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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ivan Illich | Ivan Dominic Illich | 1926 | 2002 | null | Roman Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Illich |
| Leo Baeck | Leo Baeck | 1873 | 1956 | null | 20th-century German rabbi, scholar, and theologian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Baeck |
| Francisco de Vitoria | Francisco de Vitoria | none | 1546 | Spanish | Roman Catholic philosopher, theologian, and jurist of Renaissance Spain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_Vitoria |
| Franz Rosenzweig | Franz Rosenzweig | 1886 | 1929 | German | theologian, philosopher, and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Rosenzweig |
| Louis Jacobs | Louis Jacobs CBE | 1920 | 2006 | null | leading writer and theologian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Jacobs |
| Arthur Green | Arthur Green | 1941 | n/a | American | scholar of Jewish mysticism and Neo-Hasidic theologian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Green |
| Mordecai Kaplan | Mordecai Menahem Kaplan | 1881 | 1983 | Lithuanian | rabbi, writer, Jewish educator, professor, theologian, philosopher, activist, and religious leader who founded the Reconstructionist branch of Judaism along with his son-in-law Ira Eisenstein | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordecai_Kaplan |
| Peter L. Berger | Peter Ludwig Berger | 1929 | 2017 | Austrian | sociologist and Protestant theologian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_L._Berger |
| Abraham Joshua Heschel | Abraham Joshua Heschel | 1907 | 1972 | Polish | rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Joshua_Heschel |
| Francisco Suárez | Francisco Suárez | 1548 | 1617 | Spanish | Jesuit priest, philosopher and theologian, one of the leading figures of the School of Salamanca movement, and generally regarded among the greatest scholastics after Thomas Aquinas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Suárez |
| Gregory Baum | Gerhard Albert Baum | 1923 | 2017 | German | priest and theologian in the Catholic Church | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Baum |
| Hai Gaon | Hai ben Sherira | null | null | null | medieval Jewish theologian, rabbi and scholar who served as Gaon of the Talmudic academy of Pumbedita during the early 11th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hai_Gaon |
| Alexander Men | Alexander Vladimirovich Men | 1935 | 1990 | Russian | Orthodox priest, theologian, biblical scholar and writer on theology, Christian history and other religions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Men |
| Hans Frei | Hans Wilhelm Frei | 1922 | 1988 | American | biblical scholar and theologian who is best known for work on biblical hermeneutics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Frei |
| Judith Plaskow | Judith Plaskow | 1947 | n/a | American | theologian, author, and activist known for being the first Jewish feminist theologian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Plaskow |
| Eliezer Berkovits | Eliezer Berkovits | 1908 | 1992 | null | rabbi, theologian, and educator in the tradition of Orthodox Judaism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Berkovits |
| Kaufmann Kohler | Kaufmann Kohler | 1843 | 1926 | German | Jewish biblical scholar and critic, theologian, Reform rabbi, and contributing editor to numerous articles of The Jewish Encyclopedia (1906) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaufmann_Kohler |
| Diego de Deza | Diego de Deza | 1444 | 1523 | null | theologian and inquisitor of Spain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_de_Deza |
| Sixtus of Siena | Sixtus of Siena (or Sixtus Senensis) | 1520 | 1569 | null | Jew who converted to Roman Catholicism, and became a Roman Catholic theologian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixtus_of_Siena |
| August Neander | Johann August Wilhelm Neander | 1789 | 1850 | German | theologian and church historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Neander |
| Joseph ben Abraham | Joseph ben Abraham | null | null | null | Karaite philosopher and theologian who flourished in Babylonia or Persia in the first half of the eleventh century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_ben_Abraham |
| Ibn al-Rawandi | Abu al-Hasan Ahmad ibn Yahya ibn Ishaq al-Rawandi , commonly known as Ibn al-Rawandi | 827 | 911 | null | early Persian scholar and theologian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Rawandi |
| Isaac La Peyrère | Isaac La Peyrère | 1596 | 1676 | French | theologian, writer, and lawyer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_La_Peyrère |
| David Novak | David Novak | 1941 | n/a | null | Jewish theologian, ethicist, and scholar of Jewish philosophy and law (Halakha) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Novak |
| Luis de León | Luis de León | 1527 | 1591 | Spanish | lyric poet, Augustinian friar, theologian and academic, active during the Spanish Golden Age | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_de_León |
| Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks | Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks | 1948 | 2020 | English | Orthodox rabbi, philosopher, theologian, and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Sacks,_Baron_Sacks |
