William A. Beardslee (March 25, 1916 - January 25, 2001) was a professional theologian who made major contributions to the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible.

Scholasticism focused on preparing men to be doctors, lawyers or professional theologians, and was taught from approved textbooks in logic, natural philosophy, medicine, law and theology.

He was the first professional theologian in the job in more than a century, one equipped with a strong intellect and decisiveness.

Dr. Pham points out that unlike virtually all of his predecessors in the last century, Cardinal Ratzinger is actually a professional academic theologian.

His works on Christianity seem rather to have disappointed certain professional theologians and catholic exegetes, who contented themselves with picking out and correcting what they considered as "dogmatic errors".

As a professional theologian and a church growth expert, Bilezikian is frequently called to lead seminars and to lecture in the USA and abroad.

The seminary publishes a journal for professional theologians, a magazine for laity and for the seminary community, and books.

First, it wrongly assumes that the journal's readership of professional theologians is incapable of making its own professional judgments about theological positions.

Theologically literate but not a professional theologian, she distrusts religious accounts of sexual morality derived deductively from abstract propositions about God, authority and the Bible.

Although widely repeated in Christian apologetic literature, it has been largely ignored by professional theologians and biblical scholars.