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• Great DisappointmentHistory

  The Great Disappointment was the collective disappointment experienced by members of the Millerite movement in the United States, who believed that Jesus Christ would return on October 22, 1844, when that day passed without the Second Coming.

• HomileticsDoctrine & Theology

  Homiletics is the discipline that studies the nature and purpose of preaching, the interpretation of biblical texts, and the methods of composing and delivering sermons. A branch of practical theology, it is a core subject in the training of pastors.

• DemythologizationDoctrine & Theology

  Demythologization is a theological method that seeks to separate the message of the New Testament from the mythological worldview of antiquity and to reinterpret it in terms of the existential questions facing modern people. It was proposed by the German theologian Rudolf Bultmann.

• 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.

• HistoricismDoctrine & Theology

  Historicism is an eschatological method of interpretation that reads the prophecies of Revelation and Daniel as foretelling events fulfilled in sequence throughout church history, from the apostolic age to the Second Coming.

• Methods of Bible ReadingChristian Life

  Methods of Bible reading are the various approaches that individuals and communities use when reading the Bible. They include reading straight through the Bible, close reading, meditation, reading aloud, copying Scripture by hand, and memorization.

• Methods of Bible StudyChristian Life

  Methods of Bible study are the various approaches and procedures used to read the biblical text, understand its meaning, and apply it to life. They include inductive study, quiet time, reading through the Bible, and topical study.

• Ignatius of LoyolaPeople

  Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) was a Spanish Catholic priest who founded the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) and wrote the *Spiritual Exercises*. His rules for the discernment of spirits and his methods of prayer are also used today in some forms of Protestant spiritual formation.

• MissiologyDoctrine & Theology

  Missiology is a branch of theology that studies the biblical foundations, history, and methods of mission, that is, the church's work of carrying the gospel to other regions and cultures.

• Historical JesusDoctrine & Theology

  The historical Jesus is the portrait of Jesus of Nazareth, a first-century figure, as reconstructed through the methods of historical scholarship, as distinct from confessions of faith. The scholarly effort to recover this portrait is known as the "quest for the historical Jesus."

• Christian PhilosophyDoctrine & Theology

  Christian philosophy is the discipline that addresses philosophical questions such as being, knowledge, and ethics from the perspective of the Christian faith, or that examines the content of the faith using the methods of philosophy.

• Biblical HermeneuticsDoctrine & Theology

  Biblical hermeneutics is the field of theology concerned with the principles and methods by which the meaning of the biblical text is determined and applied to faith and life today.

• Theology of MissionDoctrine & Theology

  The theology of mission is the field that studies, on the basis of Scripture and theology, the grounds, purpose, and scope of mission, that is, the church's work of proclaiming the gospel and carrying out God's will in the world.

• 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.

• Higher CriticismDoctrine & Theology

  Higher criticism is an approach to biblical study that uses historical and literary methods to investigate the authorship, date of composition, sources, and editorial process of each book of the Bible. It is distinguished from textual criticism, which compares manuscripts to reconstruct the original text.

• John NeviusPeople

  John Livingston Nevius (1829–1893) was an American missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian) who served in China for about forty years. The mission methods he presented during an 1890 visit to Korea became established as the "Nevius Mission Policy" and laid the foundation of the early Presbyterian Church in Korea.

• 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.

• Severance HospitalHistory

  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.

• Inductive Bible StudyDoctrine & Theology

  Inductive Bible study is a method of Bible study that begins with careful observation of the biblical text, draws its meaning from the text itself, and then applies that meaning to life. It is also called the inductive method of Bible study.