List of Christian theologians

This is a list of notable Christian theologians listed chronologically by century of birth.

1st century
• Apostle Paul of Tarsus (died c. 60–65)

• Papias of Hierapolis (c. 60 – c. 130)

• Apostle James, Son of Zebedee

• Apostle Simon Peter

• Apostle John, Son of Zebedee

• Deacon Philip

• Deacon Stephen the Protomartyr

• Ignatius of Antioch (c. 35 or 50 – between 98 and 117)

• Polycarp (c. 69 – c. 155)

• Clement of Rome (fl. c. 96)

2nd century
• Valentinus (c. 100 – c. 160)

• Quadratus of Athens (fl. 124/125)

• Basilides (died c. 132)

• Aristides the Athenian (died 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 (died 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 (died c. 200)

• Irenaeus of Lyons (died c. 202)

• Apollonius of Ephesus (fl. c. 180 – c. 210)

• Serapion of Antioch (died 211)

• Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 – 211 or 216)

• Bardaisan (154–222/3)

• Tertullian (c. 160 – c. 220)

• Origen (c. 184 – c. 253)

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 (c. 200 – c. 258)

• Novatian (c. 200 – 258)

• Paul of Samosata (c. 200 – c. 275)

• Dionysius of Alexandria (died 265)

• Gregory Thaumaturgus (c. 213 – c. 270)

• Methodius of Olympus (died c. 311)

• Lucian of Antioch (c. 240 – 312)

• Lactantius (c. 240 – c. 320)

• Aphrahat (ܐܦܪܗܛ,c. 280 – c. 345)

• Athanasius of Alexandria (296–373)

4th century
• Ephrem the Syrian (ܡܪܝ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ, c. 306–373)

• Hilary of Poitiers (c. 310 – c. 367)

• Arnobius of Sicca (died c. 330)

• Basil of Caesarea (c. 330 – 379)

• Gregory of Nyssa (c. 330 – c. 395)

• Gregory Nazianzus (329–389)

• Evagrius Ponticus(345-399)

• Ambrose (337/340 – 397)

• John Chrysostom (347–407)

• Jerome (347–420)

• Augustine (354–430)

• Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376 – 444)

• Nestorius (c. 386 – c. 451)

5th century
• Isaac of Antioch (fl. 5th c.)

• Boethius (c. 477–525)

6th century
• Gregory the Great (540–604)

• Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636)

7th century
• Maximus the Confessor (c. 580–662)

• Isaac of Nineveh (died c. 700)

8th century
• Bede (672/673–735)

• John of Damascus (c. 675–749)

• Paschasius Radbertus (785–865)

9th century
• Claudius of Turin (died 839)

• Ratramnus of Corbia (died 868)

• Johannes Scotus Eriugena (810–877)

• Gottschalk of Orbais (808-878)

10th Century
• Arnulf of Orleans

11th century
• Berengar of Tours (999-1088)

• Anselm (1033–1109)

• Peter Abelard (1079–1142)

• Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153)

• Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)

12th century
• Peter Lombard (c. 1096–1159)

• Peter Waldo (c. 1140-1205)

• Dominic de Guzman (1170-1221)

• Francis of Assisi (c. 1181–1226)

13th century
• Albertus Magnus (c. 1200–1280)

• Bonaventure (1221–1274)

• Thomas Aquinas (1224–1274)

• Peter Quesnel (died 1299)

• Meister Eckhart (1260–1328)

• Scotus Johannes Duns (c. 1265 – c. 1308)

• William of Ockham (1285–1347)

14th century
• Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro (1300–1342)

• Bridget of Sweden (1303–1373)

• John Wycliffe (c.1323–1384)

• Catherine of Siena (1347–1380)

• Jan Hus (c. 1369–1415)

• Thomas à Kempis (1380–1471)

15th century
• Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464)

• Desiderius Erasmus (1469–1536)

• Martin Luther (1483–1546)

• Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531)

• Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556)

• Martin Bucer (1491–1551)

• Ignatius of Loyola (c. 1491–1556)

• Menno Simons (1496–1561)

• Philip Melanchthon (1497–1560)

16th century
• Alexander Alesius (1500–1565)

• John of Avila (1500–1569)

• Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575)

• John Calvin (1509–1564)

• Michael Servetus (1511–1553)

• John Knox (c. 1513–1572)

• Teresa of Avila (1515–1582)

• Theodore Beza (1519–1605)

