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• Institutional PastorChurch Offices

  An institutional pastor is a minister who does not serve a local church but instead works in a Christian institution such as a denominational headquarters, school, hospital, media organization, or mission agency. The title is used chiefly in the constitutions of Presbyterian denominations.

• Kim Yang-seonPeople

  Kim Yang-seon (金良善, 1907–1970) was a Korean Presbyterian minister, church historian, and archaeologist. He was a professor at Soongsil University and the founder of the Korean Christian Museum at Soongsil University.

• Moon Jae-rinPeople

  Moon Jae-rin (文在麟, 1896–1985) was a Korean Presbyterian minister. Raised in Myeongdong Village in North Jiandao, he served as senior pastor of Yongjeong Central Church. After moving to South Korea in 1946, he devoted himself to the lay movement. He was the father of the ministers Moon Ik-hwan and Moon Dong-hwan.

• Seo Gyeong-joPeople

  Seo Gyeong-jo (徐景祚, 1852–1938) was an early Korean Protestant convert and Presbyterian minister from Uiju, Pyongan Province. With his older brother Seo Sang-ryun, he founded Sorae Church in Hwanghae Province, and in 1907 he became one of the first seven Koreans ordained to the ministry.

• Nevius Mission PolicyHistory

  The Nevius Mission Policy was a mission policy adopted by the Presbyterian missions in Korea in the early 1890s, based on methods proposed by John Nevius, a missionary to China. At its core are the three-self principles, under which the local church propagates itself (self-propagation), governs itself (self-government), and supports itself financially (self-support), together with systematic Bible study.

• Park Hyung-ryongPeople

  Park Hyung-ryong (1897–1978) was a Korean Presbyterian theologian whose pen name was Juksan. Beginning as a professor at the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Pyongyang, he taught theology for nearly half a century and is regarded as the figure who laid the foundations of conservative Presbyterian theology in Korea.

• District ConferenceOrganization & Polity

  A district conference is an intermediate-level body formed by the churches of a given region in Methodist, Holiness, Baptist, and other denominations, or the meeting that such a body holds. It occupies roughly the same position as the presbytery in Presbyterian churches.

• Ju Nam-seonPeople

  Ju Nam-seon (朱南善, 1888–1951) was a Presbyterian minister who served in Geochang, South Gyeongsang Province, Korea. He took part in the March First Movement and was imprisoned for refusing to participate in Shinto shrine worship. After Korea's liberation from Japanese rule, he helped found Korea Theological Seminary (Koryo Seminary) and served as the first chairman of its board of trustees.

• Louis BerkhofPeople

  Louis Berkhof (1873–1957) was a Dutch-born American Reformed theologian. He served as professor and president of Calvin Theological Seminary, and his major work, *Systematic Theology*, has also been widely read in Presbyterian theological education in Korea.

• John CalvinPeople

  John Calvin (1509–1564) was a French-born Reformer and theologian who ministered in Geneva, Switzerland. His Institutes of the Christian Religion laid the foundation for Reformed and Presbyterian theology.

• PredestinationDoctrine & Theology

  Predestination is the Christian doctrine that God determined the salvation of human beings from all eternity. It is emphasized by the Calvinist tradition, including Presbyterians, while the Wesleyan tradition, including Methodists and the Holiness Church, places greater emphasis on the human response.

• 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."

• Minister Without ChargeChurch Offices

  A minister without charge is a title used in Presbyterian constitutions for an ordained minister who retains ministerial standing but has no church or institution in which he or she is assigned to serve.

• Retirement Age for PastorsControversies

  The retirement age for pastors is the age at which a minister steps down from public duties such as serving as senior pastor. In Korea, most major Protestant denominations have set it at 70, and debate continues over proposals to raise or abolish this age.

• Presbytery District (Sichal)Organization & Polity

  In Korean Presbyterian polity, a presbytery district (sichal) is a subordinate unit formed when a presbytery divides its territory into several districts, so that its member churches can be visited and the presbytery can be assisted in its administration. The meeting of the ministers and elders of such a district is called a district council (sichalhoe).

• Charles HodgePeople

  Charles Hodge (1797–1878) was an American Presbyterian theologian. He taught at Princeton Theological Seminary for more than half a century and wrote a three-volume Systematic Theology, becoming the leading representative of "Princeton Theology."

• Francis SchaefferPeople

  Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984) was an American Presbyterian minister and Christian apologist (one who explains and defends the rationality of the Christian faith). In 1955 he and his wife, Edith, founded the L'Abri community in Switzerland.

• Arthur PiersonPeople

  Arthur Pierson (1837–1911) was an American Presbyterian minister, Bible teacher, and missions advocate. During a 1910 visit to Korea, he promised to establish a Bible school. After his death, the Pierson Memorial Bible School, the forerunner of Pyeongtaek University, was founded in fulfillment of that promise.

• Yi Ja-ikPeople

  Yi Ja-ik was a Korean Presbyterian minister active during the Japanese colonial period and the years immediately following liberation. Once a hired farmhand in the household of a wealthy family in Gimje, he became a minister, served three terms as moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, and was the first principal of Daejeon Theological Seminary.

• Roberta WinterPeople

  Roberta Winter (1930–2001) was an American Presbyterian missionary. With her husband, Ralph Winter, she served as a missionary in Guatemala, and in 1976 she co-founded the U.S. Center for World Mission to advance mission among unreached people groups.