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  Paul Thigpen

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Paul Thigpen
Author
Paul Thigpen is the editor of TAN Books and was appointed as a lay representative on the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ National Advisory Council, speaking frequently at conferences and scholarly gatherings in the U.S and abroad. He earned a B.A. in Religious Studies from Yale University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Historical Theology from Emory University. A best-selling author, Dr. Thigpen has published forty-two books, including Manual for Spiritual Warfare and Saints Who Battled Satan: Seventeen Holy Warriors Who Can Teach You How to Fight the Good Fight and Vanquish Your Ancient Enemy, and more than five hundred articles for both scholarly and popular audiences. His work has been translated into twelve languages.
 
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  David L. Goetz

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David L. Goetz
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David L. Goetz, Author, is a former editor for Leadership Journal, the leading periodical for pastors, and a former pastor. He writes for Christianity Today and was the general editor of The Pastor's Soul series, which was nominated for the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association's Gold Medallion Book Award in 2000. He is president of CZ Marketing, a brand and strategy firm serving the nonprofit sector. In addition to founding CZ, he has created three podcasts, including co-founding Journey Sixty6, an online learning and coaching community for writers. David is the author and co-author of several books including Death by Suburb, Leadership Devotions: Cultivating a Leader's Heart, and Deepening Your Conversation with God: The Life-Changing Power of Prayer.
 
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  Louis A. Markos

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Louis A. Markos
ProfessorLouis A. Markos, is a Professor of English and Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University. He holds a BA in English and History from Colgate University and an MA and PhD in English from the University of Michigan. Markos is the author of many books including, C. S. Lewis: An Apologist for Education, From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics, and Lewis Agonistes: How C. S. Lewis can Train us to Wrestle with the Modern and Postmodern World, and his latest work C.S. Lewis For Beginners. He is the author of two lecture series with the Teaching Company/Great Courses: The Life and Writings of C. S. Lewis and Plato to Postmodernism.  
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  J.I. Packer

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J.I. Packer
J.I. Packer (1926 – 2020) is known for his best-selling book, Knowing God, as well as his work as an editor for the English Standard Version of the Bible. He was a signer on the 1978 Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, a member on the advisory board of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, and also was involved in the ecumenical book Evangelicals and Catholics Together in 1994. His last teaching position was as the board of governors' Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was awarded the St. Cuthbert's Cross at the Provincial Assembly of ACNA on 27 June 2014 for his "unparalleled contribution to Anglican and global Christianity."
 
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  Thomas C. Parker

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Thomas C. Parker
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Thomas C. Parker, Professor, served as the Director of Fuller Theological Seminary Arizona from 1988 to 2018, where he taught classes in Biblical Interpretation, Old Testament, Biblical Hebrew, and Biblical Greek. He was an ordained Presbyterian pastor and earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Arizona, a Master of Philosophy from the University of Sheffield, England and a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary.
 
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  Richard Foster

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Richard Foster
Theologian
Richard Foster is a Christian theologian and author. He is founder of Renovaré (a Christian nonprofit established in1988 to help people in becoming more like Jesus) and served as its president until 2008; he continues to serve in an advisory role. Foster has been a professor at Friends University and pastor of Evangelical Friends churches. He earned his Doctor of Pastoral Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary and received an honorary doctorate from Houghton College. He is possibly best known for his 1978 book Celebration of Discipline, which sold over one million copies. It was named by Christianity Today as one of the top ten books of the 20^th century.
 
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  Alvin Vander Griend

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Alvin Vander Griend
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Alvin Vander Griend, author, is an ordained minister in the Christian Reformed Church. He graduated from Calvin College in 1958 and from Calvin Seminary in 1961. He later attended Fuller Theological Seminary where he earned his Doctor of Ministry degree in 1982. In 1996 Alvin became director of HOPE Ministries where he developed Lighthouse resources and provided prayer-evangelism training. Dr. Vander Griend’s best-selling work has been Love to Pray, The Joy of Prayer, Patterns for Prayer, Praying God’s Heart, several prayer-evangelism books and co-authored the popular The Praying Church Sourcebook. Vander Griend co-founded and is currently the co-chairman of the Denominational Prayer Leader’s Network in the U.S. He also serves as a member of America’s National Prayer Committee.
 
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  Ulrich Zwingli

  Theologian
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Ulrich Zwingli
Theologian
Ulrich Zwingli, Theologian, (1484 – 1531) was a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland. He attended the University of Vienna and the University of Basel, a scholarly center of Renaissance humanism. He continued his studies while he served as a pastor in Glarus and later in Einsiedeln, where he was influenced by the writings of Erasmus. In 1519, Zwingli became the Leutpriester (people's priest) of the Grossmünster in Zürich. Zwingli was ordained in Constance, the seat of the local diocese. According to Zwingli, the cornerstone of theology is the Bible. Zwingli appealed to scripture constantly in his writings. A collection of selected works by Zwingli was published in 1995 by the Zwingliverein in collaboration with the Theologischer Verlag Zürich.
 
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  Joni Eareckson Tada

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Joni Eareckson Tada
Speaker
Joni Eareckson Tada, Speaker, is an internationally known artist, vocalist, radio host, an author and an advocate for disabled persons worldwide. She has written several books including Holiness in Hidden Places, Heaven: Your Real Home and The God I Love. Joni founded Wheels for the World, a ministry which involves restoring wheelchairs and distributing them in developing nations. In 1979, Joni began “Joni and Friends Ministries” (JAF Ministries), fulfilling the mandate of Jesus in Luke 14:13,23. “Joni and Friends,” is a daily five-minute radio program reaching over one million listeners a week for hundreds of special need families across the United States. Joni has a heart for people who, like herself, must live with disabilities.