English Anglican theologians

Leonard Hodgson (24 October 1889 in Fulham, London – 15 July 1969 in Leamington Spa) was an Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, historian of the early Church and Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford from 1944 to 1958.

Vigo Auguste Demant, Anglican clergyman, theologian and social commentator, was one of the 14 committee members who served on the Wolfenden report on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot (sometimes called J. B. Lightfoot; 13 April 1828 – 21 December 1889) was an English theologian and Bishop of Durham.

Geoffrey William Hugo Lampe MC (13 August 1912 – 5 August 1980) was a British theologian and Anglican Priest who dedicated his life to theological teaching and research.

John Smith (born 1618 in Achurch, Northamptonshire — died August 7, 1652 in Cambridge) was an English philosopher, theologian, and educator.

William Law (1686 – 9 April 1761) was a Church of England priest who lost his position at Emmanuel College, Cambridge when his conscience would not allow him to take the required oath of allegiance to the first Hanoverian monarch, George I.

Alasdair John Milbank (born 1952) is an Anglican Christian theologian and was the Research Professor of Religion, Politics and Ethics at the University of Nottingham, where he also directs the Centre of Theology and Philosophy.

Henry Chadwick, KBE, FBA (23 June 1920 – 17 June 2008) was a British academic and Church of England priest.

William Laud (7 October, 1573 – 10 January, 1645) was an English bishop and academic.

John Bainbridge Webster DD FRSE (20 June 1955 – 25 May 2016) was a British theologian of the Anglican Communion writing in the area of systematic, historical, and moral theology.

Bowker was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, Worcester College, Oxford and Ripon Hall, Oxford.

John Layfield (also spelled Laifield) (died 6 November 1617) was an English scholar and Bible translator.

Paul D. L. Avis (born 21 July 1947) is an Anglican priest, theologian and ecumenist.

Norman Powell Williams (1883–1943) was a leading Oxford Anglo-Catholic theologian.

Christopher J. H.

John Robert Walmsley Stott CBE (27 April 1921 – 27 July 2011) was an English Christian leader and Anglican cleric who was noted as a leader of the worldwide Evangelical movement.

George Stanley Faber (often written G. S. Faber; 25 October 1773 – 27 January 1854) was an Anglican theologian and prolific author.

Graham Stuart Tomlin (born 1 August 1958) is a British theologian, author and Church of England bishop.

Graham Ward (born 25 October 1955) has been Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford since 2012.

Kenneth Escott Kirk (21 February 1886 – 8 June 1954) was the Bishop of Oxford in the Church of England from 1937–1954.

John Vernon Taylor (11 September 1914 – 30 January 2001) was an English bishop and theologian.

Ofspring Blackall (26 April 1655 (baptised) – 29 November 1716), Bishop of Exeter and religious controversialist, was born in London.

Fenton John Anthony Hort (23 April 1828 – 30 November 1892) was an Irish-born theologian and editor, with Brooke Westcott of a critical edition of The New Testament in the Original Greek.

Keith Ward, FBA (born 22 August 1938) is a British philosopher, theologian, priest and scholar.

William Owen Chadwick, OM, KBE, FBA, FRSE (/ˈtʃædwɪk/; 20 May 1916 – 17 July 2015) was a British Anglican priest, academic, writer and prominent historian of Christianity.

Robertus de Fenwicke Dixon was an English clergyman and theologian best known as the last Lord Prebendary of Rochester.

Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I.

Gregory Dix OSB, born George Eglinton Alston Dix (4 October 1901 – 12 May 1952), was an English monk and priest of Nashdom Abbey, an Anglican Benedictine community.

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

Frank Leslie Cross (1900–1968), Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford, was a British, Anglican patristics scholar and founder of the Oxford International Conference on Patristic Studies and editor of The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (First Edition, 1957).

Herbert Danby (20 January 1889 – 29 March 1953) was an Anglican priest and writer who played a central role in the change of attitudes toward Judaism in the first half of the twentieth century.

William John Sparrow Simpson (20 June 1859 – 13 February 1952) was an English Anglican priest and writer.

Susan E. Gillingham is a British theologian, academic, and Anglican lay minister.

Joseph Butler (18 May 1692 – 16 June 1752) was an English bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher.

Eric Lionel Mascall OGS (12 December 1905 – 14 February 1993) was a leading theologian and priest in the Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Church of England.

Anthony Charles Thiselton (born 13 July 1937) is a Church of England priest, theologian, and academic.

The Very Reverend Frederic Henry Chase (21 February 1853, London – 23 September 1925, Bexhill) was a British academic and Bishop of Ely.

Frederick William Dillistone (9 May 1903 – 5 October 1993) was the second Dean of Liverpool.

George Dunbar Kilpatrick (15 September 1910 – 14 January 1989) was an Anglican priest and theologian.

George Leonard Prestige (1889–1955) was Fellow and Chaplain of New College, Oxford.

(For the Australian footballer, see George Pattison (footballer).) George Pattison (born 1950) is a leading British systematic theologian and Anglican priest.

Edward Bouverie Pusey (/ˈpjuːzi/; 22 August 1800 – 16 September 1882) was an English churchman, for more than fifty years Regius Professor of Hebrew at Christ Church, Oxford.

Stephen Charles Neill (1900–1984) was a Scottish Anglican missionary, bishop, and scholar.

