Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dr. John Thomas (April 12, 1805 - March 5, 1871) was the founder of the Christadelphian movement, a Restorationist religion with doctrines similar in part to some 16th century Antitrinitarian Rationalist Socinians and the 16th century Swiss-German pacifist Anabaptists. Based upon his new found understanding of the Bible, Thomas was rebaptised (a second and final time) in 1847 and the groups of congregations and individuals who shared his beliefs continued to grow. In 1848 the movement became international when he travelled to England in order to preach what he now saw as the true gospel message. Upon his return...

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John Knox (c. 1510 – 24 November 1572) was a Scottish clergyman and leader of the Protestant Reformation who is considered the founder of the Presbyterian denomination. He was educated at the University of St Andrews and worked as a notary-priest. Influenced by early church reformers such as George Wishart, he joined the movement to reform the Scottish church. He was caught up in the ecclesiastical and political events that involved the murder of Cardinal Beaton in 1546 and the intervention of the regent of Scotland, Mary of Guise. He was taken prisoner by French forces the following year and exiled to England on his release in 1549. While in exile, Knox was licensed to work in the Church of England, where he quickly rose in the ranks...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Piers (Peirse) (1522/3 - 1594) was Archbishop of York between 1589–1594. Previous to that he had been Bishop of Rochester and Bishop of Salisbury. He was born at South Hinksey, near Oxford, and was educated at Magdalen College School. He became a demy of Magdalen College in 1542, and graduated B.A. in 1545, M.A. 1549, B.D. 1558, and D.D. 1565-6. He was elected probationer-fellow of Magdalen in 1545, and full fellow in 1546. In the following year he became a senior student of Christ Church, Oxford, on the condition of returning to his old college if at the end of twelve months he desired to do so. This he did, and was re-elected fellow in 1548-9. Данное издание не...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Richard Wimber (February 25, 1934 - November 17, 1997) was a charismatic pastor and one of the founding leaders of the Vineyard Movement. Wimber was raised in Kirksville, Missouri, in a non-religious family, but converted to evangelical Christianity in May 1963. He had previously been the keyboard player in the band The Paramours. Some have attributed the formation of the band The Righteous Brothers to Wimber (then as Johnny Wimber) since he was the one who brought Bobby Hatfield and Bill Medley together for the band the Paramours in 1962. In the following years he attended a Quaker church in Yorba Linda, California. During this time, he led...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Tillotson (October 1630 – 22 November 1694) was an Archbishop of Canterbury (1691–1694).Tillotson was the son of a Puritan clothier at Haughend, Sowerby, Yorkshire. He entered as a pensioner of Clare Hall, Cambridge, in 1647, graduated in 1650 and was made fellow of his college in 1651. In 1656 he became tutor to the son of Edmund Prideaux, attorney-general to Oliver Cromwell. About 1661 he was ordained without subscription by Thomas Sydserf, a Scottish bishop. Tillotson was present at the Savoy Conference in 1661, and remained identified with the Presbyterians until the passing of the Act of Uniformity 1662. Shortly afterwards he became...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Prideaux (1578–1650) was an English academic and bishop of Worcester. The fourth son of John and Agnes Prideaux, he was born at Stowford house in the parish of Harford, near Ivybridge, Devon, 17 September 1578. His parents had to provide for a family of twelve; John, however, attracted the attention of a wealthy friend, Lady Fowell, of the same parish, and was sent to Oxford at eighteen. He matriculated from Exeter College 14 October 1596, was admitted B.A. 31 January 1600, was elected fellow of Exeter 30 June 1601, and proceeded M.A. 30 June 1603. The college was then under Thomas Holland as Rector and William Helme as tutor. Данное издание не является...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Clement Favalora (born December 5, 1935) is the current Archbishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami in Miami, Florida. He served as bishop in the dioceses of Alexandria, Louisiana and St. Petersburg, Florida. He was appointed the third Archbishop of Miami on November 3, 1994 and served until June 2010. Favalora serves as a member of the Board of Trustees at The Catholic University of America and St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Boynton Beach. He serves as State Chaplain and a member of the Knights of Columbus in Florida in addition to being President of the Florida Catholic Conference. He is a member of the USCCB...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. John Van Cott was descended from a Dutch settler named Claes Cornelissen Van Cott who came from Holland to what is now New York [Nieuw Amsterdam] in 1662. His father died of consumption when he was 10 years old. He first heard of The Book of Mormon and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints from his cousin LDS Apostle Parley P. Pratt who was seven years his senior. (John's mother, Lovina Pratt and Parley's father, Jared, were siblings.) Some accounts put this first introduction as early as 1833 but, unlike his cousin, he did not join for some time. In 1835 he married Lucy Sackett and they had four...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. John A. Saliba is a Maltese-born Jesuit priest, a professor of religious studies at the University of Detroit Mercy and a noted writer and researcher in the field of new religious movements. Saliba has advocated a conciliatory approach towards new religions. He has argued that membership in such movements can serve as a temporary haven for young adults in a formative stage of their lives, and is not necessarily detrimental. He has been critical of the brainwashing concept espoused by the anti-cult movement. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Fisher (1748, Hampton – 8 May 1825, Seymour Street, London), D.D. was a 19th-century Church of England bishop, serving as Bishop of Exeter then Bishop of Salisbury. John Fisher was the eldest son of Rev. John Fisher, Rector of Calbourne, Isle of Wight. He was educated at Peterborough, St Paul's School and Peterhouse, Cambridge. Graduating BA as 10th Wrangler in 1770, he gained his MA and became a Fellow of St John's College in 1773. Fisher served as a chaplain to King George III. In 1786 he was made Canon of St George's Chapel, Windsor, and in 1805 he was appointed Preceptor to Charlotte, Princess Royal. He had earlier served as Preceptor to her brother Prince Edward, Duke of Kent. Dr....

