User:Junkönig
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
My editorial focus: Jehovah's Witnesses[edit]
anointed ("elect" or "saints" in mainstream Christian terms):
Biblical[edit]
The 11 Apostles[edit]
- Andrew, son of Jona/John
- Nathanael, son of Tholomew (same person)
- James, son of Alphaeus
- James, son of Zebedee
- John, son of Zebedee
- Jude/Judas a.k.a. Thaddeus a.k.a. Lebbaeus, son of James
- Matthew a.k.a. Levi
- Simon a.k.a. Cephas (Aramaic)/Peter (Greek), son of Jona/John
- Philip
- Simon (the Canaanite/Cananaean)
- Thomas a.k.a. Didymus
4 new Apostles[edit]
- Joseph/Joses, son of Nabas
- James, son of Joseph
- Matthias
- Saul/Paul
Other mentions[edit]
- Abdias
- Agabus
- Andronicus
- Ampliatus
- Apelles
- Apollos
- Aquila
- Clement (likely at Phil 4:3)
- Cornelius
- Crescens
- Crispus
- Damaris
- Dionysius
- Dorcas
- Epaphras
- Hermas
- Herodion
- Joanna
- Joseph a.k.a. Justin, son of Sabbas
- Joseph of Arimathea
- Jude/Judas, son of Joseph
- Linus (likely at 2Tim 4:21)
- Luke
- Lydia
- Manahen
- Mark a.k.a. John
- Mary, daughter of Heli
- Mary Magdalene
- Mary of Clopas, possibly identical to Salome
- Narcissus
- Onesimus
- Philemon
- Phlegon
- Phoebe
- Priscilla
- Pudens
- Silas
- Stachys
- Stephen
- Timothy
- Titus
- Urban
Modern[edit]
sorted alphabetically by surname
name | baptized | died |
---|---|---|
Ida Stover Eisenhower | 1895 | 1946 |
Robert Emery (athlete) | ? | 1934 |
Leopold Engleitner | 1932 | 2013 |
Frederick William Franz | 1913 | 1992 |
Helene Gotthold | 1926 | 1944 |
William Preble Hall | ? | 1927 |
Milton George Henschel | 1934 | 2003 |
Nathan Homer Knorr | 1923 | 1977 |
Alexander Hugh Macmillan | 1900 | 1966 |
Bohumil Müller | ? | 1987 |
Rudolf Redlinghofer | ? | 1940 |
Joseph Franklin Rutherford | 1906 | 1942 |
Charles Taze Russell | 1874 | 1916 |
Gertrude Woodcock Seibert | ? | 1928 |
Fred Severud | 1935 | 1990 |
Alexander P. Stewart | 1905 | 1908 |
Alfred Vogel | ? | 1996 |
Emmy Zehden | 1935 | 1944 |
total: 1 + 75
Interesting authors[edit]
- C. S. Lewis (1898–1963)
- Alvin Plantinga (born 1932)
- Richard Swinburne (born 1934)
- John Lennox (born 1943)
- N. T. Wright (born 1948)
- William Lane Craig
- Francis Collins
- Gary Habermas
Fundamentalist:
Norman Geisler (died 2019)
Non-Christian:
Antony Flew (died 2010)