Methodist theologians include those theologians affiliated with any of the Methodist denominational churches such asThe United Methodist Church, independent Methodists, or churches affiliated with theHoliness Movement including theChurch of the Nazarene, theFree Methodist Church, theWesleyan Methodist Church (America), theWesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain), thePilgrim Holiness Church, and theWesleyan Church, as well as other church organizations.

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• Jacobus Arminius - ordained pastor of theDutch Reformed church, studied underTheodore Beza and rejected the teachings ofJohn Calvin, inspired theRemonstrance and thesoteriological system now known asArminianism.
• Hugo Grotius - playwright, poet, and humanist philosopher of theAristotelian tradition, systematized Arminianism and developed themoral government theory of Christ's atonement.
• John Goodwin - Puritan-Arminian (1594–1665)

• John Wesley
• Charles Wesley
• George Whitefield
• John Fletcher
• Thomas Coke
• Joseph Benson

• Nathan Bangs - Arminian apologist, first editor of the Methodist magazineChristian Advocate, opposed theantinomianism of theNew Light Baptist community. Wrote six significant theological letters to a Presbyterian pastor, Rev. S. Williston.
• Amos Binney
• Borden Parker Bowne - wrote numerous books on various theological themes; renowned as a philosopher and theologian
• Jabez Bunting - author of numerous articles and published sermons
• Adam Clarke -Biblical theologian uncomfortable with systematic approaches toChristian theology, Wrote a single volume theology. He also wrote a commentary which became one of the most widely used commentaries of all time.
• Helenor M. Davisson - first woman ordained in American Methodist Church
• Wilbur Fisk - religious educator, favored endingslavery progressively (rather than in the revolutionary way proposed by other notable abolitionists, so as to avoid a split in the Church), early influence on thetemperance movement
• Hugh Price Hughes -Welsh social reformer, first editor of theMethodist Times and first superintendent of theWest London Methodist Mission
• Ira Haynes La Fetra - theologian and Methodist missionary to South America
• John Miley - wrote a two-volume systematic theology (1893). Rejected thepenal substitution theory of the atonement and advocated amoral government theory.
• Phoebe Palmer - female author, theologian, and preacher; spoke specifically on holiness and sanctification
• William Burt Pope - wrote a 3-volume systematic theology
• James Strong
• William Taylor (bishop)
• Richard Watson - outspoken Britishabolitionist, wrote againstClarke in defense of the eternal Sonship of Christ, one of the first theologians to systematize Wesley's theology.

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