Top 100 Christian leaders in all of church history

[blessedwife318]

So a spin off on the the 100 influential Christians in America.
I thought it might be instresting to see what kind of list BB would come up with
If we looked at all of church history.
I think we can agree that someone inclusion on the list does not mean you have to agree with what he taught, just that he had influence on the Church one way or the other.

Here is my first 10, and my list will mostly be in chronological order as that's just how I think. After I get my 100 I may go back and try to rank them in influential order.

1. Jesus
2. Peter
3. James the brother of Jesus
4. John
5. Paul
6. Barnabas
7. Silas
8. Matthew
9. Mark
10. Luke

 

[blessedwife318]

11.Clement of Rome
12. Mathetes
13. Polycarp
14. Ignatius
15. Barnabas
16. Papias
17. Justin Martyr
18. Irenaeus
19. Clement of Alexandria
20. Augustine

 

[blessedwife318]

21. Eusebius
22. Athanasius
23. Gregory of Nyssa
24. Jerome
25. Cyril of Jerusalem
26. Socrates
27. Basil
28. Ambruse
29. Leo the Great
30. Gregory the Great.

31. Constantine
32. Theodosius
33. Benedict
34. St Patrick
35. Clovis
36. Leo III
37. Gregory III
38. Charlemagne
39. Louis the Pious
40. Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV

41. Pope Gregory VII
42. Pope Urban II
43. Pope Clement V
44. Pope Urban VI
45. Pope Clement VIII
46. Pope Martin V
47. John Wycliffe
48. John Huss
49. John Tinsel
50. Martin Luther

51. Huldrych Zwingli
52. William Tyndale
53.King Henry VIII
54. John Calvin
55. Queen Elizabeth
56. King Edward VI
57.William Bates
58. John Owen
59. John Bunyan
60. Richard Baxter

61. John Knox
62. Issac Watts
63. Johnathan Edwards
64. George Whitefield
65. Samuel Bavis
66. John Wesley
67. Charles Wesley
68. George Keith
69. David Braniard
70. John Wright

71. William Carey
72. Hudson Taylor
73. David Livingston
74. George Muller
75. Charles Spurgeon
76. Billy Sunday
77. John Darby
78. C I Scofield
79. Charles Finny
80. DL Moddy

81. Fanny Crosby
82. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
83. Karl Barth
84. Billly Grahnm
85. Jerry Falwell
86. CS Lewis
87. Jim Lewis
88. Martin Loyld Jones
89. Lottie Moon
90. Annie Armstrong

91. Rick Warren
92. Bill Hyble
93. Bob Jones
94. John MacArthur
95. Sinclair Ferguson
96. Ligon Duncan
97. Voddie Baucham
98. CJ Mahaney
99. Al Mohler
100. John Piper

 

[Darrell C]

So a spin off on the the 100 influential Christians in America.
I thought it might be instresting to see what kind of list BB would come up with
If we looked at all of church history.
I think we can agree that someone inclusion on the list does not mean you have to agree with what he taught, just that he had influence on the Church one way or the other.

Here is my first 10, and my list will mostly be in chronological order as that's just how I think. After I get my 100 I may go back and try to rank them in influential order.

1. Jesus
2. Peter
3. James the brother of Jesus
4. John
5. Paul
6. Barnabas
7. Silas
8. Matthew
9. Mark
10. Luke

I would replace #7 with Tim Lahaye.

Just kidding, lol.

Of Biblical figures mine would be...

1. The Lord;

2. Paul;

3. John; (I have to say it's pretty close for me between John and Paul);

4. Peter;

5. Matthew (because most will read him first);

6. Luke;

7. Mark;

8. The writer of Hebrews (if he is not Paul);

9. James (kind of a trouble-maker but no question influential);

10. Barnabus.


Great thread.

God bless.

