1. 亚历山大的亚他那修（296-373）是一位早期教会主教，由于他领导了对抗阿里乌斯派（亚流派）异端，故被称为「正统信仰之父」。他参加了第一次尼西亚会议（325），并且由于政治和神学上的争议，五次遭到流放而离开了家乡和牧职。
    Athanasius of Alexandria (296–373) was an early church bishop who has been called the “Father of Orthodoxy” because he led the fight against the Arian heresy. He took part in the First Council of Nicaea (325) and was exiled from his home and ministry five different times because of political and theological controversies.
  2. 希波的奥古斯丁（354-430）曾任罗马时期北非城市希波的主教，是一名哲学家和神学家。他在自己最著名的作品《忏悔录》中描述了他归信的过程。而且，他还是存留作品最丰富的拉丁作家之一，其中有许多独立的著作（包括护教作品，基督教教义和注释）以及存留的350 多篇讲道。
    Augustine of Hippo (354–430) was bishop of Hippo in Roman North Africa, a philosopher, and a theologian. He wrote an account of his conversion in his Confessions, his best-known work. But he was also one of the most prolific Latin authors in terms of surviving works, with hundreds of separate titles (including apologetic works, texts on Christian doctrine, and commentaries) and more than 350 preserved sermons.
  3. 理查德·巴克斯特（1615-1691）是一位英国清教徒，曾担任奥利弗·克伦威尔的随军牧师，也是基德明斯特的牧师。詹姆士二世被推翻时，巴克斯特遭到迫害，并被监禁十八个月。之后他继续讲道，后来他写道：「我讲道时就像我没有机会再讲了一样，就像一个将死之人讲给将死之人一样」。除了神学作品之外，他还写了诗、赞美诗和他自己的《家庭要理问答》手册。
    Richard Baxter (1615–1691), an English Puritan, served as a chaplain in the army of Oliver Cromwell and as a pastor in Kidderminster. When James II was overthrown, Baxter was persecuted and imprisoned for eighteen months. He continued to preach, later writing, “I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.” In addition to his theological works, he wrote poems, hymns, and his own Family Catechism.
  4. 亚伯拉罕·布斯（1734-1806）是一位英国浸信会牧师，在伦敦怀特查佩尔担任普雷斯科特街教会牧师三十五年。他还在牛津创建了现在的摄政公园学院，以用于牧师培训。他最著名的作品是《恩典作王》。
    Abraham Booth (1734–1806), an English Baptist minister, served as pastor of Prescot Street Church in Whitechapel, London, for thirty-five years. He also founded what is now Regents Park College for ministerial training in Oxford. He is most known for his work The Reign of Grace.
  5. 约翰·布拉德福德（1510-1555）是一名英国改教者，曾在剑桥大学学习，并被设立为国王爱德华六世的皇家牧师。当天主教玛丽·都铎女王继位时，布拉德福德与主教拉蒂默和雷德理以及大主教克兰麦一起被捕。布拉德福德是一个享有盛名的传道人，很多人来到他死刑的现场。他最为人铭记的是他的一句话：「布拉德福德在此，只为神的恩典」。他的一些作品是在监狱里完成的，包括信件、劝勉、颂词、冥想、讲道和散文。
    John Bradford (1510–1555) was an English Protestant Reformer who studied at Cambridge University and was made royal chapHistorical lain to King Edward VI. When Catholic Mary Tudor came to the throne, Bradford was arrested along with Bishops Latimer and Ridley and Archbishop Cranmer. Bradford had a great reputation as a preacher, and a vast crowd came to his execution. He is most remembered for his statement “There but for the grace of God goes John Bradford.” His works, some of which were written from prison, include letters, exhortations, eulogies, meditations, sermons, and essays.
  6. 约翰·班扬（1628-1688）被称为爱尔斯多的补锅匠，他经历了戏剧性的归信，成为了一名重要的清教徒牧师。随着他知名度的增长，班扬成为了诽谤和诬蔑的目标，最终被监禁。在监狱里，他开始写作他最著名的作品《天路历程》，于1678 年首次印刷。
    John Bunyan (1628–1688), known as the tinker of Elstow, underwent a dramatic conversion and became a leading Puritan preacher. As his popularity grew, Bunyan became a target for slander and libel and was eventually imprisoned. While in prison he commenced his bestknown work, The Pilgrim’s Progress, first printed in 1678.
  7. 约翰·加尔文（1509-1564）是一位神学家、行政官和牧师。他出生于法国一个严格的罗马天主教家庭。加尔文一生大部分时间都在日内瓦工作，并组织了改革宗教会。他写了《基督教要义》、《日内瓦要理问答》以及大量的圣经注释。
    John Calvin (1509–1564), a theologian, administrator, and pastor, was born in France into a strict Roman Catholic family. Calvin worked most of his life in Geneva and organized the Reformed church. He wrote the Institutes of the Christian Religion, the Geneva Catechism, and numerous commentaries on Scripture.
