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Westminster Confession of Faith
[Doctrine & Theology]The Westminster Confession of Faith is a Reformed confession of faith produced by the Westminster Assembly in seventeenth-century England. Together with the Larger and Shorter Catechisms prepared by the same assembly, it serves as the doctrinal standard for most Presbyterian churches worldwide, including most Presbyterian denominations in Korea.
Liberal Theology
[Doctrine & Theology]Liberal theology is a movement in Protestant theology, emerging in the nineteenth century, that treats modern reason, scholarship, and individual religious experience as important criteria for understanding the faith. Among Korean Protestant churches, the term is used chiefly as a critical label by conservatives.
Covenant Theology
[Doctrine & Theology]Covenant theology is a theological system, developed within the Reformed tradition, that seeks to understand the whole of Scripture and the history of salvation as a unity centered on the covenants (relationships grounded in promise) that God has made with human beings.
Eschatology
[Doctrine & Theology]Eschatology is the field of Christian doctrine concerned with the last things of the world and of humanity, namely death and judgment, the second coming of Jesus Christ, the resurrection of the dead, and the consummation of the kingdom of God.
Acts of the Apostles
[Bible]The Acts of the Apostles is the fifth book of the New Testament. It records how, after the ascension of Jesus Christ and with the coming of the Holy Spirit, the church began in Jerusalem and spread as far as Rome.
Psalms
[Bible]The Book of Psalms is a collection of 150 prayers and songs of praise in the Old Testament. Used in the worship of ancient Israel, it remains one of the most widely used books of the Bible in the worship and personal devotional life of the church today.
New Testament
[Bible]The New Testament is the collection of twenty-seven books that contain the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, the formation of the early church, and the letters of the apostles. Together with the Old Testament, it makes up the Protestant Bible.
Old Testament
[Bible]The Old Testament is the first part of the Christian Bible, containing the history, law, prophecy, and poetry concerning God and Israel before the coming of Jesus Christ. Protestants accept thirty-nine books as canonical.
Common Translation Bible
[Bible]The Common Translation Bible is a Korean Bible translated from the original languages by Catholic and Protestant scholars working together and published in 1977. It was issued by the Korean Bible Society.
Five Solas
[Doctrine & Theology]The Five Solas are five slogans that summarize the central tenets of the Reformation using the Latin word sola ("alone"). They are Scripture alone, faith alone, grace alone, Christ alone, and glory to God alone.
Book of Revelation
[Bible]The Book of Revelation is the last book of the New Testament. Written in the form of apocalyptic literature, it records the visions given to John concerning the second coming of Christ and the final victory of God. It is often referred to simply as Revelation.
Pauline Epistles
[Bible]The Pauline Epistles are the thirteen letters in the New Testament traditionally attributed to the apostle Paul. Written to early Christian communities and to Paul's coworkers, they have had a major influence on Protestant doctrine and worship.
Rapture
[Doctrine & Theology]The rapture is the belief that, when Jesus Christ returns, living believers will be caught up into the air to meet the Lord. Denominations and theological traditions differ on when it will occur.
Pentateuch
[Bible]The Pentateuch is the collective name for the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. In Judaism it is called the Torah.
Heidelberg Catechism
[Doctrine & Theology]The Heidelberg Catechism is a Reformed manual of Christian instruction produced in 1563 in the Palatinate region of Germany. In 129 questions and answers, it explains the core of the faith in terms of comfort and gratitude.
Bible Translations
[Bible]A Bible translation renders the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts of Scripture into another language. Translations differ in how closely they follow the wording of the original or render its meaning in natural modern language. Korean churches use several Korean translations, including the New Korean Revised Version, the New Korean Standard Version, the Common Translation, and the Easy Bible.
Gospels
[Bible]The Gospels are the first four books of the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), which record the life, teaching, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Together they are called the four Gospels.
Anabaptists
[Denominations]The Anabaptists are a Protestant movement that arose in Zurich, Switzerland, during the sixteenth-century Reformation. They rejected infant baptism and baptized only those who had personally professed faith. The Mennonites and the Hutterites belong to this tradition.
Christianity
[Denominations]Christianity is the religion centered on faith in Jesus of Nazareth as the Christ, that is, the Savior, and it encompasses the Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant traditions. In Korea, the Korean word for Christianity is also commonly used to refer to Protestantism alone.
Revised New Korean Standard Version (Saebeonyeok)
[Bible]The Revised New Korean Standard Version (Saebeonyeok) is a Korean translation of the Bible published by the Korean Bible Society in 1993 as the New Korean Standard Version (Pyojun Saebeonyeok) and revised in 2001. It aimed to render the meaning of the original texts in plain, contemporary Korean.