Jacques Ellul (1912–1994)

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1. Jacques Ellul

   Author of The Technological Society, The Meaning of the City, The Humiliation of the Word

2. Stanley Hauerwas

   Author of With the Grain of the Universe: The Churchs Witness and Natural Theology, God, Medicine, and Suffering, Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence

3. John Howard Yoder

   Author of The Politics of Jesus: vicit Agnus noster, Body Politics: Five Practices of the Christian Community Before the Watching World, Nevertheless: The Varieties and Shortcomings of Religious Pacifism

4. Karl Barth

   Author of The Epistle to the Romans, Evangelical Theology: An Introduction, The Humanity of God

5. Helmut Thielicke

   Author of A Little Exercise for Young Theologians, How the World Began: Man in the First Chapters of the Bible, Theological ethics

6. Jurgen Moltmann

   Author of The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ As the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology, The Trinity and the Kingdom: The Doctrine of God, The Church in the Power of the Spirit: A Contribution to Messianic Ecclesiology

7. Lewis Mumford

   Author of Technics and Civilization, The Myth Of The Machine - The Pentagon Of Power, Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development

8. William T. Cavanaugh

   Author of Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire, Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ (Challenges in Contemporary Theology), Theopolitical Imagination

9. Emil Brunner

   Author of The Christian Doctrine of God: Dogmatics (Dogmatics Series), Man in Revolt, The Christian Doctrine of the Church, Faith, and the Consummation: Dogmatics, Volume III

10. Lesslie Newbigin

    Author of The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture, Household of God (Biblical Classics Library)

11. Gerrit Cornelis Berkhouwer

    Author of Holy Scripture (Studies in Dogmatics), General Revelation (Studies in Dogmatics), Studies in Dogmatics: Faith and Justification

12. Walter Brueggemann

    Author of Texts Under Negotiation: The Bible and Postmodern Imagination, The Land: Place As Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faith, David's Truth in Israel's Imagination & Memory

13. Oliver O'Donovan

    Author of Resurrection and Moral Order: An Outline for Evangelical Ethics, The Desire of the Nations: Rediscovering the Roots of Political Theology, Common Objects of Love: Moral Reflection and the Shaping of Community

14. Walter Wink

    Author of The Powers That Be (Power), Naming the Powers: The Language of Power in the New Testament (The Powers : Volume One), Transforming Bible Study: A Leader's Guide

15. Marva J. Dawn

    Author of Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting, Is It a Lost Cause?: Having the Heart of God for the Church's Children, Powers, Weakness, and the Tabernacling of God

16. Eugene H. Peterson

    Author of Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology, Traveling Light: Modern Meditations on St. Paul's Letter of Freedom, Earth & Altar: The Community of Prayer in a Self-Bound Society

17. Oscar Cullmann

    Author of The Christology of the New Testament, Christ and Time: The Primitive Christian Conception of Time, The state in the New Testament

18. Neil Postman

    Author of Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

19. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    Author of Life Together, Letters and Papers from Prison, Ethics

20. Thomas F. Torrance

    Author of The Mediation of Christ, Reality & Evangelical Theology: The Realism of Christian Revelation, Space, Time and Incarnation