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Tyndale enabled the English Bible to be readily available and wrote theology in the
language of ordinary people.

5) Jan Comenius – Christian Translator
1592 – 1688

Comenius showed us that all through history God has prompted men and women with the

vision of Christian Education.

6) John Bunyan – ‘The Tinker of Bedford’
1628 – 1688

The study of John Bunyan, author of ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ and ‘Grace Abounding’ focussed
on suffering as part of our Faith.

7) The Anabaptists – ‘The Logical Fruit of the Reformation’

This was of special interest as one of our OCC churches was founded by Anabaptists.
The study showed what we owe the Baptists.

8) John Wesley
1703 – 1791

Famous Evangelist preacher and Founder of Methodism.

9) Count Von Zinzendorf and the Moravian Movement
1700 – 1760

This study focuses on the prayer and world mission of the Moravians. One of the Elders
at Basingstoke Community Church, Ron Trudinger, is a descendant of the Moravians and
came to speak to us.

10) Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1906 – 1945

Theologian and teacher of Discipleship in Hitler’s Germany.

Obviously many other famous men and women have left a legacy to us. Time caused us to be
selective and so we did not cover Whitfield, Wilberforce, Shaftsbury, C.S.Lewis or many

others. We ended our series by asking our students to write from memory one sentence about
each character and to say who impressed them most personally. They also wrote down any

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