Top 12 Living Christian Scholars

There are so many Christian giants in Christian biblical scholarship who are now a part of the great cloud of witnesses throughout the history of the church.  Here is a list of influential Christian scholars who deal with Scripture, church, and tradition in our contemporary context.  The best of Retrieval and Christian Ressourcement Theology for today.

1.  N. T. Wright is probably the most influential theological and biblical scholar today.  He is an Anglican who has shaped the future of Christian theological discussions.

2.  Mark Noll is the best Evangelical Christian historian who is recently about to retire.  He has done more to put American Christianity in perspective with an eye on the global church.

3.  Kenneth Bailey insights into Middle Eastern studies of Scriptures are amazing.

4.  J. Richard Middleton is the only scholar I personally know who is brilliant in older testament studies and wedding them with Newer testament development understandings. Richard also brings Caribbean and American cultural backgrounds together in a magisterial way.

5.  Ephraim Radner writings have tremendous insights weaving historical, theological, and ancient history together under the rubric of ecclesiology.

6.  Steven R. Harmon writings on Baptist catholicity are excellent.

7. D. H. Williams is another Baptist scholar resourcing the great tradition for future development of Protestant theology.

8.  Peter Liethart is an amazing biblical scholar with a sharp pulse on the heartbeat of scripture and culture.

9.  Matthew Levering is a Catholic scholar doing amazing work on ecumenical studies between the great traditions of Christianity.

10.  Hans Boersma is a Reformed scholar doing more than anyone I know in bridging ancient-future studies together and retrieving sacramental theology for the modern church.

11.  Theodore G. Stylianpoulos is probably the best Eastern Orthodox biblical scholar who Evangelicals have yet to know of his works.

12.  Andrew Louth is an excellent Eastern Orthodox theologian introducing the Eastern worldview of Christianity to the western church.