| Nachman Krochmal | Nachman HaKohen Krochmal | 1785 | 1840 | Galician | Jewish philosopher, theologian, and historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachman_Krochmal |
| Michael Wyschogrod | Michael Wyschogrod | 1928 | 2015 | German | Jewish-American philosopher of religion, Jewish theologian, and activist for Jewish–Christian interfaith dialogue | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wyschogrod |
| Paul Leo | Paul Leo | 1893 | 1958 | German | Lutheran pastor and theologian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Leo |
| Johannes Pfefferkorn | Johannes (Josef) Pfefferkorn | 1469 | 1523 | German | Catholic theologian and writer who converted from Judaism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Pfefferkorn |
| Mario Javier Saban | Mario Javier Sabán | 1966 | n/a | null | Argentinian theologian of Sephardi origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Javier_Saban |
| Milton Steinberg | Milton Steinberg | 1903 | 1950 | American | rabbi, philosopher, theologian and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Steinberg |
| Hans Ehrenberg | Hans Philipp Ehrenberg | 1883 | 1958 | German | Jewish philosopher and theologian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Ehrenberg |
| Sergey Zagraevsky | Sergey Zagraevsky | 1964 | 2020 | Russian | painter, architectural historian, writer and theologian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Zagraevsky |
| Abraham Berliner | Abraham (Adolf) Berliner | 1833 | 1915 | German | theologian and historian, born in Obersitzko, in the Grand Duchy of Posen, Prussia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Berliner |
| David Cassel | David Cassel | 1818 | 1893 | German | historian and Jewish theologian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cassel |
| Julius Guttmann | Julius Guttmann | 1880 | 1950 | German | rabbi, Jewish theologian, and philosopher of religion | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Guttmann |
| Carl Paul Caspari | Carl Paul Caspari | 1814 | 1892 | Norwegian | neo-Lutheran theologian and academic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Paul_Caspari |
| Aaron ben Elijah | Aaron ben Elijah | 1328 | 1329 | null | often considered to be the most prominent Karaite theologian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_ben_Elijah |
| Raymond Martini | Raymond Martini, also called Ramon Martí in Catalan | null | null | null | 13th-century Dominican friar and theologian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Martini |
| Jacob B. Agus | Jacob B. Agus | 1911 | 1986 | Polish | liberal Conservative rabbi and theologian who played a key role in the Conservative Rabbinical Assembly | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_B._Agus |
| Jonathan Magonet | Jonathan David Magonet | 1942 | n/a | British | rabbi theologian, Vice-President of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, and a biblical scholar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Magonet |
| Arthur A. Cohen | Arthur Allen Cohen | 1928 | 1986 | American | scholar, art critic, theologian, publisher, and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_A._Cohen |
| Judith Kaplan Eisenstein | Judith Kaplan | 1909 | 1996 | null | author, musicologist, composer, theologian and the first person to celebrate a bat mitzvah publicly in America (see below) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Kaplan_Eisenstein |
| Arnold Fruchtenbaum | Arnold Genekowitsch Fruchtenbaum | 1943 | n/a | Russian | theologian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Fruchtenbaum |
| Arthur Löwenstamm | Arthur Löwenstamm | 1882 | 1965 | null | Jewish theologian, writer and rabbi in Berlin and in London, where he came in 1939 as a refugee from Nazi Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Löwenstamm |
| William E. Kaufman | William E. Kaufman | null | null | American | Conservative rabbi, philosopher, theologian and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._Kaufman |
| John Feinberg | John Samuel Feinberg | 1946 | n/a | American | theologian, author, and professor of biblical and systematic theology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Feinberg |
| Steven Schwarzschild | Steven S. Schwarzschild | 1924 | 1989 | null | rabbi, philosopher, theologian, and editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Schwarzschild |
| Joseph Athias | Joseph Athias | 1635 | 1700 | null | merchant, bookprinter and the publisher of a famous Hebrew Bible which was approved by States-General of the Dutch Republic and both Jewish and Christian theologians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Athias |
| Ignaz Maybaum | Ignaz Maybaum | 1897 | 1976 | null | rabbi and 20th-century liberal Jewish theologian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Maybaum |
| Uriel Davidi | Hakham Uriel Davidi Khansari | 1922 | 2006 | null | famous Jewish (Judæo-Khunsari) religious leader and theologian, who was born in Khansar (Iran) and died in the Neve Yaakov section of Jerusalem, Israel, where he spent the last 12 years of his life | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriel_Davidi |
| Adolf Büchler | Adolf Büchler | 1867 | n/a | Austrian | rabbi, historian and theologian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Büchler |
| Friedrich Adolf Philippi | Friedrich Adolf Philippi | 1809 | 1882 | null | Lutheran theologian of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Adolf_Philippi |
