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• Christian PerfectionDoctrine & Theology

  Christian perfection is the teaching that believers can attain, in this life, a state of wholly loving God and neighbor. Systematized by John Wesley, it is regarded as a distinctive feature of Methodist and Holiness theology.

• Prevenient GraceDoctrine & Theology

  Prevenient grace is a theological term for the grace that God extends first, before a person seeks Him or believes in Him. It is especially emphasized in Wesleyan theology.

• HolinessDoctrine & Theology

  Holiness means being holy and pure. In the Wesleyan tradition, it refers to "entire sanctification," in which the believer is cleansed by grace from the inclination to sin and filled with perfect love.

• 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.

• Holiness MovementHistory

  The Holiness movement was a religious movement that arose within nineteenth-century American Methodism. Reviving John Wesley's doctrine of "Christian perfection," it taught that believers can attain entire holiness by faith. It became a root of the Holiness churches, the Church of the Nazarene, and the Pentecostal movement.

• Methodist MovementHistory

  The Methodist movement was an eighteenth-century religious revival in England led by the brothers John and Charles Wesley, priests of the Church of England. Today's Methodist churches trace their origins to this movement.

• PredestinationDoctrine & Theology

  Predestination is the Christian doctrine that God determined the salvation of human beings from all eternity. It is emphasized by the Calvinist tradition, including Presbyterians, while the Wesleyan tradition, including Methodists and the Holiness Church, places greater emphasis on the human response.

• Predestination and Free WillControversies

  Predestination and free will is a debate over whether salvation depends on God's election or on the human response. Calvinism, followed by Presbyterians, and the Arminian-Wesleyan tradition, followed by Methodists, Holiness churches, and Full Gospel churches, explain the question differently.

• Double PredestinationDoctrine & Theology

  Double predestination is the doctrine that God decreed from eternity to elect some people to salvation and to leave others to perdition. It is taught chiefly in the Calvinist tradition and is not accepted by denominations in the Wesleyan tradition.

• 1 John 4:18Bible Verses

  1 John 4:18 is a verse teaching that when God's love is made perfect in the believer, the fear of judgment is removed. It is frequently cited in discussions of the assurance of salvation and in connection with the Wesleyan doctrine of "perfect love."

• Horace AllenPeople

  Horace Newton Allen (1858–1932) was an American medical missionary sent by the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian) who later became a diplomat. He is regarded as the first Protestant missionary to reside and work in Korea, and he proposed the founding of Gwanghyewon (later renamed Jejungwon), Korea's first Western-style hospital.

• Helen KimPeople

  Helen Kim (Kim Hwal-lan, 1899–1970) was a Methodist educator and leader in the women's movement. She was the first Korean principal of Ewha Women's College and later served as president of Ewha Womans University. She also helped found the Korean YWCA. Her activities during the final years of Japanese colonial rule have made her the subject of controversy over collaboration.