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• George Fox

  George Fox (1624–1691) was an English itinerant preacher. He founded the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers, and emphasized the "Inner Light" apart from the mediation of clergy, silent worship, and pacifism.

• George Whitefield

  George Whitefield (1714–1770) was a priest of the Church of England and an itinerant preacher. He is counted among those who sparked the eighteenth-century Great Awakening by leading open-air preaching in Britain and the North American colonies, and he was a leader of Calvinistic Methodism.

• George Müller

  George Müller (1805–1898) was a Prussian-born evangelist who ministered in Bristol, England. He ran his orphanages on the principle of relying on prayer alone, without soliciting support, and cared for more than 10,000 orphans. He was also an early leader of the Plymouth Brethren.

• George MacDonald

  George MacDonald (1824–1905) was a Scottish Congregationalist minister and author. For works such as Phantastes and The Princess and the Goblin, he is regarded as a pioneer of modern fantasy literature, and he is known as the writer whom C. S. Lewis considered his master.

• Paik Nak-chun

  Paik Nak-chun (白樂濬, 1895–1985) was a Korean church historian, educator, and politician. He wrote his doctoral dissertation in English, later published in Korean as *Hanguk Gaesingyosa* (History of Korean Protestantism), and served as president of Yonhi University, as the second Minister of Education, and as Speaker of the House of Councillors.

• Quakers

  The Quakers are a branch of Protestantism that arose in mid-seventeenth-century England under the leadership of George Fox. Their official name is the Religious Society of Friends (the Friends), and they are known for silent, expectant worship and for pacifism.

• Madaba Map

  The Madaba Map is a sixth-century Byzantine mosaic map preserved in the floor of the Church of Saint George in Madaba, Jordan. It is known as the oldest map of the Holy Land to survive in its original form.

• Great Awakening

  The Great Awakening was a Protestant revival movement that arose in the British North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, centered on figures such as Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield. The name is also applied to the Second Great Awakening of the early nineteenth century.

• Sarah Hall Boardman

  Sarah Hall Boardman (1803–1845) was an American Baptist missionary. In Burma (present-day Myanmar) she helped establish schools and churches among the Karen people, and after the death of her first husband, George Boardman, she married Adoniram Judson.

• Ella Dodge Appenzeller

  Ella Dodge Appenzeller (1854–c. 1915) was the wife of Henry Appenzeller, a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church (the Northern Methodist church) in the United States. She arrived in Korea (Joseon) with her husband in 1885 as part of one of the earliest Protestant missionary families.

• John Knox

  John Knox (c. 1514–1572) was a Scottish reformer. Drawing on the theology of John Calvin, he led the Scottish Reformation and is regarded as having laid the foundations of the Presbyterian Church.

• Margaret Fell

  Margaret Fell (1614–1702) was a leading figure in the Quaker movement in seventeenth-century England. She made Swarthmoor Hall a center of the early Quaker movement and defended women's preaching and ministry. She is known as the "Mother of Quakerism."

• Mary Jane Featherstone

  Mary Jane Featherstone was a British Salvation Army evangelist active from the late nineteenth century into the early twentieth century. Known by the nickname "Polly," she was the wife of the Pentecostal evangelist Smith Wigglesworth and is remembered for her significant influence on her husband's faith and ministry.

• Gergesa

  Gergesa is one of the names given to the region on the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee where Jesus healed a demon-possessed man. The name appears in some Greek manuscripts but is not used in the text of the New Korean Revised Version (Gaeyeok Gaejeong).

• Arnon River

  The Arnon is a river and deep gorge that flows into the Dead Sea from the east. In the Old Testament it appears as the boundary between Moab and the land of the Amorites. It is generally identified with the Wadi Mujib in present-day Jordan.

• Gerasa

  Gerasa is the name of the region across the Sea of Galilee where, according to Mark 5 and Luke 8, Jesus healed a demon-possessed man. Matthew's account of the same event calls the place "Gadara."

• William Linton

  William Alderman Linton (1891–1960) was an American Southern Presbyterian educational missionary. Known in Korea as In Don (印敦), he devoted forty-eight years to school education in the Honam and Chungcheong regions and founded Daejeon Christian College, the predecessor of Hannam University.

• Philip Melanchthon

  Philip Melanchthon (1497–1560) was a German Reformer and humanist scholar. The closest colleague of Martin Luther, he wrote the Loci Communes, regarded as the first Protestant systematic theology, and the Augsburg Confession.

• Albrecht Ritschl

  Albrecht Ritschl (1822–1889) was a German Lutheran theologian who taught at Bonn and Göttingen. He built a theological system centered on justification, reconciliation, and the kingdom of God, and he is regarded as a leading representative of late nineteenth-century liberal theology.

• Martin Luther King Jr.

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) was an American Baptist minister and a leader of the African American civil rights movement. He led a nonviolent movement to end racial discrimination in the United States and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.