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Incarnation
[Doctrine & Theology]The Incarnation is a central Christian doctrine holding that the Son of God took on a human body and was born into the world as Jesus Christ. It expresses the confession that Christ is both true God and true man.
Gospel
[Doctrine & Theology]The gospel means "good news." In Christianity it refers to the message that God saves people through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Psalms
[Bible]The Book of Psalms is a collection of 150 prayers and songs of praise in the Old Testament. Used in the worship of ancient Israel, it remains one of the most widely used books of the Bible in the worship and personal devotional life of the church today.
New Testament
[Bible]The New Testament is a collection of twenty-seven books that recount the life and teachings of Jesus Christ and the formation of the early church and include the letters of the apostles. Together with the Old Testament, it makes up the Protestant Bible.
Book of Revelation
[Bible]The Book of Revelation is the last book of the New Testament. Written in the form of apocalyptic literature, it records the visions given to John concerning the second coming of Christ and the final victory of God. It is often referred to simply as Revelation.
Rapture
[Doctrine & Theology]The rapture is the belief that, when Jesus Christ returns, living believers will be caught up into the air to meet the Lord. Denominations and theological traditions differ on when it will occur.
Gospels
[Bible]The Gospels are the first four books of the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), which record the life, teaching, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Together they are called the four Gospels.
Plymouth Brethren
[Denominations]The Brethren Church is a Protestant denomination rooted in the Brethren movement that began in Dublin, Ireland, in the 1820s. In the English-speaking world it is known as the Plymouth Brethren. It has no clerical order separating pastors from laity and no denominational organization; its church life centers on local assemblies led by elders.
Cessationism and Continuationism
[Controversies]A debate over whether gifts of the Holy Spirit such as tongues, prophecy, and divine healing have continued beyond the apostolic age. Some conservative Presbyterians hold that these gifts have ceased, while Pentecostal churches, such as the Full Gospel churches, hold that they continue today.
Hereditary Pastoral Succession
[Controversies]Hereditary pastoral succession is the practice of handing a senior pastor's position to the pastor's child or son-in-law. In Korean it is commonly called "pastoral hereditary succession" or "passing down the pastorate." Denominations such as the Korean Methodist Church and the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap) have prohibited it by church law, and debate over the practice continues.
Ancestral Rites and Memorial Services
[Controversies]The question of whether ancestral rites should be forbidden as idolatry or regarded as a cultural expression of filial piety. Korean Protestantism has prohibited ancestral rites and has instead held memorial services.
Assurance of Salvation
[Controversies]A discussion of whether a person who has once been saved can lose salvation, and of the grounds on which a person may be assured of being saved.
105-Man Incident
[History]The 105-Man Incident was a 1911 case in which the Japanese Government-General of Korea fabricated a plot to assassinate Governor-General Terauchi and arrested hundreds of members of the New People's Association (Sinminhoe) and Christians from Korea's northwestern provinces. Its name comes from the 105 defendants convicted at the first trial.
Reformation
[History]The Reformation was a sixteenth-century reform movement in Western Europe that sought to correct the teachings and practices of the Roman Catholic Church in light of Scripture. Its beginning is usually dated to Martin Luther's publication of the Ninety-five Theses in 1517, and Protestantism emerged from this movement.
History of Protestantism in Korea
[History]The history of Protestantism in Korea extends from the arrival of American missionaries in 1884–1885 to the present day. It encompasses the arrival of missionaries, revival movements and church organization, persecution and the Shinto shrine worship controversy under Japanese rule, and denominational divisions and growth after liberation.
Communion of Churches in Korea
[Institutions]The Communion of Churches in Korea (CCIK; Korean abbreviation Hangyoyeon) is a Protestant interdenominational body founded in 2012 amid internal conflict within the Christian Council of Korea (CCK). Its founding members included the Tonghap, Gaehyeok, Daeshin, and Baekseok branches of the Presbyterian Church in Korea.
Church Growth in Korea
[History]The rapid increase in the number of Protestant church members and churches in South Korea during the industrialization and urbanization of the 1960s through the 1980s. The term also covers the slowdown and stagnation of that growth from the 1990s onward.
United Christian Churches of Korea
[Institutions]The United Christian Churches of Korea (UCCK; Korean abbreviation Hangyochong) is an ecumenical body of Protestant denominations launched in 2017 on the foundation of the Council of Korean Church Denominational Heads. Its members are denominations rather than individual congregations, and they include major Presbyterian, Methodist, and Pentecostal denominations, among others.
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 and is also known as "Eastern Lightning" or Quannengshen ("Almighty God sect"). It believes a Chinese woman to be the returned Christ, and its status as a heretical group has been confirmed by formal resolutions of several Korean denominations.
Book of Ruth
[Bible]The Book of Ruth is the eighth book of the Old Testament. It tells the story of Ruth, a Moabite woman who follows her mother-in-law Naomi to Bethlehem, marries Boaz, and becomes the great-grandmother of David.