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• LoveDoctrine & Theology

  In Christianity, love is understood as the nature of God and is regarded as the virtue at the heart of the greatest commandment Christians are called to keep. It encompasses both love for God and love for one's neighbor.

• PacifismDoctrine & Theology

  Pacifism is the position that rejects war and violence and pursues peace through nonviolence. Within Christianity, the Anabaptist and Quaker traditions are its most prominent representatives, and it stands in contrast to just war theory.

• ForgivenessDoctrine & Theology

  Forgiveness is the act of restoring a relationship without holding the wrongdoer to account or taking revenge. In Christianity, it refers both to God's pardoning of human sin and to people forgiving one another's wrongs.

• AstrologyDoctrine & Theology

  Astrology is a form of divination that interprets the positions and movements of the sun, moon, and stars to discern human destiny and foretell future events. Christianity has traditionally shunned it on the basis of the biblical prohibitions against divination.

• Apostolic AgeHistory

  The Apostolic Age is the period of first-century Christianity during which the apostles led the church after the ascension of Jesus Christ. It is usually dated from the early AD 30s to around AD 100, when John, traditionally regarded as the last surviving apostle, died.

• 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.

• JudaismHistory

  Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people. Rooted in the faith of ancient Israel, it worships the one God according to the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic tradition. Christianity arose on the foundation of Judaism's scriptures and religious tradition.

• Adolf von HarnackPeople

  Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930) was a German Protestant theologian and church historian. The author of the *History of Dogma* and *What Is Christianity?*, he is regarded as a leading representative of liberal theology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

• MissionChristian Life

  Mission is the work of proclaiming the gospel to people and regions that have not yet heard it and of establishing churches there. In Korean Protestant churches, the term chiefly refers to cross-cultural ministry carried out abroad, that is, overseas missions.

• ThanksgivingChristian Life

  Thanksgiving is the attitude and practice of faith by which believers gratefully acknowledge God's grace in creation, providence, and salvation, and express that gratitude through prayer, praise, offerings, and sharing with others.

• TertullianPeople

  Tertullian was a Christian writer and apologist active in Carthage, North Africa, in the second and third centuries. He refined theological terminology in Latin and is called the "Father of Latin Theology."

• Yang Jeon-baekPeople

  Yang Jeon-baek (梁甸伯, 1869–1933) was a Korean Presbyterian minister and one of the seven men who in 1907 became the first Koreans ordained to the Presbyterian ministry. He was tried in the 105-Man Incident and was one of the 33 national representatives of the March 1st Movement.

• Kim Jae-junPeople

  Kim Jae-jun (金在俊, 1901–1987) was a Korean Presbyterian minister and progressive theologian whose pen name was Changgong (長空). He played a central role in founding Chosun Theological Seminary (now Hanshin University) and in forming the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea, and he also took part in the democratization movement.

• Diocletianic PersecutionHistory

  The Diocletianic Persecution, also called the Great Persecution, was the last large-scale persecution of Christians by the Roman Empire, lasting from 303 to about 313.

• 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.

• History of the Russian Orthodox ChurchHistory

  The history of the Russian Orthodox Church is the history of a branch of Eastern Orthodoxy that began around 988, when Vladimir I of Kievan Rus' accepted the Orthodox faith of Byzantium, and that has continued to the present day centered on the Patriarchate of Moscow.

• 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.

• Religious PluralismControversies

  Religious pluralism refers to the debate over whether religions outside Christianity offer a way of salvation. Positions in this debate are commonly grouped into three: exclusivism, inclusivism, and pluralism.

• EvangelicalismDoctrine & Theology

  Evangelicalism is a broad movement within Protestantism that emphasizes conversion, the authority of Scripture, Christ's atoning death on the cross, and evangelism and service. The term does not designate a particular denomination; it refers to a current of faith that spans many denominations.

• Gregory the IlluminatorPeople

  Gregory the Illuminator converted the king of Armenia in the early fourth century, leading Armenia to adopt Christianity as its state religion. He is venerated as the first head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.