 

[Zenas]

21. Eusebius
22. Athanasius
23. Gregory of Nyssa
24. Jerome
25. Cyril of Jerusalem
26. Socrates

Socrates? He had a lot of influence on early Christian thought but he was hardly a Christian. In fact he lived some 300 or 400 years before Christ.

On the whole, a pretty good list. I would tweak it a little in the later centuries but not much.

 

[blessedwife318]

Different Socrates

 

[Jerome]

87. Jim Lewis

Who?:null:

 

[blessedwife318]

Oh I meant Jim Elliot. That's what I get for doing the list on my phone lol

 

[Rippon]

Sixteen Leaders Who Died In The 20th Century

Even as a layman I think I know Church History fairly well. Yet I don't recognize the names of : John Tinsel, William Bates, George Keith, John Wright and Annie Armstrong. Are they that significant "in all of church history" as you titled this thread?

For now I will list some important leaders who died in the 20th century.

J.C. Ryle (1816-1900)
Benjamin M. Palmer (1818-1902)
Alexander MacLaren (1826-1910)
B. H. Carroll (1843-1914)
Alexander Whyte (1836-1921)
B.B. Warfield (1851-1921)
F.B. Meyer (1847-1929)
J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937)
A.W. Pink (1886-1952)
Donald G. Barnhouse (1895-1960)
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
John Murray (1898-1975)
Francis Schaeffer (1912-1984)
Gordon H. Clark (1902-1985)
F.F. Bruce (1910-1990)
James S. Stewart (1896-1990)

 

[BobRyan]

75. Charles Spurgeon
76. Billy Sunday
77. John Darby
78. C I Scofield
79. Charles Finny
80. DL Moddy

1. I would spell D.L. Moody's name with two O's and one D'.

2. C.H Spurgeon and D.L. Moody get quoted here by me a lot - and we see one or two posters here reminding us how we need not be concerned about their views when those views differ with someone on this board.

 

[Rippon]

Leaders Who Died In The 19th Century

John Newton (1725-1807)
Rowland Hill (1744-18330
Charles Simeon (1759-1836)
John Rippon (1751-1836)
Robert Murray McCheyne (1813-1843)
Asahel Nettleton (1783-1844)
Joseph Irons (1785-1852)
William Jay (1769-1853)
William Cunningham (1805-1861)
Robert Smith Candlish (1806-1873)
Charles Hodge (1797-1878)
Octavius Winslow (1808-1878)
James P. Boyce (1827-1888)
John A. Broadus (1827-1895)

 

[Rippon]

Leaders Who Died In The 18th Century

Matthew Henry (1662-1714)
Robert Trail (1642-1716)
Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
James Hervey (1714-1758)
William Grimshaw (1708-1763)
John Brine (1703-1765)
John Gill (1697-1771)
Augustus Toplady (1740-1778)
Daniel Rowland (1713-1790)
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntington (1707-1791)
William Romaine (1714-1795)

 

[Zenas]

I'm sure there is a reason for including Henry VIII and Elizabeth I on this list but I haven't figured it out.

 

[vooks]

1. I would spell D.L. Moody's name with two O's and one D'.

2. C.H Spurgeon and D.L. Moody get quoted here by me a lot - and we see one or two posters here reminding us how we need not be concerned about their views when those views differ with someone on this board.

Pope Ellen White, the only INSPIRED INTERPRETER of NT and OT , the only prophet in the entire universesince 96AD, should be up there next to Christ

 

[Rippon]

Leaders Who Died In The 17th Century

William Perkins (1558-1602)
Theodore Beza (1519-1605)
William Ames (1576-1633)
Richard Sibbes (1577-1635)
Johannes Bogerman (1576-1637)
Francis Gomarus (1563-1641)
Jeremiah Burroughs (1600-1546)
William Twisse (1578-1646)
Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661)
Thomas Watson (1620-1677)
Thomas Brooks (1608-1680)
Thomas Goodwin (1600-1680)
Roger Williams (1603-1683)
Francis Turretin (1623-1687)
John Flavel (1627-1691)