Hermeneutists

Kevin Jon Vanhoozer (born March 10, 1957) is an American theologian and current Research Professor of Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS) in Deerfield, Illinois.

Georg Misch (German: [mɪʃ]; 5 April 1878, Berlin – 10 June 1965, Göttingen) was a German philosopher.

Johann Martin Chladni (Latinized Chladenius) (Lutherstadt Wittenberg, 17 April 1710 – Erlangen, 10 September 1759) was a German philosopher, theologian and historian, who is seen as one of the founders of Hermeneutics.

Andrzej Wiercinski (born March 10, 1961 in Białystok, Poland) is a Philosopher, Theologian, and a Poet.

Kah Kyung Cho (born 1927) is a Korean-American philosopher.

Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher.

Maurizio Ferraris (born February 7, 1956 in Turin) is an Italian philosopher and scholar.

Mostafa Malekian (born 1 January 1956) (Persian: مصطفی ملکیان ), is a prominent Iranian philosopher, thinker, translator and editor.

Hans Ludwig David Paul Graf Yorck von Wartenburg (1 April 1835 – 12 September 1897) was a German lawyer, writer and philosopher.

Gregory Victor Loewen (born 1966) is a Canadian social philosopher in the traditions of hermeneutics and phenomenology.

Dominique Janicaud (14 November 1937 – 18 August 2002) was a French philosopher, known for his critical approach to the philosophy of Heidegger.

Jean-Michel Oughourlian (born August 20, 1940) is a French neuropsychiatrist and psychologist as well as a writer and philosopher recognized both in France and the United States for his collaboration with René Girard and his work on the mimetic theory of desire.

Jean Grondin, OC (born August 27, 1955) is a philosopher and Canadian professor.

Jorge J.E. Gracia (born 1942, Cuba) is the Samuel P.

Joseph ben Simeon Kara (c. 1065 – c. 1135) (Hebrew: יוסף בן שמעון קרא) was a French Bible exegete who was born and lived in Troyes.

T. K. Seung is a Korean American philosopher and literary critic.

Charles B. Guignon (born 1944) is an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of South Florida.

Bijan Abdolkarimi (born 1963 in Tehran) (Persian: بیژن عبدالکریمی ) is an Iranian philosopher, thinker, translator and editor.

Elliot R. Wolfson (born 23 November 1956) is the Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Grant R. Osborne (born July 7, 1942) is an American theologian and New Testament scholar.

Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (Arabic: نصر حامد أبو زيد‎‎, IPA: [ˈnɑsˤɾe ˈħæːmed aboˈzeːd]; also Abu Zaid or Abu Zeid; July 10, 1943 – July 5, 2010) was an Egyptian Qur'anic thinker, author, academic and one of the leading liberal theologians in Islam.

Gregory K. Beale (born 1949 in Dallas, Texas) (also known as G. K. Beale) is a biblical scholar, currently a Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary.

Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari (Azerbaijani: Məhəmməd Müçtehıd Şəbıstəri; Persian: محمد مجتهد شبستری ; born 1936 in Shabestar, Iran) is a highly influential Iranian philosopher, Shia Islamic theologian, writer and professor at Tehran University.

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Ken Stone is an author, Professor of Bible, Culture and Hermeneutics at Chicago Theological Seminary and a member of the United Church of Christ.

Reverend Kuruvilla Pandikattu, born 28 November 1957, is an Indian Jesuit Priest and Professor of Philosophy, Science and Religion at Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth: Institute of Philosophy and Religion, Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Graeme Nicholson is a Canadian philosopher and Emeritus Professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto known for his research on ontology, hermeneutics, and anarchism.

Robert W. Funk (July 18, 1926 – September 3, 2005), was an American biblical scholar, founder of the controversial Jesus Seminar and the nonprofit Westar Institute in Santa Rosa, California.

Jean Paul Gustave Ricœur (French: [ʁikœʁ]; 27 February 1913 – 20 May 2005) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutics.

Paolo Diego Bubbio is a Senior Research Fellow in philosophy at the Western Sydney University.

Dimitris Vardoulakis is an Associate Professor and Deputy-chair of the Department of philosophy at the Western Sydney University.

Dieter Misgeld is a retired professor in the department of Theory and Policy Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto.

Professor Mohammed Arkoun (Berber: Muḥemmed Arkun, Arabic: محمد أركون‎‎; 1 February 1928 – 14 September 2010) was an Algerian scholar and thinker of Kabyle descent.

Werner Marx (19 September 1910 in Mülheim – 21 November 1994 in Bollschweil Priory) was a German philosopher and expert on Heidegger's thought.

Georgia Warnke is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science (and formerly Distinguished Professor of Philosophy) and the Director of the Center for Ideas & Society at the University of California, Riverside.

