This list of Protestant authors presents a group of authors who have expressed membership in a Protestant denominational church or adherence to spiritual beliefs which are in alignment with Protestantism as a religion, culture, or identity. The list does not include authors who, while considered or thought to be Protestant in faith, have rarely expressed or declared their affiliation in a public forum. Anglicanism, which is a hybrid of Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, and Eastern Orthodoxy has not been included due to the diversified foundational beliefs of the church. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are also not included.
Criteria for inclusion on the list are those authors that have received worldwide recognition for their contributions in religious literature. Areas of specialty and denominations are added according to consensus, as needed. Current specialties include the following:
The list of authors is categorized according to denomination.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)
Daniel Sidney Warner – Church of God minister and founder of Gospel Trumpet Flyer
Church of Ireland
Jakob Abbadie – Swiss writer
John Adams – religious worker whose poems speak of "flaming piety"
Thomas Binney – Congregationalist theologian and poet
Samuel Dyer
Jonathan Edwards
William Ellis – missionary who wrote Madagascar Revisited
George MacDonald – Congregationalist pastor
John Milton – Paradise Lost
Marilynne Robinson – Gilead, 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner
John Updike – Rabbit, Run, raised Lutheran, later belonged to Congregationalist and Episcopalian congregations
Free Church of Scotland
Horatius Bonar – minister in the Free Church of Scotland and a poet
Alexander Campbell Cheyne – Scottish ecclesiastical historian
Henry Drummond – Free Church of Scotland writer
George Adam Smith – books concerning the Bible
Mikael Agricola – founding figure in Finnish literature
Marva Dawn – theological writing
Garrison Keillor – humorist
John Warwick Montgomery – Christian apologetics
Hallgrímur Pétursson – priest, poet, and hymnodist
William F. Albright – Methodist archaeologist who writes on Bible archaeology
Edward Eggleston – Methodist minister and author
Arno Clemens Gaebelein – Methodist minister and writer
Phoebe Knapp – Methodist hymnwriter
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet – Methodist minister and humorist
William Williams Pantycelyn – Methodist hymnwriter
George Whitefield
K.V. Simon – poet from India
Benny Hinn – preacher and author
Arthur Charles Gook – English to Icelandic translations of literature, poems, and hymns
Pearl S. Buck – parents were missionaries, but she later left the religion
Elisabeth Elliot
Johnny Hart – cartoonist, on the evangelical end of Presbyterianism
Emrys ap Iwan – Welsh Presbyterian minister who wrote for newspapers, etc.
Catherine Marshall – author of "Christy" and "A Man Called Peter"
Robert Louis Stevenson – wrote on religious matters at times
Thomas Vincent
Andrew Young – poet and botanical writer (later an Anglican priest)
James Janeway
Nicolaas Beets – novelist and poet
Corrie ten Boom – memoirist
Edward Tanjore Corwin – history writing
James Isaac Good – history writing
Andrew Murray – religious and inspirational writing
Ralph Connor – Canadian clergyman and bestselling novelist
Ethel Barrett – Christian author and children's author
Ted Dekker – bestselling novelist
Henry Grattan Guinness
Joshua Harris – Calvinist pastor and writer
Jerry B. Jenkins – co-author of the Left Behind books and Gil Thorp comics
Jakob Jocz – third generation Hebrew Christian
E.W. Kenyon
Hal Lindsey – end-times author
Josh McDowell – Christian writer
Ra'ouf Mus'ad – Protestant playwright of Coptic ancestry
J. Dwight Pentecost
Legh Richmond – The Dairyman's Daughter
Geraldine Taylor
Hudson Taylor
Kenneth N. Taylor – linked to Moody Bible Institute
Daniel Sidney Warner – Holiness author and Reformation minister
Ravi Zacharias – evangelical writer from India
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