Membership List

List of Members in the Order of their Election

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Date of resignation or death not listed.

1912

Charles R. Brown
Francis Brown
William Adams Brown
George A. Coe
George Cross
Edward S. Drown
Allen M. Dulles
Daniel Evans
Milton G. Evans
W. W. Fenn
A. L. Gillett
W. M. Groton
Thomas C. Hall
Arthur P. Hunt
Raymond C. Knox
Eugene W. Lyman
Duncan B. Macdonald
Douglas Macintosh
W. D. MacKenzie
Arthur C. McGiffert
Spencer B. Meiser
D. S. Miller
Edward C. Moore
Frank C. Porter
E. Hershey Sneath
Frank A. Starratt
Richard M. Vaughn
Herbert A. Youtz

1913

Rufus M. Jones

1914

R. E. Hume
W. P. Ladd
John J. Martin
Frederic Palmer
Wilford L.Robbins

1915

D. J. Fleming
Kirsopp Lake

1916

Clayton R. Bowen
Henry Sloane Coffin
E. Albert Cook
H. J. Foakes Jackson
J. B. Pratt
N. E. Richardson

1917

H.W. Fosbroke
C. B. Hedrick

1918

None

1919

G.A. Johnston Ross
George E. Horr
L.A. Weigle

1920

John Baillie
E. S. Brightman
Durant Drake
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Albert C. Knudson
George S. Richards
E. P. Scott
W. J. Thompson
H. B. Washburn

1921

W. Cosby Bell
Francis A. Christie
W. B. Hocking
John F. Vichert

1922

Angus Dun
Edwin Lewis
I. G. Matthews
W. P. Montague
Norman B. Nash
H. C. Vedden
G. R. Wells
W. K. Wright

1923

W. H. Sheldon

1924

C. A. Bennett
G. B. Cutten
Harrison S. Elliott

1925

C. A. Dinsmore
Morton S. Enslin
Edward S. Worcester

1926

J. Seelye Bixler
Marion J. Bradshaw
Robert L. Calhoun
Leonard Hodgson
Robert S. Smith
Thomas Wearing

1927

John Aberly
Frederick C. Grant
E. C. Herrick
O. W. Warmingham

1928

Edwin E. Aubrey
I. R. Beiler
E. G. Bewkes
J. M. Shaw
George F. Thomas
R. R. Wicks

1929

Walter T. Brown
Walter M. Horton
Reinhold Niebuhr
Henry P. Van Dusen
Alban G. Widgery

1930

John C. Bennett
S. L. Joslin
Douglas V. Steere

1931

H. Richard Niebuhr
Wilbur M. Urban
Augus S. Woodburne

1932

H. H. Farmer
Henry T. Hodgkin
G. H. Macgregor
Donald Mackenzie
H. Allen Overstreet

1933

None

1934

Bruce Brotherston
Vergilius Ferm
Arthur E. Murphy
Gregory Vlastos

1935

Brand Blanshard
Henry J. Cadbury
Theodore M. Greene
Joseph Haroutunian
Paul J. Tillich

1936

E. A. Burtt
Hornell Hart
T. Hermann

1937

E. R. Goodenough
Georgia Harkness
John A. Mackay
John Wild

1938

E. J. Johanson
H. W. Schneider
Percy Urban

1939

Nels F. S. Ferré
John Knox
W. Norman Pittenger
David E. Roberts

1940

Andrew Banning
Howard H. Brinton
Charles W. Lowry
Otto A. Piper
H. Shelton Smith

1941

George W. Davis
Richard S. M. Emrich
J. L. Hromadka
John E. Kuizenga
A. T. Mollegen

1942

Jacques Maritain
Albert C. Outler
Carl C. Rasmussen

1943

Clarence H. Hamilton
Hugh T. Kerr, Jr.
Hugh Vernon White

1944

Karl Löwith

1945

Peter A. Bertocci
J. Arthur Heck
Paul Minear

1946

Richard Kroner

1947

None

1948

Erich Frank
Paul Lehmann
Walter G. Muelder
John Newton Thomas
William J. Wolf

1949

Martin Heinecken

1950

L. Harold DeWolf
Roger Hazelton
James Muilenberg
Paul Ramsey

1951

Robert E. Cushman
Mary E. Lyman

1952

Julian N. Hartt

1953

Erich Dinkler
George S. Hendry

1954

Wilhelm Pauck

1955

J. Calvin Keene
Daniel D. Williams

1956

Horton Davies
W. D. Davies
Stanley R. Hopper

1957

Robert McAfee Brown
Eugene R. Fairweather
John H. Hick

1958

William Banner
William Bradley
Nils Ehrenstrom
John Hutchison
Robert C. Johnson
Cyril Richardson
John E. Smith
Roger Shinn

