Theology and Theologians

Theology is the study of religious faith, practice, and experience; the study of God and God’s relation to the world. Theologians lead this study, and many significant theologians and scholars of the church have been recorded while teaching at seminaries and speaking at church gatherings. Their thoughts and wisdom has been preserved on these recordings.

One of the programs in these areas is selected randomly on the right side of this page. On this site, you’ll find dozens of key theologians represented, speaking to classes or auditorium audiences.

To find all the theological programs, go to our Audio Programs page and use the search system drop-downs:

Subject: look for Theology, Bible, or any other subject you wish.

Selected Speakers: find theologians and religion scholars like Bernard Anderson, Walter Brueggemann, Martin Buber, Fritz Buri, Eva Burroughs, Van Bogard Dunn, Gerhard Ebeling, Elisabeth Fiorenza, Delton Franz, Carter Heyward, Hans Küng, Nathaniel L. Lacy, Jr., Carl Michalson, Reinhold Niebuhr, Heinrich Ott, Krister Stendahl, Elton Trueblood, Claus Westermann, and Delores Williams.

Randomly-chosen Theology and Theologians Program:

Re-imaging Redemption: a Symposium on Feminist and Womanist Theologies, Tape 1

Speaker(s): I. Carter Heyward, Barbara Gerlach
Description: The first speaker is Rev. Dr. I. Carter Heyward. She is an Episcopal priest and professor of theology at Episcopal Divinity School in Massachusetts. The title of her presentation is "Stretching the Boundaries, Encouraging Christology". The second speaker is The Rev. Barbara Gerlach, now on the staff of First Congregational Church, UCC, Washington DC. She is also an artist and a writer. She is active in Colombian human rights work and teaches English to recent immigrants from Latin America. Her talk is called, "Telling the Truth, Telling our Stories thorugh Art, Dreams, and Imagination". This series of lectures was sponsored by the Anna Howard Shaw Center at Boston University School of Theology. The six theologians who led the event -- Carter Heyward, Barbara Gerlach, Rita Nakashima Brock, Gail Paterson Corrington, Jacquelyn Grant and Delores Williams -- challenged age-old assumptions about human life, divine power, and Jesus Christ as the only true redeemer.

Length: 1:23:19
Recording Date: 1989
Recorded at: Boston University School of Theology, Boston, Massachusetts