• Peter Baro (1534–1599)

• Caspar Coolhaes (1536–1615)

• Herman Witsius (1636–1708)

• Charles Borromeo (1538–1584)

• John of the Cross (1542–1591)

• Johannes Piscator (1546–1625)

• Richard Hooker (1554–1600)

• Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626)

• Johannes Wtenbogaert (1557–1644)

• William Perkins (1558–1602)

• Jacob Arminius (1560–1609)

• Anton Praetorius (1560–1613)

• Daniel Tilenus (1563–1633)

• Francis de Sales (1567–1622)

• William Laud (1573–1645)

• Willem van der Codde (1574 – c.1630)

• Thomas Helwys (c. 1575 – c. 1616),

• Jakob Boehme (1575–1624)

• Samuel Brooke (1575–1631)

• Eduard Poppius (c. 1576–1624)

• Jacobus Taurinus (1576–1618)

• Gerardus Vossius (1577–1649)

• Thomas Jackson (1579–1640)

• Johannes Arnoldi Corvinus (c. 1582–1650)

• Johann Gerhard (1582–1637)

• Simon Episcopius (1583–1643)

• Hugo Grotius (1583–1645)

• Zachary Boyd (1585–1653)

• Dirk Rafelsz Camphuysen (1586–1627)

• Étienne de Courcelles (1586–1659)

• Caspar Barlaeus (1584–1648)

• John Goodwin (1593–1665)

• Moses Amyraut (1596–1664)

17th century
• Petrus Serrarius (1600–1669)

• Owen Feltham (c. 1602–1668)

• Henry Hammond (1605–1660)

• John Milton (1608–1674)

• Laurence Womock (1612–1686)

• John Pearson (1613–1686)

• Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667)

• Richard Baxter (1615–1691)

• John Owen (1616–1683)

• Francis Turretin (1623–1687)

• George Fox (1624–1691)

• Simon Patrick (1626–1707)

• John Flavel (1627–1691)

• Stephen Charnock (1628–1680)

• Philipp van Limborch (1633–1712)

• George Bull (1634–1710)

• Thomas Grantham (1634–1692)

• Thomas Burnet (c. 1635–1715)

• Philipp Jakob Spener (1635–1705)

• Edward Stillingfleet (1635–1699)

• Gilbert Burnet (1643–1715)

• Isaac Jacquelot (1647–1708)

• Fenelon (1651–1715)

• Jean Leclerc (1657–1736)

• Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772)

• Johann Jakob Wettstein (1693–1754)

• John Gill (1697–1771)

18th century
• Nicolas Ludwig Count von Zinzendorf (1700–1760)

• Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758)

• John Wesley (1703–1791)

• Charles Wesley (1707–1788)

• George Whitefield (1714–1770)

• John Brown (1722–1787)

• John Fletcher (1729–1785)

• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781)

• Ignaz Wurz (1731–1784)

• John Hey (1734–1815)

• Thomas Coke (1747–1814)

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

• Aaron Bancroft (1755–1839)

• Heinrich Paulus (1761–1851)

• Adam Clarke (1762–1832)

• Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834)

• Archibald Alexander (1772–1851)

• Lyman Beecher (1775–1863)

• Nathan Bangs (1778–1862)

• Thomas Hartwell Horne (1780–1862)

• Richard Watson (1781–1833)

• Nathaniel William Taylor (1786–1858)

• Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875)

• Wilbur Fisk (1792–1839)

• Charles Hodge (1797–1878)

19th century
• John Henry Newman (1801–1890)

• Christian Hermann Weisse (1801–1866)

• Leonard Bacon (1802–1881)

• Horace Bushnell (1802–1876)

• Frederick Denison Maurice (1805–1872)

• Horatius Bonar (1808–1889)

• C. F. W. Walther (1811–1887)

• Thomas Osmond Summers (1812–1882)

• Franz Delitzsch (1813–1890)

• Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855)

• John Miley (1813–1895)

• John McClintock (1814–1870)

• James Stuart Russell (1816–1895)

• J. C. Ryle (1816–1900)

• Ransom Dunn (1818–1900)

• Philip Schaff (1819–1893)

• Randolph Sinks Foster (1820–1903)

• Henry C. Sheldon (1820–1877)

• Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910)

• William Burt Pope (1822–1903)

• Albrecht Ritschl (1822–1889)

• James Strong (1822–1894)

• Willibald Beyschlag (1823–1900)

