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• PietismHistory

  Pietism was a movement of spiritual renewal that arose within the German Lutheran Church in the late seventeenth century. It emphasized personal piety and the practice of faith in daily life over doctrinal knowledge, as well as small-group Bible meetings in which laypeople took part.

• Soongsil SchoolHistory

  Soongsil School was a Christian school founded in Pyongyang in 1897 by William Baird, a missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian). In 1938 it closed voluntarily rather than submit to Shinto shrine worship. After Korea's liberation and division, it was reestablished in Seoul, and its legacy continues in Soongsil Middle and High Schools and Soongsil University.

• 2 Corinthians 8Bible

  2 Corinthians 8 is the chapter in which Paul holds up the generous giving of the churches of Macedonia as an example, urges the Corinthian church to complete the collection for the saints that it had begun a year earlier, and sends Titus and two brothers to Corinth.

• 1 Thessalonians 5Bible

  1 Thessalonians 5 is the final chapter of the First Epistle to the Thessalonians. It urges believers to meet the day of the Lord watchfully, gives counsel on church life, including "Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks," and closes with final greetings.

• Anna NitschmannPeople

  Anna Nitschmann (1715–1760) was an eighteenth-century woman leader of the Moravian Church. Chosen as an eldress of the Herrnhut community before the age of fifteen, she led its women members, and in 1757 she became Zinzendorf's second wife.

• Erdmuthe Dorothea von ReussPeople

  Erdmuthe Dorothea von Reuss (1700–1756) was a German countess and hymnwriter of the Pietist era. The first wife of Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, she managed the household affairs and finances of the Herrnhut community, thereby supporting the Moravian Church.

• Chŏn Tŏk-kiPeople

  Chŏn Tŏk-ki (1875–1914) was a Methodist minister who led Sangdong Church in Seoul during the Korean Empire period. He was also a nationalist activist who, through the Sangdong Youth Society and the Sangdong Youth Academy, took part in the movement against the Eulsa Treaty, the dispatch of secret envoys to The Hague, and the founding of the New People's Association (Sinminhoe).

• Horace AllenPeople

  Horace Newton Allen (1858–1932) was an American medical missionary sent by the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian) who later became a diplomat. He is regarded as the first Protestant missionary to reside and work in Korea, and he proposed the founding of Gwanghyewon (later renamed Jejungwon), Korea's first Western-style hospital.

• Duranno MinistryInstitutions

  Duranno Ministry (Duranno Seowon) is a South Korean Protestant publishing and literature mission organization founded by Pastor Ha Yong-jo in 1980. It publishes the quiet time devotional Living Life and magazines such as Light and Salt and Ministry and Theology, and it runs educational programs for church members and pastors.

• HegesippusPeople

  Hegesippus was a second-century Christian writer who compiled the Memoirs, a collection of early church traditions. The original work is lost and survives only in fragments quoted in Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History.

• Benedict of NursiaPeople

  Benedict of Nursia (c. 480 – c. 547) was an Italian monk. He founded the monastery of Monte Cassino and wrote the Rule of Saint Benedict, laying the foundation of monasticism in the Western church.

• Religious OrderOrganization & Polity

  A religious order is a community of men or women religious who live under a common rule, take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and pray together. Religious orders exist mainly in the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion.

• Aimee Semple McPhersonPeople

  Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944) was a Canadian-born Pentecostal evangelist and early radio preacher who ministered in the United States. She founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.

• Lillias Horton UnderwoodPeople

  Lillias Horton Underwood (1851–1921) was an American medical missionary sent by the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (the Northern Presbyterian Church). Arriving in Korea in 1888, she headed the women's department of Jejungwon and served as physician to Empress Myeongseong. The wife of Horace Underwood, she was also active in women's ministry and writing.

• Paichai HaktangHistory

  Paichai Haktang was a private secondary school founded in 1885 in Jeong-dong, Seoul, by Henry Appenzeller, a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. It is regarded as Korea's first modern private school, and its successors are today's Paichai Middle School and Paichai High School.

• News&JoyInstitutions

  News&Joy (Newsnjoy) is an internet newspaper covering Korean Protestantism, launched in August 2000. It presents itself as an "independent press" that monitors church power and is funded mainly by donations from individuals and churches.

• Mary ScrantonPeople

  Mary Scranton (1832–1909) was the first woman missionary sent to Korea by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church (the Northern Methodist Church in the United States). In 1886 she founded Ewha Haktang, Korea's first modern educational institution for women.

• HeresyHeresies & Cults

  In Christianity, heresy is teaching that departs from the fundamental doctrines grounded in Scripture and confessed by the historic church, or the individuals and groups that follow such teaching.

• Exodus 25:2Bible Verses

  Exodus 25:2 is the verse in which God, through Moses, asks Israel for offerings to build the tabernacle and directs that offerings be received only from those who give willingly from the heart. It is frequently cited as a basis for the principle that giving should be voluntary, especially in building-fund appeals and church dedication sermons.

• Galatians 6:1Bible Verses

  Paul's exhortation that believers who walk by the Spirit should gently restore a brother who has fallen into a fault, while watching themselves lest they also be tempted. The verse is frequently cited in discussions of the spirit in which church discipline and mutual admonition among believers should be carried out.