Ahmed Subhy Mansour (Arabic: أحمد صبحي منصور‎‎; born March 1, 1949) is an Egyptian American activist, whose website describes him as an Islamic scholar with expertise in Islamic history, culture, theology, and politics.

Simon Lumsden is senior lecturer in philosophy at University of New South Wales.

Vanessa Lemm is a professor of philosophy and head of the School of Humanities at University of New South Wales.

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

Dalibor Vesely (19 June 1934 – 31 March 2015) was a Czech-born architectural historian and theorist who was influential through his teaching and writing in promoting the role of hermeneutics and phenomenology as part of the discourse of architecture and of architectural design.

Frederick G. Lawrence is an American hermeneutic philosopher and theologian, and a specialist in Bernard Lonergan, teaching in the Department of Theology at Boston College, Boston, USA.

Rudolf Karl Bultmann (German: [ˈbʊltman]; 20 August 1884 – 30 July 1976) was a German Lutheran theologian and professor of New Testament at the University of Marburg.

Gianteresio Vattimo (born 4 January 1936) is an Italian philosopher and politician.

Jarava Lal Mehta (1912 – 11 July 1988) was an Indian philosopher, an expert on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.

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

Santiago Zabala (born 1975) is a European philosopher (raised in Rome, Vienna, and Geneva) and ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy at the Pompeu Fabra University.

Andrés Ortiz-Osés (born 1943, Tardienta) is a Spanish philosopher.

Peter Eric Enns (born January 2, 1961) is an American biblical scholar, theologian, and writer.

Dennis J. Schmidt is an American philosopher and Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the Western Sydney University.

Bernard Malcolm Levinson serves as Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies and of Law at the University of Minnesota, where he holds the Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible.

Bernard L. Ramm (1 August 1916 in Butte, Montana - 11 August 1992 in Irvine, California) was a Baptist theologian and apologist within the broad Evangelical tradition.

Otto Friedrich Bollnow (German: [ˈbɔlnoː]; 14 March 1903 in Stettin – 7 February 1991 in Tübingen) was a German philosopher and teacher.

Roberto Rino Magliola (born 1940) is an Italian-American academic specializing in European hermeneutics and deconstruction, in comparative philosophy, and in inter-religious dialogue.

Hans Köchler (born 18 October 1948) is a retired professor of philosophy at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and president of the International Progress Organization, a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the United Nations.

Wolfgang Drechsler (born June 6, 1963 in Marburg, West Germany) is a Public Administration, Political Philosophy and Innovation Policy scholar.

Yvanka B. Raynova (Bulgarian: Иванка Б. Райнова) is a Bulgarian philosopher, feminist, editor, translator, and publisher.

Abdolkarim Soroush ( ahb-dohl-kah-REEM soh-ROOSH عبدالكريم سروش), born Hossein Haj Faraj Dabbagh (born 1945; Persian: حسين حاج فرج دباغ‎‎), is an Iranian thinker, reformer, Rumi scholar and a former professor of philosophy at the University of Tehran and Imam Khomeini International University.

Françoise Dastur (born 1942 in Lyon) is a French philosopher.

Philippe Nys (1947, Tournai) is a Belgian-born French philosopher.

Don Ihde (/dɑːn aɪd/; born 1934) is an American philosopher of science and technology, and a postphenomenologist.

Bernard Joseph Francis Lonergan, SJ, CC (17 December 1904 – 26 November 1984) was a Canadian Jesuit priest, philosopher, and theologian, regarded by many as one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century.

Rudolf Adam Makkreel (born 1939) is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Philosophy at Emory University.

Arto Haapala (born 1959) is a Finnish philosopher, aesthetician and Professor of Aesthetics at the Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies at Helsinki University, Finland.

Paul Rabinow (born June 21, 1944) is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California (Berkeley), Director of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory (ARC), and former Director of Human Practices for the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC).

Craig G. Bartholomew (MA, Potchefstroom University, PhD, Bristol University) is the H.

Hans Wilhelm Frei (April 29, 1922 – September 12, 1988) was a biblical scholar and theologian who is best known for work on biblical hermeneutics.

Wilhelm Dilthey (German: [ˈdɪltaɪ]; 19 November 1833 – 1 October 1911) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, and hermeneutic philosopher, who held G.

James H. Olthuis is an inter-disciplinary scholar in ethics, hermeneutics, philosophical theology, as well as a theorist and practitioner of psychotherapy of a kind he calls "Relational psychotherapy.

Shūzō Kuki (九鬼 周造 Kuki Shūzō, February 15, 1888 – May 6, 1941) was a prominent Japanese academic, philosopher and university professor.

Jesse N. K. Mugambi (born 6 February 1947) is a professor of philosophy and religious studies at the University of Nairobi with professional training in education; communication policy and planning; publishing; ecology and applied ethics.

Shaun Gallagher is an Irish-American philosopher who works on embodied cognition and social cognition, agency and the philosophy of psychopathology.