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Daniel 6
[Bible]Daniel 6 recounts how Daniel, who defied King Darius's decree by continuing to pray three times a day, was cast into the lions' den and yet emerged unharmed. The chapter ends with Darius issuing a decree that honors the God of Daniel.
Charles Hodge
[People]Charles Hodge (1797–1878) was an American Presbyterian theologian. He taught at Princeton Theological Seminary for more than half a century and wrote a three-volume Systematic Theology, becoming the leading representative of "Princeton Theology."
Münster Rebellion
[History]The Münster Rebellion took place in 1534–1535 in Münster, a city in the northwestern Holy Roman Empire. Anabaptists who believed the end of the world was near seized control of the city and proclaimed it the "New Jerusalem," until the rebellion was suppressed after a siege by the bishop's forces.
Walk to Canossa
[History]The Walk to Canossa was the event of January 1077 in which the excommunicated German king Henry IV sought forgiveness from Pope Gregory VII at the castle of Canossa in northern Italy and received absolution. It is regarded as an emblematic episode of the Investiture Controversy, the medieval conflict between the papacy and secular rulers.
Zebah (King of Midian)
[People]Zebah was one of the two kings of Midian who invaded Israel during the period of the judges. Pursued by Gideon along with Zalmunna, he was captured and executed (Judges 8; Psalm 83:11).
Kedar (son of Ishmael)
[People]Kedar was the second son of Ishmael, the son of Abraham. Scripture records him as the ancestor of an Arabian nomadic tribe that the Old Testament also calls "Kedar."
Bill Bright
[People]Bill Bright (1921–2003) was an American evangelist who founded the student ministry Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC) in 1951. He also wrote the evangelistic booklet The Four Spiritual Laws and produced the film Jesus.
John Nevius
[People]John Livingston Nevius (1829–1893) was an American missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian) who served in China for about forty years. The mission methods he presented during an 1890 visit to Korea became established as the "Nevius Mission Policy" and laid the foundation of the early Presbyterian Church in Korea.
2 Chronicles 30
[Bible]2 Chronicles 30 records how Hezekiah, king of Judah, summoned all Israel, both north and south, to Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month, followed by a great festival lasting two weeks.
Jeremiah 8
[Bible]Jeremiah 8 indicts Judah for its idolatry and refusal to repent, announces the coming judgment, and then laments deeply over the wounded people.
Wiley Forsythe
[People]Wiley Hamilton Forsythe (1873–1918) was an American medical missionary sent to Korea by the Presbyterian Church in the United States (Southern Presbyterian Church); his Korean name was Bo Wi-ryeom. In 1909 he brought a woman with leprosy whom he had found collapsed by the roadside to Gwangju, an act widely regarded as the beginning of ministry to people with Hansen's disease in the Gwangju region.
Isaiah 32
[Bible]Isaiah 32 is a prophecy that foretells a king who will reign in righteousness and the restoration that comes under his rule, warns complacent women of coming desolation, and proclaims a future in which the Spirit is poured out and justice and peace dwell in the land.
J. Gresham Machen
[People]John Gresham Machen (1881–1937) was an American Presbyterian New Testament scholar. He criticized liberal theology in *Christianity and Liberalism* and founded Westminster Theological Seminary and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
C. Peter Wagner
[People]C. Peter Wagner (1930–2016) was an American missionary and missiologist. He taught church growth at Fuller Theological Seminary and later championed the New Apostolic Reformation, which brought him into controversy with a number of denominations.
1 Chronicles 19
[Bible]1 Chronicles 19 records a war that began when Hanun, king of the Ammonites, humiliated the envoys David had sent to console him. It recounts how Joab and David defeated the Ammonites and the Aramean coalition that came to their aid.
Han Kyung-Chik
[People]Han Kyung-Chik (1902–2000) was a Presbyterian minister and educator. In 1945 he founded Youngnak Church in Seoul. He later served as moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Korea, and in 1992 he received the Templeton Prize.
Ralph Winter
[People]Ralph D. Winter (1924–2009) was an American Presbyterian missionary and missiologist. At the 1974 Lausanne Congress he introduced the concept of "hidden peoples" (unreached people groups), and he founded the U.S. Center for World Mission.
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.
Cornelius Van Til
[People]Cornelius Van Til was a Dutch-born American Reformed theologian. He taught apologetics for many years at Westminster Theological Seminary and is known as a leading proponent of presuppositional apologetics.
Methods of Interpreting the Book of Revelation
[Doctrine & Theology]Methods of interpreting the Book of Revelation are approaches to determining which events, and in which era, the visions and symbols of Revelation refer to. The principal approaches are preterism, historicism, futurism, and idealism.