Ecclesia and evangelist portrait s. A number of biblical passages, including those describing Christ as a " bridegroom " led early in the history of the church to the concept of the church as the Bride of Christ, which was shown in art using a queenly personification.

In view of this complex and multi-layered history it is meaningless to speak of a single " author " of John, but the title perhaps belongs best to the evangelist who came at the end of this process.

May, who is also an evangelist for churches of Christ, also ownes a folk history magazine published quarterly known as the Old Time Chronicle.

* March 11-Henry Drummond, evangelist and writer on natural history

A controversial period in the Bank's history was the attempt in 1999 to enter the United States retail banking market via a joint venture with evangelist Pat Robertson.

According to his website, he has personally preached to over 120 million people, making him the second most influential Christian evangelist in history, after Billy Graham.

In summary, Caldwell the Tamil language scholar, Christian evangelist and champion of the native church, remains today an important figure in the modern history of South India.

The other members of the Advisory Council are: Mr. Nils Bruzelius, Executive Editor and Vice-President for Publications, Environmental Working Group, Dr. Gail H. Cassell, Ph. D., vice president of scientific affairs and distinguished research scholar for infectious diseases, Eli Lilly and Company ; Mr. Vinton G. Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist, Google ; Ambassador James Franklin Collins, director and senior associate and diplomat in residence, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Dr. Rita Colwell, Chairman and President of CosmosID ; Dr. Loren R. Graham, professor of history and science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Dr. William V. Harris, president and CEO of the Science Foundation Arizona ; Dr. Siegfried S. Hecker, senior fellow and former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory ; Dr. Najmedin Meshkati, Professor of Civil / Environmental Engineering and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California ; Dr. Richard Murphy, Ph. D., former president and CEO of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies ; and Dr. Peter Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Smith Wigglesworth ( June 8, 1859 – March 12, 1947 ), was a British evangelist who was important in the early history of Pentecostalism.

A similar confusion occurs in Gospel of Mark 2: 26: In reporting Jesus ' words, the evangelist confused Abiathar with Ahimelech, a mistake into which he was led by the constant association of David ‘ s name with Abiathar.

He says: " The Greek of the Apocalypse is not that of a beginner whose grammar and vocabulary might improve and mature into those of the evangelist.

Greek words have been widely borrowed into other languages, including English: mathematics, physics, astronomy, democracy, philosophy, thespian, athletics, theatre, rhetoric, baptism, evangelist etc.

The reorganization of both schools into Gordon-Conwell was the result of the financial backing of J. Howard Pew and the unifying influence of evangelist Billy Graham.

He used his language skills to translate his texts into the language of the people, and worked enthusiastically as an evangelist.

As Cosick steps in, a crazy evangelist sneaks into the room and Cosick goes back to the ledge.

Whereas the plan of Garner Ted Armstrong was to ease his aging father into retirement, the plan of Stanley Rader and his aide Robert Lawrence Kuhn was to transform Herbert W. Armstrong from an elderly evangelist into a more secular leader, casting him as a vital " Ambassador for World Peace without portfolio ".

* Sparky Marcus, Jimmy Joe Jeeter, child evangelist, who perished when a TV set fell into the bathtub electrocuting him.

Non-racist pre-Adamite theories have also been held by a number of mainstream Christians such Congregational evangelist R. A. Torrey ( 1856 – 1928 ) believed in the Gap Theory and that pre-Adamites had survived into the present day.

In the Justice Society of America: The Kingdom special, Stargirl recruits Atom Smasher to literally knock some sense into Damage, who had become an evangelist of sorts for the Third World god Gog after the cosmic being ( temporarily ) healed Damage's scarred face.

Ryan and editor Huie sought to develop the magazine into a journal of the fledgling American conservative intellectual movement, opening its pages to new, mass-appeal writers such as evangelist Billy Graham and long-time Federal Bureau of Investigations director J. Edgar Hoover.

Keith, who was born into a religious household and was even a musical evangelist for a time, fell in with a hard-living crowd in Los Angeles during the late 60s and early 70s, experimenting with different psychedelics.

For convenience, William Irvine's career as an evangelist may be divided into 3 periods, though they would have been seen as a continuous stream with considerable overlap during those years.

He confronted Telecom over the colour of public telephone boxes, played for the local rugby team, heckled Christian evangelist Ray Comfort, evaded the compulsory census, and performed three drought-breaking rain dances in Canterbury, Auckland and the Australian outback.

