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• Father School

  Father School is an interdenominational family-restoration program that began at Duranno Press. Over several weeks, fathers meet together to reflect on their roles as fathers and husbands in light of Scripture. It is also called the Duranno Father School.

• Church Fathers

  The Church Fathers are the leaders and theologians of the early church who, from the late first century to around the eighth century, helped establish the framework of Christian doctrine, biblical interpretation, and worship.

• Desert Fathers

  The Desert Fathers were Christian hermits who withdrew into the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria from roughly the third to the fifth century to devote themselves to prayer and ascetic living. They are regarded as the starting point of the Christian monastic tradition.

• Apostolic Fathers

  The Apostolic Fathers are the church leaders who were active close to the time of the apostles, from the late first century to the mid-second century, as well as the earliest Christian writings outside the New Testament that they left behind.

• Jeiel (Father of Gibeon)

  Jeiel is a Benjamite recorded in the genealogies of 1 Chronicles as "the father of Gibeon." He is an ancestor of the family that descends through Ner and Kish to King Saul. Several other people with the same name appear in the Bible.

• Joseph (Father of Jesus)

  Joseph was the husband of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and a descendant of David who appears in the birth narratives of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. He is known to have worked as a carpenter in Nazareth and is regarded as the legal father of Jesus.

• Puah (Father of Tola)

  Puah is a man of the tribe of Issachar mentioned in Judges 10:1, the son of Dodo and the father of the judge Tola. Scripture records only his name and lineage, and only once.

• Amoz (Father of Isaiah)

  Amoz was the father of the Old Testament prophet Isaiah. Scripture names him only in the phrase "Isaiah the son of Amoz." Korean Bibles render his name the same as that of the prophet Amos, but the two are different people.

• Joash (Father of Gideon)

  Joash was a member of the Abiezrite clan of the tribe of Manasseh who appears in the Book of Judges as the father of the judge Gideon. He kept an altar of Baal at Ophrah, yet when Gideon tore that altar down, he protected his son from the men of the town.

• Cappadocian Fathers

  A collective name for three fourth-century theologians from Cappadocia in Asia Minor: Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory of Nazianzus. They articulated the Trinitarian formula that God exists as one essence in three persons.

• Abba, Father

  "Abba" is an Aramaic word meaning "father." It appears three times in the New Testament, always paired with the Greek word for "father" as "Abba, Father": once in Jesus' prayer in Gethsemane and twice in the letters of Paul.

• Priest

  A priest is one of the three holy orders in the Anglican Communion, alongside bishop and deacon, and is an ordained minister who presides at the Eucharist and cares for the church. In Korea priests are commonly addressed as "Father" (sinbu). Unlike Roman Catholic priests, who observe celibacy, Anglican priests may marry.

• Abihail

  Abihail is a personal name in the Old Testament borne by several individuals, both men and women. The best known are the father of Esther, the daughter of Eliab (David's elder brother), and the father of the Levite Zuriel.

• Gadi

  Gadi was the father of Menahem, king of the northern kingdom of Israel. He is mentioned only twice, both times in 2 Kings 15, where his son is introduced as "Menahem the son of Gadi."

• Ginath

  Ginath is an Old Testament figure, named only in 1 Kings 16, who was the father of Tibni, Omri's rival for the throne of the northern kingdom of Israel.

• Maoch

  Maoch is a figure named only once in Scripture, in 1 Samuel 27:2, as the father of Achish, the king of Gath with whom David took refuge while fleeing from Saul.

• Buzi

  Buzi was the father of the prophet Ezekiel and an Old Testament figure whose name appears only once, in Ezekiel 1:3. He is understood to have belonged to a priestly family.

• Lord's Prayer

  The Lord's Prayer is the prayer that Jesus Christ taught his disciples. It is recorded in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, and nearly all churches, regardless of denomination, recite it together in worship and use it in instruction.

• Orphans and Widows

  "Orphans and widows" is a biblical word pair referring to people whose livelihood and legal protection were weakened by the loss of a husband or father. Often grouped with the sojourner, they represent the socially vulnerable for whom God shows special care.

• Aiah

  Aiah is a figure in 2 Samuel, the father of Rizpah, a concubine of King Saul. Scripture refers to him only as "the father of Rizpah" and records nothing else about his life.