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William J. Seymour
[People]William Seymour (1870–1922) was an African American Holiness and Pentecostal preacher. In 1906 he led the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles, which proved decisive in the spread of the modern Pentecostal movement.
Oral Roberts
[People]Oral Roberts (1918–2009) was an American Pentecostal and charismatic healing evangelist. He became widely known through his tent meetings and television broadcasts, and he founded Oral Roberts University. In Korean Protestantism he is regarded as a major influence on David Yonggi Cho.
Kenneth Hagin
[People]Kenneth Hagin (1917–2003) was an American charismatic preacher. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Word of Faith movement, which emphasizes faith and spoken confession, and he founded Rhema Bible Training Center.
Charles Parham
[People]Charles Fox Parham (1873–1929) was an American preacher and itinerant evangelist. As the first to systematize speaking in tongues as the evidence of baptism in the Holy Spirit, he is regarded as an early leader of the Pentecostal movement.
J. Gresham Machen
[People]John Gresham Machen (1881–1937) was an American Presbyterian New Testament scholar. He criticized liberal theology in *Christianity and Liberalism* and founded Westminster Theological Seminary and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
Charles Hodge
[People]Charles Hodge (1797–1878) was an American Presbyterian theologian. He taught at Princeton Theological Seminary for more than half a century and wrote a three-volume Systematic Theology, becoming the leading representative of "Princeton Theology."
Francis Schaeffer
[People]Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984) was an American Presbyterian minister and Christian apologist (one who explains and defends the rationality of the Christian faith). In 1955 he and his wife, Edith, founded the L'Abri community in Switzerland.
Reinhold Niebuhr
[People]Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) was an American Protestant theologian and Christian ethicist. He is known for "Christian realism," an approach that pursued social justice while squarely confronting human sinfulness and collective self-interest.
Jim Elliot
[People]Jim Elliot (1927–1956) was an American Protestant missionary. In 1956 he and four fellow missionaries were killed in Ecuador while attempting to bring the gospel to the Waorani people (formerly called the "Auca").
Thomas Merton
[People]Thomas Merton (1915–1968) was an American Catholic Trappist monk and priest. He was also a poet and spiritual writer and is widely known for his spiritual autobiography *The Seven Storey Mountain*, published in 1948.
Eugene Peterson
[People]Eugene Peterson (1932–2018) was an American minister of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and a spiritual theologian. He wrote The Message, a rendering of the Bible in contemporary everyday English, and is known for numerous books on pastoral spirituality.
Gladys Aylward
[People]Gladys Aylward (1902–1970) was an English-born independent missionary. She evangelized and cared for orphans in Shanxi Province, China, and is known for leading more than one hundred orphans across the mountains to safety during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Donald McGavran
[People]Donald Anderson McGavran (1897–1990) was an American missionary to India and a missiologist. He is known as the founder of church growth studies and served as the founding dean of the School of World Mission at Fuller Theological Seminary.
Charles Simeon
[People]Charles Simeon (1759–1836) was an evangelical priest of the Church of England. He ministered at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, for fifty-four years, trained preachers, and took part in founding the Church Missionary Society (CMS).
John Wimber
[People]John Wimber (1934–1997) was an American pastor and musician. He is regarded as the founder of the Vineyard Movement and became widely known for "power evangelism," which emphasized signs and wonders, divine healing, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
David Wilkerson
[People]David Wilkerson (1931–2011) was an American Pentecostal minister and evangelist. He founded Teen Challenge, a drug-addiction recovery ministry, and Times Square Church in New York City, and he is known as the author of The Cross and the Switchblade.
Boniface
[People]Boniface (c. 675–754) was an English Benedictine monk and Archbishop of Mainz. A missionary who brought Christianity to the Germanic lands in the eighth century, he is known as the "Apostle of the Germans."
Frederick Douglass
[People]Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was an American abolitionist, orator, and journalist. Born into slavery, he escaped and became a lay preacher in a Black Methodist denomination. He sharply criticized American churches that defended slavery.
T. S. Eliot
[People]Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965) was an American-born British poet and critic. After publishing *The Waste Land*, he was baptized into the Church of England in 1927, and in 1948 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Francis Collins
[People]Francis Collins (born 1950) is an American geneticist and physician. He led the Human Genome Project and the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). He promoted theistic evolution through his book *The Language of God* and through the BioLogos Foundation, which he founded.