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Kang Won-yong
[People]Kang Won-yong (1917–2006) was a minister of the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea. He co-founded Kyungdong Church and founded the Christian Academy, through which he led the dialogue movement and interreligious dialogue. His pen name was Yeohae.
Son Yang-won
[People]Son Yang-won (1902–1950) was a Korean Presbyterian minister. He was imprisoned for refusing the Japanese colonial authorities' compulsory Shinto shrine worship, and he ministered to people with Hansen's disease at Aeyangwon in Yeosu. He adopted the man who had killed his two sons and was executed during the Korean War.
Horace Underwood
[People]Horace Grant Underwood (1859–1916) was an American Northern Presbyterian missionary who arrived in Korea, then the Joseon kingdom, in 1885. He founded Saemunan Church and led the establishment of Kyungshin School and Chosen Christian College (Yonhi College). In Korea he was known as Won Du-u (元杜尤).
Clement Owen
[People]Clement Owen (1867–1909) was an ordained minister and medical missionary sent to Korea by the Southern Presbyterian Church in the United States. Known in Korea as O Gi-won, he worked mainly from Mokpo and Gwangju, carrying out medical mission work and itinerant evangelism in South Jeolla Province.
2 Samuel 15
[Bible]2 Samuel 15 recounts how Absalom, having won the hearts of the people, launches a rebellion at Hebron, prompting David to flee Jerusalem. Along the way, Ittai, Zadok and Abiathar, and Hushai each aid David in different ways.
1 Peter 3:1–7
[Bible Verses]A household-code passage that exhorts wives to be in subjection to their husbands so that unbelieving husbands may be won by their conduct. It also exhorts husbands to honor their wives as heirs together of the grace of life. The passage is frequently cited in interpretive debates over marriage and the roles of men and women.
Hebrews 11:33–38
[Bible Verses]The concluding section of Hebrews 11, which lists both the victories won by people of faith and the sufferings and martyrdoms they endured. It is frequently cited in discussions of whether faith guarantees only prosperity and in the commemoration of martyrs.
Crown
[Doctrine & Theology]In the Bible, a crown is placed on the head of one who has won a victory or endured faithfully. In Protestantism it is used chiefly as a symbol of the honor and reward God has promised to the saints.
Valley of Salt
[Bible]The Valley of Salt was a valley in the south of Judah, on the border with Edom. In the Bible it appears as the battlefield where Israel won major victories over Edom in the time of David and in the reign of Amaziah king of Judah.
Jotham's Fable
[Bible]Jotham's Fable is the story recorded in Judges 9:7-21 that Jotham, the youngest son of Gideon, told the men of Shechem from the top of Mount Gerizim. In it the trees seek to anoint a king over themselves. The useful trees decline, and only the bramble offers to become king.
William Lane Craig
[People]William Lane Craig (born 1949) is an American analytic philosopher, theologian, and Christian apologist. He is widely known for reviving the kalam cosmological argument for the existence of God and for his public debates with atheists.
Jeong Yak-jong
[People]Jeong Yak-jong (1760–1801) was a Catholic lay leader in late Joseon Korea. He wrote the Jugyo yoji (Essentials of the Lord's Teaching), regarded as the first catechism written in Hangul, served as the first president of the Myeongdohoe, and was martyred during the Sinyu Persecution of 1801.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
[People]Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who took part in the Confessing Church movement in opposition to the Nazis. He was executed in 1945 on charges of involvement in a plot to remove Hitler.
Bang Ji-il
[People]Bang Ji-il (1911–2014) was a minister of the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap). Beginning in 1937, he served for twenty-one years as a missionary in Shandong Province, China. After returning to Korea, he became senior pastor of Yeongdeungpo Church in Seoul and moderator of his denomination's General Assembly. Because he remained active past the age of one hundred, he was known as "the eternal active-duty minister."
2 Samuel 8
[Bible]2 Samuel 8 summarizes David's conquest of the surrounding nations, including Philistia, Moab, Aram, and Edom; his dedication of the spoils to the LORD; and a list of the chief officials of his kingdom.
Severance Hospital
[History]Severance Hospital traces its origins to Jejungwon, a hospital established in 1885 by the Joseon government and staffed by medical missionaries of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian). In 1904 a new hospital, named after its donor, Louis Severance, opened outside Namdaemun (the South Gate) in Seoul.