- St. Francis of Assisi
- Erasmus of Rotterdam
- Martin Luther
- John Wesley
- David Brainerd
- George Müller
- Fanny J. Crosby
- Hudson Taylor
- Corrie ten Boom
- Joy Davidman
- Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot, Pete Fleming
- Jim Elliot
| Birth - Death | Title |
| 1181 - 1226 (Assisi, Italy) | St. Francis of Assisi by Gilbert Keith Chesterton Reflection on the poor friar of Assisi. The life and times of St. Francis, from his conversion as a young man to his receiving of the stigmata at the end of his life. |
| 1466 (Rotterdam, Netherlands) - 1536 (Basel, Switzerland) | Erasmus of Christendom (Erasmus of Rotterdam) by Roland H. Bainton Born the illegitimate son of a priest, and plagued throughout life by illness and poverty, Erasmus of Rotterdam was sought everywhere for his wit and erudition. No man in Europe had so many friends in high places: a lifelong cosmopolitan, he moved from country to country, lodging in palaces and in the households of public printers, a friend of Thomas More and Henry VIII and a correspondent of Luther and the pope. Erasmus wrote letters and translated tirelessly; arguing, teaching, campaigning for the purification of the church. He ridiculed worldly prelates, but deplored Reformers who broke from Rome. On all occasions he spoke for moderation in thought and action, for classical humanism and a Christianity of the inward spirit. Still, he lived to see many of his friends imprisoned, beheaded, or burned for their beliefs, and he himself was accused of heresy. |
| 1483 - 1546 (Eisleben, Germany) | Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland H. Bainton Examines Luther’s widespread influence. Shows Luther’s place within the spiritual setting of the sixteenth century and his influence upon it. Illustrated with more than 100 woodcuts and engravings from Luther’s own time. |
| 1703 (Epworth, Lincolnshire, England) - 1791, aged 87 (London, England) | The Heart of John Wesley's Journal by John Wesley John Wesley's record of some fifty-five years, his daily experiences in studying, teaching, preaching, and traveling throughout England and then America in the eighteenth century. |
| 1718 (Haddam, Connecticut) - 1747, aged 29 (Stockbridge, DE) | The Life and Diary of David Brainerd edited by Jonathan Edwards “He was one of distinguished natural abilities, as all are sensible who had acquaintance with him. As a minister of the gospel, he was called to unusual services in that work; and his ministry was attended by very remarkable and unusual events … He had a peculiar opportunity of acquaintance with the false appearances and counterfeits of religion; was the instrument of a most remarkable awakening …In the following account, the reader will have an opportunity to see not only what were the external circumstances and remarkable incidents of the life of this person, and how he spent his time from day to day, as to his external behavior; but also what passed in his own heart.” —Jonathan Edwards |
| 1805 (Kroppenstedt, Kingdom of Prussia; now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) - 1898, aged 92 (Bristol, England) | George Muller of Bristol by Arthur Tappan Pierson Revision of the classic biography George Müller of Bristol. During his lifetime, he established 117 schools that educated more than 120,000 young persons, including orphans. From the age of seventy until ninety, Müller made great evangelistic tours, traveled 200,000 miles, going around the world and preaching in many lands and in several different languages. George Müller of Bristol was written the year after Müller’s death by his close friend, American preacher and evangelist Arthur T. Pierson (1837–1911). Pierson served prominent pulpits both in America and Great Britain, preaching for two years at the Metropolitan Tabernacle following C. H. Spurgeon’s death. |
| 1820 (Brewster, NY) - 1915, aged 94 (Bridgeport, CT) | Fanny J. Crosby: An Autobiography The author of over 8,000 hymns. Though blind since infancy, Fanny Crosby overcame great prejudice to become a poet and teacher, much beloved and respected. |
| 1832 (Barnsley, Yorkshire, England) - 1905, aged 73 (Changsha, Hunan, Qing China) | Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret A Christian missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission (renamed Overseas Missionary Fellowship). He served there for 51 years, bringing over 800 missionaries to the country and personally baptizing an estimated 50,000 converts. He was famous for his commitment to cultural sensitivity, and has been referred to as one of the most significant figures in the history of China in the nineteenth century. This is the biography written by his son Howard and daughter-in-law Geraldine, who also served as missionaries to China. |
| 1892 (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1983 (Placentia, CA) | The Hiding Place (Corrie ten Boom) Corrie ten Boom recounts her Christian family who were determined to save Jews and resistance workers from the Gestapo in the Netherlands. The family transformed their home into an underground station in the network of the Dutch Resistance, creating a safe room that would shelter and feed scores of fugitives. For this, all the ten Booms were arrested, from Corrie’s aging father to her young nephew. Corrie and her sister Betsie were ultimately deported to the Nazi death camp Ravensbrück. Corrie survived, though her family did not. Following the war she began to tell her story of God’s faithfulness and mercy. |
| 1915 (New York City, NY) - 1960 (Oxford, United Kingdom) | And God Came In: The Extraordinary Story of Joy Davidman by Lyle W. Dorsett Biography of Joy Davidman. Helen Joy Davidman was an American poet and writer, a radical communist, and an atheist until her conversion to Christianity in the late 1940s. Her first husband was the writer William Lindsay Gresham. Her second marriage was to the writer and Oxford don, C. S. Lewis. Also refer to the film Shadowlands. |
| 1923-1928 (Hershey, PA; Sumatra, MT; IA; Portland, OR; Seattle, WA) - 1956, aged 27-32 (Curaray River, Ecuador) | Through Gates of Splendor (Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot, Pete Fleming) by Elisabeth Elliot The true story of five young missionaries who were savagely killed while trying to establish communication with the Auca Indians of Ecuador. The story is told through the eyes of Elisabeth Elliot, the wife of one of the young men who was killed. |
| 1927 (Portland, OR) - 1956 (Curaray River, Ecuador) | Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot by Elisabeth Elliot Account of the martyrdom of Jim Elliot and four other missionaries at the hands of the Huaorani Indians in Ecuador. Elisabeth Elliot makes full use of Jim’s revealing diaries to fill in the details of the life of Jim Elliot. Also refer to the film, End of the Spear, which tells the killings from the perspective of the Huaorani. |
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