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A.W. Pink

English author

(1886 - 1952)

A.W. Pink

Arthur Walkington Pink (1 April 1886 โ€“ 15 July 1952) was an English Bible teacher who sparked a renewed interest in the exposition of Calvinism or Reformed Theology. Little known in his own lifetime, Pink became "one of the most influential evangelical authors in the second half of the twentieth century."[1] Biography Arthur Walkington Pink was born in Nottingham, England, to a corn merchant, a devout non-conformist of uncertain denomination, though probably a Congregationalist.[2] Otherwise, almost nothing is known of Pink's childhood or education except that he had some ability and training in music.[3] As a young man, Pink joined the Theosophical Society, an occult gnostic group in contemporary England, and he apparently rose to enoug... continue

Henry Alline
Henry Alline

Writer

(1748 - 1784)

Henry Allineโ€™s early years He was born and received his early education in Newport, Rhode Island and his fami...
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St. Patrick
St. Patrick

Missionary

(385 - 461)

St. Patrick, (flourished 5th century, Britain and Ireland; feast day March 17), patron saint and national apos...
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Charles Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon

English Preacher

(1834 - 1892)

Charles Haddon Spurgeon was born on June 19, 1834, just ten days after the great William Carey died in India. ...
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