John McManners (1916–2006)

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1. 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 World Treasury of Modern Religious Thought

2. John Bright

   Author of A History of Israel, Jeremiah (Anchor Bible)

3. Wayne A. Meeks

   Author of The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul, The Origins of Christian Morality: The First Two Centuries

4. F. L. Cross

   Author of The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church

5. Eusebius

   Author of The History of the Church

6. Bruce M. Metzger

   Author of Oxford Bible Companion

7. Professor George Holmes

   Author of The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe

8. Sydney E. Ahlstrom

   Author of A Religious History of the American People

9. Henry Chadwick

   Author of The Early Church (Hist of the Church)

10. Henry Bettenson

    Author of Documents of the Christian Church

11. Robin Lane Fox

    Author of Pagans and Christians

12. R. W. Southern

    Author of Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages (Hist of the Church)

13. Geoffrey Wainwright

    Author of The Oxford History of Christian Worship

14. Raymond E. Brown

    Author of An Introduction to the New Testament

15. Paul J. Achtemeier

    Author of Harper's Bible Dictionary

16. J. N. D. Kelly

    Author of Early Christian doctrines

17. Luke Timothy Johnson

    Author of The Writings of the New Testament: An Interpretation

18. Tim Dowley

    Author of Eerdmans' Handbook to the History of Christianity

19. H. Richard Niebuhr

    Author of Christ & Culture

20. Bernhard W. Anderson

    Author of Understanding the Old Testament