This “Top 42” (actually it’s 41 now – Had a typo discovered on 4.30.20 by one of my blog readers) list comes from my friend Mark, who is one of the most encouraging people I have been privileged to know. He and his wife are some of our favorite people to vacation with. If you know this particular Mark, you would not be surprised to hear him request for a list of my “Top 42 favorite preachers/theologians that lean Arminian.” Regardless of where I stand in this never-ending debate between Calvinists and Arminians, there are many reasons I give thanks for theologians on both sides. Making this list was a piece of cake. And they are in no particular order.
(FOOTNOTE: I realize I could be wrong on the leanings of some of these men. Your corrections are welcome.)
1. Charles Wesley
2. John Wesley
4. Billy Sunday
5. Chuck Smith
6. A.W. Tozer
7. Andrew Murray
8. R.A. Torrey
9. Billy Graham
10. D.L. Moody
11. Oswald Chambers
12. C.S. Lewis
13. Thomas Oden
14. Alexander Maclaren
15. G. Campbell Morgan
16. F.B. Meyer
17. Paige Patterson
18. J. Vernon McGee
19. Howard Hendricks
20. Jacobus Arminius
21. Keith Green (the only musician that made the list)
22. Roger Olson
23. Ben Witherington III
24. Craig Keener
25. Ravi Zacharias
26. Joel B. Green
27. I. Howard Marshall
28. C.K. Barrett
29. Gordon Fee
30. Philip Towner
31. E.M. Bounds
32. James Dobson
33. Dave Hunt
34. William Lane Craig
35. Ray Comfort
36. Clark Pinnock
37. Thomas Aquinas
38. Charles Ryrie
39. Lewis Sperry Chafer
40. Adam Clarke
41. Hugo Grotius
42. John Goodwin
Worldly Saints 
Hello,
I wonder who “John Geisler” is.
I think that many people listed here are not Arminian in a strict theological sense, but rather non-Calvinist. You may find a list that makes this distinction here :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Arminianism/Requested_articles
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I wonder who he is as well. Maybe it was a prophetic name referring to someone I would eventually meet that is Arminian. Thanks for the catch.
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OK, tell me when you will meet him. For now, thanks for your list of 41 Arminian Theologians/Preachers who are not all Arminians.
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Not sure I will this side of heaven. I’m not that important.
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Thank very much for this list. made me happy to know I am in good company! God Bless You!
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Sure thing. Happy to help.
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Charles Stanley?
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Sure I guess. “The Bible says…”
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I thought William Lane Craig was a Molinist?
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I suppose you could call him “Calminian” then.
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Billy Graham…it’s hard to know what Gospel message he believed in based on 1997 interview with Robert Schuller
Ravi Zacharias….It is true that his books and sermons were more philosophical, often void of scripture, which may have been the give-a-way. Is Ravi in Hell now?
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Regarding Billy Graham, I hear ya. In his later years, and in his later writings (e.g., “Nearing Home”), the Gospel message he preached was much more clear. And regarding Ravi, who knows? I posted this blog years before we came to know the real Ravi.
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I’ve never considered myself as Arminian or Calvinist. Many of the men on this list are revered however. I own many of the writings of some of them, and find them to be of sound doctrine in the scriptures; to which is the real proof of what the Lord is saying to us. We rest in His Word, after which we have wrested in it and found peace. The Truth is Jesus, we received the love of the truth (2 Thessalonians:10-12) that we might be saved.
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I think you need to reevaluate AW Tozer as being Armenian as the following quote seems to contradict this.
THE CROWD TURNS BACK
A. W. Tozer
Our Lord Jesus Christ called men to follow Him, but He plainly taught that “no man can come unto me, except it were given him of my Father” (John 6:65). It is not surprising that many of His early followers, upon hearing these words, went back and walked no more with Him. Such teaching cannot but be deeply disturbing to the natural mind. It takes from sinful men much of the power of self-determination. It cuts the ground out from under their self-help and throws them back upon the sovereign good pleasure of God-and that is precisely where they do not want to be! These statements by our Lord run contrary to the current assumptions of popular Christianity. Men are willing to be saved by grace, but to preserve their self-esteem, they must hold that the desire to be saved originated with them. Most Christians today seem afraid to talk about these plain words of Jesus concerning the sovereign operation of God-so they use the simple trick of ignoring them!
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Just because someone sees God as sovereign over salvation doesn’t mean they are Calvinist. I have never read anything that has shown me that He is reformed in his theology. He certainly is not as clear as I would like on the issue. Read “On Breeding Spotted Mice” and tell me what you think.
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Please name one person in the bible who could not exercise their free will to choose to believe or not believe God.
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There are none.
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