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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]- Athanasius (296 - 373)
- Francis of Assisi (1184 - 1226)
- Mother Julian of Norwich (1342 - 1416)
- Jan Hus (1369 - 1415)
- Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
- Ulrich Zwingli (1484 - 1531)
- Thomas Cranmer (1489 - 1556)
- William Tyndale (c. 1490 - 1536)
- Ignatius Loyola (1491 - 1556)
- Menno Simons (1496 - 1561)
- Philip Melanchthon (1497 - 1560)
- Teresa of Avila (1515 - 1582)
- John Calvin (1509 - 1564)
- John Knox (c. 1513 - 1572)
- Caspar Olevianus (1536 - 1587) & Zacharias Ursinus (1534 - 1583)
- Jacobus Arminius (1560 - 1609)
- John Owen (1616 - 1683)
- Thomas Watson (c. 1620 - 1686)
- John Bunyan (1628 - 1688)
- Susanna Annesley (1669 - 1742)
- Isaac Watts (1674 - 1748)
- Griffith Jones (1683 - 1761) -- DAB needed
- Jonathan Edwards (1703 - 1758)
- John Wesley (1703 - 1791)
- Charles Wesley (1707 - 1788)
- Women Preachers in Early-Day Methodism
- George Whitefield (1714 - 1770)
- Thomas Webb (1725 - 1796) -- DAB needed
- John Newton (1725 - 1807)
- John Fletcher (1729 - 1785)
- Barbara Heck (1734 - 1804)
- Francis Asbury (1745 - 1816)
- Thomas Coke (1747 - 1814)
- William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833)
- Earl of Shaftesbury (1801 - 1885) -- DAB needed
- Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
- George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)
- William Booth (1829 - 1912) and Catherine Booth (1829 - 1890)
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)
- Karl Barth 1886 - 1968)
- Martin Niemoeller (1892 - 1984)
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- William Edwin Sangster (1900 - 1960)
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945)
- Ronald A. Ward (1908 - 1986)
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
- Jacques Ellul (1912 - 1996)
- Thomas Torrance (1913 - )
- William Stringfellow (1928 - 1985)
- Eva Burrows (1929 - )
Heritage column
[edit]A few of the portraits in the Heritage column did not appear in the book:
- Adolphus Egerton Ryerson (1803 - 1882)
- Bishop J.C. Ryle (1816 - 1900)
- Maximilian Kolbe (1894 - 1941)
- Oscar Romero (1917 -- 1980)
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- 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