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45 articles found for “William Lindsay Gresham (married 1942, divorced 1954); C. S. Lewis”

• William Scranton

  William Scranton (1856–1922) was a medical missionary and minister sent to Korea by the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. He founded Sibyeongwon hospital and took part in founding the Sangdong, Ahyeon, and Dongdaemun churches. His mother, Mary Scranton, founded Ewha Haktang.

• William Baird

  William Martyn Baird (1862–1931), known in Korea as Bae Wi-ryang, was a missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian). He took part in early mission work in the Busan and Daegu regions and in 1897 founded Soongsil Academy in Pyongyang, for which he is known as the founder of Soongsil University and Soongsil Middle and High Schools.

• William Carey

  William Carey (1761–1834) was an English Baptist minister and missionary to India. Through his writings arguing for the duty of foreign missions and his role in founding a missionary society, he is known as the "father of modern missions."

• William Miller

  William Miller (1782–1849) was an American Baptist lay preacher who, on the basis of calculations drawn from the prophecies of Daniel, proclaimed that Christ would return in 1843–1844. He was the central figure of the nineteenth-century Advent movement and of the Great Disappointment.

• William Wrede

  William Wrede (1859–1906) was a German Lutheran New Testament scholar. He is known for changing the direction of Gospel studies with his 1901 study of the "Messianic secret" in the Gospel of Mark.

• William Tyndale

  William Tyndale (c. 1494–1536) was an English reformer and Bible translator. He produced the first printed New Testament translated into English from the original Greek and was executed on charges of heresy.

• William Perkins

  William Perkins (1558–1602) was an English Puritan theologian and preacher of the Elizabethan era. He taught and preached at Cambridge and is often called "the father of Puritanism."

• 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.

• William Wilberforce

  British politician (1759–1833). Drawing on his evangelical faith, he led the parliamentary campaign to abolish the slave trade for nearly twenty years and played a major role in the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807.

• William J. Seymour

  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.

• William of Ockham

  William of Ockham (c. 1287–1347) was an English Franciscan friar. A leading philosopher and theologian of late medieval Scholasticism, he is widely known for nominalism and "Ockham's razor."

• William Lane Craig

  William Lane Craig (born 1949) is an American analytic philosopher, theologian, and Christian apologist. He is widely known for reviving the kalam cosmological argument for the existence of God and for his public debates with atheists.

• William Junkin

  William Junkin (1865–1908; Korean name Jeon Wi-ryeom) was an American Southern Presbyterian missionary who, beginning in the 1890s, founded churches and schools in Gunsan and Jeonju and laid the foundation for Protestant missions in the Honam region of Korea.

• William D. Reynolds

  William Davis Reynolds (1867–1951), known in Korea as Yi Nul-seo, was a missionary of the Southern Presbyterian Church in the United States. He took part in translating the Bible into Korean for forty-three years and taught systematic theology at Pyongyang Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

• William Linton

  William Alderman Linton (1891–1960) was an American Southern Presbyterian educational missionary. Known in Korea as In Don (印敦), he devoted forty-eight years to school education in the Honam and Chungcheong regions and founded Daejeon Christian College, the predecessor of Hannam University.

• William Arthur Noble

  William Arthur Noble (1866–1945) was a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church (the northern branch of American Methodism). He served in Korea from 1892 to 1934 and, after the death of William James Hall, took over and expanded the Methodist mission in Pyongyang.

• William James Hall

  William James Hall (1860–1894) was a Canadian-born physician and medical missionary sent by the Methodist Episcopal Church (the American Northern Methodists). He pioneered the Methodist mission in Pyongyang and died of illness contracted while treating the wounded during the First Sino-Japanese War. He was the husband of Rosetta Hall.

• William Whittingham

  William Whittingham (c. 1524–1579) was an English scholar and clergyman of Puritan sympathies. Exiled to Geneva under Mary I, he led the translation of the Geneva Bible and later served as Dean of Durham Cathedral.

• Billy Graham

  Billy Graham (1918–2018) was an American Southern Baptist minister and mass evangelist. He is regarded as a leading representative of twentieth-century evangelicalism, and his 1973 Yeouido crusade in Seoul had a significant impact on the Korean church.

• Billy Sunday

  Billy Sunday (1862–1935) was an American revivalist and former professional baseball player. A Presbyterian minister, he is known for holding large-scale revival campaigns in major American cities in the early twentieth century and for his leading role in the temperance movement.