List of Famous Evangelical Christians - Twentieth Century

Twentieth Century

  • Phineas F. Bresee (1838–1915), founder of the Church of the Nazarene
  • Albert Benjamin Simpson (1843–1919), preacher, writer, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance
  • William Mitchell Ramsay (1851–1939), archaeologist known for his expertise in Asia Minor
  • Oswald Thompson Allis (1856–1930), co-founder of Westminster Theological Seminary
  • Robert Dick Wilson (1856–1930), linguist committed to defending the reliability of the Hebrew Bible
  • John George Govan (1861–1927), founder of the Faith Mission
  • Billy Sunday (1862–1935), American evangelist and proponent of Prohibition
  • William Irvine (1863–1947), founder of the Cooneyites and Two by Twos sects
  • Edward Cooney (1867–1960), evangelist and early leader of the Cooneyites and Go-Preachers sects
  • Karl Barth (1886–1968), leader of dialectical theology and author of Church Dogmatics
  • Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944), Pentecostal preacher and founder of Foursquare Church
  • William F. Albright (1891–1971), ceramics expert, founder of the biblical archaeology movement
  • Clarence Bouma (1891-1962), first president of the Evangelical Theological Society
  • Donald Barnhouse (1895–1960), former pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church, founder of Eternity magazine
  • Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897–1963), preacher, author of The Pursuit of God and The Knowledge of the Holy
  • Martyn Lloyd Jones (1899–1981), reformed preacher at Westminster Chapel
  • Frank E. Gaebelein (1899-1983), founder of The Stony Brook School, general editor of the Expositor's Bible Commentary
  • Harold Ockenga (1905–1985), first president of the National Association of Evangelicals
  • William M. Branham (1909-1965), preacher and prophet, pacesetter and initiator of the Tent Revival Era of the 40's and 50's
  • Merrill Unger (1909–1980), Old Testament professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, defender of biblical inerrancy
  • F. F. Bruce (1910–1990), apologist, one of the founders of the modern evangelical understanding of the Bible
  • Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984), theologian, philosopher, founder of L'Abri, author of A Christian Manifesto
  • Carl F. H. Henry (1913–2003), founding editor of Christianity Today
  • Robert Pierce (1914–1978), founder of World Vision and Samaritan's Purse
  • Bruce M. Metzger (1914–2007), biblical scholar and translator who served on the board of the American Bible Society
  • Gleason Archer (1916–2004), theologian, educator, and author
  • Ralph D. Winter (1924–2009), founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission
  • D. James Kennedy (1930–2007), founder of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church and Knox Theological Seminary
  • Jerry Falwell (1933–2007), founder of Liberty University and the Moral Majority
  • James Montgomery Boice (1938–2000), former pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church, author of The Doctrines of Grace: Rediscovering the Evangelical Gospel
  • Greg Bahnsen (1948–1995), minister, educator, apologist, and a major figure in Christian Reconstructionism

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