Of all the demons, monsters, fiends, and ogres to preoccupy the western imagination in literature, art, and film, no figure has been more feared―or misunderstood--than Satan. But how accurate are the popular images of Satan? How--and why--did this rather minor biblical character morph into the very embodiment of evil? T.J. Wray and Gregory Mobley guide readers on a journey to retrace Satan's …
This award-winning commentary of 1 Corinthians by Gordon D. Fee has been lauded as the best study available of Paul's exciting and theologically rich first letter to the Corinthians. Several features make this commentary unique. First, Fee takes great care to establish the all-important historical/literacy context of this letter by including numerous sectional introductions that reconstruct the…
The book explores with particular insight Calvin's self-conscious view of himself as prophet and apostle for his age and his struggle to tame a sense of his own superiority, perceived by others as arrogance. Gordon looks at Calvin's character, his maturing vision of God and humanity, his personal tragedies and failures, his extensive relationships with others, and the context within which he wr…
Outline: With more than a million copies sold worldwide, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work has revolutionized the way we understand, repair, and strengthen marriages. John Gottman's unprecedented study of couples over a period of years has allowed him to observe the habits that can make and break-a marriage. Here is the culmination of that work: the seven principles that guide coupl…
Outline: For Jesua and His Contemporaries, what we now know as the Old Testament was simply the Scriptures - and it was the fundamental basis of how people understood their relationship with God. In this book John Goldingay uncovers five major ways in which the New Testament uses the Old Testament. His discussion paves the way for contemporary readers to understand and appreciate the Old Testam…
Outline: In this accessible historical overview of Sunday, noted scholar Justo Gonzales tells the story of how and why Christians have worshipped on Sunday from the earliest days of the church to the present. Readers of this book will rediscover the joy and excitement of Sunday as early Christians celebrated it and will find fresh, inspiring perspectives on Sunday amid our current culture of in…
Outline: The Christian Church is faced with new responsibilities and challenges in our postmodern culture. This ecumenical series, sponsored by the Christian Theological Research Fellowship, reaps the wisdom of Christian tradition and Scripture to propose fresh insights for today's church. Grounded in sound scholarship, it will appeal to thoughtful pastors, educated laypeople, theological stude…
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Sacra Doctrina : Christian Theology for a Postmodern Age
Outline: This accessible introduction to Christian worldview explores how Christians can live faithfully at the crossroads of Scripture and postmodern culture. Living at the Crossroads first lays out a brief summary of the biblical story and the most fundamental beliefs of Scripture. The book then tells the story of Western culture from the classical period to postmodernity. Authors Michael Goh…
Outline: This volume deals with with the crucial subject in today's theological debate, the authority of Scripture. Editor Henry in the Preface speaks of this subject as "the watershed of theological conviction." Twenty-four international scholars, under the editorship of Dr. Carl F. H. Henry, Editor of Chritianity Today, give evangelical view on such phases of the subject a ..., inspiration, t…
Outline: Alkitab mengatakan ada suatu masa ketika Allah dan Adam berjalan bersama di Taman Eden dan berbicara sebagai sahabat. Lalu, doa pun menjadi sama alaminya seperti obrolan dengan seorang rekan atau kekasih. Namun, kini banyak di antara kita yang menyuarakan komentar seperti ini: "Saya tidak selalu bersikap jujur saat berdoa. Kadang hal itu terasa seperti dipaksakan, mirip semacam ritua…
Outline: Yesus lahir untuk apa dan untuk siapakah? Buku T'lah Lahir bagiku! - yang memuat renungan tentang kelahiran dan kedatangan Yesus Kristus, Anak Allah - memberikan kesaksian bahwa Dia lahir untuk menebus dosa manusia, kita semua. Yesus telah lahir bagiku. Itulah yang kita imani sebagai umat manusia yang dikasihi Allah. Hanya melalui Yesus, janji pemulihan dan keselamatan dari Allah bagi …
Outline: Although the author's monumental work, this book, is recognised as a landmar k in Protestant theology - perhaps the most important work of this century - the sheer size and range of its fourteen volumes has meant that its content and significence may not be so widely known or appreciated as it deserves to be. In this concise introduction, the introductor provides a selection of the mo…
Outline: Inti dari Kurikulum "Kenalkan Yesus Padaku"
Allah kita yang berdaulat : Allah - Sang Raja, Penebus, dan Pencipta - kita yang berdaulat adalah fokus dari kurikulum ini. Tujuan hidup kita adalah untuk memuliakan dan menikmati Dia selamanya.
