This is a list of notable Theologians. They are listed by century. If a particular theologian crosses over two centuries, they may be listed in the latter century or in the century in which they are best identified with.

1st century

• Paul (c. 3 – 66)

2nd century

• Marcion (died 144 BCE)
• Polycarp (c. 70 – 160)
• Justin Martyr (c. 110 - 165)

3rd century

• Clement of Alexandria (c.150-c.215)
• Irenaeus (ca. 120-203)
• Origen (ca. 184-254)
• Tertullian

4th century

• Athanasius (296 - 373)
• Gregory of Nyssa (c. 330 - c. 395)

5th century

• Augustine (354-430)
• Jerome (c. 347-420)

9th century

• John Scotus Eriugena (810-877)

12th century

• Peter Abelard (1079-1142)
• Anselm (1033-1109)
• Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)

13th century

• Albertus Magnus (c. 1200-1280)
• Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274)

14th century

• Scotus Johannes Duns (1265?-1308?)
• Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)

15th century

• Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
• Julian of Norwich (c. 1342 - 1416)
• Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)

16th century

• Alexander Alesius (1500-1565)
• Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575)
• Theodore Beza (1519-1605)
• John Calvin (1509-1564)
• Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556)
• Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536)
• John Knox (c. 1513-1572)
• Ignatius of Loyola (c. 1491-1556)
• Martin Luther (1483-1546)
• Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560)
• Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531)

17th century

• James Arminius (1560-1609)
• Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
• Jakob Boehme (1575-1624)
• Zachary Boyd (1585-1653)
• Owen Feltham (c. 1602-1668)
• John Flavel (1627-1691)
• George Fox (1624-1691)
• Hugo Grotius (1583-1645)
• John Owen (1616-1683)
• Anton Praetorius (1560-1613)
• Francis Turretin (1623-1687)

18th century

• George Bull (1634 - 1710)
• Thomas Burnet (1635? - 1715)
• Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
• John Fletcher (1729-1785)
• John Gill (1697-1771)
• Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
• Philipp Jacob Spener (1635–1705)
• Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772)
• Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
• John Wesley (1703-1791)
• George Whitefield (1774-1770)

19th century

• Archibald Alexander (1772-1851)
• Nathan Bangs (1778-1862)
• William Booth (1829-1912)
• Borden Parker Bowne (1847-1910)
• Adam Clarke (1762-1832)
• Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875)
• Wilbur Fisk (1792-1839)
• A. A. Hodge (1823-1886)
• Charles Hodge (1797-1878)
• Hugh Price Hughes (1847-1902)
• John Miley (1813-1895)
• John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
• William Burt Pope (1822-1903)
• Philip Schaff (1819-1893)
• Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834)
• Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892)
• Richard Watson (1781-1833)

20th century

• Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988)
• Karl Barth (1886-1968)
• Louis Berkhof (1873-1957)
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
• Edgar S. Brightman (1884—1953)
• Martin Buber (1878-1965)
• Rudolf Karl Bultmann (1884-1976)
• Gordon Clark (1902-1985)
• Edmund Clowney (1917–2005)
• John B. Cobb (1925 – )
• Yves Congar (1904-1995)
• Dorothy Day (1897—1980)
• Avery Cardinal Dulles (1918 – )
• Frederic William Farrar (1831-1903)
• Hans Wilhelm Frei (1922-1988)
• J. Kenneth Grider
• Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928 – )
• Georgia Harkness (1891-1974)
• Adolf von Harnack (1851-1930)
• Carl F. H. Henry (1913-2003)
• Anthony A. Hoekema (1913-1988)
• E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973)
• Albert C. Knudson (1873-1953)
• Hans Küng (1928– )
• Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920)
• C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
• Edwin Lewis (1881-1959)
• Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984)
• Henri de Lubac (1896-1991)
• J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937)
• Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
• Johann Baptist Metz (1928– )
• John Murray (1898-1975)
• Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
• H. Richard Niebuhr (1894-1962)
• Rudolf Otto (1869-1937)
• Albert C. Outler (1908-1989)
• J.I. Packer (1926- )
• Karl Rahner (1904-1984)
• Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929)
• Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936– )
• Francis Schaeffer (1912-1984)
• Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
• Albert Benjamin Simpson (1843-1919)
• John Stott (1921- )
• Paul Tillich (1886-1965)
• Thomas F. Torrance (1913- )
• Cornelius Van Til (1895-1987)
• John Walvoord (1910-2002)
• B. B. Warfield (1851-1921)
• Karol Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II) (1920-2005)
• John Howard Yoder (1927-1997)

21st century

• Marva Dawn
• Richard Foster
• John Frame (1939- )
• Stanley Grenz (1950-2005)
• Stanley Hauerwas (1940- )
• Michael Horton
• Alister McGrath (1953- )
• Jürgen Moltmann (1926- )
• Thomas C. Oden (1931- )
• Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928-)
• Eugene Peterson (1932- )
• Andrew Purves
• Edward Schillebeeckx (1914 – )
• R. C. Sproul
• David Tracy (1939-)
• Miroslav Volf
• William Willimon (1946- )
• N.T. Wright