Martin E. Marty

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1. Martin E. Marty

   Author of Baptism, The new shape of American religion, The Promise of Winter: Quickening the Spirit on Ordinary Days and in Fallow Seasons

2. Helmut Thielicke

   Author of A Little Exercise for Young Theologians, How the World Began: Man in the First Chapters of the Bible, Our heavenly Father : sermons on the Lord's prayer

3. Frederick Buechner

   Author of Peculiar Treasures: A Biblical Who's Who, The Alphabet of Grace, Now and Then

4. Jaroslav Pelikan

   Author of Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture, Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages, The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 5: Christian Doctrine and Modern Culture (since 1700)

5. Paul Tillich

   Author of Dynamics of Faith, Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality, Protestant Era

6. Henri J. M. Nouwen

   Author of With Open Hands, Creative Ministry, Gracias: A Latin American Journal

7. George M. Marsden

   Author of Fundamentalism and American Culture (New Edition), Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism, Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New Evangelicalism

8. H. Richard Niebuhr

   Author of Christ & Culture, The Responsible Self, The social sources of denominationalism

9. Eric W. Gritsch

   Author of Lutheranism: The Theological Movement and Its Confessional Writings, Fortress Introduction to Lutheranism, Martin, God's Court Jester: Luther in Retrospect

10. 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

11. Martin Luther

    Author of Luther's Large Catechism: A Contemporary Translation With Study Questions, Martin Luther's Christmas Book, Daily Readings from Luther's Writings

12. Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

    Author of Lutheran Book of Worship: Pew Edition, With One Voice: A Lutheran Resource for Worship, Use of the Means of Grace 1997 (New Joy of Discovery)

13. Mark A. Noll

    Author of Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity, America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln, The Old Religion in a New World: The History of North American Christianity

14. George Wolfgang Forell

    Author of The Protestant Faith, Christian Social Teachings, The Augsburg confession; a contemporary commentary

15. Roland H. Bainton

    Author of Here I Stand : A Life of Martin Luther, The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Behold the Christ

16. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

17. William H. Willimon

    Author of Worship As Pastoral Care, Sunday Dinner, Preaching and Leading Worship (Pastor's Handbook)

18. Emil Brunner

    Author of The Christian Doctrine of God: Dogmatics (Dogmatics Series), Our Faith, Revelation and reason; the Christian doctrine of faith and knowledge

19. Walter Wangerin, Jr.

    Author of Ragman And Other Cries Of Faith, The Manger Is Empty, Water, Come Down!

20. Harvey Cox

    Author of The Secular City, The Feast of Fools: A Theological Essay on Festivity and Fantasy (William Belden Noble Lectures), The situation ethics debate