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Lay theologian
Unordained or untrained professional religious scholar From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A lay theologian is a theologian "who is not ordained, or a theologian who has not been trained as a theologian".[1] Despite not being trained as theologian or ordained, lay theologians may have academic qualifications in other disciplines.
Examples
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Notable lay theologians include:
- George Abbot
- Mortimer J. Adler
- Ethan Allen
- Joseph T. Bayly
- Edward Musgrave Blaiklock
- Nicholas Cabasilas[2]
- G. K. Chesterton
- James F. Colaianni[3]
- Nicolas Gomez Davila
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Jordan Peterson
- Jacques Ellul[4]
- Thomas Erskine[5]
- Jim Forest
- Rosemary Haughton[6]
- Susan Howatch
- Aleksey Khomyakov
- John Lennox
- C. S. Lewis[7]
- David Lodge
- Robert Magliola
- Marko Marulić
- Isaac Newton
- Johann Heinrich Pabst
- Caspar Peucer
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Frank Sheed[8]
- Uwe Siemon-Netto
- William Stringfellow[9]
- Maisie Ward
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