Rotating Images on the Theology Department Homepage

Creighton University

The rotating images on the website are a small sampling of significant Christian theologians, saints, and images with particular attention to theologians within the Jesuit tradition.

1. St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556): Founder of the Society of Jesus

2. St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231)

3. He Qi, Easter (http://www.heqigallery.com/)

4. Prof. Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ (Fordham University): Roman Catholic Feminist Theologian

5. St. Martin de Porres (1579-1639): Latin American Dominican friar known for his charity, compassion, and service to the poor.

6. St. Basil of Caesarea (330-379): Bishop and theologian; articulate apologist for Nicene Christology and Trinitarian theology.

7. Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. (1918-2008): First North American theologian to be made a Cardinal in recognition for his contributions to theology.

8. Vine Deloria (1933-2005): an American Indian author, theologian, historian, and activist.

9. Karl Barth (1886-1968): was a Swiss Reformed theologian and one of the most inoted Christian thinkers of the 20th century.

10. Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), The Four Apostles (1526).

11. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945): German Protestant pastor, theologian, participant in the German Resistance movement against Nazism, a founding member of the Confessing Church.

12. Douglas John Hall (McGill University): A Canadian Protestant theologian whose work has tried to situate inherited European theological categories into a uniquely North American context.

13. Jon Sobrino, S.J.: a Jesuit Catholic priest and theologian, known mostly for his contributions to liberation theology.

14. He Qi, Christ the Savior (http://www.heqigallery.com/)

15. Henri Cardinal de Lubac, S.J. (1896-1991): a French Jesuit priest who became a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, and is considered to be one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century. His writings and doctrinal research played a key role in the shaping of the Second Vatican Council.

16. St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622): was Bishop of Geneva; he worked to convert Protestants back to Catholicism, and was an accomplished preacher. He is known also for his writings on the topic of spiritual direction and spiritual formation.

17. Edmund Campion, S.J. (1540-1581): an English Jesuit priest and martyr.

18. Matthias Grünewald (1470-1528), The Isenheim Altarpiece (1515)

19. Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988): was a Swiss theologian and priest who was nominated to be a cardinal of the Catholic Church.

20. He Qi, Christmas (http://www.heqigallery.com/)

21. Hildegaard von Bingen (1098-1179): a German abbess, author, counselor, linguist, naturalist, scientist, philosopher, physician, herbalist, poet, channeller, visionary and composer.

22. Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758): was a colonial American Congregational preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans.

23. Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680): the daughter of a Mohawk warrior and a Catholic Algonquin woman.

24. Martin Luther (1483-1546): He was a German monk, theologian, university professor, priest, and church reformer whose ideas started the Protestant Reformation.

25. He Qi, Emmaus (http://www.heqigallery.com/)

26. Mary Ward (1585 – 1645), foundress of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, an order of Roman Catholic nuns (also known as the Loreto Sisters).

27. Jürgen Moltmann: German Protestant theologian.

28. N. T. Wright: British Protestant theologian of the New Testament and Bishop of Durham.

29. Oscar Romero (1917-1980): was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador; assassinated for his condemnations of Marxism and Capitalism and support of the poor.

30. Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560): Christian Humanist, philologist, and Lutheran Reformer; author of the Augsburg Confession; his reforms of the German educational system earned him the title Praeceptor Germaniae (Teacher of Germany).

31. Karl Rahner, S.J. (1904-1984): was a German theologian, one of the most influential Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century.

32. Raymond E. Brown, S.S. (1928-1998): was an American Roman Catholic priest and Biblical scholar.

33. Albrecht Dürer, The Resurrection

34. Rosemary Radford Ruether: is a feminist scholar and theologian She currently is Visiting Professor of Feminist Theology at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University.

35. Sermon on the Mount

36. Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944): was a Canadian-born evangelist and media sensation in the 1920s and 1930s; she was also the founder of the Foursquare Church. She was a pioneer in the use of modern media, especially radio, to create a form of religion that drew heavily on the appeal of popular entertainment.

37. St. Benedict of Nursia (480-547): a saint from Italy, the founder of Western Christian monasticism, and a rule-giver for cenobitic monks.

38. St. Clare of Assisi (1194-1253): is an Italian saint and one of the first followers of Saint Francis of Assisi. She founded the Order of Poor Ladies, a monastic religious order for women in the Franciscan tradition. Following her death, the order she founded was renamed in her honor as the Order of Saint Clare, commonly referred to today as the Poor Clares.

39. St. Paul, Apostle (+ ca. 64): called himself the "Apostle to the Gentiles",[6] and was, together with Saint Peter and James the Just,[7] the most notable of early Christian missionaries.

40. St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430): was a philosopher and theologian. Augustine, a Latin church father, is one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity.

41. St. Bonaventure (1221-1274): was an Italian medieval scholastic theologian and philosopher, the eighth Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly called the Franciscans

42. St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226): was a friar and the founder of the Order of Friars Minor, more commonly known as the Franciscans.

43. St. Francis Xavier, S.J. (1506-1552): a Spanish Roman Catholic missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus.

44. St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274): was an Italian Roman Catholic priest in the Dominican Order; an influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism.

45. Yves Cardinal Congar, O.P. (1904-1995): was a French Dominican cardinal and theologian; his ideas are most influential in ecclesiology and ecumenical dialogue.