumaturgus (c. 213 - c. 270)
 * Methodius of Olympus (d. c. 311)
 * Lucian of Antioch (c. 240 - 312)
 * Lactantius (c. 240 - c. 320)

4th century

 * Ambrose (337/340 - 397)
 * Arnobius of Sicca (d. c. 330)
 * 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)

6th century

 * Gregory the Great (540 - 604)

7th century

 * Isaac of Nineveh (d.c. 700)

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)
 * Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
 * Julian of Norwich (c.1342 - 1416)
 * Nicholas of Cusa (1401 - 1464)

16th century

 * Alexander Alesius (1500-1565)
 * Teresa of Avila (1515-1582]]
 * Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575)
 * Theodore Beza (1519-1605)
 * Charles Borromeo (1538-1584)
 * Martin Bucer (1491-1551)
 * John Calvin (1509-1564)
 * John of the Cross (1542-1591)
 * 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)
 * Michael Servetus (1511-1553)

17th century

 * James Arminius (1560-1609)
 * Moses Amyraut (1596-1664)
 * Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
 * Jakob Boehme (1575-1624)
 * Zachary Boyd (1585-1653)
 * Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
 * Fenelon (1651-1715)
 * 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 (1714-1770)

19th century

 * Archibald Alexander (1772-1851)
 * William Alexander (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)
 * Marie-Émile Boismard (1916-2004)
 * 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)
 * Meredith G. Kline (1922-2007)
 * Albert C. Knudson (1873-1953)
 * Kosuke Koyama
 * 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 (1862-1949)
 * 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

 * James Alison (1959- )
 * Dale Allison
 * Marcella Althaus-Reid
 * Marilyn McCord Adams (1943- )
 * Gregory Boyd
 * Nathan Lloyd Braun
 * D.A. Carson
 * 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- )
 * Matt Lamb
 * John F. MacArthur (1939-)
 * Alister McGrath (1953- )
 * Josh McDowell
 * Scotty McLennan (1948 - )
 * 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