John Hick (1922–2012)

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1. John Hick

   Author of Philosophy of Religion, The Existence of God, Disputed Questions in Theology and the Philosophy of Religion

2. John Macquarrie

   Author of Principles of Christian Theology, Existentialism: An Introduction, Guide and Assessment (Pelican), Twentieth Century Religious Thought

3. Paul Tillich

   Author of The Courage to Be, The Shaking of the Foundations, Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality

4. Richard Swinburne

   Author of The Existence of God, Is There a God?, Revelation: From Metaphor to Analogy (Clarendon Paperbacks)

5. Alvin Plantinga

   Author of Warranted Christian Belief, God and Other Minds: A Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in God (Cornell Paperbacks), Warrant and Proper Function

6. Hans Küng

   Author of On Being a Christian, The Church, Justification: The Doctrine of Karl Barth and a Catholic Reflection

7. Rowan Williams

   Author of Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement, Why Study The Past?: The Quest For The Historical Church, Arius: Heresy and Tradition

8. Harvey Cox

   Author of The Secular City, The Feast of Fools: A Theological Essay on Festivity and Fantasy (William Belden Noble Lectures), Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the 21st Century

9. Paul F. Knitter

   Author of No Other Name?: A Critical Survey of Christian Attitudes Toward the World Religions (American Society of Missiology Series), Introducing Theologies of Religions, Jesus and the Other Names: Christian Mission and Global Responsibility

10. Rudolf Bultmann

    Author of Jesus Christ and Mythology, Primitive Christianity in its contemporary setting, The History of the Synoptic Tradition

11. John A. T. Robinson

    Author of Honest to God, The New Reformation?, But That I Can't Believe!

12. Jurgen Moltmann

    Author of The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ As the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology, The Church in the Power of the Spirit: A Contribution to Messianic Ecclesiology, God in Creation (The Gifford Lectures, 1984-1985)

13. Wolfhart Pannenberg

    Author of Jesus: God and Man, Anthropology in Theological Perspective, Metaphysics and the Idea of God

14. Karl Barth

    Author of Dogmatics in Outline, The Epistle to the Romans, Evangelical Theology: An Introduction

15. Basil Mitchell

    Author of The Philosophy of Religion (Oxford Readings in Philosophy), Morality: Religious and Secular: The Dilemma of the Traditional Conscience (Oxford Scholarly Classics)

16. Frederick Copleston

    Author of Aquinas, A History of Philosophy : Volume II : Medieval Philosophy : Part II : Albert the Great to Duns Scotus

17. C. H. Dodd

    Author of The Parables of the Kingdom, The founder of Christianity, The Authority of the Bible

18. Alfred North Whitehead

    Author of Science and the Modern World, Modes of Thought, Religion in the Making

19. Alister E. McGrath

    Author of The Christian Theology Reader, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Thought, The Genesis of Doctrine: A Study in the Foundationa of Doctrinal Criticism

20. Gerhard von Rad

    Author of Genesis: A Commentary (Old Testament Library), The Message of the Prophets