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Jan Hus: Did You Know?
Interesting and unusual facts about Jan Hus and his followers.
Elesha Coffman
Jan Hus: From the Editors - Accidental Radical
Elesha Coffman
To Build a Fire
Jan Hus hoped his incendiary preaching and heated rebukes would purify a tainted church, but the flames consumed him first.
Thomas A. Fudge
Jan Hus: A Gallery of Foes in High Places
As reformation divided Bohemia, it turned some of Hus's most influential allies against him.
Maartje M. Abbenhuis
A Plethora of Pontiffs
With two popes, then three, vying for power, more was at stake in Constance than Jan Hus.
Peter E. Prosser
Jan Hus: Christian History Timeline - Reform and Resistance in Hussite Bohemia
The Christian History Timeline
The Wanderer
Jerome of Prague's zest for life was surpassed only by his zeal for reform.
Frieda Looser
A Pastor's Heart
Even in the midst of his campaign for reform, Hus never forgot the faithful flock back home.
Bruce L. Shelley
Jan Hus: Christian History Archive - Faith Formed in Love
In De Ecclesia (The Church) Hus encourages Christians to trust God but question the Church.
Jan Hus
The Reformation Connection
Hus shared ideas with Wyclif and Luther, yet they were not all of one mind.
Timothy George
Rebels to Be Reckoned With
The most powerful empire in Europe was no match for a peasant army led by a blind man.
Elesha Coffman
Jan Hus: Christian History Interview - To Live in Truth
The integrity for which Hus died lives on among Czech Christians.
conversation with Jan Milic Lochman
Jan Hus: Recommended Resources
Augustine & the Battle for Orthodoxy: Did You Know?
Misinterpreted for centuries, this painting now sheds light on Augustine and his remarkable life.
Elesha Coffman
Augustine & the Battle for Orthodoxy: From the Editor - A Giant-But A Man
From the Editor
Mark Galli
The Dark Heart Filled With Light
Augustine's early years reveal an intense, proud, and sensual man who yearned to know truth.
Robert Payne
Book Review: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
To show how greatly God has changed him, Augustine tells all. What a fifth-century critic might have said.
David F. Wright
The Bishop at Work
Augustine saw himself not as a saint, but as a pastor with a job to do.
Bruce L. Shelley
A Tale of Two Cities
It's a shame about Rome, but wait—there's more! What a fifth-century critic might have said.
Martin A. Marty
Augustine & the Battle for Orthodoxy: Christian History Timeline
A Christian History Timeline
Fighting Words
Forged in the heat of theological battle, Augustine's five most distinctive teachings remain controversial.
Roger E. Olson
Semi-Augustinians
A few monks—and eventually most of the church—found both Augustine and Pelagius a little too extreme.
David Allen
Augustine & the Battle for Orthodoxy: A Gallery of Influential Antagonists
Augustine's life and ministry were shaped by his encounters with these intellectual adversaries.
J. Stepehn Lang
What Would Augustine Say?
The fifth-century theologian answers five crucial twenty-first-century questions.
Jay Wood
Augustine & the Battle for Orthodoxy: Recommended Resources
Elesha Coffman
How the West Was Really Won: Did You Know?
What a famous painting reveals about America's move west.
How the West Was Really Won: From the Editor - Unexpected Heroes
Unexpected Heroes
Mark Galli
Preparing a Way in the Wilderness
Though history has all but forgotten them, it was Christian preachers and teachers who really tamed the West.
Ferenc Morton Szasz
A Church of Their Own
Ethnic congregations were essential for building community in the nation's most diverse region.
Carl V. Hallberg
No Rest for the Weary
Few pioneers possessed strong enough resolve to keep the Sabbath on the Overland Trail.
Winton U. Solberg
Tested On All Sides
Excerpts from a wagon train diary reveal that traveling overland was much more than a physical challenge.
Mary Richardson Walker
Yesterday's Christian Woman
Pioneer wives held their households together with a blend of grit and grace.
Diana Lynn Severance
Forty-Niner Faith
Traditional Christianity didn't stand much of a chance in the California gold fields.
Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp
Growth of the West
Out Yonder, on the Edge of Things
The most controversial, and most effective, missionary to the West and Alaska, Sheldon Jackson was always pushing the boundaries.
Randy Bishop
Alternative Religions
Many non- and semi-Christian groups also laid claim to the West, but none more successfully than the Mormons.
Elesha Coffman
The West That Wasn't Won
Protestant missions to Native Americans had few shining moments.
Bonnie C. Harvey
Dying To Save
The Whitman Massacre reveals much of what was noble and flawed regarding missions to Native Americans.
Mark Galli
How the West Was Really Won: A Gallery of Local Heroes
The wide-open West was served, state by state, by brave and sometimes beleaguered ministers and missionaries like these.
Mark Ammerman
How the West Was Really Won: Christian History Interview - Land of Crumbling Myths
Why the twentieth-century West—urban and explosive—ain't what it used to be.
conversation with Richard Etulain
How the West Was Really Won: Recommended Resources
How the West Was Really Won
The Ten Most Influential Christians of the Twentieth Century: From the Editor - The Long and the Short of Lists
Mark Galli
The Ten Most Influential Christians of the Twentieth Century: Introductory Timeline - Visionary Years
It was an ambitious and sometimes tragic century in which Christians lived out the gospel.
editors
Evangelicalism: Billy Graham
As an evangelist he has preached to millions; as an evangelical he put a movement on the map.
William Martin
Pentecostalism: William Seymour
What scoffers viewed as a weird babble of tongues became a world phenomenon after his Los Angeles revival.
Vinson Synan
Ministries of Mercy: Mother Teresa
She stirred a generation by touching the untouchables.
Ruth A. Tucker
Neo-Orthodoxy: Karl Barth
He revived orthodoxy when mere moralism and humanism had seemingly won over the theological world.
Mark Galli
Apologetics: C.S. Lewis
The atheist scholar who became an Anglican, an apologist, and a patron saint of Christians everywhere.
Ted Olsen
Roman Catholic Reform: John XXIII
Elected to be a caretaker pope, he decided instead to revolutionize Catholicism.
Elesha Coffman
Literature of Protest: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
The high school physics-teacher-turned-novelist whose writings shook an empire
Edward E. Ericson, Jr.
Globalism: John Paul II
In issuing more significant encyclicals and visiting more nations than any other pope, he's shown that Christianity remains a world force.
Richard John Neuhaus
Missions and Ecumenism: John R. Mott
Evangelist and ecumenist
Mark Galli
Civil Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr.
No Christian played a more prominent role in the century's most significant social justice movement.
Russel Moldovan
Third World: Rumblings to the South
In Africa and elsewhere, third-world Christians are shaking society.
Derek Peterson
Survey Results: What Do You Think?
How our scholars and general readers voted in the Most Influential Christians of the Century survey.
editors
The Ten Most Influential Christians of the Twentieth Century: Recommended Resources
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