Sojourner Truth
Abolitionist and women’s rights advocate
Elizabeth Fry
Prison reformer
William Wilberforce
Antislavery politician
William Gladstone
Prime Minister of impeccable morals
Harriet Tubman
The “Moses” of Her People
Walter Rauschenbusch
Champion of the social gospel
John Smyth
The “Se-Baptist”
Aimee Semple McPherson
Foursquare phenomenon
Richard Allen
Founder of the African Methodist Episcopal church
John Knox
Presbyterian with a sword
Francis Asbury
Methodist on horseback
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
Nikolaus von Zinzendorf
Christ-centered Moravian “brother”
George Fox
First friend
William Miller
Mistaken founder of Adventism
Clement of Alexandria
Theologian for the intelligentsia
Antony of Padua
“The hammer of heretics”
Billy Graham
Evangelist to millions
Blaise Pascal
Scientific and spiritual prodigy
Gregory Thaumaturgus
“The Wonder Worker”
Dwight L. Moody
Revivalist with a common touch
Billy Sunday
Salty evangelist
Charles Finney
Father of American revivalism
George Whitefield
Sensational Evangelist of Britain and America
Justin Martyr
Defender of the “true philosophy”
William Law
Champion of the serious, devout, and holy life
John of the Cross
Spanish mystic of the soul’s dark night
Antony of Egypt
Greatest Desert Father
Catherine of Siena
Mystic and political activist
Thomas à Kempis
Author of the most popular devotional classic
Andrew Murray
Leading student in Christ’s school of prayer
Teresa of Avila
Carmelite mystic and feisty administrator
Brother Lawrence
Practitioner of God’s presence
Oswald Chambers
Preacher who gave his utmost
Hildegard of Bingen
Benedictine abbess, visionary, and writer
Polycarp
Aged bishop of Smyrna
Thomas Becket
Murdered archbishop of Canterbury
John Huss
Pre-Reformation Reformer