Stanley Martin Hauerwas is an American Protestant theologian,ethicist,and public intellectual. Hauerwas originally taught at the University of Notre Dame before moving to Duke University. Hauerwas was a longtime professor at Duke,serving as the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School with a joint appointment at the Duke University School of Law. In the fall of 2014,he also assumed a chair in theological ethics at the University of Aberdeen. Hauerwas is considered by many to be one of the world's most influential living theologians and was named "America's Best Theologian" by Time magazine in 2001. He was also the first American theologian to deliver the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland in over forty years. His work is frequently read and debated by scholars in fields outside of religion or ethics,such as political philosophy,sociology,history,and literary theory. Hauerwas has achieved notability outside of academia as a public intellectual,even appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Musimbi Kanyoro is a Kenyan-born human rights advocate,social activist and feminist theologian who is known for her cross-cultural leadership in international organizations. She is a founding member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians and its first coordinator (1996-2002). She is also the first woman from Global South to lead the oldest and largest women's ecumenical organization. She was the CEO and President of the Global Fund for Women from 2011 - 2019,and serves as the chairperson of the International Board of the United World Colleges.
Kevin T. Kelly was a British Roman Catholic priest and moral theologian.
Manasses Kuria was a Kenyan Anglican archbishop. He was the second African archbishop and bishop of Nairobi in the Anglican Church of Kenya.
Margaret A. Farley is an American religious sister and a member of the Catholic Sisters of Mercy. She was Gilbert L. Stark Professor Emerita of Christian Ethics at Yale University Divinity School,where she taught Christian ethics from 1971 to 2007. Farley is the first woman appointed to serve full-time on the Yale School board,along with Henri Nouwen as its first Catholic faculty members. She is a past president of Catholic Theological Society of America.
Mercy Amba Ewudziwa Oduyoye is a Ghanaian Methodist theologian known for her work in African women's theologies and theological anthropology. She is currently the Director of the Institute of African Women in Religion and Culture at Trinity Theological Seminary,Ghana. She founded the Circle of Concerned African Theologians in Ghana in 1987 to promote the visibility and publishing agenda of African women Theologians.
Jesse Ndwiga Kanyua Mugambi, is a professor of philosophy and religious studies at the University of Nairobi with professional training in education and philosophy of religion.
Rev. David Hollenbach,S.J. is a Jesuit priest,professor,author,and moral theologian currently serving as the Pedro Arrupe Distinguished Research Professor of the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is a consultant to the Jesuit Refugee Service and is the recipient of the John Courtney Murray Award from the Catholic Theological Society of America in 1998.
David Mukuba Gitari was a Kenyan Anglican archbishop. He was the third primate and archbishop of the Anglican Church of Kenya,from 1997 to 2002,and at the same time,Bishop of the Diocese of Nairobi. He was married to Grace Wanjiru,since 1966,and they had three children.
Political theology in sub-Saharan Africa deals with the relationship of theology and politics born from and/or specific to the circumstances of the region. Arising from the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and nationalist campaigns of the mid- to late twentieth century elsewhere,the increasing numbers of Christians in sub-Saharan Africa has led to an increased interest in Christian responses to the region's continuing issues of poverty,violence,and war. According to the Cameroonian theologian and sociologist Jean-Marc Éla,African Christianity "has to be formulated from the struggles of our people,from their joys,from their pains,from their hopes and from their frustrations today." African theology is heavily influenced by liberation theology,global black theology,and postcolonial theology.
Nigel John Biggar is a British Anglican priest,theologian,and ethicist. From 2007 to 2022,he was the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford.
The Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians is a pan-African ecumenical organization that supports scholarly research of African women theologians. The Circle mentors the next generation of African women theologians throughout their academic careers in order to counter the dearth of academic theological literature by African women. The Circle has chapters in more than a dozen countries across the African continent,as well as diaspora chapters in Europe and North America.
Esther Moraa Mombo is a Kenyan Anglican female theologian and a full professor of theology in the school of theology at St. Paul's University,Limuru. She researches church history with a focus on mission history,interfaith relations and theology,and gender studies with a focus on African women's theologies,sexuality,and HIV/AIDS. She is the founder of the Tamar campaign in Kenya which acknowledges gender-based violence in society and empowers churches to address it. She is the founder member of Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians St. Paul’s chapter in Kenya.
Nyambura J. Njoroge is a Kenyan feminist Theologian and ecumenical leader. She was the first Kenyan woman ordained in the Presbyterian Church of East Africa in 1982. She was the first African to work in the World Alliance of Reformed Churches from 1992 to 1998 when she joined the World Council of Churches. She is a founding member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians and a member of the Kenyan chapter. She is a member of ANERELA+ . She co-edited Talitha Cum! Theologies of African Women,with Musa Dube. In 1992,she became the first African woman to earn a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary. She was the first African woman to study a Bachelors Degree in Divinity at St.Pauls University,Limuru,Kenya.
Philomena Njeri Mwaura is a Kenyan theologian and an Associate Professor Religious Studies at Kenyatta University,Kenya. She has published widely in the areas of African Christianity- History and Theology and New Religious Movements.
Teresia Mbari Hinga was a Kenyan Christian feminist theologian and a professor of religious studies at Santa Clara University in California. She was a founding member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians.
Laurenti Magesa was a Catholic priest and theologian from Tanzania. He helped develop African theology,writing a dozen books on topics such as African Christology and African spirituality. He has served as a parish priest and taught theology at schools in Kenya,Tanzania,and the United States.
Mary Getui is a Kenyan theologian and professor of religious studies at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. She is a founding member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians. In 2009,Getui was named a Moran of the Burning Spear. She was appointed as chair of the National Aids Control Council of Kenya that same year.
Hazel Ong'ayo Ayanga is a Kenyan theologian whose work focuses on the care and empowerment of orphans,vulnerable children and women affected by HIV/AIDS. She is an associate professor of Religious Studies at Moi University,Kenya and also researches spirituality in clinical settings,religion and change in Africa and the centrality of ritual in human life. She has published over twenty peer-reviewed articles and coauthored several book chapters and edited volumes.
