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• RedemptionDoctrine & Theology

  Redemption is the act of paying a price to release a slave or captive and set that person free. In Christianity, it refers to the teaching that Christ paid the price through his death on the cross and thereby set people free from sin and death.

• Civil DisobedienceDoctrine & Theology

  Civil disobedience is the act of openly and nonviolently breaking a law or state order that one judges in conscience to be unjust, while accepting the resulting punishment. In Christianity it is treated as a question of what to do when obedience to the state conflicts with obedience to God.

• Edict of MilanHistory

  The Edict of Milan was a policy of religious toleration agreed upon and promulgated in 313 by the Roman emperors Constantine I and Licinius. It recognized freedom of religion for all faiths, including Christianity, and ordered the return of Christian property confiscated during the persecutions.

• Branch (Messianic Title)Bible

  "Branch" translates the Hebrew word tsemach, which the Old Testament prophets used as a title for a righteous ruler who would arise from the line of David. Christianity has read it as a messianic prophecy of Jesus Christ.

• LactantiusPeople

  Lactantius (c. 250 – c. 325) was a Latin rhetorician and Christian writer from North Africa, best known as the author of the *Divine Institutes* and *On the Deaths of the Persecutors*.

• 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.

• 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.

• Humanity of ChristDoctrine & Theology

  The humanity of Christ is the doctrine that Jesus Christ is a true human being, possessing a body and a soul yet without sin; together with his divinity, it forms the core of Christology.

• Chung Kyung-okPeople

  Chung Kyung-ok (1903–1945) was a Korean Methodist minister and theologian during the Japanese colonial period. He taught systematic theology at the Methodist Theological Seminary and wrote An Introduction to Christian Theology (1939), which is regarded as the first scholarly introduction to systematic theology in Korea.

• Song Chang-geunPeople

  Song Chang-geun (宋昌根, 1898–?), known by the pen name Manu (晩雨), was a Korean Presbyterian minister and theologian. He led the founding of Chosun Theological Seminary (now Hanshin University) and was abducted to North Korea during the Korean War.

• Divorce and RemarriageControversies

  Divorce and remarriage is the question of whether Scripture permits divorce and remarriage, and if so, under what circumstances. It also bears on whether ministers should officiate at the remarriage of church members and whether divorced ministers may serve.

• Eating of the Forbidden FruitBible

  The eating of the forbidden fruit is the event recorded in Genesis 3 in which Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which God had forbidden, and were driven out of the Garden of Eden. Christianity understands it as the beginning of the fall of humanity.

• SanctificationDoctrine & Theology

  Sanctification is the Protestant doctrine that a Christian who has been justified is actually made holy in thought and conduct through the work of the Holy Spirit.

• GraceDoctrine & Theology

  Grace is the favor and gift that God freely bestows on those who do not deserve it. Protestantism holds that a person attains salvation not on the basis of his or her own merit but by the grace of God.

• Filial PietyChristian Life

  Filial piety is the honoring and serving of one's parents. Protestants understand it as a religious duty grounded in the fifth of the Ten Commandments: "Honour thy father and thy mother."

• ArianismHeresies & Cults

  Arianism is the teaching advanced by Arius of Alexandria in the fourth century. It regards Christ the Son not as God of the same essence as the Father but as the first and highest creature made by God. It was condemned at the Council of Nicaea in 325.

• GnosticismHeresies & Cults

  Gnosticism is a collective name for a number of religious movements that spread in close association with early Christianity from the late first century through the second century. It taught that salvation comes through awakening to a secret spiritual knowledge (gnosis), and it is regarded as one of the principal ancient heresies rejected by the early church.

• BedePeople

  Bede (672/673–735) was a monk, priest, and scholar of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria in England. He wrote the *Ecclesiastical History of the English People*, which records how the Anglo-Saxons came to accept Christianity, and for this work he is called the "Father of English History."

• ColumbaPeople

  Columba (c. 521–597) was an Irish monk and missionary. He founded a monastery on the island of Iona off the west coast of Scotland and, using it as his base, spread Christianity in Scotland and northern England.

• SalvationDoctrine & Theology

  In Christianity, salvation is the deliverance of human beings from sin and its consequences—death and separation from God—so that they are reconciled to God and receive eternal life.