Theologians and context

Question 1

St Paul (5 AD – 64/65 AD)

Answer 1

• Christian Apostle
• Roman citizen and pharisee
• Patron saint of the missions writers and publishers
• Wrote several books in the bible

Question 2

St Jerome

Answer 2

• Christian priest, confessor and theologian

(347 AD – 420AD)

Question 3

Augustine

Answer 3

• First Christian philosopher
• Patron saint of theologians
• Book of Confessions 397-398 AD
(345 AD- 430 AD)

Question 4

St Anselm

Answer 4

• He was a Catholic
• He was an Italian born philosopher and theologian
• He wrote the Ontological argument for the existence of God
(1033-1109)

Question 5

Aquinas

Answer 5

• He was a Italian-Dominican fryer and priest
• He wrote the summer theological between 1265-1274
(1225-1274)

Question 6

Martin Luther

Answer 6

• German priest theologian and professor
• Seminal figure in the protestant reformation and the namesake of Lutheranism
• He publicly disagreed with the catholic church
(1483-1546)

Question 7

John Calvin

Answer 7

• A. french theologian, pastor and protestant
• Institutes of the Christian religion. Sensus Divinitatis (sense of the divine) 1960
(1509-1564)

Question 8

Joseph Butler

Answer 8

• English anglican bishop, theologian and philosopher

(1692-1752)

Question 9

David Hume

Answer 9

• He was an atheist
• And wrote the dialogues concerning natural religion published in 1779
• He wrote An enquiry Concerning Human understanding 1739-1740
(1711-1776)

Question 10

Cardinal Newman

Answer 10

• Cardinal and priest in the catholic church

(1801-1890)

Question 11

Karl Barth

Answer 11

• A Swiss Calvinist theologian and a Protestant
• Barth was writing during the rise of Nazism and from witnessing human atrocities he saw how humans were flawed.
(1886-1968)

Question 12

Richard Dawkins

Answer 12

(1941-present)
• He was and atheist thinker, British evolutionist biologist
• He was also an empiricist
• Edinburgh science festival 1992
• Interview with the guardian 2011

Question 13

Karl Rahmer

Answer 13

• german catholic theologian of the 20th century

1940-1984)

Question 14

Gregory of Nazianzen

Answer 14

329 AD – 390 AD)
• Theologian
• Archbishop of Constantinople

Question 15

Thomas Herbert Bindley

Answer 15

(1861-1931)
• The oecumenical documents of faith 1899
• Christian

Question 16

Gerald O’Collins

Answer 16

(1931-present)
• Interpreting Jesus 1993
• Christology 1995

Question 17

E.P. Sanders

Answer 17

(1937-2022)
• The historical figure of Jesus (1995)

Question 18

N.T Wright

Answer 18

(1948-present)
• English new testament scholar
• Pauline theologian
• Anglican bishop

Question 19

Jon hick

Answer 19

(1922-2012)
• Philosopher of religion
• theologian

Question 20

C.S. Lewis

Answer 20

(1898-1963)
• Anglican lay theologian

Question 21

Dietrich Bohceffer

Answer 21

(1906-1945)
• German lutheran pastor
• Theologian

Question 22

Christopher Hitchens

Answer 22

(1949-2011)
• God is great 2011

Question 23

Paulo Freire

Answer 23

(1921-1997)
• Brazilian educator and philosopher

Question 24

Father Pedro Arrupe

Answer 24

(1907-1991)
• Spanish Basque priest

Question 25

Gustavo Gutierrez

Answer 25

(1928-present)
• Philosopher
• Catholic theologian
• Founder of latin American liberation theology

Question 26

Gustavo Gutierrez

Answer 26

(1928-present)
• Philosopher
• Catholic theologian
• Founder of latin American liberation theology

Question 27

Juan Luis Segundo

Answer 27

(1925-1996)
• Priest
• Uruguayan theologian involved with the latin American liberation theology movement

Question 28

Karl marx

Answer 28

(1818-1883)
• German philosopher economist historian sociologist and political theorist
• Invented marxism

Question 29

Leonardo Boff

Answer 29

(1938-present)
• Brazilian theologian and philosopher
• Former catholic priest
• Involved in the latin American liberation theology movement