CST Movers and Shakers

Bernard of Clairvaux

Wrote of the love of God, but hunted Muslims

Cistercian

Influenced the election of Pope Eugenius III

Leader in the 2nd Crusade

wrote, "On Loving God" & "Sermons on the Songs"

Medieval reformer and mystic

Francis of Assisi

Said to have lived out the Sermon on the Mount

Saw visions while sick

Told by the Lord, "Francis, go repair my house"

Tried to support Muslim Sultan and wasn't killed

First recorded instance of stigmata

wrote, "Canticle of Brother Sun"

Mystical founder of the Franciscans

Benedict of Nursia

Followers tried to poison him

Made rules for monks, but took into consideration of physical weakness

Father of western monasticism

Dominic

Created a new form of how Christians should live there lives

Founder of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) aka Blackfriars

Soren Kierkegaard

Left the woman he loved and always regretted it

wrote "Either/Or" "Fear and Trembling" "Training in Christianity" and MANY others

Focused on targeting the "system"

Stated that the greatest enemy was "Christendom"

Christian existentialist

John Wycliffe

Christ calls for followers to be poor not wealthy

Called, "the master of errors"

Followers known as "Lollards"

Medieval "Protestant"

Joan of Arc

Called a saint, heretic and "a diamond among pebbles"

Canonized Saint

Fought for France

Teenage war hero with visions

Ulrich Zwingli

Struggled with celibacy

Fought that pastors had a right to marry

Luther treated him "like an ass"

Fathered a unique branch of the Reformation

Militant Swiss reformer

Ignatius of Loyola

wrote, "Spiritual Exercises"

read of Dominic

saw a vision that his group was to be "the company of Jesus"

Founder of Society of Jesus (Jesuits)

Pheobe Palmer

She had not felt the "powerful conversion" despite being from a Methodist family

Didn't need "joyous emotion"

Member of the Temperance Movement

Mother of the holiness movement