Book description
This companion brings together a team of contemporary theologians and
writers to provide substantial introductions to the key people who
shaped the Christian story and tradition.
- A substantial reference work, bringing together over 75 entries on
the most important and influential theologians in the history of Christianity
- Structured accessibly around five periods: early centuries, middle
ages, reformation period, the Enlightenment, and the
twentieth-century to the present
- A to Z entries range from substantial essays to shorter overviews,
each of which locates the theologian in their immediate context,
summarizes the themes of their work, and explains their significance
- Covers a broad span of theologians, from Augustine to Thomas
Aquinas, through to C. S. Lewis, James Cone, and Rosemary Radford Reuther
- Provides profiles of key Catholic, protestant, evangelical, and
progressive theologians
- Includes a useful timeline to orientate the reader, reading lists,
and a glossary of key terms
Ian S. Markham is the Dean and President of Virginia
Theological Seminary. Awards include the Robertson Fellow 2006, Teape
Lecturer in India 2004, Claggett Fellow attached to Washington
National Cathedral in 2000, and Frank Woods Fellow at Trinity College,
Melbourne in 1997. He is the author and editor of numerous books,
including The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Anglican
Communion (edited with J. Barney Hawkins IV, Justyn Terry &
Leslie Nuñez Steffensen, 2013), Against Atheism: Why Dawkins,
Hitchens, and Harris Are Fundamentally Wrong (2010), A World
Religions Reader, 3rd edition (2009), Understanding Christian
Doctrine (2007), and Do Morals Matter (2006), all published
by Wiley-Blackwell.
