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• Great Pyongyang RevivalHistory

  The Great Pyongyang Revival was a movement of repentance and spiritual awakening that began in January 1907 at the winter Bible study conference for men of South Pyongan Province, held at Jangdaehyeon Church in Pyongyang, and spread throughout Korea. It is regarded as the defining revival movement of Korean Protestantism.

• Robert Jermain ThomasPeople

  Robert Jermain Thomas was a Welsh missionary of the London Missionary Society. In 1866 he sailed up the Taedong River as an interpreter aboard the American merchant ship General Sherman and was killed at Pyongyang. Korean Protestants commonly regard him as their first martyr.

• Robert EstiennePeople

  Robert Estienne (c. 1503–1559) was a French printer and classical scholar. In 1551 he became the first to number the verses of the Greek New Testament, and he is known for laying the foundation of the chapter-and-verse system used in the Bible today.

• Robert MorrisonPeople

  Robert Morrison (1782–1834) was the first Protestant missionary to China, sent by the London Missionary Society in 1807. He devoted himself to translating the Bible into Classical Chinese and to compiling a Chinese–English dictionary.

• Robert Murray M'CheynePeople

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813–1843) was a minister of the Church of Scotland. He served St. Peter's Church in Dundee and is widely known as the author of the "M'Cheyne Bible Reading Plan," a scheme for reading through the entire Bible in one year.

• Robert HardiePeople

  Robert Alexander Hardie (1865–1949) was a Canadian medical missionary and Methodist minister. Known in Korea as Ha Ri-yeong (河鯉泳), he is remembered for leading the 1903 Wonsan Revival.

• Oral RobertsPeople

  Oral Roberts (1918–2009) was an American Pentecostal and charismatic healing evangelist. He became widely known through his tent meetings and television broadcasts, and he founded Oral Roberts University. In Korean Protestantism he is regarded as a major influence on David Yonggi Cho.

• Bob PiercePeople

  Bob Pierce (1914–1978) was an American Baptist minister and evangelist. During the Korean War he founded World Vision (known in Korea as Sunmyunghoe) together with Korean church leaders such as Han Kyung-chik, and in 1970 he founded Samaritan's Purse.

• John StottPeople

  John R. W. Stott (1921–2011) was an English Anglican priest, preacher, and author. A leading figure in the worldwide evangelical movement of the twentieth century, he led the drafting of the Lausanne Covenant in 1974.

• 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 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.

• Wonsan RevivalHistory

  The Wonsan Revival was a spiritual awakening that began in August 1903 at a united missionary prayer meeting in Wonsan, Korea, when the Southern Methodist missionary Robert Hardie publicly repented. It is widely regarded as the starting point of the 1907 Pyongyang Great Revival.

• Welsh RevivalHistory

  The Welsh Revival was a Protestant revival movement that swept across Wales, in the United Kingdom, from 1904 to 1905. Its best-known figure was Evan Roberts, a former coal miner and lay preacher, and some 100,000 conversions were reported at the time.

• 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.

• William WilberforcePeople

  British politician (1759–1833). Drawing on his evangelical faith, he led the parliamentary campaign to abolish the slave trade for nearly twenty years and played a major role in the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807.

• Keswick ConventionHistory

  The Keswick Convention is an annual interdenominational Bible convention that began in 1875 in Keswick, a small town in northwest England. It became the center of the Keswick movement, which spread the "Higher Life" teaching on holiness.

• Sunday School MovementHistory

  The Sunday school movement was a church education movement that spread Sunday schools, which teach the Bible to children and adults on the Lord's Day. In Korea, the movement centered on the Korea Sunday School Association, organized in 1922.

• Susannah SpurgeonPeople

  Susannah Spurgeon (1832–1903) was a Christian author and the wife of the English Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. In 1875 she founded the Book Fund, which sent theological books to ministers of limited means.

• Jehovah's WitnessesHeresies & Cults

  Jehovah's Witnesses are a religious organization that grew out of a Bible study group begun in the United States in the late nineteenth century by Charles Taze Russell. The group rejects the Trinity, and several Korean Protestant denominations have formally declared it heretical.