List of University of Chicago Alumni - Religion

Religion

  • Dallin H. Oaks (J.D. 1957) - Apostle and a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
  • Thomas J. J. Altizer (A.B. 1948, A.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1955) - Prominent "Death of God" theologian.
  • Donald Eric Capps (M.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1970) - Scholar and Professor of Pastoral Theology.
  • Mary Ann Glendon (A.B. 1959, J.D. 1961, L.L.M. 1963) - President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (highest-ranking female advisor to the Pope); Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Member of the President's Council on Bioethics.
  • Andrew Greeley (A.M. 1961, Ph.D. 1962) - Senior Study Director at the National Opinion Research Center; Roman Catholic priest; sociologist; best-selling novelist.
  • Don Wendell Holter (Ph.D. 1934) - Professor of Church History and Missions at Garrett Theological Seminary; founding President of Saint Paul School of Theology; Bishop of the United Methodist Church.
  • Elenie Huszagh (A.B. 1957) - First woman to serve as President of the National Council of Churches.
  • Martin Marty (Ph.D. 1956) - National Humanities Medal (1997); national figure in non-sectarian religious studies.
  • Ingrid Mattson (Ph.D. 1999) - First female president of Islamic Society of North America; a professor of religion at Hartford Seminary.
  • John Warwick Montgomery (Ph.D. 1962) - American lawyer, theologian and academic known for his work in the field of Christian Apologetics; Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Christian Thought at Patrick Henry College.
  • David Novak (A.B. 1961) - Prominent Jewish legal theorist at the University of Toronto; a founder of the Institute of Traditional Judaism; author of Covenantal Rights.
  • Jaroslav Pelikan (Ph.D. 1946) - Preeminent historian of Christian thought; Sterling Professor of History at Yale University; winner of the Library of Congress' Kluge Prize in the Human Sciences; author of the now-classic The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine.
  • Emilie M. Townes (A.B. 1977, A.M. 1979, D.Min. 1982) - Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology, Yale Divinity School; President of American Academy of Religion (AAR), first African-American to assume this position at AAR (2007).
  • Mordecai Waxman (A.B. 1937) - prominent rabbi in the American Jewish Conservative movement. Responsible for opening dialogue between American Jews and Pope John Paul II in 1987

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