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25-January-2000 
00030 
 
    Graham Tops Magazine's List 
    of Century's `Most Influential' Christians 
 
    by Religion News Service 
 
WASHINGTON- Evangelist Billy Graham tops a list of the 10 most influential 
Christians of the 20th century, according to a series of essays published 
in the most recent issue of "Christian History" magazine. 
 
    "I find this most-influential list most inspiring, said Mark Galli, the 
magazine's editor. "Such an exercise is a way to look back on the century 
and, as the psalmist said, `remember the wonderful works (God) has done, 
his miracles, and the judgments he has uttered.'" 
 
    Scholar C.S. Lewis, African American Pentecostal minister William 
Seymour and Mother Teresa rank second, third and fourth on the list, 
respectively. 
 
    Christian thinker Karl Barth ranks fifth, followed by Pope John XXIII, 
Soviet novelist Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, and civil rights leader Rev. Martin 
Luther King Jr. 
 
    Rounding out the list are evangelist John R. Mott and Pope John Paul 
II. 

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