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60 People Who Shaped the Church
Learning from Sinners, Saints, Rogues, and Heroes
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About this book
The Church exists today in its current form because of the people who have come before us. Who were those people? Staid and dour scholars? Cultural movers and shakers? How does their contribution to history affect us today?
From a consummate storyteller comes this collection of inspiring biographical sketches of people who played pivotal roles in advancing the Kingdom of God on earth. In rich prose and spanning twenty centuries of church history, these engaging narratives range from the well-known to the obscure, highlighting personalities such as Josephus, Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas, Galileo, John Calvin, Blaise Pascal, Jonathan Edwards, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William Wilberforce, G. K. Chesterton, and many others. Readers will feel the past come alive and mingle in their minds with the present state of the Church, encouraging and galvanizing them to live their own faith courageously in our time--and shape the Church of the future.
From a consummate storyteller comes this collection of inspiring biographical sketches of people who played pivotal roles in advancing the Kingdom of God on earth. In rich prose and spanning twenty centuries of church history, these engaging narratives range from the well-known to the obscure, highlighting personalities such as Josephus, Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas, Galileo, John Calvin, Blaise Pascal, Jonathan Edwards, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William Wilberforce, G. K. Chesterton, and many others. Readers will feel the past come alive and mingle in their minds with the present state of the Church, encouraging and galvanizing them to live their own faith courageously in our time--and shape the Church of the future.
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Topic
Theology & ReligionSubtopic
History of ChristianityTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Peter
- 2. Paul
- 3. Josephus
- 4. Polycarp
- 5. Justin Martyr
- 6. Clement of Alexandria
- 7. Origen
- 8. Diocletian
- 9. Eusebius of Caesarea
- 10. Constantine
- 11. Athanasius
- 12. Ambrose of Milan
- 13. Jerome
- 14. John Chrysostom
- 15. Augustine of Hippo
- 16. Pope Leo I
- 17. The Venerable Bede
- 18. Anselm
- 19. Francis of Assisi
- 20. Thomas Aquinas
- 21. John Wycliffe
- 22. Nicolaus Copernicus
- 23. Martin Luther
- 24. Ulrich Zwingli
- 25. King Henry VIII
- 26. Ignatius of Loyola
- 27. William Tyndale
- 28. Menno Simons
- 29. John Calvin
- 30. John Foxe
- 31. Jacob Arminius
- 32. Francis Bacon
- 33. Galileo Galilei
- 34. Brother Lawrence
- 35. Blaise Pascal
- 36. John Bunyan
- 37. Isaac Watts
- 38. George Frideric Handel
- 39. Jonathan Edwards
- 40. John Wesley
- 41. Charles Wesley
- 42. George Whitefield
- 43. John Newton
- 44. William Wilberforce
- 45. William Carey
- 46. Charles Finney
- 47. William Gladstone
- 48. Fanny Crosby
- 49. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- 50. William Booth
- 51. Hudson Taylor
- 52. Charles Spurgeon
- 53. Dwight L. Moody
- 54. Billy Sunday
- 55. Oswald Chambers
- 56. G. K. Chesterton
- 57. T. S. Eliot
- 58. C. S. Lewis
- 59. Henry Morris
- 60. Billy Graham
- Notes
- About the Author
- Back Ad
- Back Cover