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• Song of Simeon

  The Song of Simeon is Simeon's hymn of praise recorded in Luke 2:29–32. Also known as the Nunc Dimittis, from its opening words in Latin, it has been sung in many church traditions at evening prayer and in Communion and funeral services.

• Words of Institution

  The words Jesus spoke over the bread and the cup at the Last Supper. As the basis for the sacrament, this scriptural text is read aloud or recited within a prayer whenever the church celebrates Communion.

• Book of Common Prayer

  The Book of Common Prayer is the official liturgical book used in Anglican churches for worship and prayer. First produced during the English Reformation in the sixteenth century, it contains the orders of service and prayers for daily prayer, Holy Communion, and various other rites.

• Henry VIII

  Henry VIII (1491–1547) was King of England (reigned 1509–1547). After breaking with the pope over the annulment of his marriage, he declared the monarch Supreme Head of the Church of England, laying the foundation for what is today the Anglican Communion.

• Wine (Bible)

  Wine is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice. In the Bible it appears as a symbol of joy and abundance and as an element used in sacrifices and in Communion, and Scripture also warns against drunkenness.

• Matthew 26:26–28

  At the Last Supper, Jesus broke bread and said, "Take, eat; this is my body," and then gave the cup, saying, "For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins." These are the words of institution of the Lord's Supper, and this is the passage over which the church has been most deeply divided in its understanding of Communion.

• Bishop

  A bishop (Korean *jugyo*, 主敎) is a senior member of the clergy who oversees a diocese made up of multiple churches and performs the ordination of clergy. The title is used by the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion, while Korean Protestant Bibles and the Korean Methodist Church render the same term as *gamdok* ("overseer").

• Religious Order

  A religious order is a community of men or women religious who live under a common rule, take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and pray together. Religious orders exist mainly in the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion.

• Hussites

  The Hussites were the followers of Jan Hus, the Bohemian reformer burned at the stake in 1415, and the movement they formed. In fifteenth-century Bohemia they opposed the Roman Church, demanding freedom of preaching and a Communion in which the laity receive both the bread and the cup.

• Aldersgate Experience

  The Aldersgate experience was a religious experience of John Wesley on May 24, 1738, when, at a society meeting on Aldersgate Street in London, he felt his "heart strangely warmed." It is commonly called Wesley's conversion and is regarded as the event that launched the Methodist movement.

• Hampton Court Conference

  The Hampton Court Conference was a meeting held in January 1604 at Hampton Court Palace, where King James I of England summoned bishops of the Church of England and Puritan representatives to discuss demands for church reform. It led to the translation of the King James Bible.

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who took part in the Confessing Church movement in opposition to the Nazis. He was executed in 1945 on charges of involvement in a plot to remove Hitler.

• Lifting of Church Discipline

  The lifting of church discipline (Korean haebeol, 解罰) is the act of releasing a person from a penalty imposed through church discipline. When the disciplined person is judged to have repented, the church court that pronounced the penalty resolves to restore that member's rights.

• Charles Simeon

  Charles Simeon (1759–1836) was an evangelical priest of the Church of England. He ministered at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, for fifty-four years, trained preachers, and took part in founding the Church Missionary Society (CMS).

• Communication of Attributes

  The communication of attributes is the Christological teaching that the attributes of both the divine and human natures in the one person of Jesus Christ are together ascribed to that one person. Because of their differing understandings of the Lord's Supper, Lutheran and Reformed churches explain it in different ways.

• Qumran Community

  The Qumran community was a Jewish sectarian group that lived at Qumran, northwest of the Dead Sea, from about the second century BC to the middle of the first century AD. Scholars commonly associate it with the Essenes. It is generally regarded as the community to which the Dead Sea Scrolls found in the surrounding caves belonged.

• Monastery

  A monastery is a community of people who withdraw from the world to cultivate their faith through prayer, labor, and ascetic discipline, or the dwelling place of such a community. Monasteries originated in the deserts of Egypt in the third century and became a central institution of the medieval Western church.

• Church in Rome

  The church in Rome was the Christian community in Rome, the capital of the Roman Empire, during the first century. It was the church to which the apostle Paul sent his Epistle to the Romans, and it appears to have consisted of several house congregations.

• Sexual Violence in the Church

  Sexual violence in the church is sexual violence that occurs within communities of faith such as churches and mission organizations. Views differ on what procedures the church should use to handle such cases and on whether a pastor who has committed abuse may return to ministry.

• Disciple-making Ministries International

  Disciple-making Ministries International (DMI) is a discipleship training ministry affiliated with SaRang Community Church. Founded in 1986 by Pastor Oak Han-hum, it has conducted the CAL Seminar, a discipleship leadership seminar for pastors.