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Grace
[Doctrine & Theology]Grace is the favor and gift that God freely bestows on those who do not deserve it. Protestantism holds that a person attains salvation not on the basis of his or her own merit but by the grace of God.
New Members' Class
[Christian Life]A new members' class is an introductory course, typically lasting several weeks, in which people who have newly joined a church learn the basics of the Christian faith and the life of that congregation. It is also called a new believers' class.
Trinity
[Doctrine & Theology]The Trinity is the central Christian doctrine that God is one in essence and exists in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is confessed in common by Protestant, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox churches.
Resurrection
[Doctrine & Theology]Resurrection refers both to the event in which Jesus Christ, having died on the cross, rose again, and to the Christian belief that on the last day the dead will be raised bodily.
Church Retreat
[Christian Life]A church retreat is a gathering in which church members leave their daily routines and stay together for several days to focus on worship, prayer, Bible study, and fellowship. In Korean Protestant churches, retreats are usually held by individual church departments during school vacations.
Predestination
[Doctrine & Theology]Predestination is the Christian doctrine that God determined the salvation of human beings from all eternity. It is emphasized by the Calvinist tradition, including Presbyterians, while the Wesleyan tradition, including Methodists and the Holiness Church, places greater emphasis on the human response.
Second Coming
[Doctrine & Theology]The Second Coming is the Christian teaching that Jesus Christ, who ascended into heaven, will return at the end of the world. Many Protestant denominations share this confession, though they differ in how they understand its timing and the order of end-time events.
Holy Spirit
[Doctrine & Theology]The Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit whom Christianity confesses, together with the Father and the Son, as one person of the triune God. An older English name is the Holy Ghost.
Sanctification
[Doctrine & Theology]Sanctification is the Protestant doctrine that a Christian who has been justified is actually made holy in thought and conduct through the work of the Holy Spirit.
Fundamentalism
[Doctrine & Theology]Fundamentalism is a conservative theological movement that arose in early twentieth-century American Protestantism to defend biblical inerrancy and core doctrines against liberal theology; the term also denotes the theological position the movement represents.
Repentance
[Doctrine & Theology]Repentance is sorrow for sin together with a turning of heart and life toward God. Protestants regard it, together with faith, as the response by which a person comes to salvation.
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. The doctrine expresses the confession that Christ is both true God and true man.
Salvation
[Doctrine & Theology]In Christianity, salvation is the deliverance of human beings from sin and its consequences—death and separation from God—so that they are reconciled to God and receive eternal life.
Pentecostalism
[Doctrine & Theology]Pentecostalism is a Protestant movement that places the experience of the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the Spirit at the center of faith. It began in the United States in the early twentieth century. In Korea it is widely known under the name "Full Gospel."
Reformed Theology
[Doctrine & Theology]Reformed theology is a Protestant theological tradition that continues the line of Zwingli, Calvin, and others within the sixteenth-century Reformation. It emphasizes the sovereignty of God and the authority of Scripture. In Korea, it is represented chiefly by the Presbyterian churches.
Wesleyan Theology
[Doctrine & Theology]Wesleyan theology is a theological tradition rooted in the teachings of John Wesley, who led the eighteenth-century Methodist movement in England. It emphasizes grace extended to all people and a holy life (sanctification). Methodist and Holiness churches, among others, stand within this tradition.
Bible
[Doctrine & Theology]The Bible is the collection of books that Christianity accepts as Scripture recording God's revelation. It is also called the Holy Scriptures. The Protestant Bible consists of sixty-six books: thirty-nine in the Old Testament and twenty-seven in the New Testament.
Sin
[Doctrine & Theology]In Christianity, sin refers both to acts that transgress God's will and law and to the state of having departed from a right relationship with God. The sin that all humanity is held to have inherited from Adam is called original sin.
Faith
[Doctrine & Theology]Faith is trust in God and Jesus Christ and the acceptance of his word as true. Protestants understand it as the means by which salvation is received, though denominations differ somewhat in emphasis.
Biblical Canon
[Doctrine & Theology]The canon is the list of books that the church has recognized as the Word of God and the standard for faith and life. Protestants regard sixty-six books as canonical and refer to certain books excluded from the canon as the Apocrypha.