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• Francis Schaeffer

  Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984) was an American Presbyterian minister and Christian apologist (one who explains and defends the rationality of the Christian faith). In 1955 he and his wife, Edith, founded the L'Abri community in Switzerland.

• Jun Taek-bu

  Jun Taek-bu (全澤鳧, 1915–2008) was a Korean YMCA leader and writer on Christian history. He served as general secretary and later as honorary general secretary of the Seoul YMCA. His works include A History of the Korean YMCA Movement and A History of the Development of the Korean Church, and he was also active in the movement to promote Hangul.

• Choi Tae-yong

  Choi Tae-yong (崔泰瑢, 1897–1950) was a Korean Protestant minister during the Japanese colonial period. Starting out in the Non-Church movement, he founded the Korean Evangelical Church of Joseon (now the Korea Evangelical Church), a denomination established by Koreans themselves, in 1935 and served as its first bishop.

• Kang Won-yong

  Kang Won-yong (1917–2006) was a minister of the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea. He co-founded Kyungdong Church and founded the Christian Academy, through which he led the dialogue movement and interreligious dialogue. His pen name was Yeohae.

• Byeongin Persecution

  The Byeongin Persecution (丙寅迫害) was the mass arrest and execution of Catholics and French missionaries carried out by the Joseon court beginning in 1866, while the Heungseon Daewongun held power. It is regarded as the largest persecution in the history of the Catholic Church in Korea.

• Sarah Hall Boardman

  Sarah Hall Boardman (1803–1845) was an American Baptist missionary. In Burma (present-day Myanmar) she helped establish schools and churches among the Karen people, and after the death of her first husband, George Boardman, she married Adoniram Judson.

• Billy Graham

  Billy Graham (1918–2018) was an American Southern Baptist minister and mass evangelist. He is regarded as a leading representative of twentieth-century evangelicalism, and his 1973 Yeouido crusade in Seoul had a significant impact on the Korean church.

• Sidon

  Sidon was a Phoenician port city on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, corresponding to present-day Saida in Lebanon. In the Old Testament it appears as a neighbor to the north of Israel, and in the New Testament it stands for Gentile territory.

• Noah's Ark

  The ark is the large vessel that God commanded Noah to build in Genesis 6–9. Noah's family of eight and the animals survived the Flood aboard it. The New Testament draws on the ark as an image of faith, salvation, and baptism.

• Kittim

  Kittim (also spelled Chittim) is a place name and an ethnic name found in the Old Testament. It is thought to have originally referred to the island of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean, or to a port city there. It later came to be used more broadly for the coastlands and islands lying across the sea to the west.

• 1 Chronicles 1

  First Chronicles 1 is a genealogy that runs from Adam through Noah and Abraham to Isaac's sons, Esau and Israel. It closes with lists of the descendants of Edom, its kings, and its chiefs.

• C. S. Lewis

  C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) was a British scholar of English literature, an author, and a lay member of the Church of England. Widely known for Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, and The Chronicles of Narnia, he is regarded as one of the leading Christian apologists of the twentieth century.

• King James Version

  The King James Version (KJV) is an English translation of the Bible produced at the command of King James I of England and published in 1611. For centuries it served as the standard Bible of English-speaking Protestantism.

• Shechem

  Shechem was an ancient Canaanite city in the hill country of Ephraim, situated between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal. In Scripture it appears as a major setting for covenant and political events from the patriarchal period through the division of the kingdom.

• Mercy Seat

  The mercy seat was the slab of pure gold that covered the Ark of the Covenant in the Most Holy Place of the tabernacle. On the Day of Atonement the high priest sprinkled blood on it, and it was the place where God met with Moses and spoke to him.

• Arabah

  Arabah is a Hebrew place name meaning "dry land" or "plain." In the Bible it refers to the long lowland that runs south from the Sea of Galilee through the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba.

• Judas Maccabeus

  Judas Maccabeus was a leader of the Jewish revolt against the Seleucid king Antiochus IV in the second century BC. He recaptured the Temple in Jerusalem and rededicated it.

• Amittai

  Amittai was the father of the prophet Jonah. He is mentioned by name only in 2 Kings 14:25 and Jonah 1:1 in the Old Testament.

• Johannes Cocceius

  Johannes Cocceius (1603–1669) was a Reformed theologian from Bremen, Germany, who worked in the Netherlands. He systematized covenant theology (federal theology), which reads the whole of Scripture as the unfolding of God's covenants.

• Genesis 34

  Genesis 34 records how, after Shechem violated Jacob's daughter Dinah, Simeon and Levi used a deceitful demand for circumcision to kill the men of the city of Shechem, after which their brothers plundered the city.