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• Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) was an American author and abolitionist. She is best known for Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), a novel that indicted slavery. The daughter of the Congregationalist minister Lyman Beecher, she became an Episcopalian later in life.

• Catherine of Siena

  Catherine of Siena (1347–1380) was a fourteenth-century Italian mystic and Dominican tertiary. She is known for urging, through her letters to popes and her work as a mediator, the return of the papacy from Avignon to Rome and the unity of the church.

• Catherine Booth

  Catherine Booth (1829–1890) was a nineteenth-century English preacher. With her husband, William Booth, she founded The Salvation Army, and she is known as the "Mother of The Salvation Army." She is also known for her defense of women's right to preach.

• Katharina von Bora

  Katharina von Bora (1499–1552) was a sixteenth-century German former nun. In 1525 she married the Reformer Martin Luther, and their household became a leading model for the early Protestant pastor's family.

• Codex Sinaiticus

  Codex Sinaiticus is a fourth-century Greek manuscript of the Bible. It was discovered at Saint Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai and is known as the oldest surviving manuscript that contains the complete New Testament.

• William Booth

  William Booth (1829–1912) was an English former Methodist minister who, together with his wife Catherine Booth, founded The Salvation Army and served as its first General.

• Constantin von Tischendorf

  Constantin von Tischendorf (1815–1874) was a nineteenth-century German textual critic of the New Testament. At St. Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai he found the Codex Sinaiticus, a fourth-century Greek manuscript of the Bible, and made it known to the world.

• Mary I of England

  Mary I (1516–1558) was Queen of England and Ireland (reigned 1553–1558). She restored Catholicism in England and executed Protestants, prompting Protestant exiles to produce the Geneva Bible.

• Thomas Cranmer

  Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556) was the Archbishop of Canterbury who led the English Reformation and compiled the Book of Common Prayer, the foundation of Anglican worship. He was burned at the stake under Mary I.

• Radical Orthodoxy

  Radical Orthodoxy is a theological movement that emerged in the 1990s, centered in Cambridge, England. It argues that the modern realm of the "secular" is not neutral, and it seeks to return to patristic and medieval theology in order to reinterpret all of reality through the lens of theology.

• Henry VIII

  Henry VIII (1491–1547) was King of England (reigned 1509–1547). After breaking with the pope over the annulment of his marriage, he declared the monarch Supreme Head of the Church of England, laying the foundation for what is today the Anglican Communion.

• English Reformation

  The English Reformation was a series of sixteenth-century reforms, spanning the reigns of Henry VIII through Elizabeth I, through which the church in England broke away from the authority of the pope in Rome and was established as a national church with the monarch at its head.

• History of The Salvation Army in Korea

  The history of The Salvation Army in Korea dates from 1908, when the British officer Robert Hoggard (Korean name Heo Ga-du) arrived in Seoul. Alongside evangelism, The Salvation Army in Korea has carried out poor relief and the Red Kettle fundraising campaign.

• Cathars

  The Cathars were a dualist Christian sect that spread through southern France and northern Italy in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. They are also called Albigensians, after the southern French city of Albi. The Catholic Church condemned them as heretics and suppressed them through a crusade and the Inquisition.