List of Methodist theologians
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Methodist theologians include those theologians affiliated with any of the Methodist denominational churches such as The United Methodist Church , independent Methodists, or churches affiliated with the Holiness Movement including the Church of the Nazarene , the Free Methodist Church , the Wesleyan Methodist Church (America) , the Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain) , the Pilgrim Holiness Church , and the Wesleyan Church , as well as other church organizations.
Proto-Methodist theologians
- Jacobus Arminius - ordained pastor of the Dutch Reformed church, studied under Theodore Beza and rejected the teachings of John Calvin , inspired the Remonstrance and the soteriological system now known as Arminianism .
- Hugo Grotius - playwright, poet, and humanist philosopher of the Aristotelian tradition, systematized Arminianism and developed the moral government theory of Christ's atonement.
- John Goodwin - Puritan-Arminian (1594–1665)
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19th century
- Nathan Bangs - Arminian apologist, first editor of the Methodist magazine Christian Advocate , opposed the antinomianism of the New Light Baptist community. Wrote six significant theological letters to a Presbyterian pastor, Rev. S. Williston.
- Amos Binney
- Borden Parker Bowne - wrote numerous books on various theological themes; renowned as a philosopher and theologian.
- Jabez Bunting - author of numerous articles and published sermons.
- Adam Clarke - Biblical theologian uncomfortable with systematic approaches to Christian theology , Wrote a single volume theology. He also wrote a commentary which became one of the most widely used commentaries of all time.
- Helenor M. Davisson - the first woman ordained in American Methodist Church.
- Wilbur Fisk - religious educator, favored ending slavery progressively (rather than in the revolutionary way proposed by other notable abolitionists, so as to avoid a split in the Church), early influence on the temperance movement .
- Hugh Price Hughes - Welsh social reformer, first editor of the Methodist Times and first superintendent of the West London Methodist Mission .
- John Miley - wrote a two-volume systematic theology (1893). Rejected the penal substitution theory of the atonement and advocated a moral government theory .
- Phoebe Palmer - female author, theologian, and preacher. Spoke specifically on holiness and sanctification
- William Burt Pope - wrote a 3-volume systematic theology.
- James Strong
- Richard Watson - outspoken British abolitionist , wrote against Clarke in defense of the eternal Sonship of Christ, one of the first theologians to systematize Wesley's theology.