WHO’S WHO in christian history
J. D. Douglas and Philip W. Comfort,
Editors
Donald Mitchell, Associate Editor
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
WHEATON, ILLINOIS
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© 1992 by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Who’s who in Christian history / J.D. Douglas and Philip W. Comfort,
editors; Donald Mitchell, associate editor.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-8423-1014-2
1. Christian biography—Dictionaries. I. Douglas, J.D. (James Dixon) II. Comfort, Philip Wesley. III. Mitchell, Donald (Donald R.)
BR1700.2.W47 1992
270’.092’2—dc20
[B]
Contributors
David Adeney
Dr. John N Akers
Rev. C. F. Allison
Rev. Dan P. Amsler
Dr. Marvin Anderson
Dr. Brian G. Armstrong
Dr. Glen F. Arnold
Dr. Saphir P. Athyal
Dr. Paul M. Bassett
Dr. E. Beatrice Batson
Dr. Pierce Beaver
Dr. Paul M. Bechtel
Dr. Harold M. Best
Derrick C. Blanchette
Dr. J. Ronald Blue
Dr. Ian Breward
Dr. Geoffrey Bromiley
Dr. Colin Brown
Kenneth J. Bryer
Dr. Allen Cabaniss
Georgia A. Comford
Dr. Philip W. Comfort
Richard W. Comfort
David Cornell
Dr. Jack R. Crawford
Dr. D.S. Cushman
Dr. Wayne A. Detzler
Paul E. Dorman
Dr. J. D. Douglas
Ref. Heinrich Eiler
Dr. Walter Elwell
Dr. C. Stephen Evans
Dr. Robert P. Evans
Dr. Mark Fackler
Dr. Hobert K. Farrell
Dr. Charles L. Feinberg
Dr. Tom Firak
Kenneth Foreman
Charles W. Forman, Jr.
Albert H. Freundt, Jr.
Dr. W. Robert Godfrey
Dr. Louis Goldberg
Dr. John A. Gratian
Dr. Donald Guthrie
Dr. Donald A. Hagner
Dr. Alan L. Hayes
Dr. Deborah Hayes
Dr. Walter Hearn
Carl Wayne Hensley
Ronald Hellelgrave
Cadmus Hicks
Ref. Norman Hillyer
Kenneth Hoglund
Dr. Donald Hoke
Dr. Edwin A. Hollatz
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes
Dr. Norman V. Hope
H. Wayne House
Dr. Dave M. Howard
Dr. David Huttar
Dr. Herbert Jacobsen
Dr. James E. Jennings
Lloyd A. Kalland
Dr. Herbert Kane
Hans Kasdorf
Dr. Thomas O. Kay
Dr. Clyde Kilby
Dr. William J. Kornfield
Dr. Donald M. Lake
Kathy Leid
Lucille Leonard
Dr. David E. Maas
John L. McKenzie
Dr. J. B. MacMillan
Norris Magnuson
Dr. George M. Marsden
Dr. D. C. Masters
George Mindeman
Dr. Chris Mitchell
Dr. Donald R. Mitchell
Dr. Samuel H. Moffett
Dr. Leon Morris
Virginia J. Muir
Donald Munson
Dr. Ronald Nash
Dr. John Newton
Mark A. Noll
Mark R. Norton
Dr. Wilbert Norton
Dr. Grant R. Osborne
Daniel Partner
Gladys J. Peterson
Dr. William Phemister
Dr. Richard V. Pierard
Dr. Austin H. Potts
Dr. W. Stanford Reid
George Riser
Joanne Riser
Doris Roethlesberger
Rev. Errol G. Rohr
Garth M. Rosell
Robert D. Shuster
Dr. Thomas H. Spence
Dr. Alva Steffler
Dr. Alan R. Tippett
Dr. Peter Toon
Edvard P. Torjesen
Dr. Richard L. Troutman
Dr. Susumu Uda
Dr. Peter Veltman
Rev. Robert Vonderlack
Dr. Arvin Vos
Dr. Howard F. Vos
Dr. Victor Walter
Dr. Robert E. Webber
Dr. David F. Wells
Carla Whitacre
Milton Winter
Special thanks to the following people for their labor on this book:
Lynne Bensinger
Jeremy P. Comfort
Timothy Olson
Margaret Partner
Kathy Stinette
Introduction
“The history of the world,” wrote Thomas Carlyle, “is but the biography of great men.”
We all owe much to pioneers—not only those who opened up the New World, but also the veterans of the faith throughout the centuries. Theirs is a story just as exciting, and those who dismiss history as boring have obviously never tried to come at it through biography.
We are the inheritors of a tremendous legacy that has been ill-acknowledged. By this neglect we deprive ourselves of a rich benefit. Here are thrilling accounts of courage, adventure, and endurance—tales of those early believers who stood up for their faith against kings who had no allegiance to the One Great King and believers who battled also against heretics seeking to undermine the true faith. Many of those heretics and rulers also find mention in this volume because they too loomed large on the stage of church history. So also did other figures who made contributions through music, philosophy, literature, painting, and other arts.
It is impossible to cover two thousand years of Christian biography adequately in one volume or to offer complete background information on each entry. Inevitably we are vulnerable to criticism about who some individual has been omitted when some lesser luminary finds place. We are mindful that one of Cicero’s laws for a historian stipulates that “there should be no suspicion of partiality in his writing or of malice.” We hope that the wide range of material presented here and the matter in which we have handled it will acquit us on both counts. The selection we have made is intended primarily to represent those men and women who made a lasting impact on Christian faith and experience. They followeed “Jesus, the author and finisher of faith”—and yet “they, without us, are not complete.”May their inspiring stories encourage us and our generation to run the race as they have run.
J.D. Douglas
Philip W. Comfort
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