Christian History Magazine—Issue 65: Ten Influential Christians of the 20th Century
Overview
Billy Graham, William Seymour, Mother Teresa, Karl Barth, C. S. Lewis, John XXIII, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, John Paul II, John R. Mott and Martin Luther King, Jr. This list contains pastors, evangelists, social workers, Popes, revolutionaries, scholars, writers, theologians, professors and leaders. These ten individuals have offered much to the global Church, and we of the 21st century are grateful. Christian History and Biography offers this issue in recognition of such devoted Christian leaders whose ministries have impacted millions in the West and around the world.
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Top Highlights
“When Barth refused to take the oath of unconditional allegiance to the Führer, he lost his position at Bonn” (source)
“As he pastored, he noted with alarm that not only was Switzerland’s close neighbor, Germany, becoming increasingly militaristic, but his former professors there were fully supportive of the development. Dismayed with the moral weakness of liberal theology, Barth plunged into a study of the Bible, especially Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, to see what insights it could offer. He also visited Moravian preacher Christoph Blumhardt and came away overwhelmingly convinced of the victorious reality of Christ’s resurrection.” (source)
“‘The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths.’ Karl Barth (pronounced ‘bart’) not only said this, he spent his life setting question marks, in the name of Christ, against all manner of ‘truths.’ In the process, he did nothing less than alter the course of modern theology.” (source)
“At Berlin he sat under the famous liberals of the day (like historian Adolf Harnack), most of whom taught an optimistic Christianity that focused not so much on Jesus Christ and the Cross as the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.” (source)
“The Christian gospel is a two-way road. On the one hand, it seeks to change the souls of men, and thereby unite them with God; on the other hand, it seeks to change the environmental conditions of men so the soul will have a chance after it is changed.’” (source)
- Title: Christian History Magazine—Issue 65: Ten Influential Christians of the 20th Century
- Author: Christian History Institute
- Series: Christian History Magazine
- Publisher: Christianity Today
- Print Publication Date: 2000
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Church history › 20th century
- Resource ID: LLS:CH65
- Resource Type: Magazine
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