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Paul Tillich
[People]Paul Tillich (1886–1965) was a German-born American Lutheran theologian and philosopher. One of the leading systematic theologians of the twentieth century, he is known for his "method of correlation," in which theology answers the questions raised by human existence, and for his understanding of faith as "ultimate concern."
Paul Chong Hasang
[People]Paul Chong Hasang (丁夏祥, 1795–1839) was a Catholic lay leader in late Joseon Korea. After the Sinyu Persecution, he worked to rebuild the shattered church and to bring clergy into the country. During the Gihae Persecution, he left behind the *Sang Jaesang Seo* (Letter to the Prime Minister) and was martyred. His baptismal name was Paul.
John Paul II
[People]John Paul II (1920–2005), a native of Poland, was the 264th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, reigning from 1978 to 2005. He was the first pope to visit Korea, where in 1984 he canonized 103 Korean martyrs.
New Perspective on Paul
[Doctrine & Theology]The New Perspective on Paul is an approach to interpreting Paul that emerged in Anglo-American New Testament scholarship in the late 1970s. It reads the "works of the law" that Paul criticized not as an attempt to earn merit but as identity markers that separated Jews from Gentiles.
Herodion
[People]Herodion was a believer in the church at Rome whom the apostle Paul greeted as "my kinsman" in the closing greetings of Romans 16. He is mentioned in only this one verse of Scripture.
Lucius
[People]Lucius was a companion of the apostle Paul who was with him when he wrote the Epistle to the Romans and who sent greetings to the church in Rome. Paul called him one of his "kinsmen." He is mentioned only once in Scripture, in Romans 16:21.
Flesh (Pauline Usage)
[Bible]Flesh (Greek sarx) is a central term in the Pauline Epistles. It can denote the human body, lineage, and human weakness, and above all the sinful human nature that opposes God and the Holy Spirit.
Titus
[People]Titus was a Gentile coworker of Paul in the New Testament. He traveled between Paul and the church at Corinth, set the churches of Crete in order, and is the recipient of the Epistle to Titus.
David Yonggi Cho
[People]David Yonggi Cho (1936–2021) was a Pentecostal pastor. He founded Yoido Full Gospel Church, which began in 1958 as a tent church in Daejo-dong, Seoul, and built it into the largest church in the world.
Silvanus
[People]Silvanus was a first-century coworker who preached the gospel alongside the apostle Paul. He is named in the Pauline Epistles and in 1 Peter and is generally identified with the Silas of the Book of Acts.
Reinhold Niebuhr
[People]Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) was an American Protestant theologian and Christian ethicist. He is known for "Christian realism," an approach that pursued social justice while squarely confronting human sinfulness and collective self-interest.
Prison Epistles
[Bible]The Prison Epistles is the collective name for Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon, the four letters in which the apostle Paul indicates that he is writing while in confinement.
Silas
[People]Silas appears in the New Testament book of Acts as a leader of the Jerusalem church who accompanied Paul on his second missionary journey. In the Pauline epistles and 1 Peter he appears under the name Silvanus.
Demas
[People]Demas is a New Testament figure, a coworker of the apostle Paul named in Colossians and Philemon, who is recorded in 2 Timothy as having forsaken Paul, "having loved this present world," and departed for Thessalonica.
Yi Gi-pung
[People]Yi Gi-pung (李基豊, 1865–1942) was a Korean Presbyterian minister. In 1907 he was one of the first seven Koreans ordained to the ministry, and as the first missionary sent out by the Independent Presbytery of the Korean Presbyterian Church, he founded churches on Jeju Island. He died from the aftereffects of torture he suffered for refusing Shinto shrine worship.
1 Timothy
[Bible]1 Timothy is the fifteenth book of the New Testament. Traditionally regarded as a letter from the apostle Paul to his disciple Timothy in Ephesus concerning the care of the church, it is grouped with 2 Timothy and Titus as one of the Pastoral Epistles.
Epistle to the Hebrews
[Bible]Hebrews is the nineteenth book of the New Testament. It presents Jesus Christ as the true High Priest who fulfilled the sacrifices and priesthood of the Old Testament, and it exhorts its readers to hold fast to the faith.
Second Epistle to Timothy
[Bible]The Second Epistle to Timothy is a book of the New Testament, traditionally understood as a letter written by the apostle Paul from prison to his disciple Timothy. Together with First Timothy and Titus, it is known as one of the Pastoral Epistles.
Arabia
[Bible]Arabia is a biblical place name for the desert regions east and south of Israel and for the peoples who lived there. In the New Testament it is known as the place where Paul went after his conversion (Galatians 1:17).
1 Corinthians 2:2
[Bible Verses]A verse in which Paul recalls that, when he first preached the gospel to the church at Corinth, he determined to know nothing except Jesus Christ and him crucified. It is frequently cited in discussions of the heart of the gospel and the center of preaching.