Lesslie Newbigin (1909–1998)

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1. Lesslie Newbigin

   Author of The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, "The Good Shepherd" : Meditations on Christian Ministry in Today's World, A faith for this one world?

2. N. T. Wright

   Author of The Resurrection of the Son of God, Jesus and the Victory of God, What Saint Paul Really Said

3. Eugene H. Peterson

   Author of A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology, Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity

4. Stanley Hauerwas

   Author of Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony, A Community of Character, Cross-Shattered Christ: Meditations on the Seven Last Words

5. Dallas Willard

   Author of The Divine Conspiracy, The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives, Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ

6. Darrell L. Guder

   Author of Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America (The Gospel and Our Culture Series), The Continuing Conversion of the Church (The Gospel & Our Culture Series), The Incarnation and the Church's Witness

7. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

   Author of Life Together, Meditating on the Word, Sanctorum Communio: A Theological Study of the Sociology of the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works)

8. Miroslav Volf

   Author of Exclusion & Embrace, After Our Likeness: The Church As the Image of the Trinity (Sacra Doctrina), The Future of Hope: Christian Tradition Amid Modernity and Postmodernity

9. Brian D. McLaren

   Author of A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, Mystical/Poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/Contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-Hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished Christian, A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey

10. Stanley J. Grenz

    Author of A Primer on Postmodernism, Theology for the Community of God, Created for Community,: Connecting Christian Belief with Christian Living

11. Michael Frost

    Author of The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21 Century Church, Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture

12. David Jacobus Bosch

    Author of Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission (American Society of Missiology Series, No. 16), Believing in the Future: Toward a Missiology of Western Culture (Christian Mission and Modern Culture), Mission in Bold Humility: David Bosch's Work Considered

13. George R. Hunsberger

    Author of The Church Between Gospel and Culture: The Emerging Mission in North America (Gospel & Our Culture), Bearing the Witness of the Spirit: Lesslie Newbigin's Theology of Cultural Plurality (Our Gospel and 0ur Culture)

14. Christopher J. H. Wright

    Author of The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative, Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament, The mission of God's people : a biblical theology of the church's mission

15. Helmut Thielicke

    Author of A Little Exercise for Young Theologians, The ethics of sex, How to believe again

16. John A. T. Robinson

    Author of Honest to God, Exploration into God, Jesus and His Coming

17. Ronald J. Sider

    Author of Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity, Living More Simply

18. John Howard Yoder

    Author of The Politics of Jesus: vicit Agnus noster, The Original Revolution: Essays on Christian Pacifism (Christian Peace Shelf Series)

19. Richard B. Hays

    Author of The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation, A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethi, The Conversion of the Imagination: Paul As Interpreter of Israel's Scripture

20. H. Richard Niebuhr

    Author of Christ & Culture, The Meaning of Revelation