Theologians and context Flashcards
St Paul (5 AD – 64/65 AD)
• Christian Apostle
• Roman citizen and pharisee
• Patron saint of the missions writers and publishers
• Wrote several books in the bible
St Jerome
• Christian priest, confessor and theologian
(347 AD – 420AD)
Augustine
• First Christian philosopher
• Patron saint of theologians
• Book of Confessions 397-398 AD
(345 AD- 430 AD)
St Anselm
• He was a Catholic
• He was an Italian born philosopher and theologian
• He wrote the Ontological argument for the existence of God
(1033-1109)
Aquinas
• He was a Italian-Dominican fryer and priest
• He wrote the summer theological between 1265-1274
(1225-1274)
Martin Luther
• 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)
John Calvin
• A. french theologian, pastor and protestant
• Institutes of the Christian religion. Sensus Divinitatis (sense of the divine) 1960
(1509-1564)
Joseph Butler
• English anglican bishop, theologian and philosopher
(1692-1752)
David Hume
• 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)
Cardinal Newman
• Cardinal and priest in the catholic church
(1801-1890)
Karl Barth
• 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)
Richard Dawkins
(1941-present)
• He was and atheist thinker, British evolutionist biologist
• He was also an empiricist
• Edinburgh science festival 1992
• Interview with the guardian 2011
Karl Rahmer
- german catholic theologian of the 20th century
1940-1984)
Gregory of Nazianzen
329 AD – 390 AD)
• Theologian
• Archbishop of Constantinople
Thomas Herbert Bindley
(1861-1931)
• The oecumenical documents of faith 1899
• Christian
Gerald O’Collins
(1931-present)
• Interpreting Jesus 1993
• Christology 1995
E.P. Sanders
(1937-2022)
• The historical figure of Jesus (1995)
N.T Wright
(1948-present)
• English new testament scholar
• Pauline theologian
• Anglican bishop
Jon hick
(1922-2012)
• Philosopher of religion
• theologian
C.S. Lewis
(1898-1963)
• Anglican lay theologian
Dietrich Bohceffer
(1906-1945)
• German lutheran pastor
• Theologian
Christopher Hitchens
(1949-2011)
• God is great 2011
Paulo Freire
(1921-1997)
• Brazilian educator and philosopher
Father Pedro Arrupe
(1907-1991)
• Spanish Basque priest
Gustavo Gutierrez
(1928-present)
• Philosopher
• Catholic theologian
• Founder of latin American liberation theology
Gustavo Gutierrez
(1928-present)
• Philosopher
• Catholic theologian
• Founder of latin American liberation theology
Juan Luis Segundo
(1925-1996)
• Priest
• Uruguayan theologian involved with the latin American liberation theology movement
Karl marx
(1818-1883)
• German philosopher economist historian sociologist and political theorist
• Invented marxism
Leonardo Boff
(1938-present)
• Brazilian theologian and philosopher
• Former catholic priest
• Involved in the latin American liberation theology movement
