My Favorite Theologians

[NewTestamentChristian]

What follows is some of my favorite theologians that have influenced me.

• John Duns Scotus (after formally studying Thomism for three years, when I learned about the Scotist understanding of the Will having primacy over the Intellect and how natural law even though it is found outside of revelation must be subordinate to the will of God, I discovered a totally new perspective on things).
• Soren Kierkegaard.
• John Wesley (probably one of the only Protestant thinkers to seriously engage with the Greek Fathers understanding of theosis).
• The Church Fathers (mainly Sts. Augustine, Athanasius, Maximus, Basil, Clement of Alexandria, Justin Martyr, Melito of Sardis).
• Evagrius Ponticus (a great writer on the topic of logismoi).
• Pseudo-Dionysius.
• Meister Eckhart.
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
• John Paul II.
• The Lublin School (while not a Thomist, I enjoy their work engaging with phenomenology).
• Nikolai Berdyaev.
• Kallistos Ware.
• Alexander Men.
• David Bentley Hart (while I completely disagree with his politics and don’t like his view of universal salvation, his defense of classical theism is interesting).
• Gregory Palamas (theologian from the East who comes the closest to agreeing with Scotist thought, defends the notion that the distinction between God’s essence and energies is a biblical doctrine).
• Robert Speer (Presbyterian minister who wrote The Principles of Jesus where he discusses the “Four Absolutes” of honesty, purity, unselfishness, and love).

 

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Recently, David Tracy.

 

[chevyontheriver]

What follows is some of my favorite theologians that have influenced me.

• John Duns Scotus (after formally studying Thomism for three years, when I learned about the Scotist understanding of the Will having primacy over the Intellect and how natural law even though it is found outside of revelation must be subordinate to the will of God, I discovered a totally new perspective on things).
• Soren Kierkegaard.
• John Wesley (probably one of the only Protestant thinkers to seriously engage with the Greek Fathers understanding of theosis).
• The Church Fathers (mainly Sts. Augustine, Athanasius, Maximus, Basil, Clement of Alexandria, Justin Martyr, Melito of Sardis).
• Evagrius Ponticus (a great writer on the topic of logismoi).
• Pseudo-Dionysius.
• Meister Eckhart.
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
• John Paul II.
• The Lublin School (while not a Thomist, I enjoy their work engaging with phenomenology).
• Nikolai Berdyaev.
• Kallistos Ware.
• Alexander Men.
• David Bentley Hart (while I completely disagree with his politics and don’t like his view of universal salvation, his defense of classical theism is interesting).
• Gregory Palamas (theologian from the East who comes the closest to agreeing with Scotist thought, defends the notion that the distinction between God’s essence and energies is a biblical doctrine).
• Robert Speer (Presbyterian minister who wrote The Principles of Jesus where he discusses the “Four Absolutes” of honesty, purity, unselfishness, and love).

Avery Dulles.
Bernard Lonergan.
Karol Wojtyla.

 

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Benedict XVI (aka Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger).
Saint John Paul II (aka Karol Józef Wojtyła)
Ronald Knox
Saint Mother Teresa
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Dante Alighieri