Theistic thought leaders
Theistic thought leaders is an index of biographical starter pages for figures associated with the development, defense, reform, interpretation, or critique of theistic ideas across religious and philosophical traditions.
This list includes founders, theologians, philosophers of religion, mystics, reformers, scriptural interpreters, and public religious thinkers. Inclusion does not imply agreement with every view held by a person; it indicates historical or intellectual relevance to the study of theism.
People
- Abdu'l-Baha
- Abraham
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
- Abu Hanifa
- Ahmad ibn Hanbal
- Al-Ash'ari
- Al-Farabi
- Al-Ghazali
- Al-Maturidi
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Alvin Plantinga
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Aristotle
- Athanasius of Alexandria
- Augustine of Hippo
- Averroes
- Avicenna
- Baha'u'llah
- Basava
- Blaise Pascal
- Bonaventure
- C.S. Lewis
- Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
- Charles Hartshorne
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Eleonore Stump
- Ellen G. White
- Emanuel Swedenborg
- Fazlur Rahman Malik
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
- George Berkeley
- Gersonides
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Gregory of Nazianzus
- Gregory of Nyssa
- Guru Arjan
- Guru Gobind Singh
- Guru Nanak
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Hasdai Crescas
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Ibn Arabi
- Ibn Taymiyya
- Immanuel Kant
- Irenaeus of Lyon
- John Calvin
- John Duns Scotus
- John Henry Newman
- John Wesley
- Jonathan Edwards
- Joseph Smith
- Joseph Soloveitchik
- Judah Halevi
- Justin Martyr
- Jürgen Moltmann
- Karl Barth
- Karl Rahner
- Madhva
- Maimonides
- Marilyn McCord Adams
- Martin Buber
- Martin Luther
- Mary Baker Eddy
- Meister Eckhart
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
- Moses
- Moses Mendelssohn
- Muhammad
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Nimbarka
- Origen
- Paul the Apostle
- Philo of Alexandria
- Plato
- Plotinus
- Proclus
- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
- Ramakrishna
- Ramanuja
- René Descartes
- Richard Swinburne
- Robert Merrihew Adams
- Rumi
- Saadia Gaon
- Said Nursi
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- Shah Waliullah
- Shankara
- Sri Aurobindo
- Swaminarayan
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Teresa of Avila
- Tertullian
- The Bab
- Thomas Aquinas
- Vallabha
- Vivekananda
- William Lane Craig
- William of Ockham
- Zoroaster