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James -- Keswick movement -- Kierkegaard, Soren -- King Jr., Martin Luther -- Kittle, Gerhard -- Knights templar -- Knox, John -- LaHaye, Tim -- Latimer, Hugh -- Lewis, Clive Staples -- Livingstone, David -- Lollards -- Lombard, Peter -- Luther, Martin -- Lutheranism -- Machen, John Gresham -- Magnus, Albertus -- Manichaeism -- Mar Thoma church -- Marcion of Sinope -- Melanchthon, Philipp -- Mennonites -- Methodism -- Michelangelo -- Milton, John -- Modernism -- Montanism -- Moody, Dwight Lyman -- More, Sir Thomas -- Muller, George -- National council of churches -- Nestoriamism -- Newman, John Henry -- Newton, John -- Nicene councils -- Norris, John Franklyn -- Origen -- Owen, John -- Oxford movement -- Packer, James Innell -- Papias -- Parham, Charles Fox -- Pascal, Blaise -- Patrick, Saint -- Paul, the apostle -- Pelagianism -- Pentecostalism -- Pietism -- Plymouth brethren -- Polycarp of Smyrna -- Presbyterianism -- Protestantism -- Puritanism -- Quakers -- Reformation, the -- Remonstrance -- Ridley, Nicholas -- Roberts, Granville Oral -- Robertson, Marion "Pat" -- Rogers, Adrian -- Roman catholicism -- Sabellianism -- Salvation Army, the -- Savonarola, Girolamo -- Schaeffer, Francis -- Schaff, Philip -- Schleiermacher, Friedrich -- Scholasticism -- Scotland, church of -- Shakers -- Simons, Menno -- Smith, Charles Ward "Chuck" -- Smith, Oswald J. -- Sociniamism -- Sola fide, sola gratia, and sola scriptura -- Southern baptist convention -- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon -- Sunday, William "Billy" Ashley -- Sunday school -- Tertullian -- Torrey, Reuben Archer -- Tozer,

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