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I've made it known I'm unimpressed with published overviews of Baptist theologians. The ones that are out there are too denominationally focused, often don't include women (surely there must be some) or non-British/American thinkers. Together lets list the thinkers that would make for a good volume from a variety of traditions, geographic locations, historical periods and genders.

Here's a few quickly off the top of my head I think would be essential to such a volume:
John Smyth
Thomas Helwys
Thomas Grantham
John Bunyan
Oswald Chambers
C.H. Spurgeon
E.Y. Mullins
Johann Gerhard Oncken
Walter Rauschenbusch
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Clark Pinnock
John Piper
Carl F.H. Henry

I know I'm forgetting several so who are the big dogs from your tradition? Who are some women baptist theologians of some prominence? Who might be some contemporary or historical names from Asia, Africa, Europe, Eastern Europe, South America, Central America, Australia?

Nigel Wright
Millard Erickson
Shailer Mathews
Dallas Willard

Hypothetically if such a book were published should it include missiologists or at least a section on the recent explosion of interest in missiology? Who would be included in such a section?
Ed Stetzer?
Stuart Murray?

Ed: Blake when you write "I've made it known I'm unimpressed with published overviews of Baptist theologians. The ones that are out there are too denominationally focused, often don't include women (surely there must be some) or non-British/American thinkers. Together lets list the thinkers that would make for a good volume from a variety of traditions, geographic locations, historical periods and genders."

While you make some valid observations about extant volumes devoted to Baptist Theologians I am of the opinion that you too easily discount the work of George and Dockery and the contributors to Baptist Theologians . Of the 17 names you offer
that book provides exellent overviews of 7 - Spurgeon, Mullins, Bunyan, Rauschbuch, Pinnock, Erickson, Henry plus 25 others including John Gill the first Baptist to develop a complete Systematic Theology and by the way he was English as was Benjamin Keech. Also Isaac Backus Was well before either the Northern Baptist or the SBC the same holds for Andrew Fuller. Although he became a Baptist of the South, Richard Furman was born in New york state and he died 20 years prior to the founding of the SBC. In this book Mark Dever Credits John L. Dagg as the first Southern Baptist systematic theologian. ALthough Born in the South and having lived there for some years James Madison Pendelton was forced to migrate to the north. That is only a few of the ones you over looked and by the way one modern Englishman in this list was George R. Beasley- Murray. And One of the contributors was indeed a woman Who is an excellent Theologian in her right was Molly T. Marshal. I would agree that there was at least one more who should have been written up and that is ABC''s Helen Barrett, the first woman president of a major Baptist denomination and the First woman to translate the entire New Testament.

Would people count James McClendon, Jr. as a Baptist theologian?

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Stanley Grenz

E. Stanley Jones?

I would definitely add Dale Moody to the list.