Dominic
Founder of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans)
Charles Spurgeon
Finest nineteenth-century preacher
George Frideric Handel
The German-born English composer behind the “Messiah.”
Menno Simons
Anabaptist peacemaker
John Wesley
Methodical pietist
Rembrandt Harmensz Van Rijn
Dutch painter of the soul
Alexander Campbell
This 18th century Irishman became one of the founders of the Disciples of Christ and the Church of Christ.
Nicholas Copernicus
Revolutionary astronomer
Ignatius of Antioch
Earliest post-New Testament martyr
George MacDonald
Fabled Victorian writer
John Eliot
Apostle to Native Americans
C.S. Lewis
Scholar, author, and apologist
Columbanus
Irish missionary to Europe
Brother Lawrence
Practitioner of God’s presence
Teresa of Avila
Carmelite mystic and feisty administrator
Fanny Crosby
Prolific and blind hymn writer
Søren Kierkegaard
Christian existentialist
Jacob Arminius
Irenic anti-Calvinist
Thomas Cranmer
Genius behind Anglicanism
Andrew Murray
Leading student in Christ’s school of prayer
Charles Finney
Father of American revivalism
Hudson Taylor
Faith missionary to China
Constantine
First Christian emperor
Matthew Ricci
Controversial evangelist to China
John of Damascus
Image-conscious Arab
Ambrose of Milan
Most talented bishop of the early church
Francis Asbury
Methodist on horseback
Jonathan Edwards
America’s greatest theologian
Thomas à Kempis
Author of the most popular devotional classic
John Chrysostom
Early church’s greatest preacher
Boniface
Apostle of Germany
Joan of Arc
Teenage war hero with visions
Francis of Assisi
Mystical founder of the Franciscans
Catherine of Siena
Mystic and political activist
Johann Sebastian Bach
“The Fifth Evangelist”
John Foxe
Martyrologist
G. K. Chesterton
“Enormous” Essayist, poet, writer
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist of spiritual depth
Henry VIII
Defender of the faith
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German theologian and resister