Know the Theologians

Jennifer Powell McNutt (PhD, University of St. Andrews) is Franklin S. Dyrness Associate Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Wheaton College and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She was awarded the Brewer Prize by the American Society of Church History for her first book, Calvin Meets Voltaire, and she is the coeditor of The People's Book: The Reformation and the Bible and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation. She has contributed to numerous volumes on Reformed history and theology, and she is an ordained Presbyterian minister and co-president of McNuttshell Ministries, which seeks to bridge the church and the academy.David W. McNutt (PhD, University of Cambridge) is senior acquisitions editors at Zondervan Academic and associate lecturer of core studies at Wheaton College, where he teaches courses in theology, theology and the arts, and philosophical aesthetics. He is also an ordained Presbyterian minister and co-president of McNuttshell Ministries, which seeks to bridge the church and the academy.Justin S. Holcomb (PhD) is the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida and teaches theology and apologetics at Reformed Theological Seminary. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than twenty books on theology, abuse, and biblical studies, including Know the Creeds and Councils, Know the Heretics, and Rid of My Disgrace.

• IntroductionPart 1: Early Church Theologians1. Irenaeus of Lyons (Sidebars: Polycarp, Perpetua and Felicitas, Justin Martyr, Origen, Tertullian)2. Athanasius (Sidebars: Cyril of Alexandria, Empress Pulcheria, Nestorius, Leo the Great)3. The Cappadocian Fathers (Sidebars: Macrina the Younger, John Chrysostom) 4. Augustine of Hippo (Sidebars: Monica, Jerome, Gregory the Great)Part 2: Medieval Theologians5. John of Damascus (Sidebars: Maximus the Confessor, Empress Irene, Theodora6. Anselm of Canterbury (Sidebars: Benedict of Nursia, Abelard, Hildegard of Bingen7. Julian of Norwich (Sidebars: Bernard of Clairvaux, Bonaventure)8. Thomas Aquinas (Sidebars: Peter Lombard, William of Ockham, Catherine of Siena)Part 3: Reformation Theologians9. Martin Luther (Sidebars: Philip Melanchthon, Argula von Grumbach, Teresa of Avila10. John Calvin (Sidebars: Ulrich Zwingli, Marie Dentiere, John Knox, Theodore Beza11. Menno Simons (Sidebars: Michael Sattler, Balthazar Hubmaier, Conrad Grebel and the Swiss Brethren, Ursala Jost12. Thomas Cranmer (Sidebars: William Tyndale, Elizabeth I, Martin Bucer, Peter Martyr Vermigli)Part 4: Modern Theologians13. John Wesley (Sidebars: Jacob Arminius, Jonathan Edwards, Phoebe Palmer)14. John Henry Newman (Sidebars: Soren Kierkegaard, Abraham Kuyper, Karl Rahner, Hans Urs von Balthasar15. Karl Barth (Sidebars: Friedrich Schleiermacher, Paul Tillich, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Reinhold Niebuhr and H. Richard Niebuhr16. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Sidebars: James Cone, Radford Ruether, Leonardo Boff, Jurgen Moltmann)