List of Christian theologians

This is a list of notable Theologians. They are listed by century. If a particular theologian crosses over two centuries, they are listed in the latter century.

1st century

• Paul (c. 3 – 66)

2nd century

• Marcion (died 144 BCE)
• Polycarp (c. 70 – 160)
• Justin Martyr (c. 110 - 165)

3rd century

• Clement of Alexandria (c.150-c.215)
• Irenaeus (ca. 120-203)
• Origen (ca. 184-254)
• Tertullian

4th century

• Athanasius (296 - 373)
• Gregory of Nyssa (c. 330 - c. 395)

5th century

• Augustine (354-430)
• Jerome (c. 347-420)

9th century

• John Scotus Eriugena (810-877)

12th century

• Peter Abelard (1079-1142)
• Anselm (1033-1109)
• Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)

13th century

• Albertus Magnus (c. 1200-1280)
• Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274)

14th century

• Scotus Johannes Duns (1265?-1308?)
• Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)

15th century

• Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
• Julian of Norwich (c. 1342 - 1416)
• Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)

16th century

• Alexander Alesius (1500-1565)
• Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575)
• Ignatius of Loyola (c. 1491-1556)
• John Calvin (1509-1564)
• Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556)
• Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536)
• John Knox (c. 1513-1572)
• Martin Luther (1483-1546)
• Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560)
• Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531)

17th century

• James Arminius (1560-1609)
• Jakob Boehme (1575-1624)
• Zachary Boyd (1585-1653)
• Owen Feltham (c. 1602-1668)
• John Flavel (1627-1691)
• Issac Newton (1642-1727)

18th century

• George Bull (1634 - 1710)
• Thomas Burnet (1635? - 1715)
• Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
• Philipp Jacob Spener (1635–1705)
• Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772)
• John Wesley (1703-1791)
• George Whitefield (1774-1770)

19th century

• Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834)
• John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

20th century

• Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988)
• Karl Barth (1886-1968)
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
• Martin Buber (1878-1965)
• Rudolf Karl Bultmann (1884-1976)
• Yves Congar (1904–1995)
• Frederic William Farrar (1831-1903)
• Hans Wilhelm Frei (1922-1988)
• Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930)
• Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984)
• Henri de Lubac (1896-1991)
• Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
• Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
• Rudolf Otto (1869-1937)
• Karl Rahner (1904-1984)
• Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929)
• Albert Benjamin Simpson (1843-1919)
• Paul Tillich (1886-1965)
• John Howard Yoder (1927-1997)

21st century

• John B. Cobb (1925 – )
• Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928 – )
• Stanley M. Hauerwas
• Hans Küng (1928– )
• Johann Baptist Metz (1928 – )
• Jürgen Moltmann (1926- )
• Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928-)
• Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936– )
• Edward Schillebeeckx (1914 – )
• Thomas F. Torrance (1913– )
• David Tracy (1939-)
• Miroslav Volf
• John Walvoord (1910-2002)