People for Anxiety

Mother Teresa

founder of the Missionaries of Charity

A humanitarian who devoted her entire life to the poorest of the poor

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Opponent of Nazism

His books, especially The Cost of Discipleship, are still very influential

Karl Barth

His “neo-orthodoxy” altered the course of modern theology

Revived Reformation themes (long muted by liberal theology) in modern terms (a problem for Fundamentalists)

Oscar Romero

Convert to and advocate of Liberation Theology

Martyr

Billy Graham

Evangelist

An unofficial leader of the Evangelical movement

John Paul II

The most traveled pope in history

Played a key role in the collapse of commuism

Martin Luther King Jr

Led black Civil Rights movement in the 1950’s and 1960’s

Developed a social gospel theology in North America

Dorothy Day

Founder of the Catholic Worker movement

Explored the radical social implications of the Gospel

Aimee Semple McPherson

Founder of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel

Simon Kimbangu

Founder of the largest African Independent Church: The Church of Jesus Christ on Earth through the Prophet Simon Kimbangu

VS Azariah

First Indian Bishop in the Anglican Church

Moderate counter-balance to Ghandi in national independence movement

CS Lewis

Wrote many popular Christian books

Was a brilliant apologist

Watchman Nee

Founder of the “little flock”

Creates an indigenous Chinese Christian witness

Spiritual writer

Desmond Tutu

Opponent of apartheid

John XXIII

One of the most loved popes in history

Convened Vatican II, setting the Catholic Church on a new course