  8. 奥斯瓦尔德·章伯斯（1874-1917）是一名苏格兰牧师，以灵修经典《竭诚为主》而闻名。他在伦敦创立了一所圣经学院，并在第一次世界大战期间担任了基督教青年会的牧师。他在开罗执行任务中死亡后，他的遗孀通过整理他的讲道录音文字，编辑并出版了《竭诚为主》。
    Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) was a Scottish minister, best known for the devotional classic My Utmost for His Highest. He founded a Bible college in London and served as a YMCA chaplain during World War I. After he died on assignment in Cairo, his widow compiled and published My Utmost for His Highest based on her transcriptions of his sermons.
  9. 约翰·屈梭多模（347-407）是君士坦丁堡的大主教。他出生于安提阿，由于非凡的讲道才能，被称为「金口」。他被东正教会和天主教会认定为教会的圣徒。屈梭多模以《圣约翰·屈梭多模的圣餐仪式》和他大量的讲章作品而闻名，其中包括六十七篇创世记讲章、九十篇马太福音讲章和八十八篇约翰福音讲章。
    John Chrysostom (347–407) was archbishop of Constantinople. Born in Antioch, he was given the title Chrysostom, which means “golden mouth,” because of his eloquent preaching. He is recognized by the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church as a saint and doctor of the church. Chrysostom is known for his Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom and his vast homiletical works, including sixtyseven homilies on Genesis, ninety on the Gospel of Matthew, and eighty-eight on the Gospel of John.
  10. 托马斯·克兰麦（1489-1556）是英国改教家和坎特伯雷大主教，当时的英国教会在亨利八世的带领下脱离了罗马天主教。他在改革教会礼拜仪式时，写了《公祷书》，如今仍作为圣公会崇拜的根据。
    Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556) was an English Reformer and the archbishop of Canterbury when the Church of England, under Henry VIII, broke away from Roman Catholicism. In his work to reform the liturgy of the church, he wrote The Book of Common Prayer, which still serves as the foundation for Anglican worship today.
  11. 约拿单·爱德华兹（1703-1758）是美洲殖民地的牧师、神学家和哲学家。爱德华兹于1726 年成为马萨诸塞州北安普敦教会的牧师。他被众人所知的是他的讲道「落在忿怒之神手中的罪人」，以及许多的书籍，包括《神创造世界的结局》和《宗教情感》。爱德华兹在新泽西州立大学（后来的普林斯顿大学）担任校长不久之后，因接种天花而身亡。
    Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) was a colonial American preacher, theologian, and philosopher. Edwards became pastor of the church in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1726. He is widely known for his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” as well as his many books, including The End for Which God Created the World and A Treatise concerning Religious Affections. Edwards died from a smallpox inoculation shortly after beginning the presidency at the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University).
  12. 乔治·赫伯特（1593-1633）是威尔士出生的英国圣公会牧师，后来成为十七世纪最受欢迎的诗人之一。他放弃了杰出的职业生涯，成为了一名小礼拜堂的乡村牧师。在牧会期间，他创作了大量的宗教诗歌，在他死后，这些诗歌以题为《圣殿》的诗集出版。
    George Herbert (1593–1633) was a Welsh-born Anglican priest who posthumously became one of the most beloved poets of the seventeenth century. He gave up a prominent career in oratory to become a rural pastor. Throughout his ministry, he wrote devotional poetry, which was published in a collection titled The Temple after his death.
  13. 钟马田（1899-1981）是一名威尔士医生和更正教牧师。钟马田以在伦敦威斯敏斯特教堂讲道和教学三十年之久而闻名。他通常要花好几个月甚至几年来逐节解释圣经中的一章经文。他最著名的书是《灵性低潮》以及十四卷罗马书注释。
    Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899–1981) was a Welsh medical doctor and Protestant minister. Lloyd-Jones is best known for preaching and teaching at Westminster Chapel in London for thirty years. He would take many months, even years, to expound a chapter of the Bible verse by verse. He is best known for the book Spiritual Depression, as well as a fourteen-volume set of commentaries on Romans.
  14. 马丁·路德（1483-1546）是一位德国牧师和神学教授。他的家人打算让他成为一名律师，但是他却做了修道院的修士。1517 年10 月31 日，路德将《九十五条论纲》钉在德国维滕堡教堂的大门上，引发了宗教改革。他因拒绝教皇利奥十世和皇帝查理五世令其撤回的要求而被逐出教会。路德写了许多作品，包括他的大小要理问答，并在教会和大学里讲了上百篇讲道。
    Martin Luther (1483–1546) was a German pastor and professor of theology. His family intended for him to become a lawyer, but he took monastic orders. On October 31, 1517, Luther nailed The Ninety-Five Theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg, sparking the Protestant Reformation. His refusal to retract his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X and Emperor Charles V resulted in his excommunication. Luther wrote many works, including his small and large catechisms, and preached hundreds of sermons in churches and universities.
