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Aiden Wilson Tozer
Aiden Wilson Tozer was an American Protestant pastor, preacher, author, magazine editor, Bible conference speaker, and spiritual mentor.
Albert The Great
Albert The Great, also known as St. Albertus Magnus and Albert of Cologne was a Catholic bishop and German Dominican friar.
Alexander Whyte
A Scottish theologian, college Principal and minister in the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland
Alfred Edersheim
Born in Vienna to Jewish parents of culture and wealth, Eldersheim converted to Christianity after emigrating to Hungary.
Andrew Murray
A South African writer, educationist and Christian pastor.
Anonymous works
Featuring The Cloud of Unknowing and Theologica Germanica.
Arthur Dent
Arthur Dent was an English Puritan cleric, known as an author and preacher.
Brother Lawrence
A lay brother in a Carmelite monastery, today most commonly remembered for the closeness of his relationship to God.
C. S. Lewis
A British academic, writer and theologian held in high regard as a thorough, compelling and original writer
Catherine Booth
Catherine Booth (1829 – 1890) was called the "Mother of The Salvation Army".
Charles Dickens
The popularity of Dickens' novels and short stories is demonstrated by the fact that none has ever gone out of print.
Charles Grandison Finney
Often called "America's foremost revivalist," Finney was a major leader of the Second Great Awakening in America.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A British Baptist preacher known as the "Prince of Preachers." who remains highly influential among Christians of many denominations.
Charles Wesley
A prolific hymn-writer and leader in the Methodist movement alongside his brother, John Wesley
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
A German Lutheran theologian and one of the founders of Christian Socialism in Germany and Switzerland.
David Brainerd
An exceptional American missionary among the Native Americans, was born at Haddam, Connecticut.
Dwight L. Moody
An American evangelist and publisher who some claim to be the greatest evangelist of the 19th century.
Early Church Fathers
Influential theologians and writers in the Christian Church from the first five centuries.
Eberhard Arnold
Founder of a community formed on the basis of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, later known as The Bruderhof.
Edmund Hamer Broadbent
An unassuming but fearless Christian missionary and author.
Edward Harold Begbie
An English author and journalist, Begbie published nearly 50 books and poems and contributed to periodicals.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Methodist minister and author of books chiefly on prayer.
Emilio Comba
Emilio Comba was a well celebrated Waldensian pastor and historian.
Emmy Arnold
Co-founder of the Bruderhof communities, Emmy was Eberhard Arnold's faithful companion and helper as long as he lived.
Erlo Stegen
A missionary to the Zulus for 12 years before a Revival broke out in 1966.
Evelyn Underhill
An English Anglo-Catholic pacifist and writer on Christian mysticism.
Francis Mershman
An American Benedictine monk who wrote articles for the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia.
François Fénelon
A French Roman Catholic theologian, poet and writer.
Frederick William Bourne
An English preacher and author from Devon.
Friedrich Zuendel
A Swiss pastor, author, essayist and friend of Johann Christoph Blumhardt.
George Fox
Often considered the founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers.
George Macdonald
A Scottish Christian minister, author and poet. He pioneered in the field of fantasy literature.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A prolific English writer of the early 20th century, whose writings consistently displayed wit and a sense of humour.
Gregory of Nazianzus
A 4th-century Archbishop of Constantinople and an eminent theologian of the early church.
Henry Drummond
A man of varied talents perhaps most remembered as gifted evangelist who assisted Dwight L. Moody.
Henry Frost
Writing from helpful experience with China Inland Mission, Henry's work 'Miraculous Healing' has become a classic.
Henry Suso
A German Dominican friar, noted spiritual writer and mystic.
Horatius Bonar
Horatius Bonar was a Scottish churchman and poet.
Huldrych Zwingli
A prominent writer, theologian and leader in the protestant reformation
Jacob Behmen (Jakob Boehme)
1575-1624, The Teutonic Theosopher.
Jessie Penn-Lewis
An evangelical speaker during the 1904–1905 Welsh revival, and an author.
Johann Christoph Arnold
Senior pastor of the Bruderhof - an international communal movement dedicated to a life of simplicity, service, sharing, and nonviolence.
