Ten Most Influential Christian Leaders

Ten Most Influential Christian Leaders in the 20th Century
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Sun Mar 22, 2009 12:06 am (PDT)


Ten Most Influential Christian Leaders in the 20th Century
Billy Graham, William Seymour, Mother Teresa, Karl Barth, C. S. Lewis, John XXIII, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, John Paul II, John R. Mott and Martin Luther King, Jr. This list contains pastors, evangelists, social workers, Popes, revolutionaries, scholars, writers, theologians, professors and leaders. These ten individuals have offered much to the global Church, and we of the 21st century are grateful.


Billy Graham
As an evangelist he has preached to millions; as an evangelical he put a movement on the map.
C. S. Lewis
The atheist scholar who became an Anglican, an apologist, and a "patron saint" of Christians everywhere.
William Seymour
What scoffers viewed as a "weird babble of tongues" became a world phenomenon after his Los Angeles revival.
Mother Teresa
She stirred a generation by touching the untouchables.
Karl Barth
He revived orthodoxy when mere moralism and humanism had seemingly won over the theological world.
John XXIII
Elected to be a caretaker pope, he decided instead to revolutionize Catholicism.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
The high school physics-teacher- turned-novelist whose writings shook an empire.
John Paul II
In issuing more significant encyclicals and visiting more nations than any other pope in history, he's shown that Christianity remains a world force.
John Mott
Evangelist and ecumenist.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
No Christian played a more prominent role in the century's most significant social justice movement.