The Figures
Forerunners and their teachings across 2000 years of church history. Timeline Map View
Irenaeus of Lyon
The man who defeated Gnosticism
Athanasius of Alexandria
Contra mundum — against the world
Augustine of Hippo
From prodigal to father of the West
John Wycliffe
The Morning Star of the Reformation
Jan Hus
Burned for truth — his ashes seeded the Moravians
Thomas à Kempis
Seventy years, one monastery, one book that changed millions
Martin Luther
Recovered justification by faith alone
William Tyndale
Lord, open the King of England's eyes
John Calvin
The architect of Reformed theology
Brother Lawrence
The simplest practice — living in God's presence moment by moment
Michael Molinos
Silenced by the Inquisition, but his quiet endures
Madame Guyon
Abandoned self-will, turned wholly to God
François Fénelon
An archbishop's spiritual letters that shaped the inner-life tradition
William Law
Brought the inner-life tradition into the English-speaking world
Count Zinzendorf
The Herrnhut revival — a hundred years of prayer, hundreds of missionaries
John Wesley
The warmed heart that ignited the Great Revival
Charles Grandison Finney
Revival is the right use of means
John Nelson Darby
Father of the Brethren — he opened the Bible and left the system
Robert Govett
The prophetic seer — he wrote a hundred years before his time
Andrew Murray
Abide in Christ — a giant of the inner life
Frédéric Louis Godet
The great French Bible commentator
Charles Spurgeon
The Prince of Preachers — stood alone for the authority of Scripture
G. Campbell Morgan
The Prince of Expositors — the Book found him
W.H. Griffith Thomas
Christianity is Christ
D.L. Moody
A shoe salesman filled with the Spirit who shook two continents
A.B. Simpson
Once it was the blessing, now it is the Lord
R.A. Torrey
Moody's successor — Spirit baptism for power
A.W. Tozer
A twentieth-century prophet
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Costly grace under the cross
T. Austin-Sparks
Christianity is Christ
Timothy Keller
The gospel is not the first rung on a ladder but the hub of a wheel