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Apostles Ignatius of Antioch Polycarp Irenaeus Clement of Rome Justin Martyr Clement of Alexandria Perpetua Origen Cyprian of Carthage Pachomius, Anthony and Athanasius Basil the Great Gregory of Nyssa Macrina Gregory of Nazianzus Jerome Ambrose Augustine of Hippo Leo the Great Cyril of Alexandria Patrick Gregory the Great Eastern Orthodox Columba, Aidan, Bede John Climacus Symeon the New Theologian John of Damascus Alcuin, Anskar and others Cyril and Methodius Boniface Anselm Peter Abelard Bernard of Clairvoix Hildegard of Bingen The Rarely Heard History of the Waldensians Francis Thomas Aquinas John Wyclif Jan Hus Julian of Norwich The German Mystics Martin Luther Philip Melanchthon Additional Reformers William Tyndale John Calvin Francis Xavier, Ignatius Loyola Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross Cranmer, Ridley, Latimer John Donne George Herbert Johann Arndt, Philipp Jakob Spener, A. H. Franke and the Churchly Pietists Philipp Jakob Spener 17 C English Divines Paschal, Fenelon, Guyon: Quietists, Theosophists, The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence Isaac Watts Jonathan Edwards William Law The Wesleys George Whitefield Henry Melchior Muhlenberg John Newton Francis Asbury Absolom Jones, Richard Allen. William White Hans Nielsen Hauge George Mueller Modern Missionary Movement Christmas Evans Griffith Jones Billy Bray Robert Raikes Charles G. Finney & His Intercessors Soren Kierkegaard and other early 19 C European Theologians J.C. Ryle Groundbreakers of the 19 C J. Hudson Taylor D. L. Moody William Booth C.T. Studd A. B. Simpson E.M. Bounds Andrew Murray F. B. Meyer A. T. Pierson Oswald Chambers Evan Roberts R. A. Torrey Minnie Abrams Jonathan Goforth Early Twentieth Century Revivals William Joseph Seymour A. G. Garr Pandita Ramabai Amy Carmicael Marie Monsen Charles Mason Billy Sunday John Mott Ludwig Nommensen Toyohiko Kagawa Lars Olsen Skrefsrud Nathan Söderblom G.K. Chesterton Onesimos Nesib Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky David Livingstone Albert Schweitzer Apolo Kivebulaya Karl Barth C. S. Lewis Dietrich Bonhoeffer Martin Niemoeller Paul Tillich Franz Jägerstätter Maximilian Kolbe Gladys Aylward Roland Allen Eric Liddell The Hebrides Revival of 1949 The Martyrs of the Ecuador Mission David du Plessis Pope John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli) A. W. Tozer Leonard Ravenhill Jonathan Myrick Daniels Martin Luther King, Jr. Dag Hammarskjöld Thomas Merton Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr Corrie ten Boom Agnes Sanford Watchman Nee T. Austin Sparks Roland Allen SADHU SUNDAR SINGH Francis Schaeffer Henri J.M. Nouwen Pope John Paul II

John was called "Chrysostom" ("Golden Mouth") because of his eloquence. He was a priest of Antioch, and an outstanding preacher. (Audiences were warned not to carry large sums of money when they went to hear him speak, since pickpockets found it very easy to rob his hearers -- they were too intent on his words to notice what was happening.) His sermons are mostly straightforward expositions of Holy Scripture (he has extensive commentaries on both Testaments, with special attention to the Epistles of Paul), and he emphasizes the literal meaning, whereas the style popular at Alexandria tended to read allegorical meanings into the text. He loved the city and people of Antioch, and they loved him. However, he became so famous that the Empress at Constantinople decided that she must have him for her court preacher, and she had him kidnapped and brought to Constantinople and there made bishop. This was a failure all around. His sermons against corruption in high places earned him powerful enemies (including the Empress), and he was sent into exile, where he died. Along with Athanasius of Alexandria, Basil the Great, and Gregory of Nazianzus, he is counted as one of the Four Great Eastern (or Greek) Doctors of the Ancient Church. The Four Great Western (or Latin) Doctors are Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, and Gregory the Great.