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• History of Christianity in China

  The history of Christianity in China extends from the arrival of the Church of the East under the Tang dynasty in the seventh century, through the Catholic and Protestant missions, to the present day. After the Communist government came to power, Chinese Protestantism divided into the government-registered Three-Self churches and the unregistered house churches.

• Hebrews 1

  The first chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews. It declares that God has spoken in the last days by his Son and weaves together quotations from the Psalms and other Old Testament passages to show that the Son is superior to the angels.

• Matthew 25

  Matthew 25 concludes Jesus' teaching on the end times. It presents, in succession, the parable of the ten virgins, the parable of the talents, and the judgment scene in which the Son of Man separates all nations as a shepherd separates sheep from goats.

• Romans 5:18–19

  A passage in which Paul contrasts Adam's one trespass with Christ's one act of obedience, teaching that both condemnation and justification come to many through one man. It is frequently cited in discussions of original sin, justification, and the scope of salvation.

• Formation of the Canon

  The formation of the canon (canonization) is the historical process by which it became settled which of the many writings in circulation were received as Scripture, the norm for faith and life.

• Feast of Dedication

  The Feast of Dedication is a Jewish festival commemorating the Jews' recovery and rededication of the Jerusalem Temple after it had been defiled by the Seleucid dynasty in the second century BC. It is also known as Hanukkah and is mentioned once in the Bible, in John 10:22.

• New Homiletic

  The New Homiletic is a movement in preaching theory that arose in North America in the late 1960s. Rather than following traditional preaching that logically unfolds propositions, it emphasizes inductive development and narrative structure so that listeners may experience the Word.

• Byzantine Empire

  The Byzantine Empire is the name later given to the Eastern Roman Empire, which had Constantinople as its capital and endured until 1453. The early ecumenical councils were held there, and the Orthodox tradition developed within it.

• Scholasticism

  Scholasticism was a method of learning that developed in the schools and universities of Western Europe from around the eleventh century to the end of the Middle Ages. Accepting the authority of Scripture and the Church Fathers, it sought to explain the content of the faith systematically through logical questioning and disputation.

• Reformed Church

  The Reformed Church is a Protestant tradition descending from the sixteenth-century Reformation in Switzerland led by Zwingli and Calvin. In the broad sense, the term refers to all Calvinist churches, including Presbyterian churches. In the narrow sense, it refers to the churches that developed on the European continent under the name "Reformed Church."

• Covenant Theology

  Covenant theology is a theological system, developed within the Reformed tradition, that seeks to understand the whole of Scripture and the history of salvation as a unity centered on the covenants (relationships grounded in promise) that God has made with human beings.

• Industrial Mission

  Industrial Mission refers to the missionary work that Korean Protestants carried out among factory workers beginning in the late 1950s. It began as evangelism in factories, but in the 1970s it developed into a movement advocating for workers' rights.

• History of Korean Hymnals

  Korean Protestant hymnody began with the Methodist hymnal Chanmiga in 1892. Through successive unions and divisions among the denominations, it developed into the Unified Hymnal of 1983 and the 21st Century Hymnal (New Hymnal) of 2006. This article traces that development.

• Romans 8

  Romans 8 opens with the declaration that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ, speaks of life in the Spirit, adoption as children of God, and hope amid suffering, and closes with the assurance that nothing can separate believers from the love of God.

• Framework Hypothesis

  The framework hypothesis is an interpretation that reads the six days of creation in Genesis 1 not as an actual chronological sequence but as a literary structure (framework) that arranges the content of creation thematically.

• Ephesians 5:21-25

  A passage in the Pauline epistles that exhorts wives to submit to their husbands and husbands to love their wives as Christ gave himself for the church. It is frequently read at wedding services, and interpretations differ over how to understand the marital relationship and male "headship."

• Esther 8

  Esther 8 is the chapter in which, after Haman's death, Mordecai receives the king's ring and, at Esther's entreaty, a new decree is issued throughout Persia allowing the Jews to defend themselves.

• Hebrews 10

  Hebrews 10 concludes that Christ, by offering his body once for all, brought the repeated sacrifices of the Old Testament to an end. It then urges readers to draw near to God in faith and to keep meeting together, sternly warns against apostasy, and calls for perseverance.

• Hesychasm

  Hesychasm, from the Greek hesychia, meaning "stillness," is a spirituality of prayer in the monastic tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church that seeks union with God by stilling the heart and ceaselessly repeating the Jesus Prayer.

• Korea Food for the Hungry International

  Korea Food for the Hungry International (publicly known as Hope Friends KFHI) is an international relief and development nongovernmental organization (NGO) founded in 1989 on Christian principles. Under the motto "Bread and the Gospel," it carries out overseas relief, domestic welfare programs, and the sending of professional missionaries.