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Savonarola Italian Dominican (1452–1498) famous for the Bonfire of the Vanities in Florence, finally executed for heresy; John of Capistrano (1386–1456), Italian Franciscan, working in Central Europe, where he led resistance to a Turkish invasion; Vincent Ferrer (1350–1419) Spanish Dominican; Bernardino of Siena (1380–1444), emotive Italian
This is a list of notable Christian theologians listed chronologically by century of birth This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Edward Cooney (1867–1960), evangelist and early leader of the Cooneyites and Go-Preachers sects Harry Ironside (1876–1951), evangelist and pastor of the Moody Church in Chicago (1930–48). Karl Barth (1886–1968), leader of dialectical theology and author of Church Dogmatics
177 – Churches in Lyon and Vienne (southern France) report being persecuted [9] 190 – Pataenus of Alexandria goes to India in response to an appeal for Christian teachers [10] 196 – In Assuristan (Parthian ruled Assyria) Bar Daisan writes of Christians among the Assyrians, Parthians, Bactrians (Kushans), and other peoples in the Persian ...
The 19th century saw the rise of Biblical criticism, new knowledge of religious diversity in other continents, and above all the growth of science. This led many Christians to emphasize the brotherhood, to seeing miracles as myths, and to emphasize a moral approach with religion as lifestyle rather than revealed truth.
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the late 18th to early 19th century in the United States. It spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching and sparked a number of reform movements.
The Holiness movement is a Christian movement that emerged chiefly within 19th-century Methodism, [1] [2] and to a lesser extent influenced other traditions such as Quakerism, Anabaptism, and Restorationism. [3] [4] Churches aligned with the holiness movement teach that the life of a born again Christian should be free of sin.
An Encyclopedia of World History (5th ed. 1973); highly detailed outline of events online; Murphy, Derrick. AS/A-level 19th & 20th century European & world history (2002) online; Morris, Richard B. and Graham W. Irwin, eds. Harper Encyclopedia of the Modern World: A Concise Reference History from 1760 to the Present (1970) online; Gladden, Rhodes.