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George Fox
[People]George Fox (1624–1691) was an English itinerant preacher who founded the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers. He emphasized the "Inner Light" received without the mediation of clergy, silent worship, and pacifism.
Welsh Revival
[History]The Welsh Revival was a Protestant revival movement that swept across Wales, in the United Kingdom, from 1904 to 1905. Its best-known figure was Evan Roberts, a former coal miner and lay preacher, and some 100,000 conversions were reported at the time.
George Whitefield
[People]George Whitefield (1714–1770) was a priest of the Church of England and an itinerant preacher. He is regarded as one of the figures who sparked the eighteenth-century Great Awakening through his open-air preaching in Britain and the North American colonies, and he was a leader of Calvinistic Methodism.
John Bunyan
[People]John Bunyan (1628–1688) was an English Puritan preacher and author. He is best known for *The Pilgrim's Progress*, written during his imprisonment. The book has also been among the most widely read devotional works in Korean Protestantism since its earliest years.
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.
Covenant Renewal
[Bible]Covenant renewal refers to Israel's public reaffirmation of its covenant with God and its renewed pledge to keep it. Such renewals are recorded in the times of Moses, Joshua, Josiah, and Nehemiah, among others.
2 Peter 2:4–5
[Bible Verses]A passage that cites the angels who sinned and the flood of Noah as examples showing that judgment will surely come upon false teachers. It is frequently discussed in connection with the fall of the angels, the Greek term Tartarus (rendered "hell"), and the description of Noah as a preacher of righteousness.
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.
Dwight L. Moody
[People]Dwight Lyman Moody (1837–1899) was an American lay revival preacher. He led mass evangelistic campaigns in major cities, founded educational institutions including the Moody Bible Institute, and presided over the conference that gave rise to the Student Volunteer Movement.
Girolamo Savonarola
[People]Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498) was a Dominican friar and preacher active in Florence, Italy. He denounced corruption in the church and in society, was excommunicated, and was executed. Protestants commonly count him among the forerunners of the Reformation.
Aimee Semple McPherson
[People]Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944) was a Canadian-born Pentecostal evangelist and early radio preacher who ministered in the United States. She founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
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).
Jan Hus
[People]Jan Hus (c. 1369–1415) was a theologian and preacher from Bohemia (the present-day Czech Republic). After advocating church reform, he was condemned as a heretic at the Council of Constance in 1415 and burned at the stake. Protestants regard him as a forerunner of the Reformation.
Sojourner Truth
[People]Sojourner Truth (c. 1797–1883) was an itinerant preacher born into slavery in New York State. She was a leading figure in the abolitionist and women's rights movements and is widely known for the speech she delivered at the 1851 Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.
Thomas Watson
[People]Thomas Watson (c. 1620–1686) was an English Puritan preacher and author. He is best known for *A Body of Divinity*, a collection of sermons expounding the Westminster Shorter Catechism.
John Stott
[People]John R. W. Stott (1921–2011) was an English Anglican priest, preacher, and author. A leading figure in the worldwide evangelical movement of the twentieth century, he led the drafting of the Lausanne Covenant in 1974.
Albert Schweitzer
[People]Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) was an Alsatian theologian, philosopher, organist, and physician. His The Quest of the Historical Jesus left a major mark on historical Jesus research, and his medical work at Lambaréné in Gabon, Africa, earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952.
Henry Ward Beecher
[People]Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) was a nineteenth-century American Congregationalist preacher and abolitionist who served as pastor of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York, for about forty years.
Meister Eckhart
[People]Meister Eckhart (c. 1260–c. 1328) was a medieval German Dominican friar, theologian, and preacher. He is regarded as a leading representative of "German mysticism."