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John Shelby Spong is the retired American bishop of the Episcopal Church Diocese of Newark (based in Newark, New Jersey). He is a liberal Christian theologian, Biblical scholar, religion commentator and author. He promotes traditionally liberal causes, such as racial equality. He also calls for a fundamental rethinking of Christian belief, away from what he defines as theism and from the afterlife as reward or punishment for human behavior. Spong's ideas have received strong criticism from some other theologians, notably the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams (when Williams was the Bishop of Monmouth). Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Garvey was an Irish Protestant bishop of Kilmore and archbishop of Armagh. He was eldest son of John O'Garvey of Morisk, County Mayo, born in County Kilkenny. He was educated at the University of Oxford, graduating in the reign of Edward VI. His first ecclesiastical preferment was the deanery of Ferns, to which he was appointed by letters patent in 1558; in the following year, 13 July, he became archdeacon of Meath and rector of Kells, and in 1560 he was instituted to the prebend of Tipperkevin in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John of Capistrano (June 24, 1386 – October 23, 1456) was a Franciscan priest from Italy. Famous as a preacher, theologian, and inquisitor, he earned himself the nickname 'the Soldier Saint' when in 1456 at age 70 he led a crusade against the invading Ottoman Empire at the siege of Belgrade with the Hungarian military commander John Hunyadi. Elevated to sainthood, he is the patron saint of jurists, as well as the namesake of the Franciscan missions San Juan Capistrano in Southern California and San Juan Capistrano in San Antonio, Texas. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Strachan was an influential figure in Upper Canada and the first Anglican Bishop of Toronto. Strachan was the youngest of six children born to a quarry worker in Aberdeen, Scotland. He graduated from King's College, Aberdeen in 1797. After his father died in an accident in 1794, Strachan tutored students and taught school to finance his own education. In 1799 he emigrated to Kingston, Upper Canada to tutor the children of other British and United Empire Loyalist immigrants. In Kingston one of his students was John Beverley Robinson, future attorney general of Upper Canada. At the same time, he studied to become ordained. Данное издание не является...

