title: Lay theologian
text: # Lay theologian
  
  A lay theologian is a theologian "who is not ordained, or a theologian who has not been trained as a theologian". Lay theologians often have academic qualifications in other academic disciplines.
  
  ## Examples
  
  Notable lay theologians include:
  
  * George Abbot
  * Ethan Allen
  * Joseph T. Bayly
  * Edward Musgrave Blaiklock
  * Nicholas Cabasilas
  * G. K. Chesterton
  * James F. Colaianni
  * Nicolas Gomez Davila
  * Fyodor Dostoevsky
  * Jacques Ellul
  * Thomas Erskine
  * Jim Forest
  * Rosemary Haughton
  * Susan Howatch
  * Aleksey Khomyakov
  * John Lennox
  * C. S. Lewis
  * David Lodge
  * Robert Magliola
  * Marko Marulić
  * Isaac Newton
  * Johann Heinrich Pabst
  * Caspar Peucer
  * Dorothy L. Sayers
  * Frank Sheed
  * Uwe Siemon-Netto
  * William Stringfellow
  * Maisie Ward
  