Stephen Richard Prothero

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1. Bart D. Ehrman

   Author of Misquoting Jesus, Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew, Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament

2. Stephen Richard Prothero

   Author of Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't, American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon, God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter

3. Marcus J. Borg

   Author of Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions, Reading the Bible Again For the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously But Not Literally, The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith

4. Garry Wills

   Author of What Jesus Meant, What Paul Meant, Head and Heart: American Christianities

5. Karen Armstrong

   Author of The Battle for God, The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions, The Case for God

6. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

7. Jim Wallis

   Author of God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It, The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America

8. 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

9. Philip Jenkins

   Author of The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia--and How It Died, Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 years

10. N. T. Wright

    Author of Jesus and the Victory of God, Following Jesus: Biblical Reflections on Discipleship

11. Bruce Feiler

    Author of Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths, Where God was Born: A Journey by Land to The Roots of Religion

12. Walter Wink

    Author of The Powers That Be (Power), Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination

13. Robert D. Putnam

    Author of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us

14. Richard Wightman Fox

    Author of Jesus in America: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession

15. Jon Meacham

    Author of American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation

16. Krista Tippett

    Author of Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters--and How to Talk About It

17. Diana L. Eck

    Author of A New Religious America: How a "Christian Country" Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation

18. Charles Kimball

    Author of When Religion Becomes Evil: Five Warning Signs

19. James Kugel

    Author of The Bible As It Was

20. John Shelby Spong

    Author of Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture