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History of the Catholic Church in Korea
[History]The history of the Catholic Church in Korea traces the Korean Catholic Church from 1784, when Yi Seung-hun returned from Beijing after being baptized and founded a community of believers, through the era of persecution and the establishment of the Apostolic Vicariate of Korea.
Attributes of God
[Doctrine & Theology]The attributes of God are the essential qualities that reveal who God is. They are also called the character of God, and Reformed theology commonly divides them into communicable and incommunicable attributes.
Psalm 44
[Bible]Psalm 44 is a song of the sons of Korah. In this lament, the community recalls God's deliverance in the days of their fathers and then cries out "Awake" because it has suffered defeat and shame despite keeping the covenant.
Postmodern Theology
[Doctrine & Theology]Postmodern theology is an umbrella term for various movements that arose in the late twentieth century in response to postmodernist thought. These movements critique the modern, reason-centered understanding of truth, emphasize the roles of language, community, and tradition, and seek to rethink theology.
Psalm 74
[Bible]Psalm 74 is a lament in which, after enemies have burned and defiled the sanctuary, the community asks God why he has cast them off and pleads with God, the King who has worked salvation from of old, to remember his covenant and arise.
Word of Wisdom
[Bible]The word of wisdom is the first of the gifts of the Holy Spirit that Paul lists in 1 Corinthians 12:8. It refers to the gift of communicating in speech the wisdom the Holy Spirit gives. Its precise content is understood differently across traditions and denominations.
1 Corinthians 5
[Bible]1 Corinthians 5 addresses a case of sexual immorality in the church at Corinth. Paul instructs the church to remove the offender from the community and uses the images of leaven and the Passover to stress the church's purity.
Brother Andrew
[People]Brother Andrew (1928–2022) was a Dutch lay missionary. Known as "God's Smuggler" for secretly carrying Bibles into Communist countries during the Cold War, he founded Open Doors, a mission organization that serves the persecuted church, in 1955.
Anna Nitschmann
[People]Anna Nitschmann (1715–1760) was an eighteenth-century woman leader of the Moravian Church. Chosen as an eldress of the Herrnhut community before the age of fifteen, she led its women members, and in 1757 she became Zinzendorf's second wife.
Erdmuthe Dorothea von Reuss
[People]Erdmuthe Dorothea von Reuss (1700–1756) was a German countess and hymnwriter of the Pietist era. The first wife of Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, she managed the household affairs and finances of the Herrnhut community, thereby supporting the Moravian Church.
Watchman Nee
[People]Watchman Nee (Ni Tuosheng, 1903–1972) was a twentieth-century Chinese church leader and author. He founded the local church movement and wrote works such as The Spiritual Man. Imprisoned under the Communist regime, he died in custody.
Edith Schaeffer
[People]Edith Schaeffer (1914–2013) was an American missionary and Christian author. With her husband, Francis Schaeffer, she founded the L'Abri community in Switzerland in 1955.
Discipleship Training
[Christian Life]Discipleship training is a form of Christian education in which church members receive systematic instruction over a set period, through small-group Bible study, prayer, and examination of daily life, so that they may live as disciples of Jesus Christ. In Korea it spread widely as a lay training program through Ok Han-heum and SaRang Community Church.
Jeremiah 29:11
[Bible Verses]A promise that God's thoughts toward his people are not of calamity but of peace, intended to give them a future and a hope. It is one of the verses most frequently used at graduations and new beginnings, and it often prompts debate over whether a word given to the community of exiles in Babylon may be applied as a promise of personal success.
Romans 12:9–10
[Bible Verses]Paul's exhortation to love without hypocrisy, to hate evil and hold fast to what is good, and to show brotherly affection and mutual honor among believers. Because these verses open the entire series of exhortations on love in Romans 12:9–21, they are frequently cited in discussions of the ethics of the church community.
Colossians 3:14
[Bible Verses]In this verse, after urging the Colossian believers to put on a series of virtues like garments, Paul tells them to add love over all of them. Because it describes love as "the bond of perfectness," the verse is frequently cited in discussions of Christian virtue and the unity of the church community.
Ephesians 4:13–16
[Bible Verses]A passage describing the church growing in the unity of the faith and of knowledge toward the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ, and, as a body with Christ as its head, building itself up in love. It is frequently cited in discussions of spiritual maturity and the growth of the church community.
Mark 9:50
[Bible Verses]Mark 9:50 records Jesus' charge to his disciples, given through the figure of salt, to live as disciples who have not lost their savor and to be at peace with one another. Because it concludes a teaching that began with a dispute over who was the greatest, the verse is often cited in discussions of peace within the Christian community.
Novatian
[People]Novatian was a third-century presbyter and theologian of the church at Rome. Taking a rigorist position on whether to readmit those who had renounced the faith during persecution, he broke with Cornelius, bishop of Rome, and formed a separate church community.
Orphan
[Bible]In the Bible, an orphan is a child who has lost his or her father and has no one to provide protection. Together with the widow and the stranger, the orphan is repeatedly named as one of the vulnerable whom God cares for in a special way and whom the community is obligated to protect.