33 Notable alumni of
Fuller Theological Seminary
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Fuller Theological Seminary is 1451st in the world, 506th in North America, and 474th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 33 notable alumni from Fuller Theological Seminary sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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John C. Maxwell
- Occupations
- opinion journalistwriteroratormotivational speakerpastor
- Biography
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John C. Maxwell is an American author, speaker, and pastor who has written books primarily focused on leadership. Titles include The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader. Some of his books have been on the New York Times Best Seller list.
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Rick Warren
- Occupations
- theologianpastorwriter
- Biography
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Richard Duane Warren is an American evangelical Christian pastor and author. He is the founder of Saddleback Church, an evangelical Baptist megachurch in Lake Forest, California. Since 2022, he serves as executive director of the Finishing the Task mission coalition.
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John Piper
- Occupations
- pastortheologian
- Biography
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John Stephen Piper is a Reformed Baptist theologian and retired pastor. Specializing in New Testament studies, he is chancellor of Bethlehem College and Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Piper taught biblical studies at Bethel University for six years (1974–1980), before serving as pastor for preaching and vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church (Converge) in Minneapolis for 33 years (1980–2013).
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Rob Bell
- Occupations
- pastorauthornon-fiction writertheologian
- Biography
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Robert Holmes Bell Jr. is an American author, speaker, playwright, musician and former pastor. Bell founded Mars Hill Bible Church in Grandville, Michigan, and pastored it until 2012. Under his leadership, Mars Hill was one of the fastest-growing churches in America.
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Mel White
- Occupations
- writerfilm directoruniversity teachertheologian
- Biography
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James Melville White is an American clergyman and author. White was a behind-the-scenes member of the Evangelical Protestant movement through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, writing film and television specials and ghostwriting autobiographies for televangelists such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Billy Graham. After years of writing for the Christian right, he came out as gay in 1994 and devoted himself full-time to minister to lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people, also writing extensively on the subject of gay Christians.
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James White
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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James Robert White is an American Christian apologist, Reformed Baptist theologian, and public speaker. He is the director of Alpha and Omega Ministries, a Christian apologetics organization based in Phoenix, Arizona. He is a Christian scholar and has authored several books.
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Michael Youssef
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- pastortelevangelistwriter
- Biography
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Michael Youssef is an Egyptian-American pastor. He is the founding rector and senior pastor of the Church of the Apostles in Atlanta, Georgia, and the executive president of Leading the Way.
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C. Peter Wagner
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- theologianmissionarywriter
- Biography
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Charles Peter Wagner was an American missionary, writer, teacher and founder of several Independent Charismatic Christian organizations. He is known for leading and building the New Apostolic Reformation, a network in the Apostolic-Prophetic movement. In his earlier years, Wagner was known as a key leader of the Church Growth Movement and later for his writings on spiritual warfare.
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Bill Bright
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- writertheologian
- Biography
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William R. Bright was an American evangelist. In 1951 at the University of California, Los Angeles, he founded Campus Crusade for Christ as a ministry for university students. In 1952 he wrote The Four Spiritual Laws. In 1979 he produced the film Jesus.
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Jay Smith
- Biography
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Jay Smith is an American polemicist of Islam. Since 1983, he has been a full-time missionary with the Brethren in Christ Church with a focus on polemics among the Muslims of London.
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Miroslav Volf
- Occupations
- university teachertheologiannon-fiction writer
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Miroslav Volf is a Croatian Protestant theologian and public intellectual and Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology and director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture at Yale University. He previously taught at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in his native Osijek, Croatia (1979–80, 1983–90) and Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California (1990–1998).
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Richard Foster
- Occupations
- authortheologian
- Biography
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Richard James Foster is a Christian theologian and author in the Quaker tradition. His writings speak to a broad Christian audience. Born in 1942 in New Mexico, Foster spent the majority of his childhood growing up in Southern California. Foster has been a professor at Friends University and pastor of Evangelical Friends churches. Foster resides in Denver, Colorado. He earned his undergraduate degree at George Fox University in Oregon and his Doctor of Pastoral Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, and received an honorary doctorate from Houghton College.
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Ché Ahn
- Occupations
- writerpolitical activistreligious writerpastor
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Ché Ahn is a Korean American evangelical pastor who founded Harvest Rock Church in Pasadena, California, in 1994 with his wife Sue Ahn as a small multi-ethnic congregation that has grown into a large church emphasizing supernatural experiences, love, and equipping believers for revival and societal reformation while also establishing Harvest International Ministry in 1996 as an apostolic network that has expanded to connect over twenty-five thousand churches and ministries across more than sixty countries to reportedly advance the kingdom of God through relational support and leadership training.
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Michael Peter Woroniecki
- Occupations
- missionaryAmerican football player
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Michael Peter Woroniecki is an American evangelical street preacher who has been described as a cult leader. Woroniecki is well known for his ministry on college campuses and at various public events across the US over the span of the last 30 years.
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Samuel Chu
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- activist
- Biography
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Samuel Chu Muk-man is a Hong Kong and American activist and community organizer. Chu is the founder and President of The Campaign for Hong Kong, a US-based nonpartisan organization whose mission is to advocate for American leadership and policies that advance human rights and democracy in Hong Kong. He is also a founding member of the advisory board of the Axel Springer SE Freedom Foundation in Berlin (Germany), a senior advisor to the president and CEO of MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, and a trainer for Midwest Academy, a training school for community organizers in the US.
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Tony Jones
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Tony Jones is a leader in the Christian emerging church movement, a theologian, and an author.
