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Cleansing of the Temple
[Bible]The cleansing of the Temple is the event in which Jesus drove the merchants and money changers out of the Temple in Jerusalem. It is recorded in all four Gospels and is read as a passage that raises questions about the true meaning of the Temple and of worship.
Revelation 18
[Bible]Revelation 18 opens with an angel's proclamation that the great city Babylon has fallen. Through the laments of the kings of the earth, the merchants, and the seafarers, and through the symbolic act of casting a millstone into the sea, the chapter depicts Babylon's complete destruction.
Abolitionist Movement
[History]The abolitionist movement was a social movement of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that sought to end the slave trade and slavery by law. In Britain, Quakers, evangelical Anglicans, and Methodists were at the center of the movement.
Revelation 18:20–21
[Bible Verses]This passage calls on heaven and the saints to rejoice over the fall of Babylon the great and records a mighty angel casting a stone like a millstone into the sea, declaring that the city shall be found no more. Discussion centers mainly on what Babylon signifies and how to understand the call to rejoice over its destruction.
Midian
[Bible]Midian was a people traditionally said to descend from Midian, the son of Abraham and Keturah. In the Bible they appear both as the family of Moses' wife and, during the period of the judges, as an enemy that oppressed Israel.
Jacobus Arminius
[People]Jacobus Arminius (1560–1609) was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church and a professor of theology at Leiden University. His dissent from the Calvinist doctrine of predestination made him the namesake of "Arminianism."
Puritan Revolution
[History]The Puritan Revolution refers to the civil wars fought in England from 1642 to 1651 between the Royalists of Charles I and the Parliamentarians, whose core was made up of Puritans, together with the political upheaval that followed. The king was executed, a republic was established, and the Westminster Confession of Faith was produced during this period.
Karl Gützlaff
[People]Karl Gützlaff (1803–1851) was a Prussian Protestant missionary. In 1832 he sailed aboard a British merchant ship that anchored near Godae Island in Chungcheong Province, and he is regarded as the first Protestant missionary to set foot on Korean soil.
Robert Jermain Thomas
[People]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.
Waldensians
[History]The Waldensians (also called Waldenses or Vaudois) are a movement of voluntary poverty and preaching that began in the late twelfth century with Valdes (Peter Waldo), a merchant of Lyon, France. Condemned as heretical by the pope in 1184, they joined the Reformation in 1532 and continue today as a Reformed church centered in Italy.
John Newton
[People]John Newton (1725–1807) was an English Anglican clergyman and hymn writer. A former captain of slave-trading ships, he underwent a conversion, wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace," and later took part in the movement to abolish the slave trade.
Franciscans
[History]The Franciscans are a Catholic mendicant order (an order whose members live without property, preaching and begging for their food), founded in 1209 by Francis of Assisi. Its official name is the Order of Friars Minor, and it emphasizes radical poverty and brotherhood.
John Knox
[People]John Knox (c. 1514–1572) was a Scottish reformer. Drawing on the theology of John Calvin, he led the Scottish Reformation and is regarded as having laid the foundations of the Presbyterian Church.
Søren Kierkegaard
[People]Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) was a Danish philosopher and Christian thinker. He regarded faith as a decision the individual makes before God, and he criticized the formalized state church. He is often called a forerunner of existentialism.
Francis of Assisi
[People]Francis of Assisi (1181/1182–1226) was a medieval Italian friar who founded the Order of Friars Minor (the Franciscans), a community devoted to a life of poverty. He is a saint of the Catholic Church and is known for originating the tradition of the Christmas crèche.
William Wilberforce
[People]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.
C. T. Studd
[People]C. T. Studd (1860–1931) was a British missionary and former England international cricketer. As one of the Cambridge Seven, he went to China, later served in India, and then worked in Africa, where he founded the forerunner of WEC International.
Paek Hong-jun
[People]Paek Hong-jun (白鴻俊, 1848–1893) was an early Korean Protestant from Uiju, North Pyongan Province. Baptized in Manchuria by Scottish Presbyterian missionaries, he was among the first Koreans to receive Protestant baptism, and he spread the gospel throughout the Uiju region as a colporteur and evangelist.
Shekel
[Bible]The shekel was a unit of weight used in ancient Israel and also a unit of value reckoned by that weight of silver. It later became the name of a silver coin. It appears frequently in the Bible, for example in the half-shekel temple tax and the thirty pieces of silver.
Pearl
[Bible]A pearl is a round gem formed inside a mollusk. In the Bible it denotes something of great value, and it is best known from the New Testament parable of the pearl of great price and from the pearly gates of the New Jerusalem.