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11 articles found for “Clement”

• Clement of Alexandria

  Clement of Alexandria (c. 150–c. 215) was an early church father and theologian active in Alexandria. He is regarded as a leading figure of the Alexandrian school, which sought to connect Greek philosophy with the Christian faith.

• Clement (Philippians)

  Clement was a believer in the church at Philippi who is named once, in Philippians 4:3, where the apostle Paul mentions him as a fellow worker who labored with him for the gospel.

• Clement of Rome

  Clement of Rome was a leader of the church in Rome at the end of the first century and an Apostolic Father known as the author of a letter to the church in Corinth (commonly called 1 Clement). The Catholic Church counts him as the fourth pope.

• Clement Owen

  Clement Owen (1867–1909) was an ordained minister and medical missionary sent to Korea by the Southern Presbyterian Church in the United States. His Korean name was O Gi-won. Based mainly in Mokpo and Gwangju, he carried out medical mission work and itinerant evangelism in South Jeolla Province.

• Isidore (Gnostic)

  Isidore was a second-century Gnostic teacher active in Alexandria, Egypt, and the son and disciple of Basilides. His writings survive only in passages quoted by Church Fathers such as Clement of Alexandria.

• Epistle of Barnabas

  The Epistle of Barnabas is an early Christian writing composed in Greek between the late first and early second centuries. It interprets the laws and institutions of the Old Testament as symbols pointing to Christ and was not included in the New Testament canon.

• English Reformation

  The English Reformation was a series of sixteenth-century reforms, spanning the reigns of Henry VIII through Elizabeth I, through which the church in England broke away from the authority of the pope in Rome and was established as a national church with the monarch at its head.

• Euodia and Syntyche

  Euodia and Syntyche were two women believers in the church at Philippi, named in Philippians 4:2. Paul urged them to "be of the same mind in the Lord."

• Genevan Psalter

  The Genevan Psalter is a congregational songbook produced by the church of Geneva under John Calvin during the Reformation. It renders all 150 Psalms into metrical French verse set to tunes and was completed in 1562.

• Henry VIII

  Henry VIII (1491–1547) was King of England (reigned 1509–1547). After breaking with the pope over the annulment of his marriage, he declared the monarch Supreme Head of the Church of England, laying the foundation for what is today the Anglican Communion.

• Euodias

  Euodias was a female believer in the church at Philippi, mentioned in the New Testament Epistle to the Philippians. Paul urged her and Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord (Philippians 4:2).