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 or she may be listed in the latter century or in the century with which he or she is best identified.

1st century

Apostle Paul of Tarsus (died c. 60–65)
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)
Clement of Rome (fl. c. 96)

2nd century

Polycarp (c. 69 – c. 155)
Papias of Hierapolis (died. c. 160s)
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)

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 (died 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)

4th century

Ambrose (337/340 – 397)
Arnobius of Sicca (died 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 (c. 378 – 444)
Nestorius (c. 386 – c. 451)

6th century

Gregory the Great (540–604)

7th century

Maximus the Confessor (c. 580 – 662)
Isaac of Nineveh (died c. 700)

9th century

Claudius of Turin (died 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)
Bonaventure (1221–1274)
Thomas Aquinas (1224–1274)
Peter Quesnel (died, 1299)

14th century

Scotus Johannes Duns (c. 1265 – c. 1308)
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328)
William of Ockham (1285–1347)
Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro (1300–1342)

15th century

Thomas à Kempis (1380–1471)
Jan Hus (c. 1369 – 1415)
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)
Menno Simons (1496–1561)
John of Avila (1500–1569)

17th century

Jacob Arminius (1560–1609)
Moses Amyraut (1596–1664)
Richard Baxter (1615–1691)
Jakob Boehme (1575–1624)
Zachary Boyd (1585–1653)
Stephen Charnock (1628–1680)
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)
John Goodwin (1593–1665)
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 (c. 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 (bishop) (1824–1911)
Nathan Bangs (1778–1862)
Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948)
William Booth (1829–1912)
Borden Parker Bowne (1847–1910)
Horace Bushnell (1802–1876)
Adam Clarke (1762–1832)
Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875)
Wilbur Fisk (1792–1839)
Adolf Von Harnack (1851–1930)
Karl Heim (1874–1958)
A. A. Hodge (1823–1886)
Charles Hodge (1797–1878)
Hugh Price Hughes (1847–1902)
Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855)
Frederick Denison Maurice (1805–1872)
John Miley (1813–1895)
John Henry Newman (1801–1890)
Heinrich Paulus (1761–1851)
Franz Pieper (1852–1931)
William Burt Pope (1822–1903)
Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918)
Max Reischle (1858–1905)
Albrecht Ritschl (1822–1889)
Philip Schaff (1819–1893)
Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834)
Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892)
Bernhard Stade (1848–1906)
James Strong (1822–1894)
James Strong (1833-1913)
Henry Barclay Swete (1835–1918)
William Temple (archbishop) (1881–1944)
C.F.W. Walther (1811–1887)
Richard Watson (1781–1833)
Christian Hermann Weisse (1801–1866)
Charles Taze "Pastor" Russell (1852–1916)
Franz Delitzsch (1813–1890)

20th century

Thomas J. J. Altizer (born 1927)
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)
Carl Braaten (born 1929)
Edgar S. Brightman (1884–1953)
F.F. Bruce (1910–1990)
Emil Brunner (1889–1966)
Sergei Bulgakov (1871–1944)
Rudolf Karl Bultmann (1884–1976)
G. B. Caird (1917–1984)
William Henry Chamberlin (1870–1921)
Gordon Clark (1902–1985)
Edmund Clowney (1917–2005)
John B. Cobb (born 1925)
James Hal Cone (born 1938)
Yves Congar (1904–1995)
Oscar Cullmann (1902–1999)
Dorothy Day (1897–1980)
Ignacio Ellacuria (1930–1989)
Avery Dulles (1918–2008)
Millard Erickson (born 1932)
Frederic William Farrar (1831–1903)
Paul S. Fiddes (born 1947)
Gerhard Forde (1927–2005)
Peter Taylor Forsyth (1842–1921)
Hans Wilhelm Frei (1922–1988)
Langdon Gilkey (1919–2004)
Friedrich Gogarten (1887–1967)
Justo Gonzalez (born 1937)
J. Kenneth Grider (born 1921)
Gustavo Gutiérrez (born 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)
Robert Jenson (born 1930)
E. Stanley Jones (1884–1973)
Catherine Keller (born 1953)
Meredith G. Kline (1922–2007)
Albert C. Knudson (1873–1953)
Kosuke Koyama (1929–2009)
Hans Küng (born 1928)
Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920)
George Eldon Ladd (1911-1982)
C. S. Lewis (1898 – 1963)
Edwin Lewis (1881–1959)
Bernard Lonergan (1904–1984)
Henri de Lubac (1896–1991)
J. Gresham Machen (1881–1937)
John Macquarrie (born 1919)
Martin E. Marty (born 1928)
Thomas Merton (1915–1968)
Johann Baptist Metz (born 1928)
Jurgen Moltmann (born 1926)
John Murray (1898–1975)
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971)
H. Richard Niebuhr (1894–1962)
Anders Nygren (1890–1978)
Rudolf Otto (1869–1937)
Albert C. Outler (1908–1989)
J. I. Packer (born 1926)
David Pawson (born 1930)
Johannes Pedersen (1883–1977)
Karl Rahner (1904–1984)
Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
Rosemary Radford Ruether (born 1936)
Dorothy Sayers (1893–1957)
Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984)
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965)
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (born 1938)
Fulton Sheen (1895–1979)
Albert Benjamin Simpson (1843–1919)
Frank Stagg (1911–2001)
Dumitru Stăniloae (1903–1993)
John Stott (1921–2011)
Henry Barclay Swete (1835–1918)
Paul Tillich (1886–1965)
Thomas F. Torrance (1913–2007)
A. W. Tozer (1897–1963)
Cornelius Van Til (1895–1987)
Nikolaj Velimirović (1880–1956)
Gerhard von Rad (1901–1971)
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)
Billy Graham (born 1918)