Very rarely do we think to introduce theologians based upon contemporary music. What follows below is a selection of those theologians who've been most influential upon my own thinking, and the theme songs I think would best represent their work.*
- Cyprian of Carthage: "Oh Mama"
- Irenaeus: "Long Road Out of Eden"
- Origen: "The First Cut Is the Deepest"
- Pelagius: "The Fall of the World's Own Optimist"
- St Augustine: "Tortured, Tangled Hearts"
- Isaac the Syrian: "Friend of the Devil"
- St Francis of Assisi: "Ain't Too Proud to Beg"
- Anselm: "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
- St Thomas Aquinas: "The Logical Song"
- Thomas More: "Chelsea Morning"
- Martin Luther: "Faith"
- Ignatius of Loyola: "Soldier Boy"
- John Calvin: "Show Some Emotion"
- John of the Cross: "One of These Nights"
- John Wesley: "Georgia on My Mind"
- Jonathan Edwards: "Boris the Spider"
- William Blake: "Heaven and Hell"
- Rudolf Bultmann: "Do You Believe in Magic?"
- Paul Tillich: "Sex-O-Matic Venus Freak"
- Karl Barth: "Revelator"
- Reinhold Niebuhr: "Love Is War"
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer: "Folsom Prison Blues"
- Jurgen Moltmann: "High Hopes"
- John Howard Yoder: "Give Peace a Chance"
- William Stringfellow: "The Tears of a Clown"
- Martin Luther King: "I Want to Break Free"
- James Cone: "Paint It Black"
- Colin Gunton: "Gone Too Soon"
- Stanley Hauerwas: "Rock Dat Shit"
- Rowan Williams: "The Beard Song"
- John Milbank: "Rave On"
- Friedrich Schleiermacher: "More Than a Feeling"
- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Sledgehammer"
- Hans Urs von Balthasar: "Just the Two of Us"
- Gustavo Gutierrez: "Poor Song"
- Thomas Altizer: "Losing My Religion"
- Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza: "I Remember You"
