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Witnesses to the Word, written by Victor Shepherd, is a compilation of portraits of Christian giants that were originally written for the "Heritage" column of Fellowship Magazine.

The foreword was written by Dr Ian Rennie.

List of subjects

 * 1) Athanasius (296 - 373)
 * 2) Francis of Assisi (1184 - 1226)
 * 3) Mother Julian of Norwich (1342 - 1416)
 * 4) Jan Hus (1369 - 1415)
 * 5) Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
 * 6) Ulrich Zwingli (1484 - 1531)
 * 7) Thomas Cranmer (1489 - 1556)
 * 8) William Tyndale (c. 1490 - 1536)
 * 9) Ignatius Loyola (1491 - 1556)
 * 10) Menno Simons (1496 - 1561)
 * 11) Philip Melanchthon (1497 - 1560)
 * 12) Teresa of Avila (1515 - 1582)
 * 13) John Calvin (1509 - 1564)
 * 14) John Knox (c. 1513 - 1572)
 * 15) Caspar Olevianus (1536 - 1587) & Zacharias Ursinus (1534 - 1583)
 * 16) Jacobus Arminius (1560 - 1609)
 * 17) John Owen (1616 - 1683)
 * 18) Thomas Watson (c. 1620 - 1686)
 * 19) John Bunyan (1628 - 1688)
 * 20) Susanna Annesley (1669 - 1742)
 * 21) Isaac Watts (1674 - 1748)
 * 22) Griffith Jones (1683 - 1761) -- DAB needed
 * 23) Jonathan Edwards (1703 - 1758)
 * 24) John Wesley (1703 - 1791)
 * 25) Charles Wesley (1707 - 1788)
 * 26) Women Preachers in Early-Day Methodism
 * 27) George Whitefield (1714 - 1770)
 * 28) Thomas Webb (1725 - 1796) -- DAB needed
 * 29) John Newton (1725 - 1807)
 * 30) John Fletcher (1729 - 1785)
 * 31) Barbara Heck (1734 - 1804)
 * 32) Francis Asbury (1745 - 1816)
 * 33) Thomas Coke (1747 - 1814)
 * 34) William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833)
 * 35) Earl of Shaftesbury (1801 - 1885) -- DAB needed
 * 36) Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
 * 37) George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)
 * 38) William Booth (1829 - 1912) and Catherine Booth (1829 - 1890)
 * 39) Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)
 * 40) Karl Barth 1886 - 1968)
 * 41) Martin Niemoeller (1892 - 1984)
 * 42) C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
 * 43) William Edwin Sangster (1900 - 1960)
 * 44) Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945)
 * 45) Ronald A. Ward (1908 - 1986)
 * 46) Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
 * 47) Jacques Ellul (1912 - 1996)
 * 48) Thomas Torrance (1913 - )
 * 49) William Stringfellow (1928 - 1985)
 * 50) Eva Burrows (1929 - )

Heritage column
A few of the portraits in the Heritage column did not appear in the book:
 * 1) Adolphus Egerton Ryerson (1803 - 1882)
 * 2) Bishop J.C. Ryle (1816 - 1900)
 * 3) Maximilian Kolbe (1894 - 1941)
 * 4) Oscar Romero (1917 -- 1980)
 * 5) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
 * 6) Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
 * 7) Thomas Clark Oden (1931 - )

Categories

 * Category:Books