Lay theologian
# Lay theologian

A lay theologian is a theologian "who is not ordained, or a theologian who has not been trained as a theologian". Lay theologians often have academic qualifications in other academic disciplines.

## Examples

Notable lay theologians include:

* George Abbot
* 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
* Caspar Peucer
* Dorothy L. Sayers
* Frank Sheed
* Uwe Siemon-Netto
* William Stringfellow
* Maisie Ward
