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• Catacombs

  [History]

  The catacombs are underground cemeteries used in ancient Rome and elsewhere by early Christians, Jews, and others. Widely known as a symbol of faith in the age of persecution, they are studied as evidence of the burial customs and art of the early church.

• Bride of the Lamb

  [Bible]

  The Bride of the Lamb is an expression in the Book of Revelation for the bride who is married to the Lamb, Jesus Christ. It is commonly read as a symbol of God's redeemed people, that is, the church.

• Decian Persecution

  [History]

  The Decian persecution was a persecution of Christians that began when the Roman emperor Decius, in late 249 or early 250, ordered all inhabitants of the empire to sacrifice to the gods. It is regarded as the first organized empire-wide persecution, and it left the church with the problem of how to deal with those who had lapsed.

• The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved

  [People]

  The disciple whom Jesus loved is an unnamed disciple of Jesus who appears only in the Gospel of John. He is present at the Last Supper, at the foot of the cross, at the empty tomb, and by the Sea of Tiberias. Church tradition identifies him as John the son of Zebedee.

• Monasticism

  [History]

  Monasticism is the movement, beginning in the deserts of Egypt and Syria in the third and fourth centuries, through which a life of prayer, labor, and asceticism lived apart from the world became established in communities and institutions. It stood at the center of the medieval church, and since the Reformation the various Christian traditions have assessed it differently.

• Confirmation

  [Worship & Rites]

  Confirmation is a rite in which a baptized believer personally professes the faith and receives the laying on of hands to be strengthened in that faith. The Catholic and Anglican churches call it the Sacrament of Confirmation, and Lutherans also practice confirmation, while other Protestant denominations have a comparable rite of admission to church membership.

• Fivefold Gospel

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The Fivefold Gospel is a summary of faith that presents five elements (regeneration, the fullness of the Holy Spirit, divine healing, blessing, and the Second Coming) as the core of the gospel given by Jesus Christ. Systematized by the Korean pastor David Yonggi Cho, it became the representative doctrine of Yoido Full Gospel Church and the Korea Assemblies of God.

• Religious Order

  [Organization & Polity]

  A religious order is a community of men or women religious who live under a common rule, take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and pray together. Religious orders exist mainly in the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion.

• Philo of Alexandria

  [People]

  Philo of Alexandria (c. 20 BC – c. AD 50) was a Jewish philosopher who interpreted the Pentateuch in light of Greek philosophy. Through his allegorical interpretation and his doctrine of the Logos, he influenced the biblical interpretation of the early Church Fathers.

• Mother Teresa

  [People]

  Mother Teresa (1910–1997) was a Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, India, to care for the poor, the sick, and the dying. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and was canonized by the Catholic Church in 2016.

• Julian (Roman Emperor)

  [People]

  Julian (331–363), a nephew of Constantine I, the emperor who legalized Christianity, ruled the Roman Empire from 361 to 363. Although he was raised as a Christian, after his accession he sought to revive traditional Roman religion, and the church therefore calls him "Julian the Apostate."

• Charlemagne

  [People]

  Charlemagne (born 742 or c. 747–748; died 814) was king of the Franks. On Christmas Day 800 he was crowned emperor by Pope Leo III, and he is regarded as the figure who established the framework of politics, the church, and learning in medieval Western Europe.

• Teresa of Ávila

  [People]

  Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) was a Spanish Catholic nun and mystic (one who seeks direct union with God). She reformed the Carmelite Order, founding the Discalced Carmelites, and wrote The Interior Castle. In 1970 she became the first woman proclaimed a Doctor of the Church.

• Leo Tolstoy

  [People]

  Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was a Russian novelist and religious and moral thinker, the author of *War and Peace*, *Anna Karenina*, and *Resurrection*. He interpreted the teachings of Jesus as a call to nonviolence and nonresistance, and after criticizing the church he was excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox Church in 1901.

• Yi Byeok

  [People]

  Yi Byeok (李檗, 1754–1785) was a Korean Catholic of the late Joseon period. He is regarded as one of the lay leaders who, together with Yi Seung-hun, Kwon Il-sin, and others, founded the Catholic Church in Joseon Korea. His pen name was Gwangam, and his baptismal name was John the Baptist.

• Leipzig Debate

  [History]

  The Leipzig Debate was a public theological disputation held in the summer of 1519 in Leipzig, Germany, between Johann Eck, professor of theology at the University of Ingolstadt, and Martin Luther and Andreas Karlstadt, professors of theology at the University of Wittenberg. The authority of the pope and of church councils became the central issue, and the debate is regarded as an important turning point in the early Reformation.

• Released Prisoner Saints

  [History]

  The Released Prisoner Saints were Korean Protestant believers who had been imprisoned for refusing Shinto shrine worship during the final years of Japanese colonial rule and who were freed when Korea was liberated in August 1945. Immediately after liberation, they called for repentance over shrine worship and for the rebuilding of the church.

• Work of the Holy Spirit

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The work of the Holy Spirit is a comprehensive term for what the Holy Spirit, one person of the triune God, does in creation and revelation, in the application of salvation, in the sanctification of believers, and in the building up of the church.

• Acts 20

  [Bible]

  Acts 20 is the chapter in which Paul, having completed his third missionary journey and setting out for Jerusalem, restores to life the young man Eutychus, who had fallen to his death at Troas, and at Miletus delivers a farewell address to the elders of the church at Ephesus.

• Colossians 1

  [Bible]

  The first chapter of Colossians, in which Paul greets the believers at Colossae, gives thanks for them, and prays for them. It contains a hymn (verses 15–20) exalting Christ as the image of the invisible God, the Creator of all things, and the head of the church.