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The following list of influential figures from world history comes from Michael H. Hart's book The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History. In the book, Hart provides brief biographies of each of the individuals, as well as reasons for their ranking.
Adherents.com takes no position regarding the validity of Hart's rankings. Certainly ranking the relative historical influence of individuals is a subjective process. We welcome and will by happy to post comments from readers suggesting alternative rankings or names of influential individuals who should be included in the "Top 100." (Please send suggestions to webmaster@adherents.com).

This list of names and their ranks are solely the work of Michael H. Hart. The columns "Religious Affiliation" and "Influence" are the work of Adherents.com. We will readily modify notes if there are any inaccuracies.

Note that many influential philosophies (such as Marxist Communism or Confucianism) are not always classified as organized "religions" in the traditional sense, but are classified as such by sociologists because they are a primary motivational worldview for individuals, cultures or subcultures. Also, many founders never considered themselves adherents of philosophies or religions which later bore their name (e.g., Martin Luther and Lutheranism).

In the table below, where there are two religions listed, the first one is the religion the person was born into. The second was the religion or philosophy the person later joined or founded. Comments in the "Influence" column are in bold when the influence is mainly in the realm of religion and philosophy.
People love biographies, and I am regularly asked to recommend good ones during the lead-up to Christmas. One of the most frustrating things about the bookselling business is that there is no necessary correlation between the prominent placement of books at the bookstore, or the review of them in newspapers and magazines, and the enduring quality of those books. True, bestselling books are often very well written (lively prose is the specialty of the trade press), but from a historical perspective, they often lack substance or new research.
Nowhere is the problem more acute than in biographies of America’s Founders.  Don’t get me wrong: there are popular biographies of the Founders, including ones written by non-academic historians, that are terrific. For example, I admire Ron Chernow’s books, especially his George Washington biography, for which Chernow mastered Washington’s own writings, as well as the historical literature on him, and then brought that knowledge to a popular audience. [My review of Chernow is here.]
But some popular writers simply become biography factories, churning out a new one on some well-known figure every year (or more), just in time for Christmas, often repackaging old myths and inaccuracies. Those sorts of books are readily available at Barnes and Noble and your airport’s bookstore, too.
So, as a public service announcement, here are five biographies I heartily recommend for your Christmas list. I have limited myself to religious biographies (ones of particular interest to Anxious Bench readers) written by scholars, but ones which speak to a more general audience. I am focusing here on books that will not be at the “front of the store” (or perhaps not in the store at all) this Christmas, either because they are not new, or because they were not published by a major trade press.
I am also not including some rather obvious (or self-promoting) choices like my doctoral advisor George Marsden’s brilliant Jonathan Edwards biography, my Anxious Bench colleague John Turner’s wonderful Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, or your humble correspondent’s Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots.
Here they are:
-Richard Carwardine, Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power. This book by Oxford professor Carwardine demonstrates the political significance of Lincoln’s relationships with evangelical Christians, and is one of the best treatments of  Lincoln’s deepening religious convictions during the Civil War.
-Catherine Brekus, Sarah Osborn’s World: The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America. A brand-new biography of Osborn, perhaps the most influential woman in America’s First Great Awakening. In my jacket endorsement of the book, I said “This will become the best biography we have on a female evangelical in colonial America, following naturally from Brekus’s earlier book on women preachers in early America. But I would also recommend this as simply one of the best books I have read on the life of an American evangelical, female or male.”
-Alan Jacobs, The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis. This excellent biography combines Lewis’s life story with an examination of the intellectual sensibilities that ultimately produced the tales of Narnia. Those who have read many of Lewis’s books will especially appreciate this engaging treatment by my soon-to-be Baylor colleague.
-Paul Gutjahr, Charles Hodge: Guardian of American Orthodoxy. The definitive biography of one of the nineteenth century’s great theologians. As I noted in my earlier Patheos review, “although [Hodge] did not match the sheer brilliance of his predecessor Jonathan Edwards (what successor has?), Hodge’s greatest contributions were cogently representing the faith in his fifty-six years of teaching, his training of more than three thousand seminary students (no professor of any kind taught more graduate students in the nineteenth century), and writing theological books read by millions.”
-Barry Hankins, Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America. In his typically lucid and even-handed style, my Baylor colleague Hankins assesses Schaeffer, the popular but controversial apologist who will go down as one of the twentieth century’s most influential evangelicals.
So purchase, read, and enjoy! In doing so, you’ll be making an investment in good books, even if they might not appear on the front display of your Barnes and Noble.






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John Turner
Thanks for this. You have prompted me to assign Brekus’s most recent for next semester — thanks!
John Fea
I have been hearing about Brekus’s project for quite some time. I am glad to see it is out and I can’t wait to read it.
Ron Regnier
I realize Lincoln presided over a great event however I have come to realize that like so many movers and shakers, his thoughts could be befuddled. The following quote shows how mixed his views were on what we have long glorified, (to some degree rightly) and then further exalt his Christian virtues. The latter is not a wholly valid affair, only in part. I wish we could act on deeper looking and perspective of personalities we admire:
Before the debate at Charleston, Democrats held up a banner that read “Negro equality” with a picture of a white man, a negro woman and a mulatto child.[24] At this debate Lincoln went further than before in denying the charge that he was an abolitionist, saying that:
I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And in as much as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.
Mom
We are products of our time and place in history–as Lincoln was of his. A hundred years from now, when men look back upon us, they will marvel at how unenlightened we were.

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List Of Religions Islam Facts For Kids Pictures About Religion Wikipedia And History And Beliefs Worksheet On Women Today And Information Images Wallpapers

List Of Religions Islam Facts For Kids Pictures About Religion Wikipedia And History And Beliefs Worksheet On Women Today And Information Images Wallpapers

List Of Religions Islam Facts For Kids Pictures About Religion Wikipedia And History And Beliefs Worksheet On Women Today And Information Images Wallpapers

List Of Religions Islam Facts For Kids Pictures About Religion Wikipedia And History And Beliefs Worksheet On Women Today And Information Images Wallpapers

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List Of Religions Islam Facts For Kids Pictures About Religion Wikipedia And History And Beliefs Worksheet On Women Today And Information Images Wallpapers

List Of Religions Islam Facts For Kids Pictures About Religion Wikipedia And History And Beliefs Worksheet On Women Today And Information Images Wallpapers

List Of Religions Islam Facts For Kids Pictures About Religion Wikipedia And History And Beliefs Worksheet On Women Today And Information Images Wallpapers