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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.
Cheonbugyo
[Heresies & Cults]Cheonbugyo is a religious organization founded in 1955 by Park Tae-seon, a former elder in the Presbyterian Church in Korea. Formerly called the Korean Jesus Church Evangelical Hall Revival Association, it was widely known as Jeondogwan ("Evangelical Hall"). In 1956 the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Korea declared it heretical.
Ephesus
[Bible]Ephesus was a Roman-era port city on the western coast of Asia Minor. Paul stayed there for about three years preaching the gospel, and the city was the destination of the Epistle to the Ephesians and the home of the first of the seven churches of Revelation.
Laodicea
[Bible]Laodicea was a city in the region of Phrygia in Asia Minor that appears in Colossians and Revelation. It was the home of one of the seven churches of Asia, which Revelation rebukes as "lukewarm."
Philadelphia
[Bible]Philadelphia was a city in the region of Lydia in Asia Minor and the site of the sixth of the seven churches that receive letters from Christ in Revelation 2–3.
Twelve Articles of Faith
[Doctrine & Theology]The Twelve Articles of Faith is a twelve-article creed adopted by the Independent Presbytery of the Korean Presbyterian Church, which was organized in 1907. It still appears in the doctrinal sections of the constitutions of several Korean Presbyterian denominations.
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.
Patristics
[Doctrine & Theology]Patristics is the theological discipline that studies the lives, writings, and thought of the Church Fathers, the theologians and leaders of the early church. It is usually treated as a branch of church history (historical theology).
Christianity and Culture
[Doctrine & Theology]A theological topic concerning the relationship between the Christian faith and human culture, including language, the arts, customs, and institutions. Traditions differ on whether Christians should keep their distance from culture, accept it, or seek to transform it.
Basilica
[Doctrine & Theology]A basilica is an architectural form with a long rectangular plan comprising a nave, aisles, and an apse. Originating in the public buildings of ancient Rome, it became the basic form of early church buildings. In the Catholic Church, the term is also used for a title that the pope confers on certain churches.
Stained Glass
[Doctrine & Theology]Stained glass is decorative glass made of colored glass pieces joined with lead strips and set into windows. Through light and color it depicts biblical stories and symbols of the faith, and since the era of the medieval cathedrals it has been a characteristic decoration of church buildings.
Christian Wedding Service
[Worship & Rites]A Christian wedding service is a ceremony conducted as an act of worship in which a Christian man and woman make their marriage vows before God and receive a blessing upon their union. It is usually officiated by a pastor and may be held in a church or a wedding hall.
Salvation Sect (Guwonpa)
[Heresies & Cults]The Salvation Sect (Guwonpa) is the collective name Korean Protestants use for the Kwon Shin-chan–Yoo Byung-eun line, which began in Daegu, South Korea, in the early 1960s, and for the Lee Yo-han and Park Ock-soo lines, which either split from it or share its roots. Korea's major Protestant denominations have declared it heretical.
Christian Gospel Mission
[Heresies & Cults]The Christian Gospel Mission is a religious organization founded by Jung Myung-seok and widely known as JMS. Several Protestant denominations in South Korea have declared it heretical, and its founder has twice received final prison sentences for sex crimes against female members.
Jeam-ri Incident
[History]The Jeam-ri Incident was a massacre on April 15, 1919, in Jeam-ri, Hyangnam-myeon, Suwon County, Gyeonggi Province, Korea (present-day Hyangnam-eup, Hwaseong City). Japanese soldiers and police gathered villagers in a Methodist church building, opened fire on them, and set the building ablaze. It is regarded as one of the most representative instances of repression during the March First Movement.
Malcolm Fenwick
[People]Malcolm C. Fenwick (1863–1935) was a Canadian independent missionary to Korea. In 1906, at Ganggyeong in South Chungcheong Province, he founded the Church of Christ in Corea (Daehan Gidokgyohoe), the parent body of the Korea Baptist Convention. He is regarded as the founder of the Baptist church in Korea.
Marcionism
[Heresies & Cults]Marcionism is the teaching of the second-century teacher Marcion and his followers. It held that the Creator God of the Old Testament and the God who sent Jesus Christ were distinct beings, rejected the Old Testament, and established its own canon of Scripture. The early Church Fathers repudiated it as a heresy.
Acts 2:44–45
[Bible Verses]A passage recording that, after Pentecost, the believers were together, had all things common, and sold their possessions and goods to distribute them to all as every man had need. It is often idealized as a portrait of the early church community, but interpreters have debated whether it sets a norm the church today should follow and how it relates to socialist thought.
Pergamum
[Bible]Pergamum was a city in western Asia Minor and the site of the third of the seven churches addressed in Revelation 2. The letter to this church describes it as the place "where Satan's seat is."
Eusebius of Caesarea
[People]Eusebius (c. 260 – c. 339) was bishop of Caesarea in Palestine and a historian of the early church. His *Ecclesiastical History* has earned him the title "Father of Church History."