A lay theologian is a theologian "who is not ordained, or a theologian who has not been trained as a theologian".[1] Lay theologians often have academic qualifications in other academic disciplines.
Examples edit
Notable lay theologians include:
- George Abbot
- Ethan Allen
- Joseph T. Bayly
- Edward Musgrave Blaiklock
- Nicholas Cabasilas
- G. K. Chesterton
- James F. Colaianni
- Nicolas Gomez Davila
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Jacques Ellul
- Thomas Erskine
- Jim Forest
- Rosemary Haughton
- Susan Howatch
- Aleksey Khomyakov
- John Lennox
- C. S. Lewis
- David Lodge
- Robert Magliola
- Marko Marulić
- Isaac Newton
- Johann Heinrich Pabst
- Caspar Peucer
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Frank Sheed
- Uwe Siemon-Netto
- William Stringfellow
- Maisie Ward
References edit
- ^ Andrew Louth, Modern Orthodox Thinkers: From the Philokalia to the Present, InterVarsity Press, 2015, p. 247.
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