1959

Gerald C. Cragg

1960

William A. Christian

1961

James I. McCord
Carl Michalson
Leon Wright

1962

J. Alfred Martin
Alfred Stiernotte
S. Paul Schilling
Claude Welch

1963

J. Robert Nelson
John E. Skinner

1964

None

1965

Bernhard Anderson
James Luther Adams
John Bright
Walter Harrelson
John Meyendorff
Paul Meyer
John Courtney Murray
Wilfred C. Smith
D. M. Stanley
George Tavard
G. Ernest Wright

1966

James Carpenter
Frederick Ferré
Lawrence Folkemer
James Gustafson
Gordon Kaufman
John Macquarrie
Arthur McGill
Alexander Schmeman

1967

Frederick Herzog
Gregory Baum
Carl F. Henry
Robert O. Johann
Will Herberg

1968

Fred Berthold, Jr.
Walter J. Burghardt
Harvey J. Cox, Jr.
Van A. Harvey
Richard R. Niebuhr
Schubert Ogden
Elmer O’Brien
James F. Ross
Lou H. Silberman
James D. Smart

1969

John Deschner
Emil Fackenheim
Franklin W. Young

1970

Waldo Beach

1971

Eugene Borowitz
Raymond E. Brown
James Hal Cone
Avery Dulles
John D. Godsey
Clyde Holbrook
Robert W. Jenson
Roland E. Murphy
Richard A. Norris
Manfred H. Vogel

1972

Thomas A. Langford
William H. Lazareth
Rosemary Ruether
David Tracy
Gabriel Vahanian

1973

Stephen D. Crites
George I. Mavrodes
Robert Neville
Gene H. Outka
Jaroslav J. Pelikan, Jr.
Owen W. Thomas
Preston N. Williams

1974

Louis Dupre
Erazim Kohak
Gabriel Fackre
Sallie TeSelle (McFague)
Charles C. West
Gayraud S. Wilmore, Jr.

1975

Paul J. Achtemeier
Charles E. Curran
W. Edward Farley
David Noel Freedman
Hans W. Frei
Marianne Micks
Alvin Plantinga
LeRoy S. Rouner

1976

David H. Kelsey
Ann Belford Ulanov

1977

Langdon Gilkey
Richard McCormick
Paul van Buren

1978

James F. Childress
William May
Elaine Pagels
Robert Scharleman

1979

John Dillenberger
George Lindbeck
James Deotis Roberts, Sr.
George E. Rupp
Letty M. Russell
Gerard Sloyan
Michael Wyschogrod

1980

Franz J. van Beeck
J. A. Fitzmeyer
Edward L. Long, Jr.
Thomas C. Oden
J. I. Packer
Larry Rasmussen
David Willis-Watkins
J. Philip Wogaman

1981

Margaret Miles
Clark Pinnock
Wayne Proudfoot
D. Moody Smith
Max Stackhouse
Geoffrey Wainwright

1982

Elizabeth Achtemeier
Orlando Costas
Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Kosuke Koyama
Pheme Perkins

1983

Margaret A. Farley
Lonnie D. Kliever
Erazim Kohak
Christopher Morse
Charles P. Price
David H. Smith
Philip Turner
Edith Wyschogrod

1984

Carnegie Sam Calian
Francine Jo Cardman
Leander E. Keck
Lloyd G. Patterson
Charles M. Wood

1985

Francis Schüssler Fiorenza
Karlfried Froehlich
Robert Hood
Richard N. Longenecker
David Novak
Harold L. Oliver
David N. Power
Marjorie Suchocki
David Wells
Robert L. Wilken

The side porch at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, where the American Theological Society sometimes enjoys drinks prior to the annual banquet.