Johann Heinrich Arnold
Son of founders of the Bruderhof Eberhard and Emmy Arnold, Johann served as a pastor the growing movement.
John Bunyan
A preacher and writer of the most famous published Christian allegory, The Pilgrim's Progress.
John Calvin
A French theologian, pastor and one of the fathers of the Protestant Reformation.
John Flavel
A Presbyterian clergyman and prolific and popular author.
John Foxe
Remembered as the author of what is popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs.
John Henry Newton
An Anglican clergyman and former slave-ship captain.
John Horsch
A leading historian and author in the Mennonite Church in America.
John Milton
An English poet, prose polemicist and civil servant.
John Owen
An English Nonconformist church leader and theologian.
John Tauler
Friar and preacher of Strasburg.
John van Ruysbroeck
A Flemish mystic, priest and author.
John Wesley
An Anglican cleric and Christian theologian who was the founder of the Methodist movement.
John Woolman
An itinerant Quaker preacher who campaigned for justice in the American colonies.
Jonathan Edwards
An American Congregational preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
An English theologian and Bishop of Durham.
Julian of Norwich
An English anchoress and an important Christian mystic and theologian.
Justin Martyr
An apologist who defended the early Christian faith
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists.
Madame Guyon
A French mystic and one of the key advocates of Quietism.
Martin Luther
A German monk, priest, professor of theology, author, composer, and an influential figure in the Protestant Reformation.
Matelda of Magdeburg
A 13C Beguine and the first mystic to write in German.
Meister Eckhart
A German theologian, philosopher and mystic.
Peter Riedemann
An Anabaptist leader imprisoned for his faith.
Richard Rolle
An English hermit, mystic, and religious writer.
Rudyard Kipling
An English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
An Indian Christian missionary, believed to have died in the foothills of the Himalayas in 1929.
Samuel Chadwick
The preacher who burned his sermons, then caught the fire of God himself.
Samuel Logan Brengle
A Commissioner in The Salvation Army and a leading author, teacher and preacher on the doctrine of Holiness.
Smith Wigglesworth
Smith Wigglesworth was an evangelist and faith healer, prominent within early Pentecostalism.
Søren Kierkegaard
A 19th century Danish philosopher and theologian.
St Augustine
An African by birth and a Roman by education, revered as a saint and the pre-eminent Doctor of the Church.
St Benedict of Nursia
A patron saint of, Europe famous for his monastic rule, widely regarded as the founder of Western Christian Monasticism
St Bernard of Clairvaux
A French abbot and theologian who was the main voice of conservatism during the Renaissance.
St Ignatius of Loyola
The principal founder of the Society of Jesus, otherwise known as the the Jesuits.
St John Chrysostom
An important early church father celebrated as the "golden mouthed" preacher.
St John of the Cross
A major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystic, and Carmelite friar and priest.
St Teresa of Ávila
A prominent Spanish mystic, Carmelite nun, and writer of the Counter Reformation.
The Franciscans
A group of related mendicant religious orders within the Catholic Church.
The Venerable Bede
A monk living 673-735, Bede became one of the most learned men of Europe in his day.
Theodore Austin-Sparks
T.Austin-Sparks was a British author and evangelist.
Thomas à Kempis
A late Medieval Catholic monk and author of Imitation of Christ, one of the best known Christian books on devotion.
Thomas Boston
A Scottish church leader, theologian and philosopher.
Thomas Goodwin
An English Puritan theologian and preacher and chaplain to Oliver Cromwell
Thomas Watson
English Nonconformist Puritan preacher and author.
Walter Hilton
Walter Hilton was an English Augustinian mystic.
Watchman Nee
Watchman Nee was a Chinese Christian author and church leader during the early 20th Century.
William Booth
William Booth (1829 – 1912) was the founder and first General (1878-1912) of The Salvation Army.
William Carey
William Carey was an English missionary and Baptist minister, known as the "father of modern missions".
William Inge
An English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral. He was thrice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
William Law
Tutor and spiritual director to brothers John and Charles Wesley, John Byrom the poet, George Cheyne the physician and Archibald Hutcheson, MP for Hastings.
William Tyndale
William Tyndale was a Protestant reformer and scholar who translated the Bible into the Early Modern English of his day.