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• Philipp Jakob Spener

  [People]

  Philipp Jakob Spener (1635–1705) was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian. His *Pia Desideria* (1675) launched the German Pietist movement, and for this reason he is called the "Father of Pietism."

• Barzillai (the Meholathite)

  [People]

  Barzillai the Meholathite was the father of Adriel, who married Merab, the eldest daughter of Saul. He is an Old Testament figure named only once, in 2 Samuel 21:8, and is a different person from Barzillai the Gileadite, who aided David.

• John 10:28–29

  [Bible Verses]

  In this passage Jesus says that he gives eternal life to his sheep and that no one can snatch them out of his hand or out of the Father's hand. It is a principal basis for the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints, which holds that those who have once been saved are preserved to the end, and it stands at the center of the debate over whether salvation can be lost.

• James Zhou Wenmo

  [People]

  James Zhou Wenmo (周文謨, 1752–1801) was a Chinese priest and the first Catholic priest to enter Joseon Korea. He secretly entered Joseon at the end of 1794, ministered there for six years, and was executed at Saenamteo during the Sinyu Persecution of 1801.

• Anselm of Canterbury

  [People]

  Anselm (c. 1033–1109) was a theologian of the medieval Western Church and Archbishop of Canterbury. He is known for his method of "faith seeking understanding," the ontological argument, and the satisfaction theory of the atonement, and he is called the "Father of Scholasticism."

• Bede

  [People]

  Bede (672/673–735) was a monk, priest, and scholar of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria in England. He wrote the *Ecclesiastical History of the English People*, which records how the Anglo-Saxons came to accept Christianity, and for this work he is called the "Father of English History."

• Joachim

  [People]

  Joachim is the figure whom church tradition, including the second-century apocryphal Protoevangelium of James, identifies as the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and the husband of Anne. He is not named in the canonical Scriptures.

• Matthew 6:9-13

  [Bible Verses]

  Matthew 6:9-13 contains the prayer Jesus taught his disciples, which the church recites together as the Lord's Prayer. Discussion of the passage addresses how its form differs from the version in Luke, the absence of the closing doxology from the oldest manuscripts, and the translation of several of its words.

• Eusebius of Caesarea

  [People]

  Eusebius (c. 260 – c. 339) was bishop of Caesarea in Palestine and a historian of the early church. His *Ecclesiastical History* has earned him the title "Father of Church History."

• Matthew 7:21

  [Bible Verses]

  Jesus' warning, "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven." The verse figures prominently in discussions of faith and works and of the assurance of salvation.

• Recapitulation

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Recapitulation (anakephalaiōsis) is the soteriology developed by the second-century Church Father Irenaeus. It teaches that Christ retraced from the beginning the human path on which Adam failed, restored it through obedience, and gathers all things together in himself.

• Burning Bush

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  The burning bush is the event in Exodus 3 in which God appeared to Moses at Mount Horeb in a flame of fire within a bush that was not consumed, called him, and commissioned him to lead Israel out of Egypt.

• Omnipotence of God

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The omnipotence of God is the doctrine that God has the power to accomplish everything He wills. It is widely known through the Apostles' Creed's confession of "God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth."

• Religious Pluralism

  [Controversies]

  Religious pluralism refers to the debate over whether religions outside Christianity offer a way of salvation. Positions in this debate are commonly grouped into three: exclusivism, inclusivism, and pluralism.

• Diblaim

  [People]

  Diblaim was the father of Gomer, the wife of the prophet Hosea. He is mentioned only once in the Old Testament, in Hosea 1:3.

• Irenaeus

  [People]

  Irenaeus was a Church Father who served as bishop of Lyon in Gaul in the late second century. In *Against Heresies* he refuted Gnosticism and emphasized the four Gospels and the rule of faith, profoundly influencing the formation of orthodox theology in the early church.

• Ethbaal

  [People]

  Ethbaal appears in 1 Kings 16:31 as "king of the Zidonians" and was the father of Jezebel, who became the wife of Ahab, king of the northern kingdom of Israel.

• Joseph of Nazareth

  [People]

  In the New Testament, Joseph is the husband of Mary and the legal father of Jesus. He is presented as a descendant of David and is recorded as having worked as a carpenter in Nazareth of Galilee.

• Numbers 30

  [Bible]

  Numbers 30 is a law concerning vows and oaths. It states the principle that a vow must be kept as spoken. It also provides that a father or husband may annul a vow made by a daughter in his house or by a wife on the day he hears of it.

• Samuel Wesley

  [People]

  Samuel Wesley (1662–1735) was a Church of England priest and poet. He served as rector of Epworth for nearly forty years and was the father of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, leaders of the Methodist movement.