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Bang Ji-il
[People]Bang Ji-il (1911–2014) was a minister of the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap). Beginning in 1937, he served for twenty-one years as a missionary in Shandong Province, China. After returning to Korea, he became senior pastor of Yeongdeungpo Church in Seoul and moderator of his denomination's General Assembly. Because he remained active past the age of one hundred, he was known as "the eternal active-duty minister."
Yu Gwan-sun
[People]Yu Gwan-sun (1902–1920) was a Korean independence activist raised in a Methodist family. She was at the forefront of the independence demonstration at the Aunae marketplace in Cheonan on April 1, 1919, was arrested, and died while imprisoned at Seodaemun Prison.
Kim Joon-gon
[People]Kim Joon-gon (1925–2009) was a Korean Presbyterian minister of the Presbyterian Church of Korea. In 1958 he founded Korea Campus Crusade for Christ (KCCC). He also launched the first National Prayer Breakfast in South Korea and led the National Evangelization Movement.
Ha Yong-jo
[People]Ha Yong-jo (1946–2011) was a minister of the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap). He founded Onnuri Church and the Christian publisher Duranno, and he was known for cultural evangelism and for his pastoral vision of an "Acts-style church."
Ham Sok-hon
[People]Ham Sok-hon (1901–1989) was a Korean Christian thinker who belonged to the circle of contributors behind the journal *Seongseo Joseon* (Bible Korea) during the Japanese colonial period. After Korea's liberation, he worked as a journalist and democracy activist and published the monthly *Ssial-ui Sori* (Voice of the People). He was influenced by Uchimura Kanzō's Non-Church Christianity and later became a Quaker.
Joachim Jeremias
[People]Joachim Jeremias (1900–1979) was a German Lutheran New Testament scholar. He studied the parables of Jesus, the words of institution of the Lord's Supper, and Jesus' use of the address "Abba," and he exerted a lasting influence on the interpretation of the parables.
Anders Nygren
[People]Anders Nygren (1890–1978) was a Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop. In *Agape and Eros* he offered a systematic account of the Christian concept of love.
Rudolf Bultmann
[People]Rudolf Bultmann (1884–1976) was a German Lutheran New Testament scholar. His form-critical analysis of the Gospel traditions and his call for the "demythologization" of the New Testament had a major influence on twentieth-century biblical studies and theology, and they proved correspondingly controversial.
Ahn Byung-mu
[People]Ahn Byung-mu (1922–1996) was a Korean New Testament scholar and a leading founder of Minjung theology. He is known for interpreting the "crowd" (ochlos) in the Gospel of Mark as the minjung.
Suh Nam-dong
[People]Suh Nam-dong (1918–1984) was a Korean Protestant theologian and minister who, together with Ahn Byung-mu, is regarded as having laid the foundations of minjung theology amid the democratization movement of the 1970s.
William Wrede
[People]William Wrede (1859–1906) was a German Lutheran New Testament scholar. He is known for redirecting Gospel studies through his 1901 study of the "Messianic secret" in the Gospel of Mark.
Julius Wellhausen
[People]Julius Wellhausen (1844–1918) was a German Old Testament scholar and Orientalist. He is widely known for systematizing the Documentary Hypothesis, which holds that the Pentateuch was composed from four sources (J, E, D, and P).
Lee Hyun-pil
[People]Lee Hyun-pil (1913–1964) was a Korean Protestant lay ascetic active during the Japanese colonial period and after Korea's liberation. He founded Donggwangwon, a community devoted to poverty, chastity (celibacy), and labor, and he is known as the "Barefoot Saint."
Geerhardus Vos
[People]Geerhardus Vos (1862–1949) was a Dutch-born American Reformed theologian who taught biblical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is regarded as having laid the foundation for a "redemptive-historical" reading of Scripture, which views revelation as unfolding progressively in history.
Albert Schweitzer
[People]Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) was an Alsatian theologian, philosopher, organist, and physician. His The Quest of the Historical Jesus left a major mark on historical Jesus research, and his medical work at Lambaréné in Gabon, Africa, earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952.
Gustaf Aulén
[People]Gustaf Aulén (1879–1977) was a Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop. In *Christus Victor* he classified theories of the atonement, which explain the meaning of salvation through the cross, into three types.
Oscar Cullmann
[People]Oscar Cullmann (1902–1999) was a Lutheran New Testament scholar from Alsace, France. He is widely known for his theology of "salvation history" (Heilsgeschichte), which holds that God's saving acts unfold in stages within history, and for his "already and not yet" eschatology.
Hermann Gunkel
[People]Hermann Gunkel (1862–1932) was a German Protestant Old Testament scholar. He is regarded as the founder of form criticism, a method that analyzes biblical texts according to their literary genres and the settings in life in which they arose.
Gustavo Gutiérrez
[People]Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928–2024) was a Peruvian Catholic priest and theologian whose book A Theology of Liberation (1971) earned him the title "father of liberation theology."
William Booth
[People]William Booth (1829–1912) was an English former Methodist minister who, together with his wife Catherine Booth, founded The Salvation Army and served as its first General.