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• Radical Reformation

  [History]

  The Radical Reformation is a collective term for the various movements of the sixteenth-century Reformation that called for a more thoroughgoing reform than the mainstream reforms of Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin. It includes the Anabaptists, the Spiritualists, and the anti-Trinitarian Rationalists.

• Missional Church

  [History]

  The missional church is an ecclesiology, and a movement grounded in it, that regards the church as a community sent into the world. It understands mission not as one of the church's many activities but as its very essence. The term gained wide currency through a book published in North America in 1998.

• Silk Letter of Hwang Sa-yeong

  [History]

  The Silk Letter of Hwang Sa-yeong is a secret letter that the Catholic believer Hwang Sa-yeong wrote on white silk during the Sinyu Persecution of 1801. It describes the course of the persecution and proposes remedies. It was intended for Bishop Gouvea in Beijing but was discovered before delivery, and its discovery intensified the suppression of Catholicism in Joseon Korea.

• 2 Chronicles 16

  [Bible]

  2 Chronicles 16 covers the final years of Asa, king of Judah. Under pressure from Baasha, king of Israel, Asa made an alliance with Ben-hadad, king of Aram, and imprisoned Hanani the seer, who rebuked him for it. The chapter closes with Asa's illness, death, and burial.

• Pastoral Theology

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Pastoral theology is a branch of practical theology that studies, from a theological standpoint, the principles and practice of pastoral ministry, in which pastors teach, care for, and lead their congregations.

• Psalm 27

  [Bible]

  Psalm 27 is a fourteen-verse psalm bearing the superscription "A Psalm of David." A song of trust that confesses the LORD as light and salvation (vv. 1–6) gives way to a plea not to be forsaken (vv. 7–12), and the psalm closes with an exhortation to wait on the LORD.

• Theology of Mission

  [Doctrine & 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.

• Psalm 76

  [Bible]

  Psalm 76 is a psalm of Asaph, a twelve-verse song praising God, who dwells in Zion, for breaking the armies of the enemy and arising to save the meek of the earth.

• Psalm 80

  [Bible]

  Psalm 80 is a psalm of Asaph and a communal lament. Comparing Israel to a vine brought out of Egypt and planted, it implores God, the "Shepherd of Israel," to restore His devastated people.

• Psalm 142

  [Bible]

  Psalm 142 is an individual lament that its superscription introduces as a prayer of David "when he was in the cave." Isolated, with no one to care for him, the psalmist confesses that the LORD alone is his refuge and his portion, and he pleads for deliverance.

• Proverbs 4

  [Bible]

  In Proverbs 4, a father passes on to his sons the instruction he himself received and urges them to get wisdom. He contrasts the path of the righteous with the way of the wicked and teaches them to guard the heart, mouth, eyes, and feet.

• World (Biblical Concept)

  [Bible]

  In the Bible, the "world" refers to the universe and humanity that God created, and also to the order of human society that has turned away from God and stands in opposition to him.

• Isaiah 40

  [Bible]

  Isaiah 40, set against the background of the Babylonian exile, opens the second half of the Book of Isaiah. Beginning with the proclamation "Comfort ye my people," it celebrates the greatness of God, who created all things, and the renewed strength given to those who wait upon Him.

• Isaiah 47

  [Bible]

  Isaiah 47 is a prophetic poem announcing the fall of Babylon, portraying the city as a woman brought down from her throne to sit in the dust. It declares that Babylon, proud, cruel, and reliant on divination, will have no one to save her.

• Ezekiel 9

  [Bible]

  Ezekiel 9 describes a scene of judgment on Jerusalem that Ezekiel saw in a vision. A mark is set on the foreheads of those who sigh and cry over the city's abominations, the rest are ordered to be struck down, and the judgment begins at the sanctuary.

• Amos 9

  [Bible]

  Amos 9 is the final chapter of the Book of Amos. After a vision of the Lord standing beside the altar that proclaims inescapable judgment, the book closes with a promise of restoration: God will raise up the fallen tabernacle of David and bring back His captive people.

• Mark 5

  [Bible]

  Mark 5 is the chapter in which Jesus heals a demon-possessed man called "Legion" in the country of the Gerasenes and, after returning across the sea, heals a woman who had suffered from an issue of blood for twelve years and raises the daughter of Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue.

• 2 Corinthians 7

  [Bible]

  2 Corinthians 7 is the chapter in which Paul urges a holy life and recounts how he was comforted when he met Titus in Macedonia and heard of the Corinthian believers' repentance. It contrasts godly sorrow with the sorrow of the world.

• James 2

  [Bible]

  James 2 urges believers not to show partiality based on outward appearance and declares that faith without works is dead, citing Abraham and Rahab as examples.

• Buzi

  [People]

  Buzi was the father of the prophet Ezekiel, an Old Testament figure named only once, in Ezekiel 1:3. He is understood to have belonged to a priestly family.