User:John Vandenberg/WIPs/Witnesses to the Word

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Witnesses to the Word, written by Victor Shepherd, is a compilation of portraits of Christian giants that were originally written for the "Heritage" column of Fellowship Magazine.

The foreword was written by Dr Ian Rennie.

List of subjects[edit]

  1. Athanasius (296 - 373)
  2. Francis of Assisi (1184 - 1226)
  3. Mother Julian of Norwich (1342 - 1416)
  4. Jan Hus (1369 - 1415)
  5. Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
  6. Ulrich Zwingli (1484 - 1531)
  7. Thomas Cranmer (1489 - 1556)
  8. William Tyndale (c. 1490 - 1536)
  9. Ignatius Loyola (1491 - 1556)
  10. Menno Simons (1496 - 1561)
  11. Philip Melanchthon (1497 - 1560)
  12. Teresa of Avila (1515 - 1582)
  13. John Calvin (1509 - 1564)
  14. John Knox (c. 1513 - 1572)
  15. Caspar Olevianus (1536 - 1587) & Zacharias Ursinus (1534 - 1583)
  16. Jacobus Arminius (1560 - 1609)
  17. John Owen (1616 - 1683)
  18. Thomas Watson (c. 1620 - 1686)
  19. John Bunyan (1628 - 1688)
  20. Susanna Annesley (1669 - 1742)
  21. Isaac Watts (1674 - 1748)
  22. Griffith Jones (1683 - 1761) -- DAB needed
  23. Jonathan Edwards (1703 - 1758)
  24. John Wesley (1703 - 1791)
  25. Charles Wesley (1707 - 1788)
  26. Women Preachers in Early-Day Methodism
  27. George Whitefield (1714 - 1770)
  28. Thomas Webb (1725 - 1796) -- DAB needed
  29. John Newton (1725 - 1807)
  30. John Fletcher (1729 - 1785)
  31. Barbara Heck (1734 - 1804)
  32. Francis Asbury (1745 - 1816)
  33. Thomas Coke (1747 - 1814)
  34. William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833)
  35. Earl of Shaftesbury (1801 - 1885) -- DAB needed
  36. Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
  37. George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)
  38. William Booth (1829 - 1912) and Catherine Booth (1829 - 1890)
  39. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)
  40. Karl Barth 1886 - 1968)
  41. Martin Niemoeller (1892 - 1984)
  42. C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
  43. William Edwin Sangster (1900 - 1960)
  44. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945)
  45. Ronald A. Ward (1908 - 1986)
  46. Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
  47. Jacques Ellul (1912 - 1996)
  48. Thomas Torrance (1913 - )
  49. William Stringfellow (1928 - 1985)
  50. Eva Burrows (1929 - )

Heritage column[edit]

A few of the portraits in the Heritage column did not appear in the book:

  1. Adolphus Egerton Ryerson (1803 - 1882)
  2. Bishop J.C. Ryle (1816 - 1900)
  3. Maximilian Kolbe (1894 - 1941)
  4. Oscar Romero (1917 -- 1980)
  5. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
  6. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
  7. Thomas Clark Oden (1931 - )

References[edit]

  • Dr Victor Shepherd (2001). Witnesses to the Word. Toronto: Clements Publishing. ISBN 189466700X.
  • Fellowship Magazine, September 2006. gc
  • Book Review on freemethodistchurch.org

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