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Conversion
[Christian Life]Conversion is the change by which a person turns from sin to God and comes to believe in Jesus Christ. The term is often used alongside "being born again" and "regeneration," although some denominations distinguish conversion from regeneration.
WCC Controversy
[Controversies]A controversy among Korean Protestant churches over whether to join and cooperate with the World Council of Churches (WCC). It was one of the causes of the 1959 division of the Presbyterian Church in Korea into the Tonghap and Hapdong branches, and it flared up again on a large scale when the WCC held its assembly in Busan in 2013.
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.
Revelation 22:20
[Bible Verses]Revelation 22:20 is the verse in which the church answers Christ's promise, "Surely I come quickly," with the prayer "Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus." It is the last prayer in the Bible. Because it carries the same meaning as the early church's Aramaic prayer *Maranatha*, it is deeply cherished in the hope of the Second Coming and in Christian worship traditions.
Judas Iscariot
[People]Judas Iscariot was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus Christ who handed Jesus over to the chief priests for thirty pieces of silver. His actions and death are recorded in the Gospels and the Book of Acts.
Acts 4:32–35
[Bible Verses]A summary passage in Acts reporting that the believers of the early Jerusalem church held their possessions in common and distributed them according to need, so that none among them lacked. It is often cited as a model of church community and sharing, and there is ongoing discussion about how far this sharing of property should be imitated today.
Revelation 21:23–24
[Bible Verses]A vision in the Book of Revelation in which the New Jerusalem has no need of the sun or moon, because the glory of God gives it light and the Lamb is its lamp. The passage is often cited as a depiction of the consummation of God's presence. Interpreters differ over the identity of the "nations" and the "kings of the earth" who enter by its light.
Bethany
[Bible]Bethany was a village on the slope of the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem. In the Gospels it appears as the home of Lazarus and his sisters Martha and Mary, and as the place where Jesus stayed during Holy Week.
Golgotha
[Bible]Golgotha is the place outside the walls of Jerusalem where Jesus Christ was crucified. Its name means "skull." It is also known as Calvary, a name derived from the Latin translation.
Mark 13:10
[Bible Verses]Mark 13:10 is the verse in which Jesus says that, before the end, the gospel must first be preached to all nations. It is frequently cited and discussed as a basis for missions and in connection with the timing of the Second Coming.
Agape
[Bible]Agape (Greek ἀγάπη) is the principal New Testament word for "love." It denotes both God's love for human beings and the love that those who have received that love show toward God and their neighbors.
Peter's Denial
[Bible]Peter's denial is the episode on the night of Jesus' arrest in which the disciple Peter, in the courtyard of the high priest's house, denied three times that he knew Jesus. It is recorded in all four Gospels.
Geneva Bible
[Bible]The Geneva Bible is an English Bible published in 1560 in Geneva, Switzerland, by English Protestant exiles. Widely read for its verse numbering and extensive marginal notes (commentary printed alongside the text), it was the most popular Bible in the English-speaking world before the King James Version.
Smyrna
[Bible]Smyrna was a port city on the Aegean coast of western Asia Minor and the home of one of the seven churches to which the risen Christ sent letters in Revelation 2. It corresponds to the modern city of İzmir, Türkiye.
Hebrew Language
[Bible]Hebrew is the language of the ancient Israelites, in which most of the Old Testament was written. The New Testament refers to it as "the Hebrew tongue."
Gospel of Nicodemus
[Bible]The Gospel of Nicodemus is an ancient Christian text that recounts the trial, death, and resurrection of Jesus and his descent into Hades. Also known as the Acts of Pilate, it is a work of New Testament apocrypha and is not part of the biblical canon.
Paphos
[Bible]Paphos was a city on the southwestern coast of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. According to Acts 13, Paul and Barnabas proclaimed the gospel there to the Roman proconsul Sergius Paulus during their first missionary journey.
Remonstrants
[History]The Remonstrants were Arminian Reformed ministers in the Netherlands who in 1610 submitted a five-article Remonstrance challenging the Calvinist doctrine of predestination; the name also refers to their successors.
Arrest of Jesus
[Bible]The arrest of Jesus is the event in which, on the night after the Last Supper, a crowd led by Judas Iscariot seized Jesus at Gethsemane. All four Gospels record it, and it leads directly to the trial and crucifixion of Jesus.
Radical Orthodoxy
[Doctrine & Theology]Radical Orthodoxy is a theological movement that emerged in the 1990s, centered in Cambridge, England. It contends that the modern realm of the "secular" is not neutral, and it seeks to return to patristic and medieval theology in order to reinterpret all of reality through the lens of theology.