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Saint John the Evangelist, possibly the Beloved Disciple, is the speculated author of the Gospel of John and the First Epistle of John. Traditionally he has been identified with John the Apostle. The identification with the author of the Second and Third Epistle of John and the author of the Book of Revelation is a long-held tradition.The Gospel of John refers to an unnamed "Beloved Disciple" of Jesus who bore witness to the gospel's message.The editors of the Gospel, who record the Beloved Disciple's death, seem interested in the author's anonymity.Apparently this disciple of Jesus had not been well known, but had greatly outlived Peter.The apostle John was a historical figure, one of the "pillars" of the Jerusalem church after Jesus'...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Davenport (April 9, 1597 – May 30, 1670) was an English puritan clergyman and co-founder of the American colony of New Haven. Born in Coventry, Warwickshire, England to a wealthy family, Davenport was educated at Oxford University. He matriculated at Merton College in 1613 but migrated to Magdalen College two years later, eventually leaving Oxford before completing his degree. His father was Henry Davenport (d. May 29, 1627), draper, alderman, and Mayor of Coventry, son of Edward Davenport, Mayor of Coventry (1551), and Margery Harford. His mother, Winifred Barnaby (1569 - April 12, 1597), is most probably a descendant of William I of Scotland...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Goodwin (1594–1665) was an English preacher, theologian and prolific author of significant books. Goodwin was born in Norfolk and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. and obtained a fellowship on 10 November 1617. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Thomas (1691–1766) was an English bishop of Lincoln and bishop of Salisbury. Born on 23 June 1691, he was the son of a drayman in Nicholson's brewery in the parish of All Hallows the Great in the City of London, and was sent to the parish school. He was admitted to Merchant Taylors' School on 11 March 1703. He graduated B.A. in 1713 and M.A. in 1717 from Catharine Hall, Cambridge, was made D.D. in 1728, and incorporated at Oxford on 11 July of the same year. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Cantius (23 June 1390 – 24 December 1473) was a renowned Polish priest, Scholastic, and theologian. He is also known as John of Kanty or John of Kanti. Throughout his life, various miracles were attributed to him. John Cantius was beatified in Rome by Pope Clement X on March 28, 1676. He was named patron of Poland and Lithuania by Pope Clement XII in the year 1737. Ninety-one years after his beatification, Blessed John Cantius was canonized on July 16, 1767 by Pope Clement XIII. St John Cantius is a popular saint in Poland. A number of churches and schools founded by Polish diaspora communities throughout North America are named in his honor, in cities as far-ranging as Cleveland, Ohio,...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Bramhall was an Archbishop of Armagh, and an Anglican theologian and apologist. He was a noted controversialist who doggedly defended the English Church from both Puritan and Roman Catholic accusations, as well as the materialism of Thomas Hobbes. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Cameron (c. 1579 – 1623) was a Scottish theologian. Cameron was born at Glasgow and received his early education in his native city. After having taught Greek in the university for twelve months, he removed to Bordeaux, where he was soon appointed a regent in the college of Bergerac. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John McMillan (1752–1833) was a prominent Presbyterian minister and missionary in Western Pennsylvania when that area was part of the American Frontier. He founded the first school west of the Allegheny Mountains, which is now known as John McMillan's Log School. He is one of the founders of Washington Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Alexander Dowie (May 25, 1847 – March 9, 1907) was a Scottish evangelist and faith healer in the United States of America. He founded the city of Zion, Illinois, and the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church. Dowie was born in Edinburgh to John Murray Dowie, a tailor and preacher. He moved to Adelaide, South Australia with his parents in 1860, found work in a prosperous shoe business run by an uncle. After a few months Dowie left the employment of his uncle and had various jobs through which he advanced his position. At length he became confidential clerk for the resident partner of a firm that was doing a business of $2 million a year. Around 1868, Dowie returned to Edinburgh to study...

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John Cunningham Lilly (January 6, 1915 – September 30, 2001) was an American physician, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher and writer. He was a pioneer researcher into the nature of consciousness using as his principal tools the isolation tank, dolphin communication, and psychedelic drugs, sometimes in combination. He was a member of the Californian counterculture of scientists, mystics and thinkers that arose in the late 1960s and early 70s. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rev. John Andrews, D.D., a Colonial/American clergyman, professor, author and provost,He was born in Cecil County on Eastern Shore of Maryland, on April 4, 1746, the son of Moses and Letitia Cooke Andrews. He grew up a 75 acre tract of land called "Lesson" (patented to his father March 10, 1746) in Cecil Co. His great-grandfather (John Andrews) immigrated from the County of Rutland, England to America in Anne Arundel/Calvert Counties of the Province of Maryland under the patronage of Lord Caecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore about the year 1654. Reverend Andrews is considered "America's First Scholar", for he dedicated his whole life to studying,...

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