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• 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.

• 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*.

• William LintonPeople

  William Alderman Linton (1891–1960) was an American Southern Presbyterian educational missionary to Korea. Known in Korea as In Don (印敦), he devoted forty-eight years to school education in the Honam and Chungcheong regions and founded Daejeon Christian College, the predecessor of Hannam University.

• BaptismWorship & Rites

  Baptism is a rite in which water is used to signify that a person has come to faith in Jesus Christ and become a member of the church community. Most Protestants count it, together with the Lord's Supper, as one of two sacraments.

• Francis CollinsPeople

  Francis Collins (born 1950) is an American geneticist and physician. He led the Human Genome Project and the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). He promoted theistic evolution through his book *The Language of God* and through the BioLogos Foundation, which he founded.

• R. A. TorreyPeople

  R. A. Torrey (1856–1928) was an American Congregational minister, revivalist, educator, and author. He worked alongside Dwight L. Moody, served as the first superintendent of the Moody Bible Institute, and later became dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles.

• Hans KüngPeople

  Hans Küng (1928–2021) was a Swiss Catholic priest and theologian. After he criticized the doctrine of papal infallibility, the Holy See revoked his authorization to teach as a Catholic theologian in 1979. He was widely known for his work in ecumenism and interreligious dialogue and for the Global Ethic Project.

• Seven SacramentsDoctrine & Theology

  The Seven Sacraments are the seven rites that the Catholic Church professes to be signs of grace instituted by Christ: Baptism, Confirmation, the Eucharist, Penance, the Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony. Most Protestants recognize only two sacraments, Baptism and the Lord's Supper.

• Ralph WinterPeople

  Ralph D. Winter (1924–2009) was an American Presbyterian missionary and missiologist. At the 1974 Lausanne Congress he introduced the concept of "hidden peoples" (unreached people groups), and he founded the U.S. Center for World Mission.

• Ex Opere OperatoDoctrine & Theology

  *Ex opere operato* (Latin, "by the work performed") is the doctrine that a sacrament is efficacious when it is rightly performed as Christ instituted it, regardless of the faith or moral character of the minister.

• PurimBible

  Purim is a Jewish festival observed on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews in the Persian period from Haman's plot to annihilate them. It is instituted in Esther 9.

• Lord's SupperWorship & Rites

  The Lord's Supper is the rite instituted by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper. In it believers share the bread and the cup in remembrance of Christ's death, and it is one of the two sacraments observed by Protestants.

• Adult BaptismChristian Life

  Adult baptism is baptism received by a person who was not baptized in childhood and who personally professes faith. The term distinguishes it from infant baptism, which is administered to infants on the basis of their parents' faith.

• Infant BaptismWorship & Rites

  Infant baptism is baptism administered to young children who cannot yet profess faith for themselves, on the basis of their parents' profession of faith. Presbyterian, Methodist, Anglican, and Lutheran churches, among others, practice it. Denominations such as the Baptists, which regard a believer's own profession of faith as a condition of baptism, do not.

• Luther UniversityInstitutions

  Luther University is a private four-year university in South Korea founded by the Lutheran Church in Korea. Located in Giheung District, Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, it opened in 1966 as Luther Theological Institute. Alongside theological education, it specializes in caregiving ("human care") fields such as social welfare and counseling.

• Baptism by ImmersionWorship & Rites

  Baptism by immersion is a mode of baptism in which the person's whole body is submerged in water and then raised up again. In Korea, certain denominations, including Baptist churches and churches of the Full Gospel (Pentecostal) tradition, follow this practice.

• Maundy ThursdayFeasts & Seasons

  Maundy Thursday is the Thursday immediately before Easter. A Holy Week observance, it commemorates the Last Supper that Jesus shared with his disciples, at which he instituted the Lord's Supper and washed the disciples' feet.

• Ham Tae-youngPeople

  Ham Tae-young (咸台永, 1873–1964) was a Presbyterian minister who had earlier served as a judicial officer of the Korean Empire. He was one of the forty-eight national representatives of the March First Movement and served as the third Vice President of the Republic of Korea.

• Mary Leyburn JunkinPeople

  Mary Leyburn Junkin (1866–1952) was an American Southern Presbyterian missionary. With her husband, William Junkin (known in Korea as Jeon Wi-ryeom), she went to Korea in 1892 as a member of the "Seven Pioneers," the first missionary party the Southern Presbyterian Church sent to Korea, and served in Seoul, Gunsan, and Jeonju.