Other Beliefs :

hinault

I am a practicing Roman Catholic.

However I do take a keen interest in listening to and reading about other Christian and non-Christian beliefs.
There are a number of people who's spiritual lives, spiritual ideas and spiritual advocacy have impressed me and these people are from other denominations.
I'm thinking about people like the evangelist Billy Graham and William Booth (founder of the Salvation Army).

Just wondering if anyone else here is impressed with a person from another denomination?

Soul Winner

hinault wrote: »

I am a practicing Roman Catholic.

However I do take a keen interest in listening to and reading about other Christian and non-Christian beliefs.
There are a number of people who's spiritual lives, spiritual ideas and spiritual advocacy have impressed me and these people are from other denominations.
I'm thinking about people like the evangelist Billy Graham and William Booth (founder of the Salvation Army).

Just wondering if anyone else here is impressed with a person from another denomination?

Absolutely. Augustine of Hippo, Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas, John Wesley, John Calvin, Erasmus, G Campbell Morgan, Karl Barth etc etc...

PDN

I would say 99.9% of the Christians I most admire (past & present) come from different denominations to my own: eg Tertullian, St Patrick, John Wesley, Count von Zinzendorf, DL Moody, William Booth, Charles Spurgeon, Billy Graham, Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King etc.

wolfsbane

hinault wrote: »

I am a practicing Roman Catholic.

However I do take a keen interest in listening to and reading about other Christian and non-Christian beliefs.
There are a number of people who's spiritual lives, spiritual ideas and spiritual advocacy have impressed me and these people are from other denominations.
I'm thinking about people like the evangelist Billy Graham and William Booth (founder of the Salvation Army).

Just wondering if anyone else here is impressed with a person from another denomination?

I'm not well-read on many great lives, but those I know and admire despite not being Baptists: Calvin, Whitefield, Wilberforce spring to mind. Many virtual unknowns also.

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1 Thessalonians 1:9 For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 10 and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.

Slav

Definitely G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis. To a certain extent Aquinas and Calvin but more like bright thinkers rather than Christians as from my point of view their contributions to Christianity were somehow damaging.

homer911

Adrian Plass can get to the nub of things with a bit of humour...