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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
[People]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.
Chŏn Tŏk-ki
[People]Chŏn Tŏk-ki (1875–1914) was a Methodist minister who led Sangdong Church in Seoul during the Korean Empire period. He was also a nationalist activist who, through the Sangdong Youth Society and the Sangdong Youth Academy, took part in the movement against the Eulsa Treaty, the dispatch of secret envoys to The Hague, and the founding of the New People's Association (Sinminhoe).
Yi Yong-do
[People]Yi Yong-do (1901–1933) was a Methodist minister and revivalist active in Korea during the Japanese colonial period and is officially recognized for his contributions to Korean independence. In the early 1930s he led revival meetings throughout the country, but critics accused him of mysticism, and he became embroiled in a heresy controversy at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church.
Mesopotamia
[Bible]Mesopotamia is a biblical place name for the region between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers and the homeland of Abraham's family. In the Old Testament it refers mainly to the northern Aramean territory around Haran.
Robert Estienne
[People]Robert Estienne (c. 1503–1559) was a French printer and classical scholar. In 1551 he became the first to number the verses of the Greek New Testament, and he is known for laying the foundation of the chapter-and-verse system used in the Bible today.
Martin Bucer
[People]Martin Bucer (1491–1551) was a German reformer who led the Reformation in Strasbourg. He labored throughout his life to reconcile the divided Reformation camps and influenced the development of Calvinism and of Anglican worship.
William Wilberforce
[People]British politician (1759–1833). Drawing on his evangelical faith, he led the parliamentary campaign to abolish the slave trade for nearly twenty years and played a major role in the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807.
Adoniram Judson
[People]Adoniram Judson (1788–1850) was an American Baptist missionary. Working in Burma (present-day Myanmar) for nearly forty years beginning in 1813, he produced the first complete translation of the Bible into Burmese, and his work was the catalyst for the formation of an American Baptist foreign mission organization.
Abraham Kuyper
[People]Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920) was a Dutch Reformed theologian, journalist, and statesman who founded the Free University of Amsterdam and served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1901 to 1905. He first articulated Neo-Calvinism and the concept of "sphere sovereignty."
C. T. Studd
[People]C. T. Studd (1860–1931) was a British missionary and former England international cricketer. As one of the Cambridge Seven, he went to China, later served in India, and then worked in Africa, where he founded the forerunner of WEC International.
Benedict XVI
[People]Benedict XVI (1927–2022), born Joseph Ratzinger, was a German-born prelate who served as the 265th pope of the Roman Catholic Church (2005–2013). Known as a conservative theologian, he was the first pope in nearly 600 years to step down from office during his lifetime.
Johann Albrecht Bengel
[People]Johann Albrecht Bengel (1687–1752) was a Lutheran theologian from Württemberg, Germany. His critical edition of the Greek New Testament (1734) and his commentary Gnomon (1742) laid the foundation for modern New Testament textual criticism, and he is regarded as the founder of Swabian Pietism.
George MacDonald
[People]George MacDonald (1824–1905) was a Scottish Congregationalist minister and author. His works, including Phantastes and The Princess and the Goblin, have earned him recognition as a pioneer of modern fantasy literature, and he is known as the writer whom C. S. Lewis regarded as his master.
Marian Bottomley Hall
[People]Marian Bottomley Hall was a British-born physician and Methodist medical missionary. During the period of Japanese colonial rule in Korea, she worked alongside her husband, Sherwood Hall, in Haeju, Hwanghae Province, providing medical care and taking part in efforts to combat tuberculosis.
Henry Dodge Appenzeller
[People]Henry Dodge Appenzeller (1889–1953) was an American Methodist missionary born in Seoul. He served for about twenty years as the fifth principal of Pai Chai Haktang, the school founded by his father, Henry Appenzeller, and led relief work during the Korean War.
Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf
[People]Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700–1760) was an eighteenth-century German Pietist count. By receiving Moravian refugees on his estate at Herrnhut, he revived the Moravian Church, and he was a leading pioneer of Protestant foreign missions.
Heldai
[People]Heldai was a Jew who returned from the Babylonian exile. In Zechariah 6, the silver and gold received from him were made into crowns that were set upon the head of Joshua the high priest. In Zechariah 6:14 he is called "Helem."
Jonah 1
[Bible]Jonah 1 tells how Jonah, fleeing the LORD's command to go to Nineveh, boards a ship bound for Tarshish, is thrown into the sea during a storm, and is swallowed by a great fish.
1 John 5:7–8
[Bible Verses]This passage states that there are three that bear witness: the Spirit, the water, and the blood. Some Latin manuscripts and later translations add the words "there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost." This addition, known as the Johannine Comma, has become the most famous case in biblical textual criticism.
1 John 5:6
[Bible Verses]A verse declaring that Jesus Christ came "by water and blood," testifying that both his baptism and his death on the cross were real. Interpreters differ on what "water and blood" refers to.