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This is a list of people who are notable due to their influence on the popularity or development of evangelical Christianity or for their professed Evangelicalism. == 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 * Henry Thornton (1760-1815), banker, philanthropist, reformer and Member of Parliament * 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 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of evangelical Christians」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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