| Monika Hellwig | Monika Konrad Hildegard Hellwig | 1929 | 2005 | German | academic, author, educator and theologian, who spent much of her life in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monika_Hellwig |
| Michael Creizenach | Michael Creizenach | 1789 | 1842 | German | Jewish educator, mathematician, theologian, and proponent of the Reform movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Creizenach |
| Asher ben Meshullam | Rabbeinu Asher ben Meshullam | null | null | null | Jewish theologian and Talmudic scholar who lived at Lunel in the second half of the 12th century CE. A renowned Talmudist, he was a son of the well-known R' Meshullam ben Jacob (Rabbeinu Meshullam ha-Gadol), and a pupil of R' Joseph ibn Plat and the Raavad | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asher_ben_Meshullam |
| Jakob Guttmann (rabbi) | Jakob Guttmann | 1845 | 1919 | German | theologian and philosopher of religion (Religionsphilosoph) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Guttmann_(rabbi) |
| Moses Samuel Zuckermandl | Rabbi Moses Samuel Zuckermandl | 1836 | 1917 | Czech | rabbi, Talmudist, and Jewish theologian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Samuel_Zuckermandl |
| David Nekrutman | David Nekrutman | 1973 | n/a | American | Orthodox Jewish theologian, writer, director, columnist, public speaker, and pro-Israel activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nekrutman |
| Johann Peter Spaeth | Johann Peter Spaeth | none | 1701 | Austrian | theologian that converted to Judaism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Peter_Spaeth |
| Nicolas Antoine | Nicolas Antoine | 1602 | 1632 | French | Protestant theologian and pastor who attempted to convert to Judaism, although he was never officially admitted to Judaism, due to fears by the Jewish community that persecutions would happen if it became known that he was an apostate of | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Antoine |
| Franz Hildebrandt | Franz Hildebrandt | 1909 | 1985 | German | Lutheran, and later Methodist, pastor and theologian, forced into exile during World War II, and subsequently active in the United Kingdom and the USA. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hildebrandt |
| Paul Feinberg | Paul David Feinberg | 1938 | 2004 | American | theologian, author, and professor of systematic theology and philosophy of religion at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Feinberg |
| David Rosin | David Rosin | 1823 | 1894 | German | Jewish theologian from Rosenberg, Silesia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rosin |
| Joseph ben Hayyim Jabez | Joseph ben Hayyim Jabez | null | null | Spanish | Jewish theologian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_ben_Hayyim_Jabez |
| Morris S. Seale | Morris Sigel Seale | 1896 | 1993 | null | Jewish born scholar and theologian who wrote about Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions and explored extensively the links between the religions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_S._Seale |
| Mikhail Morgulis | Mikhail N. Morgulis | 1941 | 2021 | null | Russian-language writer, editor and theologian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Morgulis |
| Isidor Levin | Isidor Levin | 1919 | 2018 | Latvian | Jewish-born Soviet/Estonian folklorist, narrative researcher, theologian, and Professor Emeritus at the St. Petersburg Institute of Religion and Philosophy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidor_Levin |
| Simḥah Isaac Luzki | Simḥah Isaac Luzki | null | null | null | qaraim maskil, theologian, kabbalist writer, scholar, bibliographer, and spiritual leader, known also as "the Karaite Rashi" and "Olam Ẓa'ir" (the latter meaning literally "microcosm" – an acronym based on the gematria of his name) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simḥah_Isaac_Luzki |
| Yehuda Leib Krinsky | Yehuda Leib Krinsky | null | null | Belarusian | Jewish Hebrew scholar, theologian, businessman and philanthropist, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehuda_Leib_Krinsky |
| Jean-Pierre Jossua | Jean-Pierre Jossua | 1930 | 2021 | French | writer and theologian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Jossua |
| Alvin J. Reines | Alvin J. Reines | 1926 | 2004 | American | Reform rabbi, philosopher and theologian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_J._Reines |
| Drorah Setel | Drorah Setel | null | null | American | biblical scholar and feminist theologian from Buffalo, New York, who was formerly a rabbi at Temple Beth El in Niagara Falls, NY. She presently serves as rabbi to the Temple Emanu-El congregation at the Jewish Community Center in Brighton, a suburb of Rochester, New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drorah_Setel |
| Nythamar de Oliveira | Nythamar de Oliveira | 1960 | n/a | Brazilian | philosopher, theologian, and university teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nythamar_de_Oliveira |
| Ulrich Simon | Ulrich [Richard] Ernst Simon | 1913 | 1997 | null | Anglican theologian of German Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_Simon |
| Ruth Lapide | Ruth Lapide | 1929 | n/a | null | theologian and historian who is foremost among German language scholars that endeavor to facilitate and improve understanding between Jews and Christians, to a degree also with Muslims | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Lapide |