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The Pilgrim's Progress
[Christian Life]The Pilgrim's Progress is a Christian allegory by the English Puritan preacher John Bunyan, published in 1678 (Part One) and 1684 (Part Two). Told in the form of a dream, it depicts the journey of the pilgrim Christian from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City.
Sending of the Seventy
[Bible]The Sending of the Seventy is an event in which Jesus appointed seventy others, apart from the Twelve, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every town he intended to visit. It is recorded only in Luke 10.
Establishment of the State of Israel
[History]The establishment of the State of Israel was the proclamation of an independent Jewish state by Jewish leaders on May 14, 1948, as the British Mandate for Palestine was coming to an end. Christian theological traditions interpret its significance in different ways, and in Korean Protestant churches the event is frequently discussed in connection with eschatology.
Fear of the Lord
[Bible]The fear of the Lord is a biblical expression for an attitude of fearing, revering, and obeying God. Old Testament wisdom literature calls it the beginning of wisdom and knowledge.
Illumination of the Holy Spirit
[Doctrine & Theology]The illumination of the Holy Spirit is a theological term for the work by which the Holy Spirit enlightens the human heart to understand and receive the meaning of Scripture that has already been written.
Division of the Land of Canaan
[Bible]The division of the land of Canaan was the allotment of territory by lot to the twelve tribes, carried out by Joshua and Eleazar the priest after Israel entered Canaan. It is recorded chiefly in Joshua 13–21.
River of the Water of Life
[Bible]The river of the water of life is the clear river in Revelation 22 that flows from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the New Jerusalem. Drawing on the river of Eden and the river of Ezekiel's temple vision, it serves as an image of the life that God gives.
Sect of the Nazarenes
[Bible]The "sect of the Nazarenes" is the expression the advocate Tertullus used in Acts 24 for the followers of Jesus when he brought charges against Paul. The Greek word behind "sect" here is closer to "sect" or "faction" than to "heresy" in the modern doctrinal sense.
Books of the Maccabees
[Bible]The Books of the Maccabees are writings that record the Jewish resistance to persecution under the Seleucid dynasty in the second century BC and the martyrdoms that accompanied it. The Catholic and Orthodox Churches accept them as canonical (deuterocanonical), while Protestants classify them as Apocrypha.
Parable of the Fig Tree
[Bible]The Parable of the Fig Tree is a parable Jesus told on the Mount of Olives while teaching about the end times. Just as people know that summer is near when the fig tree puts forth leaves, so those who see the signs are to know that the end is near.
Healing of the Deaf Man with a Speech Impediment
[Bible]The healing of the deaf man with a speech impediment is a miracle in which Jesus, in the region of the Decapolis, healed a man who could not hear and could not speak properly by saying "Ephphatha." It appears only in Mark 7:31-37.
The Bondage of the Will
[Doctrine & Theology]The Bondage of the Will is a 1525 book by Martin Luther refuting Erasmus's On Free Will, and the name also refers to the position it argues. It holds that the will of fallen humanity is bound by sin and cannot choose salvation of itself, and that salvation depends entirely on the grace of God.
Number of the Beast
[Bible]The number of the beast is the number 666, which appears in Revelation 13:18. It is mentioned in connection with the mark that the beast rising out of the earth causes people to receive, and interpretations of what it signifies vary widely.
The Great Century of Missions
[History]The Great Century of Missions is a name coined by the American church historian Kenneth Scott Latourette for the period from 1800 to 1914, during which Protestant foreign missions expanded dramatically.
History of the Russian Orthodox Church
[History]The history of the Russian Orthodox Church is the history of a branch of Eastern Orthodoxy that began around 988, when Vladimir I of Kievan Rus' accepted the Orthodox faith of Byzantium, and that has continued to the present day centered on the Patriarchate of Moscow.
History of the Korean Holiness Church
[History]The history of the Korean Holiness Church began in 1907, when Kim Sang-jun and Jeong Bin opened the "Oriental Missionary Society Gospel Mission Hall" in Seoul. The church was forcibly dissolved under Japanese colonial rule, rebuilt after liberation, and divided in 1961, and its history continues to the present day.
History of the Baptists in Korea
[History]The history of the Baptists in Korea traces the Korean Baptist church from its beginnings in 1889 with the work of Malcolm Fenwick, an independent Canadian missionary, through the Korea Christian Church and the East Asia Christian Church to today's Korea Baptist Convention.
History of the Anglican Church in Korea
[History]The history of the Anglican Church in Korea began in 1890, when Bishop Charles John Corfe of the Church of England arrived at Chemulpo. The church began as a diocese under the Church of England, received its first Korean bishop in 1965, and became an independent province, the Anglican Church of Korea, in 1993.
History of the Pentecostal Movement in Korea
[History]The history of the Pentecostal movement in Korea traces how Pentecostal faith, with its emphasis on speaking in tongues and divine healing, took root in Korea after the missionary Mary Rumsey arrived in 1928, and how denominations centered on the Korea Assemblies of God were founded, grew, and divided.
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.