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Division of Abijah
[Bible]The division of Abijah was the eighth of the twenty-four priestly divisions established in the time of David for rotating temple service. In the Gospel of Luke, Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, is introduced as a priest belonging to this division.
Wilderness of Judah
[Bible]The Wilderness of Judah is an arid region stretching from the eastern slopes of the Judean hill country down to the Dead Sea. Scripture presents it as the place where David hid from Saul and where John the Baptist proclaimed repentance.
Song of Zechariah
[Worship & Rites]The Song of Zechariah (Luke 1:68-79) is the hymn that Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, uttered when he was filled with the Holy Spirit after his son's birth. It is also called the "Benedictus," from its first Latin word.
Song of Zechariah
[Bible]The Song of Zechariah is a hymn recorded in Luke 1:68-79. Filled with the Holy Spirit on the day of his son's circumcision, Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, praises God's salvation and prophesies concerning his son's mission.
Korea Baptist Theological University
[Institutions]Korea Baptist Theological University is a private theological university in Yuseong District, Daejeon, South Korea. It opened in 1953 and serves as the denominational seminary of the Korea Baptist Convention. In Korean it is commonly called by the abbreviation Chimsindae.
Philip (Husband of Herodias)
[People]Philip was a son of Herod the Great and the first husband of Herodias. Herodias left him to marry his brother Herod Antipas, and this marriage formed the background to the imprisonment of John the Baptist (Matthew 14:3; Mark 6:17).
Christian Council of Korea
[Institutions]The Christian Council of Korea (CCK; Korean abbreviation Hangichong) is an interdenominational body of Korean Protestant denominations founded in 1989 under the leadership of Rev. Han Kyung-chik and other senior conservative church leaders. It was long regarded as the representative organization of conservative Korean Protestantism, but after a series of schisms in the 2010s its major member denominations withdrew.
Herodias and Salome
[People]Herodias was the wife of the tetrarch Herod Antipas. Her daughter danced at a banquet and then asked for the head of John the Baptist. The daughter's name, "Salome," comes not from the Bible but from the writings of Josephus.
Charles Spurgeon
[People]Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892) was an English Baptist minister. He pastored the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London for thirty-eight years and is known as the "Prince of Preachers." His collected sermons have been translated into many languages around the world.
Edward Mote
[People]Edward Mote (1797–1874) was an English Baptist minister and hymn writer, best known as the author of the hymn "My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less," which is also sung in Korean translation in Korean churches.
Lysanias
[People]Lysanias is a figure named once in Scripture, in Luke 3:1, as tetrarch of Abilene. He appears in the chronological notice that dates the beginning of John the Baptist's ministry.
Abilene
[Bible]Abilene is a place name that appears once in Scripture, in Luke 3:1. It was a small territory in the Anti-Lebanon mountains northwest of Damascus. According to Luke, Lysanias was its tetrarch when John the Baptist began his ministry.
General Assembly Moderator
[Church Offices]A general assembly moderator is the person who represents and presides over the general assembly, the highest deliberative body of a denomination. The office exists in many denominations, including Presbyterian, Holiness, and Baptist churches, and its term and authority vary from one denomination to another.
Yi Byeok
[People]Yi Byeok (李檗, 1754–1785) was a Korean Catholic of the late Joseon period. He is regarded as one of the lay leaders who, together with Yi Seung-hun, Kwon Il-sin, and others, founded the Catholic Church in Joseon Korea. His pen name was Gwangam, and his baptismal name was John the Baptist.
Zechariah
[Bible]Zechariah is the thirty-eighth book of the Old Testament. This prophetic book encourages the people of Judah who had returned from the Babylonian exile to rebuild the Temple, and it prophesies concerning the Messiah and the restoration of the kingdom of God.
Denomination
[Organization & Polity]A denomination is a grouping of Protestant churches that share the same theological tradition and form of church government. Examples include the Presbyterian, Methodist, Holiness, Baptist, Pentecostal, Anglican, and Lutheran churches.
Berea
[Heresies & Cults]Berea is a theological system taught by Kim Ki-dong (c. 1938–2022) through Seoul Sungrak Church and the Berea Academy. Its doctrine of demons is central, and several Korean denominations, including the Korea Baptist Convention, have declared it heretical.
William Miller
[People]William Miller (1782–1849) was an American Baptist lay preacher who, on the basis of calculations from the prophecies of Daniel, proclaimed that Christ would return in 1843–1844. He was the central figure of the nineteenth-century Advent movement and of the Great Disappointment.
Tiberius
[People]Tiberius was the second emperor of the Roman Empire. His name appears once in Scripture, in Luke 3:1, where it serves as the reference point for dating the beginning of John the Baptist's ministry.
Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy
[History]A theological controversy of the 1920s and 1930s within mainline Protestant denominations in the United States, such as the Northern Presbyterian and Northern Baptist churches. It pitted fundamentalists, who sought to defend the authority of Scripture and the core doctrines of the faith, against modernists, who sought to reinterpret the faith in light of modern scholarship.