In 1983, the band mounted an ambitious stage show in support of Kilroy featuring theatrical presentations of three songs utilizing instrumental backing tracks, including " Mr. Roboto ", which featured DeYoung singing live while disguised as a Roboto, " Heavy Metal Poisoning " with James Young as the evangelist Dr. Righteous singing while the Panozzo brothers acted as his henchmen on stage, and " Haven't We Been Here Before " with Tommy Shaw as Jonathan Chance and DeYoung ( as Kilroy in Roboto costume ) duetting.

Brown identifies three layers of text in John: 1 ) an initial version Brown considers based on personal experience of Jesus ; 2 ) a structured literary creation by the evangelist which draws upon additional sources ; and 3 ) the edited version that readers know today ( Brown 1979 ).

He was the traveling manager for an evangelist played by Jean Simmons in the acclaimed 1960 drama Elmer Gantry, which won three Academy Awards.

The manuscript once contained evangelist portraits for all four Evangelists, preceding their gospel, a usual feature of illuminated Gospel books, and at least three further pages of narrative scenes, one following each portrait page.

At the time of the First World War there were swings on it, political meetings were held there, an evangelist lady spent three days a year in a caravan giving out leaflets and talking to people, also the band gave concerts there.

The first four films are historical dramas set, respectively, in the time of Christ, the U. S. Civil War, 16th-century Spain, and the late 19th-century South — the latter a fictionalized treatment of the life of Methodist evangelist, Robert Sayers Sheffey.

The first references to the term evangelist in Latter Day Saint theology were mainly consistent with how the term is used by Protestants and Catholics.

It is not known who first identified the term evangelist with the office of patriarch.

In 1984, when the first women began to be ordained to the office of evangelist – patriarch, the RLDS Church changed the title of the local Evangelist – Patriarchs to simply " evangelist ".

* Rex Humbard ( 1919 – 2007 ) The first major TV evangelist ( 1950s, 1960s & 1970s ), and at one time had the largest TV audience of an evangelist in the U. S.

* October 30 – Bob Jones Sr, American evangelist, pioneer religious broadcaster, and founder and first president of Bob Jones University ( d. 1968 )

The wolf drives a Harley Davidson motorcycle, the first little pig is an aspiring guitarist, the second is a cannabis smoking, dumpster diving evangelist and the third holds a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University.

He was also involved in two other recordings in the late 1980s, the first in 1987 with jazz arranger Gil Evans, who placed Sting in a big band setting for a live album of Sting's songs ( the CD was not released in the U. S .), and the second on Frank Zappa's 1988 Broadway the Hard Way album, where Sting performs an unusual arrangement of " Murder By Numbers ", set to the tune " Stolen Moments " by jazz composer Oliver Nelson, and " dedicated " to fundamentalist evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

* 1823-Scottish Missionary Society workers arrive in Bombay, India ; Liang Fa, first Chinese Protestant evangelist, is ordained by Robert Morrison ; Colonial and Continental Church Society formed

The east atrium is historically important as the site of the first evangelist plays performed in Nahuatl starting in 1537.

His libretto Der für die Sünden der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesus ( 1712 ) was one of the first passion oratorios -- a free, poetic meditation on the passion story without the use of an evangelist character.

Liang Fa (; 1789 – 1855 ) was the first Chinese Protestant minister and evangelist.

William Ashley " Billy " Sunday ( November 19, 1862 – November 6, 1935 ) was an American athlete who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century.

Evangelist Billy Graham was the first full-time evangelist of YFCI.

The first Franciscan evangelist here, Martin de Valencia had the pagan idol replaced with an image of a Black Christ within the cave in the 1540s.

He welcomed Dwight L. Moody to Scotland, and the evangelist made his headquarters with him during his first visit.

World Vision was founded in 1950 by Dr. Robert Pierce (" Bob "), a young American evangelist pastor, who had first been sent to China and South Korea in 1947 by the Youth for Christ missionary organization.

Warner was an effective evangelist in the Winebrennarian church ( over 700 people responded to his altar calls during the first decade of his ministry ), preaching throughout northwest Ohio and northern Indiana for about six years.

Robert Reynolds Jones, Sr. ( October 30, 1883 — January 16, 1968 ) was an American evangelist, pioneer religious broadcaster and the founder and first president of Bob Jones University.

His first meetings as a full time evangelist were held in St Louis, Missouri in June 1946.

* Howard O Jones, Billy Graham's first African-American evangelist, author

* Billy Graham, evangelist, preached his first sermons as a licensed assistant / youth pastor at the Tampa Gospel Tabernacle of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in 1933-1937.