Lay theologian

A lay theologian is a theologian "who is not ordained, or a theologian who has not been trained as a theologian". Lay theologians often have academic qualifications in other academic disciplines.

Examples
Notable lay theologians include:

• George Abbot

• Ethan Allen

• Joseph T. Bayly

• Edward Musgrave Blaiklock

• Nicholas Cabasilas

• G. K. Chesterton

• James F. Colaianni

• Nicolas Gomez Davila

• Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Jacques Ellul

• Thomas Erskine

• Jim Forest

• Rosemary Haughton

• Susan Howatch

• Aleksey Khomyakov

• John Lennox

• C. S. Lewis

• David Lodge

• Robert Magliola

• Marko Marulić

• Isaac Newton

• Johann Heinrich Pabst

• Caspar Peucer

• Dorothy L. Sayers

• Frank Sheed

• Uwe Siemon-Netto

• William Stringfellow

• Maisie Ward