1986

Bruce C. Birch
Noel Leo Erskin
Stanley Hauerwas
Robert Kent Johnston
William R. James
Gilbert C. Meilaender, Jr.
Thomas W. Ogletree
Ronald F. Thiemann
Cornel West

1987

Dennis M. Campbell
Charles Kannengiesser
Alexander J. McKelway
Peter Slater
Ronald H. Stone
Bard Thompson

1988

Diogenes Allen
Lewis S. Ford
Vigen Guroian
Stanley S. Harakas
I. John Hesselink, Jr.
Daniel L. Migliore
Victor L. Nuovo
Norbert Samuelson

1989

Douglas John Hall
Ray L. Hart
Jung Young Lee
Joanne McWilliam
Gordon E. Michalson
Peter J. Paris
Alan P. F. Sell

1990

Willian P. Alston
Juan Samuel Escobar
Michael A. Fahey
Richard J. Mouw
Henry James Young

1991

None

1992

Audrey R. Chapnan
Neil Gillman
Mathew L. Lamb
M. Douglas Meeks

1993

James H. Evans
Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Elizabeth A. Johnson
Robin W. Lovin
Eleanore Stump
Kathryn E. Tanner
Pamela Dickey Young

1994

Michael J. Buckley
Daniel W. Hardy
Judith Plaskow
Lamin Sanneh

1995

Mark Burrows
Richard B. Hays
Christopher Seitz

1996

Jack Dean Kingsbury
Peter Warren Ochs

1997

Rebecca S. Chopp
Francis X. Clooney
George Hunsinger
Catherine Keller
L. Gregory Jones
Peter C. Phan
Miroslav Volf

1998

None

1999

Walter Brueggemann
Wendell Dietrich
Stephen Mark Heim
L. Serene Jones
Alan Segal
Susan L. Nelson

2000

Ellen T. Charry
Sarah A. Coakley
Paul J. Griffiths
Bruce D. Marshall
Douglas F. Ottati
Wentzel van Huyssteen
Wesley J. Wildman

2001

John H. Berthrong
Patrick Miller
Samuel Roberts
R. Kendall Soulen
Josiah Ulysses Young III

2002

J. Patout Burns
Virginia Burrus
Mary McClintock Fulkerson
Timothy George
Reinhard Hütter
Katherine Sonderegger
Thomas Thangaraj

2003

Peter S. Hawkins
Dan E. Saliers

2004

Katie Geneva Cannon
Sheila Greeve Davaney
Diana L. Hayes
John A. McGuckin

2005

John Burgess
Brian Daley
Roger Haight
Joseph Mangina
Donald Shriver
Thomas Tobin

2006

Dale C. Allison, Jr.
Teresa Berger
Linell Cady
Cynthia Crysdale
Gary Dorrien
Beverly Roberts Gaventa
Chester Gillis
Bruce McCormack
John Thiel
Terrence Tilley
Iain R. Torrance
Benjamin Valentin

2007

Michael Battle
C. Clifton Black
Mary Catherine Hilkert
Peter Hodgson
Cheryl Kirk-Duggan
Eugene Rogers

2008

Charles C. Hefling, Jr.
Cheryl J. Sanders
William Storrar

2009

Robert Hughes
Mark Jordan
Paul Knitter
Stephen Ray
Emilie Townes

2010

J. Kameron Carter
Eric Gregory
Catherine Cornille
Bradford Hinze
Amy Hollywood
L. Ann Jervis
James F. Kay
Paul Lakeland
Thomas Reynolds

2011

Leora Batnitzki
Raymond Bulman
Shawn Copeland
Cleo McNelly Kearns
P. Travis Kroeker
Leo Lefebure
Ian McFarland
Ephraim Radner

2012

Phillip Cary
Paul J. DeHart
Jean Porter
James K. A. Smith
Frederick L. Ware

2013

Jeannine Hill Fletcher
Dale T. Irvin
Amos Yong

2014

Charles Fensham
Anthony J. Godzieba
Jennifer Herdt
Jacqueline E. Lapsley
Gerard Mannion
Melanie Duguid May

2015

John D. Dadosky
Walter E. Fluker
Ruben L. F. Habito
Anthony B. Pinn

2016

(None)

2017

Daniela C. Augustine
Nancy Elizabeth Bedford
Willie James Jennings
William P. Loewe
Erin Lothes
Cyril Orji

2018

Kenneth G. Appold
Karen Baker-Fletcher
John R. Bowlin
Catherine E. Clifford
Elaine A. Heath
Amy Plantinga Pauw
Mayra Rivera
Nimi Wariboko

2019

Christopher C. Brittain
Julia A. Lamm
Susan K. Wood

2020

(None)

2021

(None)

2022

John Borelli
Mary Ann Hinsdale, I.H.M.
Michele Saracino
John J. Thatamanil
Edwin Chr. van Driel

2023

Volker Leppin
Andrew Prevot

2024