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Louis Severance
[People]Louis Henry Severance (1838–1913) was an American businessman and Presbyterian layman. He served as treasurer of Standard Oil and is known as the benefactor who funded the construction of Severance Hospital in Seoul.
Louis Berkhof
[People]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 been widely read in Presbyterian theological education in Korea.
Thomas Merton
[People]Thomas Merton (1915–1968) was an American Catholic Trappist monk and priest. He was also a poet and spiritual writer and is widely known for his spiritual autobiography *The Seven Storey Mountain*, published in 1948.
Blaise Pascal
[People]Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) was a French mathematician, scientist, and Catholic religious writer. He sided with the Jansenists and criticized the Jesuits, and his Christian apologetic work, the Pensées, was published after his death.
Edict of Nantes
[History]The Edict of Nantes was a decree issued in 1598 by King Henry IV of France. While maintaining Catholicism as the state religion, it granted limited religious freedom and civil rights to the Huguenots, the Calvinist Protestants of France, and brought the French Wars of Religion to an end. Louis XIV revoked it in 1685 through the Edict of Fontainebleau.
Severance Hospital
[History]Severance Hospital traces its origins to Jejungwon, a hospital established in 1885 by the Joseon government and staffed by medical missionaries of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian). In 1904 a new hospital, named after its donor, Louis Severance, opened outside Namdaemun (the South Gate) in Seoul.
T. S. Eliot
[People]Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965) was an American-born British poet and critic. After publishing The Waste Land, he was baptized into the Church of England in 1927, and he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
Lois and Eunice
[People]Lois and Eunice were the grandmother and mother of Timothy, a coworker of the apostle Paul. These New Testament women are mentioned in 2 Timothy 1:5 as the ones who passed their faith on to Timothy.
Lois
[People]Lois is a woman mentioned in the New Testament book of 2 Timothy, the maternal grandmother of Timothy and the mother of Eunice. Paul wrote that the "unfeigned faith" that was in her had been passed on to her daughter and grandson.