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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.
Julius Wellhausen
[People]Julius Wellhausen (1844–1918) was a German Old Testament scholar and Orientalist. He is widely known for systematizing the Documentary Hypothesis, which holds that the Pentateuch was composed from four sources (J, E, D, and P).
Paul Chong Hasang
[People]Paul Chong Hasang (丁夏祥, 1795–1839) was a Catholic lay leader in late Joseon Korea. After the Sinyu Persecution, he worked to rebuild the shattered church and to bring clergy into the country. During the Gihae Persecution, he left behind the *Sang Jaesang Seo* (Letter to the Prime Minister) and was martyred. His baptismal name was Paul.
Genesis 45:5–8
[Bible Verses]In this passage Joseph reveals his identity to the brothers who sold him into slavery and tells them that it was not they but God who sent him to Egypt to preserve life. It is frequently cited as a key text on divine providence.
Aram
[Bible]Aram is the Old Testament name for a Semitic people who lived in what is now Syria and northern Mesopotamia, and for the states they established. In the New Testament the region is usually called Syria.
August Hermann Francke
[People]August Hermann Francke (1663–1727) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, and educator. He led Halle Pietism and founded an orphanage and several schools in Halle.
William Scranton
[People]William Scranton (1856–1922) was an American medical missionary and minister sent to Korea by the Methodist Episcopal Church. He founded Sibyeongwon hospital in Seoul and took part in founding the Sangdong, Ahyeon, and Dongdaemun churches. His mother, Mary Scranton, founded Ewha Haktang.
Seo Sang-ryun
[People]Seo Sang-ryun (1848–1926) was an early Korean Protestant from Uiju, Pyeongan Province. In Manchuria he assisted the missionary John Ross in translating the Bible into Korean, and he became the first Korean colporteur, a person who sells Bibles while evangelizing. With his younger brother Seo Gyeong-jo, he founded Sorae Church in Hwanghae Province.
Reinhold Niebuhr
[People]Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) was an American Protestant theologian and Christian ethicist. He is known for "Christian realism," an approach that pursued social justice while squarely confronting human sinfulness and collective self-interest.
Oswald Chambers
[People]Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) was a Scottish Baptist evangelist and Bible teacher closely associated with the Holiness movement. He is best known for *My Utmost for His Highest*, a 365-day devotional compiled by his wife from his lectures.
John Piper
[People]John Piper (1946– ) is an American Baptist pastor and theologian. He served for thirty-three years at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, advocated what he calls "Christian Hedonism," and founded the ministry Desiring God.
Eric Liddell
[People]Eric Liddell (1902–1945) was a Scottish athlete and missionary. At the 1924 Paris Olympics he declined to run in the 100 meters heats, which were held on a Sunday, and went on to win the gold medal in the 400 meters. He later served as a missionary in China and died in a Japanese internment camp.
Yun Dong-ju
[People]Yun Dong-ju (1917–1945) was a poet active during the Japanese colonial period in Korea. He left behind the posthumous poetry collection *Sky, Wind, Stars, and Poetry*. Raised in a Presbyterian family in Myeongdong Village in North Jiandao, he died in a Japanese prison after being charged with anti-Japanese activities.