• A. A. Hodge (1823–1886)

• William Alexander (1824–1911)

• William Booth (1829–1912)

• Frederic William Farrar (1831–1903)

• Heinrich Julius Holtzmann (1832–1910)

• James Strong (1833–1913)

• William Fairfield Warren (1833–1929)

• Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892)

• Henry Barclay Swete (1835–1918)

• Augustin Gretillat (1837–1894)

• Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920)

• Peter Taylor Forsyth (1842–1921)

• Albert Benjamin Simpson (1843–1919)

• Borden Parker Bowne (1847–1910)

• Hugh Price Hughes (1847–1902)

• Bernhard Stade (1848–1906)

• Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930)

• B. B. Warfield (1851–1921)

• Franz Pieper (1852–1931)

• Charles Taze "Pastor" Russell (1852–1916)

• Herman Bavinck (1854–1921)

• Max Reischle (1858–1905)

• Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918)

• Billy Sunday (1862–1935)

• Geerhardus Vos (1862–1949)

• Nicholas Timothy Clerk (1862–1961)

• Richard C. H. Lenski (1864–1936)

• Rudolf Otto (1869–1937)

• William Henry Chamberlin (1870–1921)

• Sergei Bulgakov (1871–1944)

• Lewis Sperry Chafer (1871–1952)

• Louis Berkhof (1873–1957)

• Albert C. Knudson (1873–1953)

• Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948)

• Karl Heim (1874–1958)

• Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965)

• Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange (1877–1964)

• H. Orton Wiley (1877–1961)

• Mary Ely Lyman (1880s – 1975)

• Nikolaj Velimirović (1880–1956)

• Edwin Lewis (1881–1959)

• John Gresham Machen (1881–1937)

• William Temple (1881–1944)

• Johannes Pedersen (1883–1977)

• Edgar S. Brightman (1884–1953)

• Rudolf Karl Bultmann (1884–1976)

• Étienne Gilson (1884–1978)

• E. Stanley Jones (1884–1973)

• Oliver Chase Quick (1885–1944)

• Karl Barth (1886–1968)

• Paul Tillich (1886–1965)

• Friedrich Gogarten (1887–1967)

• Vincent Taylor (1887–1968)

• Emil Brunner (1889–1966)

• Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889–1977)

• Leonard Hodgson (1889–1969)

• Anders Nygren (1890–1978)

• Georgia Harkness (1891–1974)

• Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971)

• Dorothy Sayers (1893–1957)

• H. Richard Niebuhr (1894–1962)

• Fulton Sheen (1895–1979)

• Cornelius Van Til (1895–1987)

• Henri de Lubac (1896–1991)

• Mildred Barker (1897–1990)

• Dorothy Day (1897–1980)

• A. W. Tozer (1897–1963)

• C. S. Lewis (1898–1963)

• John Murray (1898–1975)

• Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899–1981)

20th century
• Gerhard von Rad (1901–1971)

• Gordon Clark (1902–1985)

• Oscar Cullmann (1902–1999)

• Watchman Nee (1903–1972)

• Dumitru Stăniloae (1903–1993)

• Yves Congar (1904–1995)

• Bernard Lonergan (1904–1984)

• Joseph Sittler (1904-1987)

• Karl Rahner (1904–1984)

• Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988)

• Eric Lionel Mascall (1905–1993)

• Mildred Bangs Wynkoop (1905–1997)

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945)

• Joseph Clifford Fenton (1906–1969)

• Albert C. Outler (1908–1989)

• F. F. Bruce (1910–1990)

• W. T. Purkiser (1910–1992)

• John Walvoord (1910–2002)

• George Eldon Ladd (1911–1982)

• Frank Stagg (1911–2001)

• Alan Walker (1911–2003)

• Jacques Ellul (1912–1994)

• Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984)

• Dafydd Rhys ap Thomas (1912–2011)

• Carl F. H. Henry (1913–2003)

• Anthony A. Hoekema (1913–1988)

• Bolaji Idowu (1913–1993)

• Thomas F. Torrance (1913–2007)

• Leon Lamb Morris (1914–2006)

• Thomas Berry (1914–2009)

• Hebe Charlotte Kohlbrugge (1914–2016)

• Anthony of Sourozh (Andrei Borisovich Bloom, 1914–2003)

• Vernon Grounds (1914–2010)

• Edward Schillebeeckx (1914–2009)

• Markus Barth (1915–1994)

• Thomas Merton (1915–1968)

