Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971)

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1. Reinhold Niebuhr

   Author of Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics, The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation : Human Nature (Library of Theological Ethics), The Irony of American History

2. Paul Tillich

   Author of The Courage to Be, The Shaking of the Foundations, Theology of Culture (Galaxy Books)

3. H. Richard Niebuhr

   Author of Christ & Culture, The social sources of denominationalism, Radical Monotheism and Western Culture: With Supplementary Essays (Library of Theological Ethics)

4. Karl Barth

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

5. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

   Author of Letters and Papers from Prison, Ethics, Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies

6. Rudolf Bultmann

   Author of Jesus Christ and Mythology, Theology of the New Testament, Jesus and the Word

7. 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, The Coming of God

8. Stanley Hauerwas

   Author of Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony, A Community of Character, With the Grain of the Universe: The Churchs Witness and Natural Theology

9. Emil Brunner

   Author of The Christian Doctrine of God: Dogmatics (Dogmatics Series), The Christian Doctrine of Creation and Redemption, Dogmatics: Vol. II, Our Faith

10. Soren Kierkegaard

    Author of Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death, Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Volume II, Attack upon Christendom

11. Walter Rauschenbusch

    Author of Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 21st Century: The Classic That Woke Up the Church, A Theology for the Social Gospel (Library of Theological Ethics)

12. Richard Hofstadter

    Author of The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Age of Reform

13. 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

14. Martin Buber

    Author of I And Thou, Between Man and Man, Eclipse of God: Studies in the Relation Between Religion and Philosophy

15. Alasdair MacIntyre

    Author of After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Second Edition, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition

16. Friedrich Schleiermacher

    Author of On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers, The Christian Faith

17. Robert N. Bellah

    Author of Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life, Good Society, The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial

18. 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

19. John Howard Yoder

    Author of The Politics of Jesus: vicit Agnus noster, For the Nations: Essays Evangelical and Public

20. Walter Brueggemann

    Author of The Prophetic Imagination, An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination