List_of_Protestant_authors Knowpia

This list of Protestant authors presents a group of authors who have expressed membership in a Protestant denominational church or adherence to spiritual beliefs which are in alignment with Protestantism as a religion, culture, or identity. The list does not include authors who, while considered or thought to be Protestant in faith, have rarely expressed or declared their affiliation in a public forum.

Criteria for inclusion on the list are those authors that have received worldwide recognition for their contributions in religious literature. Areas of specialty and denominations are added according to consensus, as needed. Current specialties include the following:

The list of authors is categorized according to denomination.

Anabaptist edit

Petr Chelčický (born c. 1390–died c. 1460) – 15th century political leader from Bohemia (now the Czech Republic)

Alliance edit

Ravi Zacharias – evangelical writer from India

Anglican edit

C.S. Lewis – author of Mere Christianity
Diana Butler Bass – author and church historian
Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626) – English bishop and scholar, who oversaw the translation of the King James Version of the Bible
Legh Richmond – The Dairyman's Daughter
Maria Francesca Rossetti – author and nun
James Madison (1751–1836) – fourth President of the United States (1809–1817), the “Father of the Constitution” and the key champion and author of the United States Bill of Rights
Jakob Abbadie – Swiss writer
Jakob Jocz – third generation Hebrew Christian
Jupiter Hammon (1711–died c. 1806) – former slave and poet from New York
Peter Heylin or Heylyn (1599–1662) – English clergyman and author of many polemical, historical, political and theological tracts
Samuel Butler (1613–1680) – author of the religious and political satire Hudibras

Baptist edit

John Ankerberg (born 1945) – apologist from Chicago, Illinois
Alfred James Broomhall
Benjamin Broomhall (1829–1911) – missionary and administrator of the China Inland Mission from Bayswater, London
Marshall Broomhall
John Bunyan (1628–1688) – allegorical author of The Pilgrim's Progress from London, England
Alice Blanchard Coleman (1858-1936) – missionary society leader; author of periodical religious literature
Bob Cornuke (born 1951) – biblical archeologist from Colorado Springs, Colorado
Martha Foster Crawford – writer and missionary
Thomas Dixon (1864–1946) – novelist, playwright, state legislator, and author of The Clansman from North Carolina
John Gill (1697–1771) – biblical scholar and expository author from Horsleydown, Southwark, England
Billy Graham (1918–2018) – radio, television, and crusade evangelist from Charlotte, North Carolina
Marilla Baker Ingalls (1828–1902) – missionary to Burma
David Jeremiah (born 1941) – radio and television evangelist, pastor, and expository author from El Cajon, California
Adoniram Judson (1788–1850) – missionary to Burma; translated the Bible from English to Burmese
Benjamin Keach (1640–1704) – author of scriptural parables and catechism from Southwark, South London, England
William Garrett Lewis
John Piper
Bernard Ramm – Christian apologetics
John Rippon
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Rick Warren
Kenneth N. Taylor – linked to Moody Bible Institute
E. W. Kenyon

Brethren edit

Lillian Resler Keister Harford – church organizer, editor, author
K.V. Simon – poet from India

Congregationalist edit

John Adams – religious worker whose poems speak of "flaming piety"
Thomas Binney – Congregationalist theologian and poet
Samuel Dyer
Jonathan Edwards
William Ellis – missionary who wrote Madagascar Revisited
George MacDonald – Congregationalist pastor
John Milton – Paradise Lost
Marilynne Robinson – Gilead, 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner
John Updike – Rabbit, Run, raised Lutheran, later belonged to Congregationalist and Episcopalian congregations

Congregationalist and Puritan edit

James Janeway

Lutheran edit

Mikael Agricola – founding figure in Finnish literature
Marva Dawn – theological writing
Garrison Keillor – humorist
John Warwick Montgomery – Christian apologetics
Hallgrímur Pétursson – Lutheran priest, poet, and hymnodist^[1]

Methodist (inclusive of the holiness movement) edit

William F. Albright – Methodist archaeologist who writes on Bible archaeology
Esther E. Baldwin – missionary, teacher, translator, writer, editor
Julia Colman – temperance educator, activist, editor, writer
Edward Eggleston – Methodist minister and author
Arno Clemens Gaebelein – Methodist minister and writer
Annie Ryder Gracey – author and missionary
Phoebe Knapp – Methodist hymnwriter
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet – Methodist minister and humorist
Mary A. Miller – Methodist historian, editor, and publisher
William Williams Pantycelyn – Methodist hymnwriter
George Whitefield
Alice May Douglas – author of poetry, juvenile literature, non-fiction; newspaper editor
Daniel Sidney Warner – Church of God minister and founder of Gospel Trumpet Flyer

Moravian and Hussite edit

William Cornelius Reichel, historian

Pentecostal edit

Benny Hinn – preacher and author
Jimmy Swaggart - preacher and author

Plymouth Brethren edit

Arthur Charles Gook – English to Icelandic translations of literature, poems, and hymns

Presbyterian edit

Pearl S. Buck – parents were missionaries, but she later left the religion
Belle Caldwell Culbertson - foreign missionary, home missionary, author on religious matters, and philanthropist
Elisabeth Elliot – missionary
Johnny Hart – cartoonist, on the evangelical end of Presbyterianism
Emrys ap Iwan – Welsh Presbyterian minister who wrote for newspapers, etc.
Timothy Keller – Senior pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, author of The Reason for God.
Catherine Marshall – author of "Christy" and "A Man Called Peter"
John Ortberg – Senior pastor of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, author of If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat.
Robert Louis Stevenson – wrote on religious matters at times
Thomas Vincent
Andrew Young – poet and botanical writer (later an Anglican priest)
Frederick Buechner – novelist, theologian, and minister
Horatius Bonar – minister in the Free Church of Scotland and a poet
Alexander Campbell Cheyne – Scottish ecclesiastical historian
Henry Drummond – Free Church of Scotland writer
George Adam Smith – books concerning the Bible
Francis Schaeffer

Quaker edit

Reformed edit

Nicolaas Beets – novelist and poet
Corrie ten Boom – memoirist
Edward Tanjore Corwin – history writing
James Isaac Good – history writing
Martha Hooper Blackler Kalopothakes – missionary, journalist, translator
Andrew Murray – religious and inspirational writing

United Protestant edit

Ralph Connor – Canadian clergyman and bestselling novelist

Other edit

Edith Jessie Archibald – suffragist and writer
Ethel Barrett – Christian author and children's author
Mary Charlotte Ward Granniss Webster Billings – writer, activist, hymn writer, evangelist, missionary
Ted Dekker – bestselling novelist
Henry Grattan Guinness
Jerry B. Jenkins – co-author of the Left Behind books and Gil Thorp comics
Hal Lindsey – end-times author
Josh McDowell – Christian writer
Ra'ouf Mus'ad – Protestant playwright of Coptic ancestry
J. Dwight Pentecost
Geraldine Taylor
Hudson Taylor
Phyllis Wheatley (1753–died c. 1784) – former slave and poet from Boston, Massachusetts and Senegal, Africa
Ellen G. White (1827-1915)