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  Teresa of Ávila

  Carmelite Nun
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Teresa of Ávila
Carmelite Nun
Teresa of Ávila, Carmelite Nun, (1515 – 1582), also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, was who was called to convent life in the Catholic Church. A Carmelite nun, Spanish mystic, religious reformer, author, theologian of the contemplative life, she earned the rare distinction of being declared a Doctor of the Church. Active during the Catholic Reformation, she reformed the Carmelite Orders of both women and men. The movement she initiated was later joined by the younger Spanish Carmelite friar and mystic John of the Cross. Her written contributions, which include her autobiography, The Life of Teresa of Jesus and her seminal work The Interior Castle, are today an integral part of Spanish Renaissance literature together with The Way of Perfection.
 
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  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Speaker
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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.
 
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  Jerry Bridges

  Author
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Jerry Bridges
Author
Jerry Bridges, (1929 – 2016) was an evangelical Christian author, speaker and staff member of The Navigators. He earned his undergraduate degree in engineering at the University of Oklahoma before serving as an officer in the United States Navy during the Korean War. He joined Christian discipleship organization The Navigators in 1955 where he eventually served as Vice President for Corporate Affairs. He was the author of more than a dozen books, including The Pursuit of Holiness, an award-winning works, Holiness Day by Day and The Discipline of Grace. He also enjoyed a robust international speaking ministry. He is remembered by the Navigators as “beloved evangelical statesman” and “a kind, gentle soul who desired nothing more than to walk humbly with his God.”
 
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  David F. Wells

  Theologian
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David F. Wells
Theologian
David F. Wells, is a Christian theologian and an ordained Congregational minister. He is the Andrew Mutch Distinguished Professor of historical and systematic theology at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, Massachusetts. He joined the faculty at Gordon-Conwell full-time in 1979. Wells has taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and served as the Academic Dean at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary's Charlotte, North Carolina campus. He has a ThM from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, a PhD from the University of Manchester, and post-doctoral Research Fellow from Yale Divinity School. Wells is the author of several books which include No Place for Truth: or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology? and The Person of Christ: A Biblical and Historical Analysis of the Incarnation.
 
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  Arthur W. Lindsley

  Senior Fellow for Apologetics, CSLI
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Arthur W. Lindsley
Senior Fellow for Apologetics, CSLIArthur W. Lindsley is the Vice President of Theological Initiatives at the Institute for Faith, Works, & Economics. He has served at the C.S. Lewis Institute since 1987 both as President until 1998 and currently as Senior Fellows for Apologetics. Formerly, he was director of Educational Ministries at the Ligonier Valley Study Center, and Staff Specialist with the Coalition for Christian Outreach. He is the author of C.S. Lewis's Case for Christ, True Truth, Love: The Ultimate Apologetic, and co-author with R.C. Sproul and John Gerstner of Classical Apologetics, and has written numerous articles on theology, apologetics, C.S. Lewis, and the lives and works of many other authors and teachers. Art earned his M.Div. from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Pittsburgh.  
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  Klaus Bockmuehl

  Professor
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Klaus Bockmuehl
Professor
Klaus Bockmuehl, (1931 — 1989) was a Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics at Regent College, Vancouver. After receiving his doctorate, Bockmuehl was ordained in 1961 and served as a pastor in a Reformed Church in Düren, Germany. He held various posts in Heidelberg and Schmieheim, and from 1965 to 1971 worked part-time as a lecturer at St. Chrischona seminary in Bettingen near Basel. From 1977 until his death in 1989, Bockmuehl was Professor of Theology and Ethics at Regent College in Vancouver, Canada.
 
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  Walter Kaiser

  Professor
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Walter Kaiser
Professor
Walter C. Kaiser Jr., is distinguished professor emeritus of Old Testament and president emeritus of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton and a Masters and a Doctorate of Philosophy from Brandeis University. While pursuing graduate studies at Brandeis, Kaiser became professor and chairman of the Old Testament department at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He served as academic dean, vice president and professor of Old Testament and Semitic languages at Trinity, and professor of Old Testament theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where he subsequently served as president. Dr. Kaiser has written over forty books, including Toward an Exegetical Theology: Biblical Exegesis for Preaching and Teaching, The Messiah in the Old Testament and The Promise-Plan of God.
 
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  Jerry Harvill

  Professor
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Jerry Harvill
Professor
Jerry Harvill, Professor, was a minister for the Churches of Christ for twenty-three years. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Communications and Journalism at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, where he subsequently taught. He has published articles for Spiritual Life magazine.
 
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  Lonni Collins Pratt

  Author
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Lonni Collins Pratt
Author
Lonni Collins Pratt, is an award-winning author and journalist with several books to her credit and more than one thousand magazine and newspaper articles. She is part of the community of friends in Oxford, Michigan, who support the work of the monks at St. Benedict Monastery. Lonni received her BA in General Christian Studies from Evangel University and Associates of Art in Child Development from Macomb Community College. She co-authored with Daniel Homan, Radical Hospitality: Benedict's Way of Love, Benedict's Way: An Ancient Monk's Insights for a Balanced Life, and authored Here I Am, Lord: Stories, Prayers, and Inspiration for Teens and the Adults in Their Lives.
 
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  Daniel B. Clendenin

  Author
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Daniel B. Clendenin
Author
Daniel B. Clendenin, Author, founded the Journey with Jesus webzine in 2004. He earned his Ph.D. from Drew University (1985). He then taught at William Tyndale College in Michigan (1985–1991), and at Moscow State University (1991–1995) in the former Department of Scientific Atheism. Dan joined InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Stanford University in 1995 and worked with faculty and graduate students until 2003. He has traveled in 40 countries. Dan's publications include the following books: Eastern Orthodox Christianity: A Western Perspective, Eastern Orthodox Theology: A Contemporary Reader, Many Gods, Many Lords; Christianity Encounters World Religions, Problems in Christian Philosophy, co-editor and From the Coup to the Commonwealth; An Inside Look at Life in Contemporary Russia.