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• Jehovah's Witnesses

  Jehovah's Witnesses are a religious organization that grew out of a Bible study group begun in the United States in the late nineteenth century by Charles Taze Russell. The group rejects the Trinity, and several Korean Protestant denominations have formally declared it heretical.

• Charles Spurgeon

  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.

• Charles Wesley

  Charles Wesley (1707–1788) was a priest of the Church of England and a hymn writer. With his elder brother John Wesley, he led the Methodist movement, and he is said to have written more than 6,500 hymns over his lifetime.

• Charles Finney

  Charles Finney (1792–1875) was an American Presbyterian and Congregationalist minister and revivalist. He is regarded as a leading figure of the Second Great Awakening and introduced and popularized the "New Measures" in revival meetings. He served as president of Oberlin College.

• Charles Parham

  Charles Fox Parham (1873–1929) was an American preacher and itinerant evangelist. Because he was the first to systematize speaking in tongues as the evidence of baptism in the Holy Spirit, he is regarded as an early leader of the Pentecostal movement.

• Charles Hodge

  Charles Hodge (1797–1878) was an American Presbyterian theologian. He taught at Princeton Theological Seminary for more than half a century and wrote a three-volume Systematic Theology, becoming the leading representative of "Princeton Theology." In Korean, his name is also transliterated as "Charles Haji."

• Charles Simeon

  Charles Simeon (1759–1836) was an evangelical priest of the Church of England. He ministered at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, for fifty-four years, trained preachers, and took part in founding the Church Missionary Society (CMS).

• Charlemagne

  Charlemagne (born 742 or c. 747–748; died 814) was king of the Franks. On Christmas Day 800 he was crowned emperor by Pope Leo III, and he is regarded as the figure who established the framework of politics, the church, and learning in medieval Western Europe.

• C. T. Studd

  C. T. Studd (1860–1931) was a British missionary and former England international cricketer. As one of the Cambridge Seven, he went to China, later served in India, and then worked in Africa, where he founded the forerunner of WEC International.

• C. Peter Wagner

  C. Peter Wagner (1930–2016) was an American missionary and missiologist. He taught church growth at Fuller Theological Seminary and later championed the New Apostolic Reformation, which brought him into controversy with a number of denominations.

• Sarah Thistlethwaite

  Sarah Thistlethwaite (1877–1937) was the wife of Charles Parham, an early leader of the American Pentecostal movement. She joined her husband in itinerant evangelism, led the Apostolic Faith movement after his death, and compiled his biography.

• Karl Gützlaff

  Karl Gützlaff (1803–1851) was a Prussian Protestant missionary. In 1832 he sailed aboard a British merchant ship that anchored near Godae Island in Chungcheong Province, and he is regarded as the first Protestant missionary to set foot on Korean soil.

• Puritan Revolution

  The Puritan Revolution refers to the civil wars fought in England from 1642 to 1651 between the Royalists of Charles I and the Parliamentarians, whose core was made up of Puritans, together with the political upheaval that followed. The king was executed, a republic was established, and the Westminster Confession of Faith was produced during this period.

• Augsburg Confession

  The Augsburg Confession is the confession of faith that the Lutheran princes presented to Emperor Charles V at the Imperial Diet of Augsburg in the Holy Roman Empire in 1530. It is the foundational doctrinal standard of the Lutheran Church.

• Diet of Worms

  The Diet of Worms was an imperial diet convened in 1521 by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in Worms, Germany. At this assembly Martin Luther refused the demand to recant his writings, after which the Edict of Worms was issued, placing Luther outside the protection of the law.

• Susannah Spurgeon

  Susannah Spurgeon (1832–1903) was the wife of the English Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon and a Christian author. In 1875 she founded the Book Fund, which sent theological books to ministers of limited means.

• Susanna Wesley

  Susanna Wesley (1669–1742) was an Englishwoman and the mother of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, the leaders of the Methodist movement. Known for the religious instruction of her children and for the prayer meetings she held in the rectory kitchen, she is called the "Mother of Methodism."

• Methodist Movement

  The Methodist movement was an eighteenth-century religious revival in England led by the brothers John and Charles Wesley, priests of the Church of England (the Anglican Church). Today's Methodist churches trace their origins to this movement.

• History of the Anglican Church in Korea

  The history of the Anglican Church in Korea began in 1890, when Bishop Charles John Corfe (Korean name Go Yo-han) of the Church of England arrived at Chemulpo. Beginning as a diocese under the Church of England, it consecrated its first Korean bishop in 1965 and became an independent province, the Anglican Church of Korea, in 1993.

• Samuel Wesley

  Samuel Wesley (1662–1735) was a Church of England priest and poet. He served as rector of Epworth for nearly forty years and was the father of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, leaders of the Methodist movement.