The lineage
Timeline
Scroll downward through history. Every name a shoulder in the long handing-down of recovered truth.
- 354
Augustine of Hippo
354 — 430
- 1090
Bernard of Clairvaux
1090 — 1153
- 1182
Francis of Assisi
1182 — 1226
- 1217
Bonaventure
1217 — 1274
- 1260
Meister Eckhart
1260 — 1327
- 1328
John Wycliffe
1328 — 1384
- 1369
Jan Hus
1369 — 1415
- 1380
Thomas à Kempis
1380 — 1471
- 1390
Peter Chelcicky
1390 — 1460
- 1466
Desiderius Erasmus
1466 — 1536
- 1483
Martin Luther
1483 — 1546
- 1484
Ulrich Zwingli
1484 — 1531
- 1489
William Farel
1489 — 1565
- 1489
Caspar Schwenkfeld
1489 — 1561
- 1494
William Tyndale
1494 — 1536
- 1496
Menno Simons
1496 — 1559
- 1498
Conrad Grebel
1498 — 1526
- 1509
John Calvin
1509 — 1564
- 1555
Johann Arndt
1555 — 1621
- 1575
Jacob Boehme
1575 — 1624
- 1605
Brother Lawrence
1605 — 1691
- 1624
George Fox
1624 — 1691
- 1628
John Bunyan
1628 — 1688
- 1635
Philip Jacob Spener
1635 — 1705
- 1648
Madame Guyon
1648 — 1717
- 1651
François Fénelon
1651 — 1715
- 1663
August Hermann Francke
1663 — 1727
- 1686
William Law
1686 — 1761
- 1691
Christian David
1691 — 1751
- 1700
Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf
1700 — 1760
- 1703
Jonathan Edwards
1703 — 1758
- 1703
John Wesley
1703 — 1791
- 1712
Peter Böhler
1712 — 1775
- 1714
George Whitefield
1714 — 1770
- 1795
Anthony Norris Groves
1795 — 1853
- 1800
John Nelson Darby
1800 — 1882
- 1805
George Müller
1805 — 1898
- 1807
Benjamin Wills Newton
1807 — 1899
- 1813
Robert Govett
1813 — 1901
- 1820
C. H. Mackintosh
1820 — 1896
- 1821K
William Kelly
1821 — 1906
- 1828
Andrew Murray
1828 — 1917
- 1832
J. Hudson Taylor
1832 — 1905
- 1834
C. H. Spurgeon
1834 — 1892
- 1837
D. L. Moody
1837 — 1899
- 1837P
G. H. Pember
1837 — 1910
- 1843
A. B. Simpson
1843 — 1919
- 1861
Jessie Penn-Lewis
1861 — 1927
- 1866
M. E. Barber
1866 — 1930
- 1870P
D. M. Panton
1870 — 1955
- 1874L
G. H. Lang
1874 — 1958
- 1888A
T. Austin-Sparks
1888 — 1971
- 1897T
A. W. Tozer
1897 — 1963
- 1903
Watchman Nee
1903 — 1972
- 1905
Witness Lee
1905 — 1997