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• Neo-OrthodoxyDoctrine & Theology

  Neo-orthodoxy is a Protestant theological movement that arose in early twentieth-century Europe, centered on Karl Barth. In opposition to liberal theology, it sought to restore God's revelation and Word to the center of theology.

• FundamentalismDoctrine & Theology

  Fundamentalism is a conservative theological movement that arose in early twentieth-century American Protestantism to defend biblical inerrancy and core doctrines against liberal theology; the term also denotes the theological position the movement represents.

• J. Gresham MachenPeople

  John Gresham Machen (1881–1937) was an American Presbyterian New Testament scholar. He criticized liberal theology in *Christianity and Liberalism* and founded Westminster Theological Seminary and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

• Friedrich SchleiermacherPeople

  Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) was a German Protestant theologian and philosopher. He defined the essence of religion as "the feeling of absolute dependence" and is known as the "father of modern theology" and the "father of liberal theology."

• 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.

• Albrecht RitschlPeople

  Albrecht Ritschl (1822–1889) was a German Lutheran theologian who taught at Bonn and Göttingen. He built a theological system centered on justification, reconciliation, and the kingdom of God, and he is regarded as a leading representative of late nineteenth-century liberal theology.

• Neo-evangelicalismHistory

  Neo-evangelicalism was a Protestant movement that arose in the United States in the 1940s. It sought to preserve the conservative theology of fundamentalism while moving beyond fundamentalism's separatism, which kept other churches at a distance, and its disregard for scholarship.

• Karl BarthPeople

  Karl Barth (1886–1968) was a Swiss Reformed pastor and theologian. Through his Epistle to the Romans, the Barmen Declaration, and the Church Dogmatics, he is widely regarded as having changed the course of twentieth-century Protestant theology.

• Fundamentalist–Modernist ControversyHistory

  A theological controversy of the 1920s and 1930s within mainline Protestant denominations in the United States, such as the Northern Presbyterian and Northern Baptist churches. It pitted fundamentalists, who sought to defend the authority of Scripture and the core doctrines of the faith, against modernists, who sought to reinterpret the faith in light of modern scholarship.

• Antiochene SchoolDoctrine & Theology

  The Antiochene School was an early church theological tradition centered in Antioch in Syria during the fourth and fifth centuries that emphasized the literal and historical meaning of Scripture and the true humanity of Christ.

• Proverbs 11:24–25Bible Verses

  A couplet in Proverbs teaching that those who give generously end up with more, while those who hold on too tightly fall into want. It is often quoted in sermons encouraging almsgiving and offerings, and interpreters differ over whether it promises material reward or offers a general observation drawn from wisdom.

• Young Earth CreationismDoctrine & Theology

  Young earth creationism is a view within creationism that reads the six days of creation in Genesis as literal 24-hour days and holds that the universe and the earth are roughly 6,000 to 10,000 years old.

• Allegorical InterpretationDoctrine & Theology

  Allegorical interpretation is a method of reading Scripture that assumes a hidden spiritual and symbolic meaning lies beyond the literal and historical sense of the text, and it matches the text's persons, objects, and events one by one to other realities.

• Creation and EvolutionControversies

  The debate over how to understand the creation account in Genesis together with the explanations of modern science. The principal positions are young-earth creationism, old-earth creationism, and theistic evolution (evolutionary creation).

• Scopes TrialHistory

  The Scopes Trial was a 1925 case in Dayton, Tennessee, in which high school teacher John T. Scopes was tried for violating a state law, the Butler Act, that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools. It is also known as the "Monkey Trial."

• Day-Age TheoryDoctrine & Theology

  The day-age theory is an interpretation of creation that reads each "day" (Hebrew yom) of Genesis 1 not as a twenty-four-hour period but as a long age of indeterminate length. It is one of the principal forms of old-earth creationism.

• Bible TranslationsBible

  A Bible translation renders the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts of Scripture into another language. Translations differ in how closely they follow the wording of the original or render its meaning in natural modern language. Korean churches use several Korean translations, including the New Korean Revised Version, the New Korean Standard Version, the Common Translation, and the Easy Bible.

• Revelation 7:4Bible Verses

  Revelation 7:4 states that the number of those sealed from all the tribes of Israel was "an hundred and forty and four thousand." Interpreters disagree over whether the number is a literal count or a symbol, and over whom it designates. Several heretical groups have also associated this number with their own organizations.

• Proverbs 13:24Bible Verses

  Proverbs 13:24 is a proverb teaching that one who spares the rod hates his son, while one who loves him disciplines him diligently: "He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes" (KJV). The verse has often been cited in support of loving physical discipline, for example as the basis of the Korean expression "the rod of love." As social attitudes toward corporal punishment have changed, however, its interpretation and application have become a matter of ongoing debate.