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Thomas Talbott
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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Thomas Talbott is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon. He is best known for his advocacy of trinitarian universalism.
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Mark L. Tidd
- Years
- 1955-2025 (aged 70)
- Enrolled in Fuller Theological Seminary
- Graduated with Master of Divinity
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Mark Luzerne Tidd was a former United States Navy officer who served as the 25th Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy from 2010 to 2014.
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Wes Modder
- Enrolled in Fuller Theological Seminary
- Graduated with Doctor of Ministry
- Occupations
- military chaplain
- Biography
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Wesley James Modder was an American retired United States Marine Corps officer and military chaplain in the United States Navy. Modder was also occasionally an author in ETHOS, a US Navy newsletter.
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James L. Papandrea
- Occupations
- songwriter
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James L. Papandrea is an author, Catholic theologian, historian, speaker, and singer/songwriter. He is professor of church history and historical theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois (on the campus of Northwestern University), and formerly taught at the Archdiocese of Chicago's Institute for Diaconal Studies.
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James F. Linzey
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- theologianBible translatortranslator
- Biography
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James F. Linzey, M.Div. is an American ordained minister in the Southern Baptist Convention. The chief editor and executive director of the Modern English Version Bible, he is the author of The United States Space Force Hymn, Creator of the Universe.
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Alan T. Baker
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- military officer
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Rear Admiral Alan T. Baker, USN, is a retired American Navy officer who served as the 16th Chaplain of the United States Marine Corps from 2006 to 2009. Chaplain Baker was the first graduate of the United States Naval Academy and former Surface Warfare Officer to serve as a Chaplain Corps Flag Officer. Following his military career, Baker served as Directional Leader at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, a 4,000-member, multi-campus church in the San Francisco Bay Area, from 2010 to 2012. He is currently principal of Strategic Foundations where he teaches, coaches and catalyzes organizations valuing the intersection of faith, learning and leadership.
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Lindsay James
- Occupations
- politician
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Lindsay James is an American politician and Presbyterian minister serving as a member of the Iowa House of Representatives from the 71st district since 2019. She is a member of the Democratic Party and represents part of Dubuque County.
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Steven A. Schaick
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Steven Alan Schaick is a retired major general in the United States Air Force, and an ordained Presbyterian minister, who last served as the 19th Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force. He previously served as the 25th Deputy Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force, Headquarters U. S. Air Force, Pentagon, Washington, D.C. As the deputy chief of chaplains, he was a member of the special staff of the Chief of Staff, Schaick assists the Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force in establishing guidance on all matters pertaining to the religious and moral welfare of Air Force personnel and their dependents and directing and maintaining a trained, equipped and professional Chaplain Corps of more than 2,200 chaplains and chaplain assistants from the active and Air Reserve components. As a member of the Armed Forces Chaplains Board, he and other members advise the Secretary of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff on religious, ethical and quality-of-life concerns.
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Joseph Cumming
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United States - Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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Joseph Cumming is an American scholar specializing in Islamic and Christian thought. He serves as International Director of the Woodberry Intercultural Institute and as Research Faculty at Fuller Theological Seminary. He previously worked at Yale University as Director of the Reconciliation Program at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture and taught courses at Yale Divinity School. He later served as Pastor of the International Church at Yale.
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David Faust
- Occupations
- pastor
- Biography
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David Faust was the seventh president of Cincinnati Christian University. He is now the Associate Minister at East 91st Street Christian Church in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he previously served as the Senior Minister from 1999 to 2002.
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Jon Dybdahl
- Years
- 1942-2023 (aged 81)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Jon Lee Dybdahl was a professor of theology and a college administrator who served as president of Walla Walla University from 2002 until 2006.
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Richard Carr
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Richard Carr was Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force.
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Peter Brain
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- Catholic priest
- Biography
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Peter Robert Brain is a retired bishop in the Anglican Church of Australia. He was Bishop of Armidale from 2000 until April 2012.
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Verna M. Linzey
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- writer
- Biography
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Verna May Linzey was an American Evangelical theologian, a Southern Baptist, and the author of numerous Bibles and books. She was the chief editor of the New Tyndale Version, author of the introductions to the books of the Bible in the Modern English Version Bible (MEV), translator of the Book of Proverbs for the MEV, and she was on the faculty Advisory Board at St. Elias Seminary and Graduate School, located in Hamilton, Virginia. In 2006, The Christian Writer's Guild awarded her the "Best Non-Fiction of the Year" award for authoring The Baptism with the Holy Spirit.
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Gregory C. Horn
- Enrolled in Fuller Theological Seminary
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in practical theology and ethics
- Graduated with Doctor of Ministry in pastoral care and counseling
- Graduated with Master of Divinity
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Gregory Curtis Horn is a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. He retired in 2013 as 17th Deputy Chief of Chaplains for Reserve Matters and Director of Religious Programs, Marine Forces Reserve.
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James Brenneman
- Biography
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James E. Brenneman is the president of Berkeley School of Theology, Berkeley, CA, one of the founding seminaries of the Graduate Theological Union. Prior to coming to Berkeley School of Theology in 2017, Jim was the twelfth president of Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana from 2006 to 2017.
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Augustin Ahimana
- Biography
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Augustin Murekezi Ahimana is a Rwandan Anglican bishop. He is a bishop in the Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda. He is Head of Planning and Development for the Province of the Episcopal Church of Rwanda. Bishop Ahimana built a team for the Athens Olympics in 2004. He was consecrated bishop of the Kivu Diocese on 21 December 2008.
