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• Early ChurchHistory

  The early church is the church of Christianity's first period, which arose around the apostles after the resurrection of Jesus. The term commonly designates the church from the apostolic age until the legalization of Christianity in 313 or the Council of Nicaea in 325.

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsHeresies & Cults

  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a religious organization founded by Joseph Smith in the United States in 1830 and commonly known as the Mormon Church. It accepts the Book of Mormon as scripture alongside the Bible. In South Korea, the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap), the Korean Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church in Korea (Hapshin), and other denominations have declared it heretical.

• Unification ChurchHeresies & Cults

  The Unification Church is a religious organization founded by Sun Myung Moon in 1954 under the name Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity. It is now called the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. Korean Protestant denominations, including the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap), have formally declared it a heresy and a pseudo-religion.

• Commissioner (Church Delegate)Organization & Polity

  A commissioner is a delegate sent by a lower church assembly, such as a session, presbytery, or district conference, to represent it at a higher assembly, such as a presbytery or general assembly. The term is used mainly in Presbyterian churches; other denominations use terms such as "delegate" or "representative."

• Sanctuary (Church Building)Worship & Rites

  A sanctuary is a building or space in which a congregation gathers for worship. Among a church's facilities, the largest space used for Sunday worship is often called the main sanctuary.

• Reformed ChurchDenominations

  The Reformed Church is a Protestant tradition descending from the sixteenth-century Reformation in Switzerland led by Zwingli and Calvin. In the broad sense, the term refers to all Calvinist churches, including Presbyterian churches. In the narrow sense, it refers to the churches that developed on the European continent under the name "Reformed Church."

• Moravian ChurchDenominations

  The Moravian Church, or Moravian Brethren, is a Protestant denomination that originated among the followers of Jan Hus, the fifteenth-century Bohemian reformer. It was renewed in 1722 at Herrnhut, Germany, and is known for pioneering Protestant foreign missions.

• History of Korean Church MissionsHistory

  The history of Korean church missions is the history of Korean Protestantism sending missionaries to other regions and abroad. Its starting points are generally identified as the 1907 sending of a missionary to Jeju Island by the Independent Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in Korea and the 1913 mission to Shandong, China.

• The Church and the Democratization MovementHistory

  The church and the democratization movement refers to the activities of South Korean Protestants who, on the basis of their faith, called for the restoration of human rights and democracy under the military governments of the 1970s and 1980s. Pastors and young people from denominations affiliated with the National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK) were at its center.

• Local ChurchHeresies & Cults

  The Local Church is a Christian movement begun in twentieth-century China by Watchman Nee and continued and spread by Witness Lee. Holding that there is only one church in each city, it does not use denominational names. Several Korean Presbyterian denominations have declared it heretical.

• Seven Churches of AsiaBible

  The seven churches of Asia are the seven churches in the Roman province of Asia to which Christ sent letters in Revelation 2–3. They are the churches of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.

• Armenian Apostolic ChurchDenominations

  The Armenian Apostolic Church is the traditional church of the Armenian people. It belongs to the Oriental Orthodox family of churches, which did not accept the Christological definition of the Council of Chalcedon. It traces its origins to the tradition that the apostles Thaddeus and Bartholomew founded it.

• Coptic Orthodox ChurchDenominations

  The Coptic Orthodox Church is a church of the Oriental Orthodox family centered in Egypt. It regards Mark the Evangelist as its founder and is known for not accepting the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

• Minjung ChurchOrganization & Polity

  A minjung church is a church that regards workers, the urban poor, and other socially marginalized people as the "minjung" (the people) and makes standing with them, in the places where they live, the center of its mission. Minjung churches took shape in South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s alongside minjung theology.

• Deposition (Church Discipline)Organization & Polity

  Deposition is a form of church discipline in which an officer such as a minister, elder, or deacon is stripped of the office itself. It is distinct from excommunication, which also removes church membership.

• Visible and Invisible ChurchDoctrine & Theology

  The visible and invisible church is a concept that views the church under two aspects. The invisible church is the whole body of true believers known only to God, while the visible church consists of the actual communities on earth that profess the faith and gather together.

• Confessing ChurchHistory

  The Confessing Church was a movement of German Protestant pastors and church members who, in the 1930s, resisted the Nazi state's attempt to take control of the church. In 1934 it set forth its standard of faith in the Barmen Theological Declaration.

• Suspension (Church Discipline)Organization & Polity

  Suspension is a form of church discipline in which an officer such as a pastor, elder, or deacon retains the office itself but is barred from performing its duties, either for a set period or indefinitely.

• Medieval ChurchHistory

  The medieval church refers to the Western European church, centered on the pope in Rome, from about the fifth century to about the fifteenth century. Papal power grew and then declined during this period, which formed the background to the sixteenth-century Reformation.

• Cell ChurchHistory

  The cell church is a model of ministry that understands the church as a network of small groups, or cells, that grow and multiply on their own. The term also refers to a movement that spread in South Korea from the late 1990s. This article also covers G12, one branch of the cell church movement.