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• Hanshin University

  [Institutions]

  Hanshin University is a private comprehensive university in South Korea that traces its origins to the Chosun Theological Seminary, which opened in 1940 at Seungdong Church in Seoul. It is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea (PROK) and has campuses in Osan, Gyeonggi Province, and in Suyu-dong, Seoul.

• Clement Owen

  [People]

  Clement Owen (1867–1909) was an ordained minister and medical missionary sent to Korea by the Southern Presbyterian Church in the United States. Known in Korea as O Gi-won, he worked mainly from Mokpo and Gwangju, carrying out medical mission work and itinerant evangelism in South Jeolla Province.

• History of the Anglican Church in Korea

  [History]

  The history of the Anglican Church in Korea began in 1890, when Bishop Charles John Corfe of the Church of England arrived at Chemulpo. The church began as a diocese under the Church of England, received its first Korean bishop in 1965, and became an independent province, the Anglican Church of Korea, in 1993.

• 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.

• Suh Nam-dong

  [People]

  Suh Nam-dong (1918–1984) was a Korean Protestant theologian and minister who, together with Ahn Byung-mu, is regarded as having laid the foundations of minjung theology amid the democratization movement of the 1970s.

• Geerhardus Vos

  [People]

  Geerhardus Vos (1862–1949) was a Dutch-born American Reformed theologian who taught biblical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is regarded as having laid the foundation for a "redemptive-historical" reading of Scripture, which views revelation as unfolding progressively in history.

• Cappadocian Fathers

  [History]

  A collective name for three fourth-century theologians from Cappadocia in Asia Minor: Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory of Nazianzus. They articulated the Trinitarian formula that God exists as one essence in three persons.

• Ahn Byung-mu

  [People]

  Ahn Byung-mu (1922–1996) was a Korean New Testament scholar and a leading founder of Minjung theology. He is known for interpreting the "crowd" (ochlos) in the Gospel of Mark as the minjung.

• Chung Kyung-ok

  [People]

  Chung Kyung-ok (1903–1945) was a Korean Methodist minister and theologian during the Japanese colonial period. He taught systematic theology at the Methodist Theological Seminary and wrote An Introduction to Christian Theology (1939), which is regarded as the first scholarly introduction to systematic theology in Korea.

• Kim Dae-hyun

  [People]

  Kim Dae-hyun (金大鉉, 1873 or 1876–1940) was a Korean Presbyterian elder during the period of Japanese colonial rule in Korea. As an elder of Seungdong Church in Seoul, he donated a large sum that laid the foundation for Chosun Theological Seminary, the predecessor of Hanshin University, and he served as its first president.

• Park Sin-il

  [People]

  Park Sin-il was the wife of Sohn Jeong-do, a Methodist minister and Korean independence activist during the Japanese colonial period. She is known as a pastor's wife who supported her family through her own labor, sustaining her husband's theological studies and his independence work both in Korea and abroad.

• Kil Sun-joo

  [People]

  Kil Sun-joo (吉善宙, 1869–1935) was one of the first seven Korean Presbyterian ministers. He pastored Jangdaehyeon Church in Pyongyang, began the dawn prayer meeting, and led the Great Pyongyang Revival of 1907. He was also one of the 33 national representatives of the March First Movement.

• Yi Gi-pung

  [People]

  Yi Gi-pung (李基豊, 1865–1942) was a Korean Presbyterian minister. In 1907 he was one of the first seven Koreans ordained to the ministry, and as the first missionary sent out by the Independent Presbytery of the Korean Presbyterian Church, he founded churches on Jeju Island. He died from the aftereffects of torture he suffered for refusing Shinto shrine worship.

• Kim Ik-du

  [People]

  Kim Ik-du (1874–1950) was a Korean Presbyterian minister and revivalist of the Japanese colonial period. He became widely known for revival meetings that emphasized divine healing, and during the Korean War he was shot and killed by soldiers of the Korean People's Army at Sinchon, in what is now North Korea.

• Jerome

  [People]

  Jerome (c. 347–420) was a biblical scholar and Church Father of the ancient Western church. He translated the Latin Bible known as the Vulgate.

• Theodosius I

  [People]

  Theodosius I (347–395) was the last emperor to rule both the eastern and western halves of the Roman Empire. He established Nicene Christianity as the official faith of the empire and convened the Council of Constantinople in 381.

• Lee Hyun-pil

  [People]

  Lee Hyun-pil (1913–1964) was a Korean Protestant lay ascetic active during the Japanese colonial period and after Korea's liberation. He founded Donggwangwon, a community devoted to poverty, chastity (celibacy), and labor, and he is known as the "Barefoot Saint."

• Yang Jeon-baek

  [People]

  Yang Jeon-baek (梁甸伯, 1869–1933) was a Korean Presbyterian minister and one of the seven men who in 1907 became the first Koreans ordained to the Presbyterian ministry. He was tried in the 105-Man Incident and was one of the 33 national representatives of the March 1st Movement.

• Ham Tae-young

  [People]

  Ham Tae-young (咸台永, 1873–1964) was a Presbyterian minister who had earlier served as a judicial officer of the Korean Empire. He was one of the forty-eight national representatives of the March First Movement and served as the third Vice President of the Republic of Korea.

• 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.