If you had to choose one and only one theologian then who would you choose as the most overrated theologian ever? Drop a comment with your opinion. Remember, only one name, no ties.
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Benny Hinn
Schleiermacher
BENNY HINN! LLLLL OOOOO LLLLL !!!!!
Matthew Henry
Tillich in that many mainliners would rank him as the greatest theologian of the 20th century, whereas I struggle to find little of anything redeemable.
Jesus, because he tells us to love our neighbors and our enemies.
Most other theologians only demand a difficult time reading them, Jesus demands a life that could be utterly boring or worse, a life that could kill me! I mean, he gives the Holy Spirit, which is a nice thing for a theologian to do, but even that guy wants me to put the deeds of my body to death! Gah!
“Dr.” Jim West
Bultmann
Barth I do not think I have to explain why
Paul of Tarsus
I think Paul wrote a lot of things with some particular thought in mind, things he never dreamed would get trumped up and turned into pieces of someone’s systematized constructions.
I’d say John Calvin, if only because his “reformed” intellectual descendants are annoying. :p
I second what Qohelet said.
Paul Tillich
Hank Hanegraaff if you can call him a theologian.
Karl Barth.
I thought The Shack was quite an overrated book. Actually, it would be more interesting if it had more heresy!
@James,
ditto on the Shack. My friend Adam and I have a scathing critique of the racial stereotypes in that book. :)
Yeah, you were ripping it on Facebook, Rod! :D
@James, on facebook, twitter, and at a conference in Atlanta last month. That was so much fun.
Josh McDowell
John Owen
John Wesley.
2nd? John Piper.
3rd? C. S. Lewis.
(Although there are some works I have profited some from each of these)
Most underrated? John Bunyan.