List of Methodist theologians
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Methodist theologians include those theologians affiliated with any of the Methodist denominational churches such as
Wesleyan Methodist Church (America), the Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain), the Pilgrim Holiness Church, and the Wesleyan Church
, as well as other church organizations.
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Proto-Methodist theologians
- Remonstrance and the soteriological system now known as Arminianism.
- moral government theoryof Christ's atonement.
- John Goodwin - Puritan-Arminian (1594–1665)
18th century
- John Wesley
- Charles Wesley
- George Whitefield
- John Fletcher
- Thomas Coke
- Joseph Benson
19th century
- New Light Baptistcommunity. 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.
- Ira Haynes La Fetra -- Theologian and Methodist missionary to South America
- 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
- William Taylor (bishop)
- 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.