The "Modern Theologians" category presents biographies and selected works from the great theologians of the modern era. This category is limited to those theologians whose completed life's work has contributed widely to religious thought, and who have won critical acclaim from both the professional academic community and the public at large.
Karl Barth (1886-1968) was born in Basel and received his theological training in Germany. After 12 years as a pastor of Swiss Reformed churches in two small towns in Switzerland, he began to write. His work on a commentary in Romans marked the beginning of his departure from his liberal training. He further refined his thoughts, developing a total theological system. In it he emphasized God's holiness, his incomprehensibility to the human mind and his sovereign grace. He then began teaching this new theology in European universities. A major framer of the Barmen declaration, in 1935 he was forced to flee from Nazi Germany to Basel.
Emil Brunner (1889–1966) was a Swiss Protestant theologian. A clear and systematic thinker from the school of dialectical theology, he was a professor of theology at the Univ. of Zürich (1924–53) and Christian University, Tokyo (1953–55). He several times visited and lectured in the United States. Like Karl Barth he challenged the leaders of modern rational and liberal Christian theology and proclaimed a theology of revelation. The Christian faith, he maintained, arises from the encounter between individuals and God as He is revealed in the Bible.
This category lists pages and sites about the teachings, personality, and ministry of popular Christian teacher Bill Gothard. The interdenominational leader serves as head of the Institute in Basic Life Principles and plays an active role in many satellite organizations including the Advanced Training Institute, Character Training Institute, Character First and International Association of Character Cities.
Stanley Hauerwas is a modern theologian and ethicist from USA, During the last years of his scientific career he was professor at Duke Divinity School.
From wikipedia: American theologian, ethicist, and public intellectual. Hauerwas is a longtime professor at Duke University, serving as the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School with a joint appointment at the Duke University School of Law. In the fall of 2014, he also assumed a chair in Theological Ethics at the University of Aberdeen. Before coming to Duke, Hauerwas taught at the University of Notre Dame. Hauerwas is considered by many to be one of the world's most influential living theologians and was named "America's Best Theologian" by Time Magazine in 2001.
Jürgen Moltmann (April 8, 1926 -) is a German theologian and Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He is most noted as a proponent of his “theology of hope” and for his incorporation of insights from liberation theology and ecology into mainstream trinitarian theology.
Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918) was a German-American theologian and social reformer and Baptist minister who ministered among the poor and the industrial workers of New York City. As a witness to extreme poverty he came to the view that Christianity should be at the core of social renewal and helped develop the Social Gospel movement.