• Derek Prince (1915–2003)

• Marie-Émile Boismard (1916–2004)

• William Ragsdale Cannon (1916–1997)

• Stanley Monroe Horton (1916–2014)

• Victor Paul Wierwille (1916–1985)

• C. K. Barrett (1917–2011)

• G. B. Caird (1917–1984)

• Edmund Clowney (1917–2005)

• Avery Dulles (1918–2008)

• Billy Graham (1918–2018)

• J. Rodman Williams (1918–2008)

• Langdon Gilkey (1919–2004)

• John Macquarrie (1919–2007)

• Catharina Halkes (1920–2011)

• Karol Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II) (1920–2005)

• J. Kenneth Grider (1921–2006)

• George Wesley Buchanan (1921–2019)

• Alexander Schmemann (1921–1983)

• John Stott (1921–2011)

• Hans Wilhelm Frei (1922–1988)

• John Hick (1922–2012)

• Meredith G. Kline (1922–2007)

• John Alexander Motyer (1924–2016)

• John B. Cobb (born 1925)

• James Leo Garrett Jr. (1925–2020)

• John J McNeill (1925–2015)

• Charles Ryrie (1925–2016)

• Frederick Buechner (1926-2022)

• H. Ray Dunning (born 1926)

• Jurgen Moltmann (1926–2024)

• J. I. Packer (1926–2020)

• Thomas J. J. Altizer (1927–2018)

• Gerhard Forde (1927–2005)

• Chuck Smith (1927–2013)

• Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) (1927–2022)

• John Howard Yoder (1927–1997)

• Mary Daly (1928–2010)

• Gustavo Gutiérrez (born 1928)

• Hans Küng (1928–2021)

• Martin E. Marty (born 1928)

• Johann Baptist Metz (1928–2019)

• Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928–2014)

• William Stringfellow (1928–1985)

• Carl Braaten (1929–2023)

• Kwesi Dickson (1929–2005)

• Kosuke Koyama (小山晃佑, 1929–2009)

• Dorothee Soelle (1929–2003)

• James D. Strauss (1929–2014)

• Joseph A. Bracken (born 1930)

• Ignacio Ellacuría (1930–1989)

• Michael Green (1930–2019)

• John Polkinghorne (1930–2021)

• Robert Jenson (1930–2017)

• David Pawson (1930–2020)

• Patricia Reif (1930–2002)

• William L. Lane (1931–1999)

• John S Mbiti (1931–2019)

• Thomas C. Oden (1931–2016)

• Adrian Rogers (1931–2005)

• John Shelby Spong (1931–2021)

• John Zizioulas (1931–2023)

• Millard Erickson (born 1932)

• Norman Geisler (1932–2019)

• Eugene H. Peterson (1932–2018)

• Alvin Plantinga (born 1932)

• Robert L. Reymond (1932–2013)

• Charles Stanley (1932–2023)

• Rubem Alves (1933–2014)

• Walter Brueggemann (born 1933)

• Roger T. Forster (born 1933)

• Walter Kaiser Jr. (born 1933)

• Michael Novak (1933–2017)

• Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki (born 1933)

• Charles E. Curran (born 1934)

• Gordon Fee (1934–2022)

• I. Howard Marshall (1934–2015)

• Mercy Oduyoye (born 1934)

• Henry Wansbrough (born 1934)

• Dallas Willard (1935–2013)

• Denise Ackermann (born 1935)

• Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936–2022)

• Justo Gonzalez (born 1937)

• Clark Pinnock (1937–2010)

• Anthony Thiselton (1937–2023)

• Ed Parish Sanders (1937–2022)

• Richard Thomas France (1938–2012)

• Leonardo Boff (born 1938)

• David J. A. Clines (1938–2022)

• James Hal Cone (1938–2018)

• Jack Cottrell (1938–2022)

• Ronald M. Enroth (1938–2023)

• Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (born 1938)

• James Montgomery Boice (1938–2000)

• Keith Ward (born 1938)

• James Dunn (1939–2020)

• John Frame (born 1939)

• John F. MacArthur (born 1939)

• R. C. Sproul (1939–2017)

• Matthew Fox (born 1940)

• Stanley Hauerwas (born 1940)

• Walter Klaiber (born 1940)

• John N. Oswalt (born 1940)

• Stephen Tong (born 1940)

• Elizabeth Johnson (born 1941)

• Erwin Lutzer (born 1941)

