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• River of the Water of Life

  [Bible]

  The river of the water of life is the clear river in Revelation 22 that flows from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the New Jerusalem. Drawing on the rivers of Eden and of Ezekiel's temple vision, it serves as an image of the life that God gives.

• Sect of the Nazarenes

  [Bible]

  The "sect of the Nazarenes" is the expression the advocate Tertullus used in Acts 24 for the followers of Jesus when he brought charges against Paul. The Greek word behind it is closer in meaning to "sect" or "faction" than to "heresy" in the modern doctrinal sense.

• Books of the Maccabees

  [Bible]

  The Books of the Maccabees are writings that record the Jewish resistance to persecution under the Seleucid dynasty in the second century BC and the martyrdoms that accompanied it. The Catholic and Orthodox Churches accept them as canonical (deuterocanonical), while Protestants classify them as Apocrypha.

• Parable of the Fig Tree

  [Bible]

  The Parable of the Fig Tree is a parable Jesus told on the Mount of Olives while teaching about the end times. Just as people know that summer is near when the fig tree puts forth leaves, so those who see the signs are to know that the end is near.

• Healing of the Deaf Man with a Speech Impediment

  [Bible]

  The healing of the deaf man with a speech impediment is a miracle in which Jesus, in the region of the Decapolis, healed a man who could not hear and could not speak properly by saying "Ephphatha." It appears only in Mark 7:31-37.

• The Bondage of the Will

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The Bondage of the Will is a book Martin Luther wrote in 1525 to refute Erasmus's On Free Will, and the name also refers to the position it argues. It holds that the will of fallen humanity is bound by sin and cannot choose salvation of itself, and that salvation depends entirely on the grace of God.

• Number of the Beast

  [Bible]

  The number 666, which appears in Revelation 13:18. It is mentioned in connection with the mark that the beast rising out of the earth causes people to receive, and interpretations of what it signifies vary widely.

• The Great Century of Missions

  [History]

  The Great Century of Missions is a name coined by the American church historian Kenneth Scott Latourette. It refers to the nineteenth century, specifically the period from 1800 to 1914, during which Protestant foreign missions expanded dramatically.

• History of the Russian Orthodox Church

  [History]

  The history of the Russian Orthodox Church is the history of a branch of Eastern Orthodoxy that began around 988, when Vladimir I of Kievan Rus' accepted the Orthodox faith of Byzantium, and that has continued to the present day centered on the Patriarchate of Moscow.

• History of the Korean Holiness Church

  [History]

  The history of the Korean Holiness Church began in 1907, when Kim Sang-jun and Jeong Bin opened the "Oriental Missionary Society Gospel Mission Hall" in Seoul. The church was forcibly dissolved under Japanese colonial rule, rebuilt after liberation, and divided in 1961, and its history continues to the present day.

• History of the Baptists in Korea

  [History]

  The history of the Baptists in Korea traces the Korean Baptist church from its beginnings in 1889 with the work of Malcolm Fenwick, an independent Canadian missionary, through the Korea Christian Church and the East Asia Christian Church to today's Korea Baptist Convention.

• History of the Anglican Church in Korea

  [History]

  The history of the Anglican Church in Korea began in 1890, when Bishop Charles John Corfe (Korean name Go Yo-han) of the Church of England arrived at Chemulpo. Beginning as a diocese under the Church of England, it consecrated its first Korean bishop in 1965 and became an independent province, the Anglican Church of Korea, in 1993.

• History of the Pentecostal Movement in Korea

  [History]

  The history of the Pentecostal movement in Korea traces how Pentecostal faith, with its emphasis on speaking in tongues and divine healing, took root in Korea after the arrival of the missionary Mary Rumsey in 1928, and how denominations centered on the Korea Assemblies of God were founded, grew, and divided.

• History of the Catholic Church in Korea

  [History]

  The history of the Catholic Church in Korea traces the Korean Catholic Church from 1784, when Yi Seung-hun returned from Beijing after being baptized and founded a community of believers, through the era of persecution and the establishment of the Apostolic Vicariate of Korea.

• History of The Salvation Army in Korea

  [History]

  The history of The Salvation Army in Korea dates from 1908, when the British officer Robert Hoggard (Korean name Heo Ga-du) arrived in Seoul. Alongside evangelism, The Salvation Army in Korea has carried out poor relief and the Red Kettle fundraising campaign.

• The Navigators

  [Institutions]

  The Navigators is an interdenominational mission organization founded by Dawson Trotman in the United States in 1933. It is known for discipleship training centered on one-to-one mentoring and Scripture memorization, and it officially began its ministry in Korea in 1966.

• The Korean Church and Confucianism

  [History]

  The Korean church and Confucianism refers to the history of how Christianity, after entering the Neo-Confucian society of Joseon, clashed with and adapted to Confucian ancestral rites and the ethic of filial piety. Central to this history are the Catholic prohibition of ancestral rites and the persecutions that followed, as well as the Protestant prohibition of ancestral rites and the emergence of the memorial service.

• The Korean Church and Shamanism

  [History]

  This article examines the relationship between Korean Protestantism and shamanism (musok). In the early missionary period Protestants confronted shamanism, indigenization theology later studied it, and critics have continued to attribute the church's prosperity-oriented faith to shamanistic influence.

• The Korea Christian Press

  [Institutions]

  The Korea Christian Press (Hanguk Gidok Gongbo) is a weekly newspaper published by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap). Founded on January 17, 1946, it is regarded as the oldest weekly newspaper still in publication.

• The Justice of God

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The justice of God is the attribute by which God is righteous in himself and judges and governs all things according to a right standard. It provides a theological basis for discussions of judgment on sin, the doctrine of salvation, and social justice.