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InterCP
[Heresies & Cults]InterCP is a South Korean overseas mission organization led by its director, Paul Choi (Choi Ba-ul). Since 2011, several denominations have passed resolutions calling for close observation of the group, urging members to refrain from participation, or prohibiting interaction with it. In 2022 the Presbyterian Church in Korea (HapShin) declared it heretical.
Presbyterian Church of Chosen
[History]The Presbyterian Church of Chosen was the first General Assembly organization of Korean Presbyterianism, formed in Pyongyang in September 1912 by seven presbyteries. It was renamed the Presbyterian Church in Korea in 1949, and many Presbyterian denominations today regard it as their common root.
Edinburgh Missionary Conference
[History]The Edinburgh Missionary Conference was a meeting of representatives of Protestant missionary societies held in Edinburgh, Scotland, from June 14 to 23, 1910. It discussed ways of cooperating in world mission and is commonly regarded as the starting point of the modern ecumenical movement.
The March First Movement and Christianity
[History]The March First Movement and Christianity examines the role Protestantism played in Korea's March First Movement of 1919. Protestants accounted for 16 of the 33 National Representatives, and churches and Christian schools served as bases from which the independence demonstrations spread across the country.
Samuel Austin Moffett
[People]Samuel Austin Moffett (1864–1939) was an American Northern Presbyterian missionary to Korea, where he was known by the Korean name Ma Po-sam-yeol. He planted churches centered in Pyongyang and founded the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Pyongyang, serving as its first president.
Horace Allen
[People]Horace Newton Allen (1858–1932) was an American medical missionary sent by the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian) who later became a diplomat. He is regarded as the first Protestant missionary to reside and work in Korea, and he proposed the founding of Gwanghyewon (later renamed Jejungwon), Korea's first Western-style hospital.
Lesslie Newbigin
[People]Lesslie Newbigin (1909–1998) was a British missionary, theologian, and leader in the ecumenical movement. He served as a missionary in India and as a bishop of the Church of South India. By regarding Western society as a mission field in need of re-evangelization, he laid the foundation for missional ecclesiology.
Independent Presbytery (Dongnohoe)
[History]The Independent Presbytery (Dongnohoe) was the first presbytery of the Korean Presbyterian Church, organized on September 17, 1907, at Jangdaehyeon Church in Pyongyang. At its first meeting the first seven Korean ministers were ordained. Until the General Assembly was established in 1912, it served as the highest governing body of the entire Korean Presbyterian Church.
Korean National Christian Council
[History]The Korean National Christian Council (Joseon Yesugyo Yeonhap Gonguihoe) was a Protestant cooperative body organized in September 1924 at Saemoonan Church in Seoul. Korean Presbyterian and Methodist churches, foreign mission boards, and Christian organizations took part in it, and it is regarded as the parent body of today's National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK).
Church Finance
[Organization & Polity]Church finance is the work and system by which a church manages the money it receives through offerings and other sources, prepares and carries out budgets, and closes its accounts. The topic includes church accounting and financial disclosure.
Offering
[Christian Life]An offering is money that Christians give to God as an expression of gratitude and faith, or the act of giving it. It is usually presented during the offertory in worship. In the early Korean Protestant church it was commonly called yeonbo.
William Baird
[People]William Martyn Baird (1862–1931) was an American missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian), known in Korea as Bae Wi-ryang. He took part in early mission work in the Busan and Daegu regions, and in 1897 he founded Soongsil Academy in Pyongyang. He is therefore known as the founder of Soongsil University and Soongsil Middle and High Schools.
Malcolm Fenwick
[People]Malcolm C. Fenwick (1863–1935) was a Canadian independent missionary to Korea. In 1906, at Ganggyeong in South Chungcheong Province, he founded the Church of Christ in Corea (Daehan Gidokgyohoe), the parent body of the Korea Baptist Convention. He is regarded as the founder of the Baptist church in Korea.
Donald McGavran
[People]Donald Anderson McGavran (1897–1990) was an American missionary to India and a missiologist. He is known as the founder of church growth studies and served as the founding dean of the School of World Mission at Fuller Theological Seminary.
William D. Reynolds
[People]William Davis Reynolds (1867–1951), known in Korea as Yi Nul-seo, was an American missionary sent by the Presbyterian Church in the United States (Southern Presbyterian Church). He took part in translating the Bible into Korean for forty-three years and taught systematic theology at Pyongyang Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
Sherwood Hall
[People]Sherwood Hall (1893–1991) was a Canadian Methodist medical missionary born in Seoul. He founded a tuberculosis sanatorium in Haeju, Hwanghae Province, and in 1932 issued Korea's first Christmas seals.
Territorial Spirits
[Doctrine & Theology]Territorial spirits are evil spiritual beings believed to rule over particular nations, cities, or regions. The term was widely used in the spiritual warfare movement of the 1980s and 1990s, and assessments of it vary sharply among denominations and theologians.
Annie Baird
[People]Annie Baird (1864–1916) was an American woman missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian), known in Korea as An Ae-ri (安愛理). The wife of William Baird (Bae Wi-ryang), she worked in Busan and Pyongyang and left hymn translations and Korean-language writings.
Oliver R. Avison
[People]Oliver R. Avison (1860–1956; Korean name Eo Bi-sin) was a Canadian-born medical missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian). He directed Jejungwon, founded Severance Hospital and its medical school, and served as president of Chosun Christian College (Yonhi College).
Priscilla Studd
[People]Priscilla Studd (1864–1929) was an Irish-born Protestant missionary. While serving in China she married C. T. Studd, and while her husband worked in Africa she led the British home headquarters of the mission that became the forerunner of WEC International.