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Augustus
[People]Augustus (Octavian) was the first emperor of the Roman Empire. In Luke 2 he appears as the emperor who decreed a census of the whole world, which led Joseph and Mary to travel to Bethlehem.
Edward Mote
[People]Edward Mote (1797–1874) was an English Baptist minister and hymn writer, best known as the author of the hymn "My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less," which is also sung in Korean translation in Korean churches.
Humility
[Christian Life]Humility is a disposition and attitude of lowering rather than exalting oneself. Christianity teaches it as a virtue that acknowledges one's limitations and sin before God and expresses itself in service to one's neighbor.
Sinlessness of Christ
[Doctrine & Theology]The sinlessness of Christ is the Christian teaching that Jesus Christ, though he lived as a true human being, never sinned in thought, word, or deed.
Deuteronomistic History
[Doctrine & Theology]The Deuteronomistic History is a theory in Old Testament scholarship that regards Joshua through 2 Kings as a single historical work shaped by the theology of Deuteronomy. It was first systematically formulated in 1943 by the German scholar Martin Noth.
William Carey
[People]William Carey (1761–1834) was an English Baptist minister and missionary to India. Through his writings arguing for the duty of foreign missions and his role in founding a missionary society, he is known as the "father of modern missions."
Lucifer
[Bible]Lucifer is the Latin Vulgate's rendering of the "morning star, son of the morning" in Isaiah 14:12. In later tradition the word came to be widely used as the name of Satan before his fall.
Conditional Immortality
[Doctrine & Theology]Conditional immortality is the theological view that human beings are not inherently immortal and that God grants eternal life as a gift only to those who are in Christ.
Filial Piety
[Christian Life]Filial piety is the honoring and serving of one's parents. Protestants understand it as a religious duty grounded in the fifth of the Ten Commandments: "Honour thy father and thy mother."
Family Sunday
[Feasts & Seasons]Family Sunday is a commemorative Sunday observed in Korean Protestant churches for reflecting on the meaning of the family and praying for families. It is usually held in May, which is observed in South Korea as "Family Month," although its date and name vary by denomination and congregation.
Migdol
[Bible]Migdol is an Egyptian place-name derived from the Hebrew word for "tower" or "fortress." It appears as a site near Israel's encampment before the crossing of the Red Sea during the Exodus, and in Jeremiah and Ezekiel it is used as a place-name marking the northern extremity of Egypt.
Jonathan (Grandson of Moses)
[People]Jonathan was a Levite of the period of the judges who is introduced in Judges 18:30 as "the son of Gershom" and the grandson of Moses. He became the priest of the household of Micah the Ephraimite and later went with the tribe of Dan, serving as priest at their idolatrous shrine.
Branch (Messianic Title)
[Bible]"Branch" translates the Hebrew word tsemach, which the Old Testament prophets used as a title for a righteous ruler who would arise from the line of David. Christianity has read it as a messianic prophecy of Jesus Christ.
Abaddon
[Bible]Abaddon is a Hebrew word meaning "destruction" or "place of destruction." In the Old Testament it appears alongside Sheol as a designation for the realm of the dead, and in Revelation 9:11 it is the name of the angel of the bottomless pit.
Theodore Beza
[People]Theodore Beza (1519–1605) was a French-born Reformer. He succeeded John Calvin as leader of the church in Geneva and is known for his editions of the Greek New Testament and for his systematization of Reformed theology.
Titius Justus
[People]Titius Justus was a Corinthian mentioned in Acts 18:7, a Gentile described as one who "worshipped God." His house, which stood next to the synagogue, became the place where Paul taught after leaving the synagogue.
Lee Hyun-pil
[People]Lee Hyun-pil (1913–1964) was a Korean Protestant lay ascetic active during the Japanese colonial period and after Korea's liberation. He founded Donggwangwon, a community devoted to poverty, chastity (celibacy), and labor, and he is known as the "Barefoot Saint."
Ordination Offering
[Organization & Polity]An ordination offering is an offering made by a person receiving a church office, such as elder, kwonsa (a female lay office), or ordained deacon, on the occasion of the ordination service. The practice is widespread in Korean Protestant churches. Some regard it as an expression of gratitude, while others criticize it as a way of buying church office with money.
Rule of Faith
[Doctrine & Theology]The rule of faith (regula fidei) is a summary of the content of the faith that the early church regarded as received from the apostles; it served as a standard for judging whether teaching was sound.
Redemption of the Firstborn
[Bible]The redemption of the firstborn is a provision of the Mosaic Law by which the firstborn son in Israel was set apart as belonging to God and then redeemed by a payment of five shekels of silver. The institution served as a reminder that God spared Israel's firstborn sons at the time of the Exodus.