• David Hocking (born 1941)

• George Newlands (born 1941)

• Marcus Borg (1942–2015)

• Grant R. Osborne (1942–2018)

• Paige Patterson (born 1942)

• Lamin Sanneh (1942–2019)

• Marilyn McCord Adams (1943–2017)

• John Lennox (born 1943)

• Douglas Stuart (born 1943)

• Gareth Lee Cockerill (born 1944)

• Klyne Snodgrass (born 1944)

• John Ankerberg (born 1945)

• Kwame Bediako (1945–2008)

• Keith Drury (born 1945)

• D. A. Carson (born 1946)

• John Piper (born 1946)

• Vern Poythress (born 1946)

• Andrew Purves (born 1946)

• John Sailhamer (1946–2017)

• William Willimon (born 1946)

• William J. Abraham (1947–2021)

• Paul S. Fiddes (born 1947)

• Jesse Mugambi (born 1947)

• Greg Bahnsen (1948–1995)

• David Brown (born 1948)

• Marva Dawn (1948–2021)

• Sinclair Ferguson (born 1948)

• Bob Goss (born 1948)

• Wayne Grudem (born 1948)

• Scotty McLennan (born 1948)

• J.P. Moreland (born 1948)

• Michael Plekon (born 1948)

• N. T. Wright (born 1948)

• William Lane Craig (born 1949)

• Ray Comfort (born 1949)

• Chris Glaser (born 1950)

• Stanley Grenz (1950–2005)

• Gary Habermas (born 1950)

• Timothy J. Keller (1950–2023)

• Katherine Sonderegger (born 1950)

• Rowan Williams (born 1950)

• Nancy Wilson (born 1950)

• Ken Ham (born 1951)

• Ben Witherington (born 1951)

• Marcella Althaus-Reid (1952–2009)

• Joel R. Beeke (born 1952)

• Greg Laurie (born 1952)

• Alistair Begg (born 1952)

• Kenneth J. Collins (born 1952)

• Roger E. Olson (born 1952)

• Carsten Peter Thiede (1952–2004)

• Daniel B. Wallace (born 1952)

• Kent Hovind (born 1953)

• Musimbi Kanyoro (born 1953)

• Catherine Keller (born 1953)

• Randy L. Maddox (born 1953)

• William D. Mounce (born 1953)

• Alister McGrath (born 1953)

• Adele Reinhartz (born 1953)

• Douglas Wilson (born 1953)

• Peter Lampe (born 1954)

• Scott J. Jones (born 1954)

• Thomas R. Schreiner (born 1954)

• Tina Beattie (born 1955)

• Craig Blomberg (born 1955)

• Michael L. Brown (born 1955)

• Skip Heitzig (born 1955)

• Don Thorsen (born 1955)

• Graham Ward (born 1955)

• Robert Jeffress (born 1955)

• Joel B. Green (born 1956)

• Miroslav Volf (born 1956)

• Gregory A. Boyd (born 1957)

• Douglas Groothuis (born 1957)

• Scott Hahn (born 1957)

• Daniela Müller (born 1957)

• Kevin J. Vanhoozer (born 1957)

• Gavin D'Costa (born 1958)

• Robert A. J. Gagnon (born 1958)

• James Alison (born 1959)

• R. Albert Mohler Jr. (born 1959)

• Timothy Tennent (born 1959)

• Yves-Marie Adeline (born 1960)

• Mark Dever (born 1960)

• Craig S. Keener (born 1960)

• Frank Turek (born 1961)

• Peter Enns (born 1961)

• Paul Washer (born 1961)

• Willie James Jennings (born 1961)

• Paul Copan (born 1962)

• Elizabeth Stuart (born 1963)

• Michael Horton (born 1964)

• Seung-Moo Ha (하승무, born 1963)

• David Bentley Hart (born 1965)

• Thomas Jay Oord (born 1965)

• R. C. Sproul, Jr. (born 1965)

• Ken Schenck (born 1966)

• Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator (born 1967)

• Mikael Mogren (born 1969)

• Robert Arp (born 1970)

• Ulrich L. Lehner (born 1976)

• Heidrun E. Mader (born 1977)

• John L. Drury (born 1978)

• Michael S. Heiser (1963–2023)

• Gavin Ortlund (born 1983)

• Jordan Cooper (born 1987)

• Mike Winger

• Yolanda Pierce

21st century
Donald E. Battle (born 1950)