Stephen Whitefield Sykes (1 August 1939 – 24 September 2014) was a Church of England bishop and academic specialising in divinity.

James (Jim) Innell Packer (born 22 July 1926) is a British-born Canadian Christian theologian in the low church Anglican and Reformed traditions.

John Barton FBA (born 17 June 1948) is Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture, Emeritus at Oxford University, a Chair which he held from 1991, and is Emeritus Fellow of Oriel College, both as of 2014; as well, he has been an ordained and serving priest in the Church of England since 1973.

Henry Parry Liddon (20 August 1829 – 9 September 1890) was an English theologian.

William Charles Edmund Newbolt (14 August 1844 – 12 September 1930) was a British Anglican priest and theologian.

(This article is about the scholar. For the racing driver, see Oliver O'Donovan (racing driver).) Oliver O'Donovan FBA FRSE (born 1945) is a scholar known for his work in the field of Christian ethics.

David Frank Ford (born 23 January 1948, Dublin) is an academic and public theologian.

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

Peter Toon was a priest and theologian and an international advocate of traditional Anglicanism.

William Bright, D.

William Henry Griffith Thomas (2 January 1861 – 2 June 1924) was an Anglican cleric and scholar from the English-Welsh border country.

William Ince (1825–1910) was a British theologian.

Sir William Palmer (1803–1885) was an Anglican theologian and liturgical scholar of the 19th century.

Robert Henry Charles (1855–1931) was an Irish biblical scholar and theologian.

John Keble (/ˈkiːbəl/; 25 April 1792 – 29 March 1866) was an English churchman and poet, one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement.

John Frederick Denison Maurice, often known as F.

Herbert Mortimer Luckock (1833–1909) was an Anglican priest in the Church of England.

Maurice Frank Wiles (17 October 1923 – 3 June 2005) was an Anglican priest and academic.

John Neville Figgis, CR (1866–1919) was an historian, political philosopher and Anglican priest and monk of the Community of the Resurrection.

Robert Cecil Mortimer (6 December 1902 - 11 September 1976 was an Anglican bishop in the Church of England. Mortimer was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford and Keble College in the same city. He was ordained in 1927 and was a curate at St Mary's Redcliffe, Bristol. He then became a lecturer in canon law and then the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford before his ordination to the episcopate as the Bishop of Exeter in 1949. He held this position for 24 years.

Robert Andrew Willis, DL (born 17 May 1947) is an Anglican priest, theologian, chaplain and music composer.

Benjamin Jowett (/ˈdʒoʊɪt/, modern variant /ˈdʒaʊɪt/; 15 April 1817 – 1 October 1893) was renowned as an influential tutor and administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, a theologian and translator of Plato and Thucydides.

Richard J. Bauckham, FBA, FRSE (born 22 September 1946), is an English Anglican scholar in theology, historical theology and New Testament studies, specialising in New Testament Christology and the Gospel of John.

George Kennedy Allen Bell (4 February 1883 – 3 October 1958) was an Anglican theologian, Dean of Canterbury, Bishop of Chichester, member of the House of Lords and a pioneer of the ecumenical movement.

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

Arthur Michael Ramsey, Baron Ramsey of Canterbury, PC (14 November 1904 – 23 April 1988) was an English Anglican bishop and life peer.

Richard Thomas France (2 April 1938 – 10 February 2012) was a New Testament scholar and Anglican cleric.

Hastings Rashdall (24 June 1858 in London – 9 February 1924 in Worthing) was an English philosopher, theologian, and historian.

Charles Bridges (1794–1869) was a preacher and theologian in the Church of England, and a leader of that denomination's Evangelical Party.

Christopher Charles Rowland (born 21 May 1947) is a British priest and theologian, who has been Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford since 1991.

Jeremy Taylor (baptised 15 August 1613 – 13 August 1667) was a cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell.

Mark Frank or Franck (1613–1664) was an English churchman and academic, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Martin Thornton (11 November 1915–June 1986) was an Anglican priest and spiritual director, author and lecturer on ascetical theology.

Samuel Elsworth Cottam (1863–1943) was an English poet and priest.

Alexander Roper "Alec" Vidler OGS (1899 – July, 1991) was a noted English Anglican priest, theologian and church historian.

Arthur Cayley Headlam CH (2 August 1862 – 17 January 1947) was an English theologian who served as Bishop of Gloucester from 1923 to 1945.

Charles Francis Digby "Charlie" Moule CBE FBA /ˈmoʊl/ (3 December 1908 – 30 September 2007), known professionally as C.

Charles Wheatly (1686–1742) was an English clergyman, known for writings on the Book of Common Prayer.

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.

Hugh James Rose (9 June 1795 – 22 December 1838) was an English churchman and theologian who served as the second Principal of King's College London.

Hugh William Montefiore (born Hugh William Sebag-Montefiore; 12 May 1920 – 13 May 2005) was Bishop of Kingston from 1970 to 1978 and Bishop of Birmingham from 1977 to 1987.

James Bowling Mozley (15 September 1813 – 4 January 1878) was an English theologian.

Nicholas Ridley (c. 1500–16 October 1555) was an English Bishop of London (the only bishop called "Bishop of London and Westminster").

Sarah Anne Coakley (born 10 September 1951) is an Anglican systematic theologian and philosopher of religion with interdisciplinary interests.