Lay theologian
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A lay theologian is a theologian who is not an ordained
clergyman.
Among lay theologians are the following:
Holy Orders
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clergyman.
Among lay theologians are the following:
- George Abbot (author)
- Thomas J. J. AltizerThomas J. J. AltizerThomas Jonathan Jackson Altizer is a radical theologian who incorporated Friedrich Nietzsche's conception of the "death of God" into his teachings.- Education :...
- Joseph T. BaylyJoseph T. BaylyJoseph Tate Bayly was an American author and publishing executive.Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, Bayly earned his BA at Wheaton College, Illinois, in 1940, and then entered Faith Theological Seminary to gain his BD in 1945. In 1944, Bayly married Mary Lou DeWalt, a classmate at Wheaton College...
- Edward Musgrave BlaiklockEdward Musgrave BlaiklockEdward Musgrave Blaiklock was chair of Classics at Auckland University from 1947 to 1968, and champion of Christian apologetic literature in New Zealand from the 1950s until his death in 1983.-Childhood:...
- Nicholas CabasilasNicholas CabasilasNicholas Cabasilas was a Byzantine mystic and theological writer.Cabasilas is a saint within the Orthodox Church. His feast day is June 20.-Life:...
- Chung Hyun KyungChung Hyun KyungChung Hyun Kyung is a Korean Christian theologian. She is a lay theologian of the Presbyterian Church of Korea, and is also an Associate Professor of Ecumenical Theology at Union Theological Seminary in the U.S.A....
- James F. ColaianniJames F. ColaianniJames F. Colaianni is an American Catholic lay theologian, author, publisher, lawyer and activist.In 1939, Colaianni graduated from St. Joseph’s High School in Paterson, NJ and attended Seton Hall University...
- Jacques EllulJacques EllulJacques Ellul was a French philosopher, law professor, sociologist, lay theologian, and Christian anarchist. He wrote several books about the "technological society" and the interaction between Christianity and politics....
- Thomas Erskine (theologian)
- Jim ForestJim ForestJim Forest is a writer, lay theologian, educator, peace activist. Since 1989, a year after his reception into the Orthodox Church, he has been international secretary of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship as well as editor of its quarterly journal, In Communion. In 1964, while still a Roman Catholic,...
- C. S. LewisC. S. LewisClive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland...
- Robert MagliolaRobert MagliolaRoberto Rino Magliola is an Italian-American academic specializing in European hermeneutics and deconstruction, in comparative philosophy, and in inter-religious dialogue...
- Philipp MelanchthonPhilipp MelanchthonPhilipp Melanchthon , born Philipp Schwartzerdt, was a German reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and an influential designer of educational systems...
- William J. Morgan (Sedevacantist)William J. Morgan (Sedevacantist)William J. Morgan was an English lay theologian and a Traditionalist Catholic apologist promoting the Sedevacantist position. His son, Father Paul Morgan, had become a priest in the Fraternal Society of Saint Pius X, which strongly opposes Sedevacantism...
- Johann Heinrich PabstJohann Heinrich PabstJohann Heinrich Pabst was a German-Austrian physician, philosopher and lay theologian who was a native of Lindau in Eichsfeld....
- Caspar PeucerCaspar PeucerCaspar Peucer was a German reformer, physician, and scholar.-Biography:Born in Bautzen, Peucer studied mathematics, astronomy, and medicine at the University of Wittenberg from 1540...
- Dorothy L. SayersDorothy L. SayersDorothy Leigh Sayers was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages...
- Frank SheedFrank SheedFrank Sheed, in full, Francis Joseph Sheed, , an Australian-born lawyer, was, like his wife Maisie Ward, a writer, publisher, and speaker. Famous in their day as the names behind the imprint Sheed & Ward and as forceful public lecturers in the Catholic Evidence Guild, their reputations have dimmed...
- Uwe Siemon-NettoUwe Siemon-NettoUwe Siemon-Netto , the former religion editor of United Press International, is an international columnist and a Lutheran lay theologian...
- William StringfellowWilliam StringfellowFrank William Stringfellow was an American lay theologian during the 1960s and 1970s.-Life and career:...
- Gabriel VahanianGabriel VahanianGabriel Vahanian is a French-born Protestant Christian theologian who is most remembered for his pioneering work in the theology of the "death of God" movement within academic circles in the 1960s, and who taught for some 26 years in the U.S.-Life:...
- Maisie WardMaisie WardMaisie Ward , scion of one of Britain's distinguished Catholic families, was a writer, publisher, and speaker.-Life:Famous in her day as one of the names behind the imprint Sheed & Ward and as a forceful public lecturer in the Catholic Evidence Guild, her reputation has dimmed in subsequent decades...