  15. 约翰·欧文（1616-1683）是一名英国清教徒神学家。他十二岁去牛津大学，十九岁获得硕士学位，并在二十一岁成为牧师。几年后，他被任命为大学副校长。在国王查理一世被处决后的第二天，他向国会讲道，没有直接提及此事就完成了任务。他撰写了大量的长篇巨作，包括关于宗教的历史论文以及关于圣灵的研究。
    John Owen (1616–1683) was an English Puritan theologian. He went to Oxford University at age twelve, gained an MA at nineteen, and became a pastor at twenty-one. Years later he was appointed vice chancellor of the University. He preached to Parliament the day after the execution of King Charles I, fulfilling the task without directly mentioning that event. He wrote numerous and voluminous works, including historical treatises on religion and several studies on the Holy Spirit.
  16. 莱尔（1816-1900）是利物浦的第一位圣公会主教。他是在本杰明·迪斯雷利首相的推荐下被任命的。除了是一名作家和牧师，莱尔还是一名牛津大学划船和打板球的运动员。他负责建立了四十多个教会。
    J. C. Ryle (1816–1900) was the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool. Ryle’s appointment was at the recommendation of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. As well as being a writer and pastor, Ryle was an athlete who rowed and played cricket for Oxford University. He was responsible for building more than forty churches.
  17. 弗朗西斯·薛华（1912-1984）是美国长老会牧师和哲学家，他最著名的是他的作品和他在瑞士建立的（「庇护所」）社区。他写了二十二本书，最著名的是三部曲《永在的神》,《理性的规避》,《前车可鉴》，另外还有《基督教宣言》。
    Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984) was an American Presbyterian pastor and philosopher and is most famous for his writing and his establishment of L’Abri (“The Shelter”) community in Switzerland. He wrote twenty-two books, the best known being the trilogy The God Who Is There, Escape from Reason, and He Is There and He Is Not Silent, as well as A Christian Manifesto.
  18. 理查德·薛伯斯（1577-1635）是一位英国清教徒神学家，被称为「天上的医生」。他是伦敦格雷律师学院的牧师，剑桥凯瑟琳会堂的主人，著有一些宗教书籍，最著名的是《压伤的芦苇》。
    Richard Sibbes (1577–1635), an English Puritan theologian, was known as “the Heavenly Doctor Sibbes.” A preacher at Gray’s Inn, London, and master of Catherine Hall, Cambridge, he was the author of several devotional works, most famously The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax.
  19. 查尔斯·西缅（1759-1836）四十九年来担任剑桥三一教会的校长。在他准备大学毕业时被赋予教会领袖的职任。刚开始，会众频繁地打断他并锁上长椅上的小门，使得没人能就坐，以此来表达对他讲道的不满。西缅以他二十一卷的《解经讲道大纲》而闻名，这是圣经全部六十六卷书展开的讲道大纲集。
    Charles Simeon (1759–1836) was rector of Trinity Church, Cambridge, for forty-nine years. Simeon was offered the leadership of the church as he was preparing to graduate from the university. At first, the congregants showed their displeasure at his preaching by frequent interruptions and by locking the small doors of their pews so that no one could sit down. Simeon is best known for his twenty-one-volume Horae Homilecticae, a collection of expanded sermon outlines from all sixty-six books of the Bible.
  20. 司布真（1834-1892）是一位英国浸信会牧师，二十岁时成为伦敦新公园街教会（后来的大都会会堂）的牧师。他经常在没有电子扩音器的情况下对一万多人讲道。司布真是一位多产的作家，他的作品都是长篇巨作。他宣讲了近三百六十次，发表了四十九卷注释、名言、赞美诗和祈祷文集。
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892), an English Baptist preacher, became pastor of London’s New Park Street Church (later Metropolitan Tabernacle) at twenty years old. He frequently preached to more than ten thousand people with no electronic amplification. Spurgeon was a prolific writer, and his printed works are voluminous. He preached nearly thirty-six hundred sermons and published forty-nine volumes of commentaries, sayings, hymns, and devotions.
  21. 查理·卫斯理（1707-1788）是英国教会的牧师和许多受欢迎的圣诗的作者，这些圣诗包括《基督今复活》，《奇异的爱》和《新生王歌》。他与他的兄弟约翰·卫斯理都是循道运动的早期领袖。
    Charles Wesley (1707–1788) was a pastor in the Church of England and the writer of many beloved hymns, including “Christ the Lord Is Risen Today,” “And Can It Be That I Should Gain?” and “Hark! the Herald Angels Sing.” With his brother John, he was an early leader in the Methodist movement.
  22. 约翰·卫斯理（1703-1791）是一位英国牧师和神学家，很大程度上建立了英国循道运动。他骑马去讲道，每天讲道两到三次，据说已经传讲了四万多次。他也是一位著名的赞美诗作家。
    John Wesley (1703–1791), an English preacher and theologian, is largely credited with founding the English Methodist movement. He traveled on horseback, preaching two or three times each day, and is said to have preached more than forty thousand sermons. He was also a noted hymn writer.