Jerome
Bible translator whose version lasted a millennium.
Polycarp
Aged bishop of Smyrna
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Liberalism’s popularizer
William Law
Champion of the serious, devout, and holy life
Martin Luther
Passionate reformer
David Livingstone
Missionary-explorer of Africa
Augustine of Hippo
Architect of the Middle Ages
Karl Barth
Courageous theologian
Thomas Aquinas
The brilliant “dumb ox”
Lyman Beecher
Revivalist who moved with the times
Athanasius
Five-time exile for fighting “orthodoxy”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Thomas Becket
Murdered archbishop of Canterbury
Dorothy Sayers
Mystery writer and apologist
Eusebius of Caesarea
Father—and maker—of church history
Billy Sunday
Salty evangelist
John of the Cross
Spanish mystic of the soul’s dark night
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist of spiritual depth
G. K. Chesterton
“Enormous” Essayist, poet, writer
John Foxe
Martyrologist
Johann Sebastian Bach
“The Fifth Evangelist”
Catherine of Siena
Mystic and political activist
Jonathan Edwards
America’s greatest theologian
Matthew Ricci
Controversial evangelist to China
Constantine
First Christian emperor
Hudson Taylor
Faith missionary to China
Charles Finney
Father of American revivalism
George MacDonald
Fabled Victorian writer
Ignatius of Antioch
Earliest post-New Testament martyr
Nicholas Copernicus
Revolutionary astronomer
Alexander Campbell
This 18th century Irishman became one of the founders of the Disciples of Christ and the Church of Christ.
John Wesley
Methodical pietist
Menno Simons
Anabaptist peacemaker
George Frideric Handel
The German-born English composer behind the “Messiah.”
Charles Spurgeon
Finest nineteenth-century preacher
Dominic
Founder of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans)
Anne Bradstreet
America’s first poet
Nikolaus von Zinzendorf
Christ-centered Moravian “brother”
Elizabeth Fry
Prison reformer
Francis Bacon
Philosopher of science