List_of_Methodist_theologians

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia List of Methodist theologians List of Methodist theologians Part of a series on Methodism Proto-Methodist theologians • Jacobus Arminius - ordained pastor of the Dutch Reformed church, studied under Theodore Beza and rejected the teachings of John Calvin, inspired the Remonstrance and the soteriological system now known as Arminianism. • Hugo Grotius - playwright, poet, and humanist philosopher of the Aristotelian tradition, systematized Arminianism and developed the moral government theory of Christ’s atonement. John Wesley George Whitefield Doctrinal distinctives Articles of Religion Prevenient Grace Governmental Atonement Imparted righteousness Christian perfection Conditional preservation of the saints Largest groups World Methodist Council United Methodist Church AME Church AME Zion Church Church of the Nazarene British Methodist Church CME Church Uniting Church in Australia Christianity Portal 18th century • John Wesley • Charles Wesley • John Fletcher Background Christianity Protestantism Pietism Anglicanism Arminianism Wesleyanism Calvinism 19th century • Adam Clarke - Biblical theologian uncomfortable with systematic approaches to Christian theology, argued that Christ’s Sonship began with the Incarnation. • Richard Watson - outspoken British abolitionist, wrote against Clarke in defense of the eternal Sonship of Christ, one of the first theologians to systematize Wesley’s theology. • Wilbur Fisk - religious educator, favored ending slavery progressively (rather than in the revolutionary way proposed by other notable abolitionists, so as to avoid a split in the Church), early influence on the temperance movement. • Nathan Bangs - Arminian apologist, first editor of the Methodist magazine Christian Advocate, opposed the antinomianism of the New Light Baptist community. • Hugh Price Hughes - Welsh social reformer, first editor of the Methodist Times and first superintendent of the West London Methodist Mission. • William Burt Pope People Richard Allen Francis Asbury Thomas Coke Albert C. Outler James Varick Charles Wesley Bishops Theologians Related movements Moravian Church Holiness movement Salvation Army Personalism Pentecostalism 1 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • • • • • John Miley James Strong Borden Parker Bowne Martin Ruter Henry Clay Dean List of Methodist theologians • Thomas C. Oden - responsible in large part for founding the theological school known as paleo-orthodoxy, associated also with the confessing movement connected with neo-evangelicalism. • Mercy Oduyoye - Ghanaian feminist theologian. • Stanley Hauerwas - theological ethicist and outspoken anti-nationalist Christian pacifist, studied under neo-orthodox theologian H. Richard Niebuhr, associated with narrative theology and was influential in the formation of the Ekklesia Project. • Christopher Morse - developed a prescriptive type of via negativa, described as "faithful disbelief." • Scott J. Jones - bishop of the United Methodist Church, international evangelist, and prominent Protestant ecumenical figure who has been involved in relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the World Methodist Council. • Marjorie Suchocki - current director of the Whitehead International Film Festival, one of the leading thinkers in the field of process theology. • William H. Willimon - bishop of the United Methodist Church, sometimes associated with postliberal narrative theology, named one of the top twelve best preachers in the English-speaking world in a 1996 Baylor University survey. • Geoffrey Wainwright • Andrew S. Park - systematic theologian and pioneer in Asian American liberation theology, associated with Christian mysticism and the debate over the relationship between religion and science. • The people of The United Methodist Church 20th century • Edgar S. Brightman - Christian pacifist, associated with process philosophy and liberal theology of the school known as Boston personalism. • Justo Gonzalez • José Miguez Bonino • E. Stanley Jones • Albert C. Knudson • Edwin Lewis • H. Orton Wiley • Georgia Harkness • Albert C. Outler - influenced the paleoorthodox movement, coined the term "Wesleyan Quadrilateral" with respect to John Wesley’s method of theological reflection. • J. Kenneth Grider - scholar of the Wesleyan holiness tradition, served on the translation committee for the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible. • John B. Cobb • Young-Ho Chun • The people of The United Methodist Church 21st century • William J. Abraham • Marcella Althaus-Reid - first female professor of theology at the University of Edinburgh in 160 years, associated with feminist, liberation, and queer theology. • Peter Borhauer - environmental theologian • Thomas Jay Oord Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Methodist_theologians" Categories: Lists of theologians and religious studies scholars, Methodist theologians This page was last modified on 6 May 2009, at 01:05 (UTC). All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) taxdeductible nonprofit charity. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers 2