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John Wesley
John Wesley (1703–1791) was a priest of the Church of England. He launched the Methodist movement in eighteenth-century England and is regarded as the founder of Methodism. His theology also influenced the Holiness movement, The Salvation Army, and the Pentecostal movement.
Charles Wesley
Charles Wesley (1707–1788) was a priest of the Church of England and a hymn writer. With his elder brother John Wesley, he led the Methodist movement, and he is said to have written more than 6,500 hymns over his lifetime.
Wisdom of Solomon
The Wisdom of Solomon is a Greek work that speaks in the voice of Solomon and addresses wisdom, the immortality of the righteous, and the history of the Exodus. The Catholic and Orthodox churches include it in the Old Testament canon as a deuterocanonical book, while Protestants classify it among the Apocrypha.
Bede
Bede (672/673–735) was a monk, priest, and scholar of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria in England. He wrote the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, which records how the Anglo-Saxons came to accept Christianity, and for this work he is called the "Father of English History."
Ahn Changho
Ahn Changho (安昌浩, 1878–1938) was a Korean independence activist and educator during the period of Japanese colonial rule; his pen name was Dosan (島山). A Protestant, he organized the Sinminhoe (New People's Association), the Heungsadan (Young Korean Academy), and other organizations, and he served in the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea as Minister of Home Affairs and Acting Prime Minister.