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Kim Kyo-shin
[People]Kim Kyo-shin (金敎臣, 1901–1945) was a Korean Christian thinker and educator during the Japanese colonial period. An adherent of the Non-Church (Mukyokai) movement, he published the Bible-study magazine Seongseo Joseon (The Bible and Korea) and taught many students, including Sohn Kee-chung, at Yangjeong Higher Common School.
Cheonbugyo
[Heresies & Cults]Cheonbugyo is a religious organization founded in 1955 by Park Tae-seon, a former elder in the Presbyterian Church in Korea. Formerly called the Korean Jesus Church Evangelical Hall Revival Association, it was widely known as Jeondogwan ("Evangelical Hall"). In 1956 the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Korea declared it heretical.
N. T. Wright
[People]N. T. Wright (Tom Wright, born 1948) is an English Anglican bishop and New Testament scholar. He served as Bishop of Durham and is regarded as a leading scholar of the "New Perspective on Paul."
Kim Yang-seon
[People]Kim Yang-seon (金良善, 1907–1970) was a Korean Presbyterian minister, church historian, and archaeologist. He was a professor at Soongsil University and the founder of the Korean Christian Museum at Soongsil University.
Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy
[History]A theological controversy of the 1920s and 1930s within mainline Protestant denominations in the United States, such as the Northern Presbyterian and Northern Baptist churches. It pitted fundamentalists, who sought to defend the authority of Scripture and the core doctrines of the faith, against modernists, who sought to reinterpret the faith in light of modern scholarship.
Watchman Nee
[People]Watchman Nee (Ni Tuosheng, 1903–1972) was a twentieth-century Chinese church leader and author. He founded the local church movement and wrote works such as The Spiritual Man. Imprisoned under the Communist regime, he died in custody.
Jennie Evans Moore
[People]Jennie Evans Moore (1874 or 1883–1936) was an African American Pentecostal leader. She was among the first to speak in tongues in the early days of the Azusa Street Revival, married William J. Seymour in 1908, and led the Azusa Street Mission after her husband's death.
Marriage Supper of the Lamb
[Bible]The marriage supper of the Lamb is an expression found in Revelation 19. It refers to the feast celebrating the complete union of Christ, the Lamb, with his bride at the end of the age.
Kenizzites
[Bible]The Kenizzites were one of the peoples living in the land promised to Abraham and are mentioned in Genesis 15:19. Caleb is called a "Kenezite," a term identical in Hebrew to the name of this people.
Red Heifer
[Bible]The red heifer is a purification ordinance found in Numbers 19. A red heifer without blemish was burned whole outside the camp, and its ashes were mixed with water and used to purify a person who had become unclean through contact with a dead body.
Riot at Ephesus
[Bible]The riot at Ephesus took place while Paul was staying in Ephesus during his third missionary journey. Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver models of the goddess Artemis, stirred up his fellow craftsmen, and the whole city rushed into the theater (Acts 19:23–41).
Lot's Wife
[People]Lot's wife, the wife of Abraham's nephew Lot, appears in Genesis 19. During the destruction of Sodom she disregarded the angels' warning, looked back, and became a pillar of salt. The Bible does not record her name.
Still Small Voice
[Bible]The "still small voice" is the quiet, faint sound that came to Elijah on Mount Horeb after the wind, the earthquake, and the fire had passed (1 Kings 19:12). The passage is often cited to illustrate the manner in which God reveals himself.
Lot's Daughters
[People]Lot's daughters are the two daughters of Lot who appear in Genesis 19. They escaped with their father when Sodom was destroyed and later bore sons by him, becoming the ancestors of the Moabites and the Ammonites.
Great Whore
[Bible]The great whore is a symbolic figure in Revelation 17–19. She is depicted riding a scarlet beast, drunk with the blood of the saints, and committing fornication with the kings of the earth, and she is called "Babylon the Great."
Ok Han-heum
[People]Ok Han-heum (玉漢欽, 1938–2010) was a minister of the Presbyterian Church in Korea (Hapdong). He founded SaRang Community Church, and through his book *Called to Awaken the Laity* he spread lay discipleship training in the local church throughout Korean Christianity.
Church of Almighty God
[Heresies & Cults]The Church of Almighty God (全能神教會) is a religious group that originated in China in the early 1990s. It is also known as "Eastern Lightning" or Quannengshen ("Almighty God sect"). The group believes that a Chinese woman is the returned Christ, and several Korean denominations have formally declared it heretical.
Million Souls Movement
[History]The Million Souls Movement was a nationwide evangelistic campaign that Korean Protestants conducted jointly across denominational lines from 1909 to early 1911 under the slogan "A Million Souls for Christ." It is known for the "day offering," in which believers pledged days of their time to evangelism, and for the distribution of Gospel portions.
Malcolm Fenwick
[People]Malcolm C. Fenwick (1863–1935) was a Canadian independent missionary to Korea. In 1906, at Ganggyeong in South Chungcheong Province, he founded the Church of Christ in Corea (Daehan Gidokgyohoe), the parent body of the Korea Baptist Convention. He is regarded as the founder of the Baptist church in Korea.
Dead Sea Scrolls
[Bible]The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient Jewish documents discovered beginning in 1947 in caves around Qumran, northwest of the Dead Sea. They include the oldest extant Hebrew manuscripts of the Old Testament and are an important resource for the study of the biblical text.