A lay theologian is a theologian "who is not ordained, or a theologian who has not been trained as a theologian".Andrew Louth, Modern Orthodox Thinkers: From the Philokalia to the Present, InterVarsity Press, 2015, p. 247. Despite not being trained as theologian or ordained, lay theologians may have academic qualifications in other disciplines.
Examples
Notable lay theologians include:
George Abbot Mortimer J. Adler Ethan Allen Joseph T. Bayly Edward Musgrave Blaiklock Nicholas Cabasilas G. K. Chesterton James F. Colaianni Nicolas Gomez Davila Fyodor Dostoevsky Jacques Ellul Thomas Erskine Jim Forest Rosemary Haughton Susan Howatch Aleksey Khomyakov John Lennox C. S. Lewis David Lodge Robert Magliola Marko Marulić Isaac Newton Johann Heinrich Pabst Paracelsus Caspar Peucer Dorothy L. Sayers Frank Sheed Uwe Siemon-Netto William Stringfellow Emanuel Swedenborg Maisie Ward
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