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25 theologians to help broaden your faith
1. Marcus J. Borg is an American theologian and a prominent voice among contemporary Jesus scholars. He is the author of 19 books. Try: The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (1999), co-authored with N.T. Wright, or The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church’s Conservative Icon (2009), co-authored with John Dominic Crossan.
2. Douglas John Hall is a United Church minister and emeritus professor of theology at McGill University in Montreal, where he served on the faculty from 1975 to 1995. He has written 16 books. Try: Why Christian?: For Those on the Edge of Faith (1998).
3. John Dominic Crossan is a former Catholic priest who co-founded the Jesus Seminar, a group of 150 biblical scholars trying to establish the historicity of the deeds and sayings of Jesus. Try: Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (1994) or God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now (2007).
4. C. S. Lewis was an Irish-born British writer, lay theologian and proponent of Christian apologetics, a branch of theology that aims to present a rational defence of the Christian faith. Try: Mere Christianity (1952) or his children’s novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950).
5. Karen Armstrong is a former Roman Catholic nun who has written more than 20 books on faith, studying what Islam, Judaism and Christianity have in common and how they’ve shaped world history and modern culture. Try: The Bible: A Biography (2007).
