List of English speaking theologians

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Born in the 13th century

Johannes Duns Scotus (≈1266–1308)
Wilhelm von Ockham (≈1288–1347)

Born in the 14th century

John Wyclif (≈1330–1384)
Juliana of Norwich (≈1342–1416)

Born in the 15th century

William Tyndale (≈1484–1536)
Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556)

Born in the 16th century

John Knox (≈1514–1572)
Richard Hooker (1554-1600)
James Arminius (1560-1609)
John Smyth (≈1566-1612)
Zacharias Boyd (1585-1653)

Born in the 17th century

Owen Feltham (≈1602–1668)
Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
John Owen (1616-1683)
Francis Turretin (1623-1687)
George Fox (1624-1691)
John Flavel (1627-1691)
George Bull (1634-1710)
Thomas Burnet (≈1635–1715)
John Gill (1697-1771)

Born in the 18th century

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
John Wesley (1703-1791), Methodist
Charles Wesley (1707–1788)
George Whitefield (1714-1770)
John Fletcher (1729–1785)
Adam Clarke (1762-1832)
Archibald Alexander (1772-1851)
Nathan Bangs (1778-1862)
Richard Watson (1781-1833)
Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875)
Wilbur Fisk (1792-1839)
Charles Hodge (1797-1878)

Born in the 19th century

John Henry Newman (1801–1890), Roman Catholic
John Miley (1813-1895)
William Burt Pope (1822-1903)
AA Hodge (1823-1886)
Andrew Murray (1828-1917), Reformed
William Booth (1829-1912), Salvation Army
Frederic William Farrar (1831–1903)
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892), Baptist
Arthur Tappan Pierson (1837-1911), Presbyterian
Cyrus I. Scofield (1843-1921), evangelical
Albert Benjamin Simpson (1843-1919), Presbyterian
Borden Parker Bowne (1847-1910)
Hugh Price Hughes (1847-1902)
BB Warfield (1851-1921)
Reuben Archer Torrey (1856–1928), Evangelical
Oswald Chambers (1874–1917), Baptist
H. Orton Wiley (1877-1961)
Edwin Lewis (1881-1959)
John Gresham Make (1881-1937), Presbyterian
Edgar S. Brightman (1884-1953)
Eli Stanley Jones (1884–1973), Methodist
Paul Tillich (1886–1965)
Georgia Harkness (1891-1974)
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971)
H. Richard Niebuhr (1894–1962)
Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Cornelius Van Til (1895-1987)
Dorothy Day (1897-1980)
Leonard Feeney (1897–1978)
John Murray (1898-1975)

Born in the 20th century

Gordon Clark (1902–1985)
Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984)
Albert C. Outler (1908-1989)
Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998), Anglican
FF Bruce (1910-1990)
John F. Walvoord (1910–2002), evangelical
Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984), Presbyterian
Carl FH Henry (1913-2003)
Anthony A. Hoekema (1913–1988)
Thomas F. Torrance (1913-2007)
Bruce Metzger (1914-2007), reformed
Thomas Merton (1915–1968), Catholic
Donald Guthrie (1916-1992), Baptist
Edmund Clowney (1917-2005)
Avery Cardinal Dulles (1918-2008)
Billy Graham (1918-2018), Baptist
J. Kenneth Grider (1921-2006)
John Stott (1921-2011), Anglican
Albert C. Sundberg (1921-2006), Reformed
Jaroslav Pelikan (1923-2006), Orthodox
Arthur Peacocke (1924-2006), Anglican
John B. Cobb (1925-)
Charles C. Ryrie (1925-2016), evangelical
John Meyendorff (1926–1992)
James I. Packer (1926-2020), Anglican
John Howard Yoder (1927-1997), Mennonite
Martin E. Marty (1928–)
Jay E. Adams (1929-), Presbyterian
David Bosch (1929–1992), reformed
Letty Russell (1929-2007)
John Polkinghorne (1930–), Anglican
Thomas C. Oden (1931–2016), Methodist
Gene Edwards (1932-), Baptist
Norman Geisler (1932–2019), evangelical
Zane C. Hodges (1932-2008), evangelical
Henri Nouwen (1932–1996), Roman Catholic
Eugene H. Peterson (1932-2018), Presbyterian
Brennan Manning (1934-2013), Franciscan
Rembert Truluck (1934-2008)
Kallistos Ware (1934-)
John Wimber (1934–1997), Quaker, charismatic
Dallas Willard (1935-2013), evangelical
Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936-)
Clark Pinnock (1937-2010)
Edwin M. Yamauchi (1937–), evangelical
Gordon MacDonald (1938–), evangelical
John Frame (1939-)
Darrell Guder (1939–), Presbyterian
John F. MacArthur (1939–), evangelical
Josh McDowell (1939–), evangelical
Ron Sider (1939–), Mennonite
RC Sproul (1939-2017), reformed
David Tracy (1939-)
Stanley Hauerwas (1940–), Methodist
Richard J. Foster (1942-), Quaker
Mike Yaconelli (1942-2003), evangelical
Arnold Fruchtenbaum (1943–), evangelical
Luke Timothy Johnson (1943–), Catholic
Richard Rohr (1943–), Franciscan
Lawrence J. Crabb (1944-), Presbyterian
Richard Bauckham (1946–), Anglican
Donald A. Carson (1946–), evangelical
William Willimon (1946–), evangelical
Leonard Sweet (1947–), Methodist
John Barton (1948–), Anglican
Marva Dawn (1948-)
Wayne Grudem (1948–), evangelical
Richard B. Hays (1948–), Methodist
Jim Wallis (1948–), evangelical
NT Wright (1948-), Anglican
William Lane Craig (1949–), evangelical
Stanley Grenz (1950-2005), Baptist
Timothy Keller (1950–), Presbyterian
Bill Hybels (1951–), evangelical
John S. Kloppenborg (1951–)
Ben Witherington (1951–), evangelical
Alister McGrath (1953-), Anglican
Scot McKnight (1953-), Baptist
Troy Perry (1953-)
Rick Warren (1954–), Baptist
Dale Allison (1955-)
Craig Blomberg (1955-), evangelical
Nicky Gumbel (1955-), Anglican
Max Lucado (1955–), evangelical
John Piper (1955-), evangelical
Mona West (1955-)
Nancy Wilson (1955-)
Peter Scazzero (1956–), evangelical
Miroslav Volf (1956–), Anglican
John Ortberg (1957-), Presbyterian
Robert AJ Gagnon (1958-)
Erwin Raphael McManus (1958–), Baptist
James Alison (1959-)
Alan Hirsch (1959–), evangelical
Dan Kimball (1960–), evangelical
Michael Frost (1961–), evangelical
Gary L. Thomas (1961-), evangelical
Elizabeth Stuart (1963-)
Michael Horton (1964-)
David Bentley Hart (1965–), Orthodox
Francis Chan (1967–), evangelical
Tony Jones (1968-)
Rob Bell (1970–), evangelical
Mark Driscoll (1970–), evangelical
Ian Mobsby
Andrew Purves