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• Kim Kyo-shinPeople

  Kim Kyo-shin (金敎臣, 1901–1945) was a Korean Christian thinker and educator during the Japanese colonial period. An adherent of the Non-Church (Mukyokai) movement, he published the Bible-study magazine Seongseo Joseon (The Bible and Korea) and taught many students, including Sohn Kee-chung, at Yangjeong Higher Common School.

• History of The Salvation Army in KoreaHistory

  The history of The Salvation Army in Korea begins in 1908, when the British officer Robert Hoggard arrived in Seoul. Alongside evangelism, The Salvation Army in Korea has carried out poor relief and the Red Kettle fundraising campaign.

• History of the Catholic Church in KoreaHistory

  The history of the Catholic Church in Korea traces the Korean Catholic Church from 1784, when Yi Seung-hun returned from Beijing after being baptized and founded a community of believers, through the era of persecution and the establishment of the Apostolic Vicariate of Korea.

• History of the Baptists in KoreaHistory

  The history of the Baptists in Korea traces the Korean Baptist church from its beginnings in 1889 with the work of Malcolm Fenwick, an independent Canadian missionary, through the Korea Christian Church and the East Asia Christian Church to today's Korea Baptist Convention.

• History of the Anglican Church in KoreaHistory

  The history of the Anglican Church in Korea began in 1890, when Bishop Charles John Corfe of the Church of England arrived at Chemulpo. The church began as a diocese under the Church of England, received its first Korean bishop in 1965, and became an independent province, the Anglican Church of Korea, in 1993.

• Missionary Sending by the Korean ChurchHistory

  Missionary sending by the Korean church refers to the history of Korean Protestant churches and mission organizations sending missionaries to other regions and countries. Its beginning is commonly dated to the 1907 mission to Jeju Island. As of the end of 2024, there were 21,621 Korean long-term missionaries serving in 171 countries.

• History of Protestantism in KoreaHistory

  The history of Protestantism in Korea extends from the arrival of American missionaries in 1884–1885 to the present day. It encompasses the arrival of missionaries, revival movements and church organization, persecution and the Shinto shrine worship controversy under Japanese rule, and denominational divisions and growth after liberation.

• History of Methodism in KoreaHistory

  The history of Methodism in Korea began in 1884, when the American Methodist missionary Robert Maclay received permission from King Gojong to begin mission work. The church then went through the union of its northern and southern Methodist branches, trials under Japanese colonial rule, and division and reunification after liberation before becoming today's Korean Methodist Church.

• Korean Bible TranslationHistory

  Korean Bible translation is the history of rendering the Bible into Korean, a work that began in Manchuria and Japan in the late nineteenth century. The first complete translation of both the Old and New Testaments, the Syeonggyeong Jeonseo, appeared in 1911. This translation was carried forward in the Revised Version, the Korean Revised Version, and the New Korean Revised Version.

• The Korean Church and ConfucianismHistory

  The Korean church and Confucianism refers to the history of how Christianity, after entering the Neo-Confucian society of Joseon, clashed with and adapted to Confucian ancestral rites and the ethic of filial piety. Central to this history are the Catholic prohibition of ancestral rites and the persecutions that followed, as well as the Protestant prohibition of ancestral rites and the emergence of the memorial service.

• Jun Taek-buPeople

  Jun Taek-bu (1915–2008) was a Korean YMCA leader and a writer on Christian history. He served as general secretary and later as honorary general secretary of the Seoul YMCA. His works include *A History of the Korean YMCA Movement* and *A History of the Development of the Korean Church*, and he was also active in the movement to promote Hangul, the Korean alphabet.

• Wisdom of SolomonBible

  The Wisdom of Solomon is a Greek work, written in the voice of Solomon, that addresses wisdom, the immortality of the righteous, and the history of the Exodus. The Catholic and Orthodox churches include it in the Old Testament canon as a deuterocanonical book, while Protestants classify it among the Apocrypha.

• 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.

• History of the Pentecostal Movement in KoreaHistory

  The history of the Pentecostal movement in Korea traces how Pentecostal faith, with its emphasis on speaking in tongues and divine healing, took root in Korea after the missionary Mary Rumsey arrived in 1928, and how denominations centered on the Korea Assemblies of God were founded, grew, and divided.

• 2 SamuelBible

  Second Samuel is a historical book of the Old Testament that records the period after Saul's death, when David became king over Judah and then over all Israel. It has twenty-four chapters.

• Paik Nak-chunPeople

  Paik Nak-chun (白樂濬, 1895–1985), also known as George Paik, was a Korean church historian, educator, and politician. His English-language doctoral dissertation on the history of Protestant missions in Korea was later published in Korean as *Hanguk Gaesingyosa* (History of Korean Protestantism). He served as president of Yonhi University, as South Korea's second Minister of Education, and as Speaker of the House of Councillors.

• John Paul IIPeople

  John Paul II (1920–2005), a native of Poland, was the 264th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, reigning from 1978 to 2005. He was the first pope to visit Korea, where in 1984 he canonized 103 Korean martyrs.

• 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.

• Liberal TheologyDoctrine & Theology

  Liberal theology is a movement in Protestant theology, emerging in the nineteenth century, that treats modern reason, scholarship, and individual religious experience as important criteria for understanding the faith. Among Korean Protestant churches, the term is used chiefly as a critical label by conservatives.