Outline: In the midst of a troubled world, Christians believe in a good God who, as the Creator, has never lost interest in his broken creation. The key evidence for, and the chief symbol of, this divine commitment is the cross of Christ. This God, revealed in Scripture, has a project : and central to the divine strategy is Christ, his coming and his cross. The troubles and calamities will end.…
Outline: When the book of Acts is mentioned, a cluster of issues inevitably springs to mind including speaking in tongues and baptism with the Holy Spirit, church government and practice, and missionary methods and strategies. At the popular level at least, Acts is still often used more for answers to debates that were not necessarily Luke's concern than listened to for his own emphases. Alan T…
Outline : Just as the Old Testament book of Genesis begins with creation, where humans live in the presence of their Lord, so the New Testament book of Revelation ends with an even more glorious new creation where all of the redeemed dwell with the Lord and his Christ. The historical development between the beginning and the end is crucial, for the journey from Eden to the new Jerusalem proceed…
Outline: Filling a notable fap in scholarship on 2 Peter and Jude, Peter Davids artfully unpacks these two neglected but fascinating epistles that deal with the confrontation between the Greco-Roman world and the burgeoning first-century Jesus communities. Davids firmly grasps the overall structure of these oft-maligned epistles and presents a strong case for 2 Peter and Jude as coherent, consi…
Outline: This festschrift aims both to survey and advance research on the use of the Hebrew Scriptures within the Bible as a whole. An international team of scholars, chosen for their expertise as well as their association with Barnabas Lindars, cover between them the major divisions of the Old Testament and Intertestamental literature as well as the writings of the New Testament. The work thus…
Overview: Buku ini merupakan kumplulan esai yang dipersembahkan kepada Carl. F.H. Henry, seorang teolog Injili terkemuka masa kini, dalam rangka peringatan ulang tahunnya yang ke-80, oleh teolog-teolog terkenal dan juga para praktisi yang cukup diakui di bidang mereka masing-masing. Mereka menuliskan apa yang mereka pandang sebagai jawaban Alkitab bagi masing-masing bidang budaya yang telah m…
Outline: In this volume thirty-seven first-rate evangelical scholars present a thorough study of biblical authority and a full range of issues connected to it. Recognizing that Scripture and its authority are now being both challenged and defended with renewed vigor, editor assigned the topics that these select scholars address in this book. After an introduction by the editor to the many fac…
Overview: Penulis memberikan pembahasan yang sangat piawai menyangkut isu ini. Mengawalinya dengan survei atas tipologi klasik H. Richard Niebuhr tentang lima opsi hubungan Kristen dan budaya, penulis menyatakan bahwa masih ada satu visi yang bahkan lebih besar lagi. Dengan mengikuti alur kisah Alkitab sendiri, penulis memaparkan visi yang menyatukan itu. Buku ini bukan memberikan hanya pem…
Outline: In this stimulating study, the author examines Jeremiah's use of word language; the prophet's formation as an embodiment of the Word of God; his covenant preaching ad the crisis it precipitates concerning the recognition of true prophecy; and, in the 'oracles of hope', how the power of the Word of God is finally made manifest. The author, then brings this reading of Jeremiah to bear on…
Outline: Most of the Bible's pastoral imagery is grounded in two traditions: Israel's 'wilderness drama', in which Moses functioned as God's under-shepherd; and the shepherd-king David and his dynasty, with its messianic promises. Old Testament prophets like Jeremiah made sustained use of pastoral imagery, seeing the Lord revealing himself as the ultimate Shepherd of his flock, and creating exp…
Overview: The Expositor's Bible Commentary is a major contribution to the study and understanding of the Scriptures. Its seventy-eight contributor's come from the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand, and from many denominations, including Anglican, Baptist, Brethren, Methodist, Nazarene, Presbyterian, and Reformed. They represent the best in evangelical schola…
Overview: The relationship between God and his people is understood in various ways by the biblical writers, and it is arguably the apostle Paul who uses the richest vocabulary. Unique to Paul's writings in term huiothesia, the process or act of being 'adopted as son(s)'. It occurs five times in three of his letters, where it functions as a key theological metaphor. The author argues that hu…
This collection brings together into one volume papers first delivered in the Section on Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics at the Society of Biblical Literature annual meetings in 1992 and 1993. Part I, on discourse analysis, includes an introductory survey of the field, followed by three major papers and two responses. Each author uses his particular model of discourse analysis to anal…
The church is reeling because of the relativistic mindset of our world. Up until a generation ago, most adults had similar moral intuitions whether they were believers or not, and the core of protestant orthodoxy was still intact. Yet, in the wake of postmodernity and secularism, all that has changed. Convinced that gospel-centered ministry is utterly imperative for such a time as this and to s…