Flashcards: Christian socialist theologians

Carlos Alberto Libânio Christo, O.

Gala Galaction (IPA: /'ga.la ga.lak.ti'on/; the pen name of Grigore or Grigorie Pișculescu; April 16, 1879—March 8, 1961) was a Romanian Orthodox clergyman and theologian, writer, journalist, left-wing activist, as well as a political figure of the People's Republic of Romania.

Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara (Portuguese: [dõ ˈɛwdeɾ peˈsoɐ ˈkɐ̃mɐɾɐ]; February 7, 1909 – August 27, 1999) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic Archbishop.

Rowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth, PC, FBA, FRSL, FLSW (born 14 June 1950) is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet.

Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) was a Christian theologian and Baptist pastor who taught at the Rochester Theological Seminary.

John Arthur Thomas Robinson (16 May 1919 – 5 December 1983) was an English New Testament scholar, author and the Anglican Bishop of Woolwich.

Carl Gustav Adolf von Harnack (7 May 1851 – 10 June 1930) was a German Lutheran theologian and prominent church historian.

Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (born January 20, 1925) is a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet and politician.

William Temple (15 October 1881 – 26 October 1944) was a bishop in the Church of England.

Vekoslav Grmič (4 June 1923 – 21 March 2005) was a Slovenian Roman Catholic bishop and theologian, known for his sympathy towards Socialist ideas.

Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German American Christian existentialist philosopher and Lutheran theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century.

Christoph Blumhardt (1 June 1842 in Möttlingen near Calw – 2 August 1919 in Jebenhausen near Göppingen) was a German Lutheran theologian and one of the founders of Christian Socialism in Germany and Switzerland.

Leonardo Boff is a Brazilian theologian and writer, known for his active support for the rights of the poor and excluded.

Hermann Kutter (September 12, 1863 – March 31, 1931) was a Swiss Protestant theologian.

Henry James Sr. (June 3, 1811 in Albany, New York – December 18, 1882 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American theologian and adherent of Swedenborgianism, also known as the father of the philosopher William James, novelist Henry James, and diarist Alice James.

Enrique Domingo Dussel Ambrosini (born December 24, 1934) is an Argentine-Mexican writer and philosopher.

Grzegorz Paweł z Brzezin (English: Gregory Paul of Brzeziny, Latin: Gregorius Paulus Brzezinensis) (1525–1591), was a Socinian (Unitarian) writer and theologian, one of the principal creators and propagators of radical wing of the Polish Brethren, and author of several of the first theological works in Polish, which helped to the development of literary Polish.

Kenneth Leech, also commonly known as Ken Leech (15 June 1939 – 12 September 2015), was a British Anglican priest and Christian socialist in the Anglo-Catholic tradition.

Dorothee Steffensky-Sölle (born Nipperdey; 30 September 1929 – 27 April 2003) was a German liberation theologian and writer who coined the term Christofascism.

Hugo Assmann (22 July 1933 in Venâncio Aires, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil – February 22, 2008 in Piracicaba, São Paulo (state), Brazil) was a Brazilian Catholic theologian who developed important work after II Vatican Council.

Hubertus Gerardus Josephus Henricus Oosterhuis (born 1 November 1933 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch theologian and poet.

Janez Evangelist Krek (27 November 1865 – 8 October 1917) was a Slovene Christian Socialist politician, priest, journalist, and author.

Leonhard Ragaz (28 July 1868, in Tamins – 6 December 1945, in Zurich) was a Swiss Reformed theologian and, with Hermann Kutter, one of the founders of Religious socialism in Switzerland.

Henry Scott Holland (27 January 1847 – 17 March 1918) was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford.

Rosemary Radford Ruether (born November 2, 1936) is an American feminist scholar and Catholic theologian.

Pere Casaldàliga i Pla (born 1928) is a Catalan-born emeritus Brazilian Bishop of São Félix do Araguaia (Brazil) .

Giovanni Battista Franzoni (born 8 November 1928, Varna) is a Christian communist and dissident Catholic theologian.

Juan Luis Segundo, S.

The Rt. Rev. Charles Gore (22 January 1853 – 17 January 1932) was the Bishop of Oxford.

Teresa Forcades i Vila, O.

John Frederick Denison Maurice, often known as F.

Shailer Mathews (May 26, 1863 – October 23, 1941) was a liberal Christian theologian, involved with the Social Gospel movement.

Maurice Benington Reckitt (May 19, 1888 – January 11, 1980) was a leading British Anglo-Catholic and Christian socialist writer.

Cheri DiNovo, MPP (born c. 1951) is a politician in Ontario, Canada.

Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino, O.

Donald Mackenzie MacKinnon (27 August 1913 – 2 March 1994) was a Scottish philosopher and theologian.

Martyn William Percy (born 31 July 1962) is a Church of England priest and academic.

David Gwyn Nicholls (3 June 1936 – 13 June 1996) was the author of more than one hundred publications in the fields of political theology and Caribbean Studies.