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• Minjung Church

  [Organization & Polity]

  A minjung church is a church that regards workers, the urban poor, and other socially marginalized people as the "minjung" (the people) and makes standing with them, in the places where they live, the center of its mission. Minjung churches took shape in South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s alongside minjung theology.

• Sea of Glass

  [Bible]

  The sea of glass is the sea "like unto crystal" that the Book of Revelation describes as spread before the throne of God in heaven. In chapter 15, those who have overcome the beast stand beside it and sing the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb.

• Mosaic Authorship

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Mosaic authorship is the view that Moses wrote the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament. It is the traditional position of Judaism and Christianity and stands in contrast to the documentary hypothesis, which holds that the Pentateuch was compiled at a later date from several documents.

• Flesh

  [Bible]

  In the Bible, "flesh" refers to the human flesh and body and, more broadly, to finite and frail human existence. In the Pauline epistles it can also denote the human inclination toward sin that stands opposed to the Holy Spirit.

• Rule of Faith

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The rule of faith (regula fidei) is a summary of the content of the faith that the early church regarded as received from the apostles; it served as a standard for judging whether teaching was sound.

• Measuring Line

  [Bible]

  A measuring line is a cord used to measure length and area. In the Bible it appears chiefly in visions that anticipate the rebuilding of Jerusalem and the temple, and it also expresses the standard of divine judgment.

• Leviathan

  [Bible]

  Leviathan is a great sea creature mentioned in Job, Psalms, and Isaiah. The name serves as a symbol of a power beyond human control or of the chaos and evil that stand against God.

• Confessing Church

  [History]

  The Confessing Church was a movement of German Protestant pastors and church members who, in the 1930s, resisted the Nazi state's attempt to take control of the church. In 1934 it set forth its standard of faith in the Barmen Theological Declaration.

• Pacifism

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Pacifism is the position that rejects war and violence and pursues peace through nonviolence. Within Christianity, the Anabaptist and Quaker traditions are its most prominent representatives, and it stands in contrast to just war theory.

• Kir-hareseth

  [Bible]

  Kir-hareseth was a city in the land of Moab, east of the Dead Sea. In 2 Kings 3 it is where King Mesha of Moab made his last stand against the allied forces of Israel, Judah, and Edom. The city also appears in the prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah concerning Moab.

• Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion are thirty-nine articles of faith drawn up by the Church of England during the sixteenth-century Reformation. They are a historic standard of Anglican doctrine and also influenced the Methodist Articles of Religion.

• J. I. Packer

  [People]

  J. I. Packer (1926–2020) was an English-born evangelical Anglican theologian in the Reformed tradition who spent the latter part of his career in Canada. He wrote Knowing God and served as general editor of the English Standard Version (ESV) of the Bible.

• Numbers 12

  [Bible]

  Numbers 12 recounts how Miriam and Aaron speak against Moses over his Cushite wife, how God affirms Moses' unique standing, and how Miriam is struck with leprosy and shut out of the camp for seven days.

• Deuteronomy 27

  [Bible]

  Deuteronomy 27 records Moses' instructions that, after entering Canaan, Israel is to set up on Mount Ebal stones inscribed with the law, together with an altar. It then directs six tribes to stand on Mount Gerizim and six on Mount Ebal, and commands the people to answer "Amen" to each of twelve curses proclaimed by the Levites.

• Joshua 10

  [Bible]

  Joshua 10 recounts Joshua's victory over the five Amorite kings who attacked Gibeon and the conquest of the cities of southern Canaan. It includes the account of the sun and moon standing still.

• Discipleship Training Movement

  [History]

  The discipleship training movement seeks to train laypeople as disciples of Jesus Christ so that they share in the ministry of the church. In South Korea the movement spread from 1978 onward, when Oak Han-hum and SaRang Community Church brought discipleship training, previously the work of parachurch mission organizations, into the local church.

• The Justice of God

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The justice of God is the attribute by which God is righteous in himself and judges and governs all things according to a right standard. It provides a theological basis for discussions of judgment on sin, the doctrine of salvation, and social justice.

• Homoousios

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Homoousios is a Greek theological term affirming that the Son is true God, "of the same essence" as the Father. Adopted into the creed of the Council of Nicaea in 325, it became the standard for the doctrine of the Trinity.

• Psalm 119

  [Bible]

  Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in the Bible, with 176 verses. It is an acrostic poem arranged in eight-verse stanzas that follow the order of the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. It consists of confessions and prayers expressing love for God's word and law and a resolve to keep them.

• Seraph

  [Bible]

  The seraphim are six-winged heavenly beings who, in the vision of Isaiah 6, stand above the throne of God and cry "Holy" three times. The singular is seraph; the Hebrew plural form seraphim is also commonly used.