List of Famous Evangelical Christians - Historical

Historical

  • William Tyndale (c. 1494–1536), first published use of the term evangelical in English (1531)
  • John Bunyan (1628–1688), persecuted English Puritan Baptist preacher and author of Pilgrim's Progress
  • Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), American Puritan theologian and preacher in the First Great Awakening
  • John Wesley (1703–1791), English clergyman; founder of Methodism
  • Charles Wesley (1707–1788), English clergyman; brother of John Wesley, hymnwriter of Methodism
  • George Whitefield (1714–1770), English clergyman; early Methodist preacher and associate of John Wesley
  • Isaac Backus (1724–1806), advocate of the separation of church and state
  • Henry Venn (1725–1797), founder of the small, but highly influential Clapham Sect in Britain
  • Henry Venn (1796–1873), grandson of Henry Venn, pioneered the basic principles of indigenous church mission theory
  • John Newton (1725–1807), Scottish clergyman, author of Amazing Grace
  • William Cowper (1731–1800), English poet/author of numerous hymns, including "There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood"
  • Francis Asbury (1745–1816), founder of the Methodist Episcopal Church
  • William Wilberforce (1759–1833), worked to abolish slavery in the British Empire
  • Richard Allen (1760–1831), founder of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) denomination (1816)
  • Nathan Bangs (1778–1862), editor of the Christian Advocate, president of Wesleyan University
  • Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875), preacher in the Second Great Awakening, advocate of "New Measures"
  • Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813–1843), Scottish preacher and minister of St Peter's, Dundee
  • Joseph M. Scriven (1819–1886), Irish poet, moved to Canada and wrote What a Friend We Have in Jesus
  • Fanny Crosby (1820–1915), blind American writer of many famous hymns including "Blessed Assurance"
  • William Henry Green (1825–1900), chairman of the Old Testament committee for the American Standard Version (1901)
  • Robert Pearsall Smith (1827–1899) and Hannah Whitall Smith (1832–1911), leaders in the Holiness movement
  • James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905), British missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission
  • Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892), English Baptist preacher and advocate of Calvinism
  • Dwight L. Moody (1837–1899), American evangelist, pastor and educator

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