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BIBLIOGRAPHIES IN THEOLOGY

Here you will find resources related to select Christian theologians** and various theological schools of thought or issues. 

 

                                    Our current Bibliography of Interest:   New Beginnings for 2025: Select Resources for MLK--DEIB--RRR

 

                         

                                       For recommended Biographies of many of these theologians see our 'Theological and Spiritual Biographies' Guide

 

 

TIMELINE OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIANS

The Early Church, ca. 30-600
 Athanasius of Alexandria  Gregory of Nyssa  Gregory of Nazianzus
Augustine, St., Bishop of Hippo Cyril of Alexandria Basil "the Great" of Caesarea
Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon John Chrysostom Ambrose of Milan
Tertullian  St. Anthony and the Desert Fathers Origen of Alexandria
Clement of Alexandria (new Dec 2024) Nicaea and the Fathers of the Church (new Dec 2024) Eusebius of Caesarea (new Dec 2024)

Saint Jerome 

 

 

 

The Middle Ages, 600-1500
Aquinas, St. Thomas  Julian of Norwich Jan Hus
Francis, of Assisi St. Anselm of Canterbury

Duns Scotus
William of Ockham  Bernard of Clairvaux 

Meister Eckhart 
Maimonides and Jewish Theology Bede the Venerable  John of Damascus
The Reformation and Counter Reformation
Jean Calvin                             Erasmus of Rotterdam           Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits
Martin Luther Philip Melanchthon Teresa of Avila
Ulrich Zwingli Martin Bucer Heinrich Bullinger 
Crowmwell, More, and the English Reformation  William Tyndale  John Wycliffe and the English Bible 

 

The Early Modern Period, 1500-1900

 

Jonathan Edwards and the Puritans George Whitefield and the 'Great Awakening'
Soren Kierkegaard John Bunyan

John Wesley and the Methodists

Friedrich Schleiermacher
William Wilberforce and the Scourge of Slavery (new Nov.2024) Increase and Cotton Mather (in process)

 

 

The 20th Century to the Present

                                                                             For dozens more 20th & 21st century theologians search by 'Theological Schools' (above)

Althaus-Reid, Marcella  Dube, Musa

Niebuhr, Reinhold
Barth, Karl Grenz, Stanley Pannenberg, Wolfhart
Bloesch, Donald Gutierrez, Gustavo Sittler, Joseph
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Isasi-Diaz, Ada Maria Solle, Dorothee
Brueggemann, Walter

Kuyper, Abraham & Public Theology

 Tillich, Paul
Bultmann, Rudolph Lewis, C.S.

Wright, N.T.
Cone, James Moltmann, Jurgen Yong, Amos