Alkitab : Alkitab, dari Kejadian sampai Wahyu, secara keseluruhan merupakan pernyataan dari kisah keselamatan yang berfokus pada Yesus. Melalui kur…
Outline: In this third and final volume of A History of Christian Thought, Dr. Gonzales brings the reader from the beginning of the sixteenth century on the eve of the Reformation down to the twentieth century. The author interprets not only Roman Catholic and Reformation theology, but the theology of the Eastern church as well. Volume III begins with a discussion of the Reformation led by Luth…
Outline: Kekristenan berawal pada iman akan Kristus dan terterap pada pelayanan dalam dunia. Ini membuktikan bahwa peranan Injil tak kunjung tertiadakan dalam menciptakan tatanan politik, sosial ... ekonomik yang adil - untuk mensejahterakan umat manusia. Tapi tindakan Allah untuk mensejahterakan manusia sering melalui sekelompok kecil orang - yakni orang-orang lugu yang tidak populer. Yang tam…
Outline: Kerukunan beragama bukan basa basi! Melainkan hidup, eksistensial dan riil. Karena itu di Indonesia tidaklah etis melancarkan propaganda agama murahan, yakni mendiskreditkan satu agama guna menyanjung agama lainnya. Jadi, kalaupun buku ini diterbitkan guna berbicara tentang hal-hal pokok yang mendasari pergumulan iman Kristiani, bukanlah untuk mempropagandakan agama Kristen. Sekali-kal…
Outline: Dokumen Keesaan Gereja (DKG) merupakan wujud dari upaya gereja-gereja di Indonesia, dengan berbagai latar belakang, untuk melihat dirinya sebagai Gereja yang Esa di bumi Indonesia. Karena itu, DKG merefleksikan kesadaran teologis gereja-gereja di Indonesia untuk menerjemahkan misi bersama demi damai sejahtera Allah bagi Indonesia. Dalam konteks ini, Majelis Pekerja Harian Persekutuan G…
Outline: The Chinese people constitute more than a quarter of the world's population, yet until now there has been no single volume that summarizes and integrates the wealth of data available, in English and Chinese, on the psychological functioning of Chinese people. The Psychology of the Chinese People fulfils this role, emphasizing the prime areas of research, both past and present, the theo…
Outline: Alkitab mengajar kita bahwa orang Kristen adalah mereka yang percaya kepada Kristen. Tetapi seperti iman yang menyelamatkan itu? Apakah iman seperti lompatan membuta ke dalam kegelapan? Apakah iman merupakan pengetahuan tentang Allah? Apakah iman diterjemahkan ke dalam sesuatu yang bisa dilihat oleh orang-orang di sekitar kita? Seberapa banyak iman baru cukup? Di sini iman Kristen dika…
Outline: Widely used by both family therapists and family physicians, the genogram is a graphic way of organizing the mass of information gathered during a family assessment of finding patterns in the family system. Until now, however, genogram symbols have sometimes been used idiosyncratically and underlying assumptions for generating hypotheses have been fuzzy. McGoldrick and Gerson remedy th…
Outline: The relationship between the Christian and Muslim worlds has been a long and tortuous one. Over the course of centuries, the balance of power has swung in pendulum fashion - at times the initiative seems to have lain with the Muslim community, with the Christian world simply being compelled to react to developments outside itself; at other times Muslims have found themselves having to …
Outline: Most parents have never seriously considered that they need training for parenthood - even thought it's probably the hardest job they will ever have. Even the handful who might have wanted training in parent effectiveness would not have found it. Now they can. More than 60,000 parents have completed Dr. Thomas Gordon's Parent Effectiveness Training, a course being taught in hundreds of…
Outline: Sejumlah besar ibadah Kristen dirancang dan diatur setiap minggunya di seluruh dunia. Sejatinya, seruan pemazmur "Dari terbitnya sampai kepada terbenamnya matahari terpujilah nama Tuhan" (Mazmur 113:3) terus terjadi di antara orang-orang Kristen yang setia. Meskipun demikian, sebanyak apa pun ibadah dirancang dan sesering apa pun ibadah komunal disajikan, pemimpin ibadah tetap bergu…
Outline: Kebanyakan orang di Asia lebih mengenal tokoh-tokoh dan pemikiran-pemikiran teologi dari Barat, padahal pemikiran-pemikiran itu lahir dalam konteks pergumulan mereka di Barat. Bahkan tidak mengherankan bila banyak di antara mereka justru lebih menggumuli pemikiran-pemikiran Barat tersebut, meskipun mereka hidup dalam budaya dan konteks Asia. Hal ini terjadi karena kelangkaan buku yang …
Outline: Salah satu hadiah terbesar yang dapat diberikan gereja kepada dunia ini adalah pengertian tentang kehidupan keluarga yang sehat dan praktis. Jika kita ingin berkontribusi bagi bangsa kita, maka kita harus melakukan aksi bersama! Buku ini dapat menjadi berkat bagi orang banyak, sebagai sumber dukungan kepada setiap keluarga pemimpin kristiani.