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Richard Finley Ward (born September 19, 1951) is an American storyteller and the Fred B. Craddock Professor of Preaching at Phillips Theological Seminary.
Daniel Waterland (14 Feb 1683 – 23 December 1740) was an English theologian. He became Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1714, Chancellor of the Diocese of York in 1722, and Archdeacon of Middlesex in 1730. Daniel Waterland, engraving by John Faber the Younger after Richard Phillips. Waterland opposed the latitudinarians of his time.
Phillips was a vegetarian. [9] [10] He published Joseph Ritson's An Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food, as a Moral Duty in 1802. In the Medical Journal for 27 July 1811, Phillips listed sixteen reasons for adopting a vegetarian diet. [10] His book Golden Rules of Social Philosophy (1814) contained the essay The Author's Reasons for not Eating ...
Richard F. Lovelace (1930–2020) was a theologian and professor of church history at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where he served from 1969 to 1996, and continued as an emeritus professor until his death in 2020.
Theologian Mark Scott has argued that John Hick's theodicy is more closely aligned with Origen's beliefs than Irenaeus' and ought to be called an "Origenian theodicy". Origen used two metaphors for the world: it is a school and a hospital for souls, with God as Teacher and Physician, in which suffering plays both an educative and healing role.
Richard A. McCormick SJ (1922 – February 12, 2000) was a leading liberal Catholic moral theologian who reshaped Catholic thought in the United States.He wrote many journal articles on Catholic social teachings and moral theory.
The Context Group is an international team of scholars that merges historical exegesis and the social sciences to interpret the Bible in its social and cultural contexts. It initially organized in 1986 as the "Social Facets Seminar," headed by John H. Elliott as chair, meeting in conjunction with the Jesus Seminar under the direction of Robert W. Funk and the Westar Institute.
Honest to God is a book written by the Anglican Bishop of Woolwich John A.T. Robinson, criticising traditional Christian theology.It aroused a storm of controversy on its original publication by SCM Press in 1963.