[PDF] The 10 Most Influential Christians Of The Twentieth Century eBook

Author : Daryl Aaron
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,16 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441261567

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Compelling Accounts of Key People Who Have Formed Christian Belief through the Ages All Christians' beliefs are shaped by those who went before them. Now these giants of Christian history are presented chronologically and in a format that helps readers get to know them. In addition to a biographical sketch, readers will discover each person's primary contributions to the Christian faith along with a brief quotation from their work. Students, history buffs, and curious readers will be fascinated as their faith is strengthened. Included are Polycarp, Justin Martyr, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Karl Barth, Carl F. H. Henry, and more.

Author : William H. Stephens
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,18 MB
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780983367239

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Biographies of the most important Christians during this period and how their lives affected Christianity.

Author : Ken Lambert
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 39,5 MB
Release : 2013-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781625633255

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The Big Names of Christianity... Survey results are in. Today's Christians let us know who their Top 10 picks for influential Christian leaders are. The results are telling. Which self-professed Christians made the cut? Who do we think influenced our beliefs the most? How did each rank in modern opinion? Who didn't make the list? The answers are inside. Pastors, teachers, and other writers focus on the Top 10 pics, supplying short biographies of each to get us in-the-know. Ten bonus mini-biographies let us know who missed the top ten, but made the top twenty. For education, information, reference, and debate. These are the men who helped shape our church-and beliefs-as we know it. Complied and Edited by Ken Lambert and Abby Matzke. Illustrated by Joel Kutylowski "When we put History and Theology together, we have identified an area in which lack of awareness and dearth of comprehension flourish in our culture. The compilers of this book have put our hands a helpful tool. It will serve to stimulate interest and critical thought and to introduce young minds to the heritage which has been handed to us from the past. May it prove to be beneficial to many." -Professor Mark Harstad. "This book presents information to make the average layperson's appetite for more alive A book I am glad to have added to my library...one that I will undoubtedly refer to often." -Pastor Fred DeRevo, Th.D.

Author : Robert Royal
Publisher : Crossroad
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,83 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824524142

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From the Catholic martyrs at Auschwitz and Dachau to Oscar Romero in El Salvador; from Ita Ford and her murdered companions to the recent killings of Christians in India, Pakistan, and Sudan, it is estimated that more than one million Christian have died for their faith in the twentieth century. Because the Catholic Church is the largest single denomination in the world a substantial portion of those martyrs has been Catholic. In his encyclical anticipating the Third Millennium, Pope John Paul II has reminded the world that the century's religious victims-Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and others-are a special witness for our time that "must not be forgotten." The twentieth century made great strides in science and technology, and spread the notion of basic human rights to all parts of the globe. But alongside these solid achievements, it was also a period of unprecedented religious persecution that surpassed even the early years of the Church. Most accounts of the modern age document how ideological movements and brutal dictatorships killed millions around the world for political, social, racial, and ethnic reasons. Almost no attention has been paid, however, to the specifically anti-religious nature of many of these same modern regimes. Robert Royal presents the first comprehensive history of the twentieth-century martyrs. Religious persecution and martyrdom touched virtually every continent during this century. In addition to the massive slaughters of believers under Nazism and Communism, this volume traces specific situations in Africa, Mexico, Central America, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, which produced a large harvest of heroic witnesses to the faith. It offers detailed accounts of how martyrdoms occurred, and studies the political system and other factors that contributed to various confrontations over religion. A rich collection of individual biographies, ranging from bishops and clergy to the bloody fates of ordinary lay people, is woven into the text.

Author : Brian Stanley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 21,45 MB
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0691196842

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"[This book] charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonization, and powerful ideological currents, many of them hostile to Christianity"--Amazon.com.

Author : Michael J. Gehring
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,96 MB
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 149829006X

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In The Oxbridge Evangelist: Motivations, Practices, and Legacy of C. S. Lewis, Michael Gehring examines the evangelistic practices of one of the most significant lay evangelists of the twentieth century. In the early 1930s not many who knew Lewis would have guessed that he would become such a significant evangelist. He has left an evangelistic legacy that has influenced millions across the world. Yet Lewis scholarship has not given sufficient attention to this crucial aspect of his legacy. This work examines Lewis's loss and recovery of faith, and it shows how his experience heightened his own awareness of the loss of the Christian faith in England. Because of his ability to identify with others, Lewis engaged in the work of evangelism with uncanny skill. This work required singular courage on his part; it cost him dearly professionally and in his relationships. Gehring critically explores Lewis's motivations, practices, and legacy of evangelism. In doing so he provides penetrating insight for those interested in the theory and practice of evangelism in a culture that too readily leaves it to the crazies of the Christian tradition or relegates it to the margins of church life.

Author : Stephen R. Haynes
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 18,93 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451418552

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Stephen Haynes's provocative study articulates the many motives and agendas that readers and scholars have brought to their study of Bonhoeffer, making it difficult to assess objectively the relationship of his political and religious commitments, the real meaning of his theology, and his words and actions on behalf of Jews. Reading Haynes's book helps us learn not only what Bonhoeffer has to teach us but also what it is we most desire to learn.

Author : Elesha J. Coffman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 33,49 MB
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0199938598

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Since the 1972 publication of Dean M. Kelley's Why Conservative Churches Are Growing, discussion of the Protestant mainline has focused on the tradition's decline. Elesha J. Coffman's The Christian Century and the Rise of Mainline Protestantism tells a different story, using the lens of the influential periodical The Christian Century to examine the rise of the mainline to a position of cultural prominence in the first half of the twentieth century.