Important Figures

Question 1

Jonathan Edwards

Answer 1

Dates: 1703-1758
- 1st Great Awakening Preacher
- In Revivalist tradition, which saw them as a big way in which God works rather than the ordinary means of grace

Question 2

John Wesley

Answer 2

Dates: 1703-1791
- Founder of Methodism
- Puritanism and Pietism mix
- Circuit Rider, preacher.
- Great Awakening

Question 3

William Carrey

Answer 3

• Father of Modern Missions. Baptist missionary to India in 1793

Question 4

Charles Hodge

Answer 4

Dates: 1797-1878
- Old Princeton Theologian

Question 5

Warfield

Answer 5

Dates: 1851-1921
- Old Princeton theologian.
- Wrote against the liberal view of the Bible

Question 6

DL Moody

Answer 6

1837-1899
- Son of Revivalism
- Known as an early fundamentalist
- Founder of MBI

Question 7

Abraham Kuyper

Answer 7

Dates: 1837-1910
- Later Dutch Reformed Theologian
- Idea of Church as either organism or institution
- Became a political figure and the prime minister
- Sphere Sovereignty: State to maintain justice, church to maintain church, family to maintain family, etc… Each sphere has its own obligations.
- Antithesis and Common Grace: Fundamental antithesis between believers and unbelievers because of regeneration

Question 8

Karl Barth

Answer 8

Dates: 1886-1968
- Swiss Theologian
- Neo-orthodox
- Opponent of Protestant Liberalism

Question 9

Ignatius of Loyola

Answer 9

-16th century Catholic
- Responsible for the founding of the Jesuits, as he believed Protestants were better educated.

Question 10

Robert Bellermine

Answer 10

Chief apologist for the Catholic tradition in the 17th century. Turretin interacts with him regularly

Question 11

Theodore Beza

Answer 11

• 1519-1605
• Calvin’s successor in Geneva. Converted to Protestantism in 1546
• Defended predestination against Bolsec (who borrowed ideas from Pighius)

Question 12

Francis Turretin

Answer 12

1623-1687 (17th Century)
- Educated in Geneva. Height of High Orthodoxy period
- Most famous for his Institutes of Elenctic Theology (a theology of refutation)

Question 13

BB Warfield

Answer 13

• 1851-1921
• Professor at Princeton Seminary known for his defense of infallibility.

Question 14

Ignatius of Loyola

Answer 14

Dates: 1491-1556
- Formed society of Jesuits
- Military like order, dedicated to the Pope.
- Very educated.

Question 15

Robert Bellermine

Answer 15

16th century figure who was a Jesuit. Becomes chief apologists of RC tradition, which Turretin often interacts with.

Question 16

George Whitfield

Answer 16

Dates: 1714-1770
- English evangelist during the 1st Great Awakening

Question 17

Friedreich Schleiermacher

Answer 17

Dates: 1768-1834
- Theologian influenced by Romanticism. Redefined a number of doctrines
- God-consciousness. Everyone has a religious consciousness and Jesus was a master at drawing it out.
- Much modern theology follows him.

Question 18

Adolf Van Harnack

Answer 18

Dates: 1851-1930
- Lutheran
- Wanted to get to the “center” of Christian belief.
- Early Liberal theologian, who rejected Scripture as authoritative

Question 19

Charles Spurgeon

Answer 19

-19th Century English Baptist pastor of Metropolitan Tabernacle

Question 20

Karl Rahner

Answer 20

Dates: 1904-1984
- Transcendental Thomist
- Begin with human experience and then turn to theology

Question 21

Moses Amyraut and the School of Saumar

Answer 21

16th-17th century
- 4 Point Calvinist
- Changes the order of the decrees. Rejected limited atonement
- Richard Baxter liked much of it

Question 22

Count von Zinzendorf

Answer 22

18th century Moravian Church Founder.
- Lutheran Pietist