One of the general or catholic epistles near the end of the New Testament, this letter traditionally attributed to the apostle Peter contains important ideas and reveals a fascinating relationship to the surrounding literary world. The book shows what problems Christians faced at the time the epistle was written and how the author addressed them. The commentary discusses the Greek original, wit…
Explores the art of storytelling, discussing how to develop the skill of shaping a story so that listeners are able to relate to it on a personal level, looks at the key elements of storytelling, and includes an annotated list of stories, a bibliography of collections, and a brief list of recommendations for online sources.
In 'Systematic Theology' Paul Tillich restates the Christian faith for the twentieth century. Here complete between two covers are the three volumes of this monumental work-the summation of Tillich's thought-which appeared in 1951,1957, and 1963.
Apologist Paul Copan takes on some of the most vexing accusations of our time, including that God is arrogant and jealous, punishes people too harshly, is guilty of ethnic cleansing, oppresses women, and endorses slavery. He also challenges the accusation that Christianity causes violence. Copan not only answers God's critics, he also shows how to read both the Old and New Testaments faithfully…
Religion has influenced human culture since prehistory, shaping everything from the politics of war and peace to notions of morality and issues of sex, reproduction, and family. On an individual level, it has also offered people a sense of meaning, purpose, and comfort, and even today, when science appears to offer answers to many of the world's conundrums, faith persists and many religions--in…
A multiple-view book on apologetic methods, this material deals with a very relevant topic in the midst of a changing culture. Its primary contributors are: William Lane Craig, Gary R. Habermas, Paul D. Feinberg, John M. Frame, and Kelly James Clark.
In recent years, ideas of post- and transhumanism have been popularized by novels, TV series, and Hollywood movies. According to this radical perspective, humankind and all biological life have become obsolete. Traditional forms of life are inefficient at processing information and inept at crossing the high outer space. While humankind can expect to be replaced by their own artificial progeny,…
Cafés are a natural place to engage in conversations about God. Many of us don’t just swing by for a quick caffeine fix and then dash out. We like to sit down, relax, and read a book or engage in conversation with a friend over a cup of coffee with espresso brownies or cranberry-orange muffins. I’ve enjoyed many hearty discussions at coffee shops—exchanging stories, problems, and questio…
Outline: Dalam teologi Kristen dosa dan anugerah saling terkait erat. Dosen dan konselor Mark McMinn, percaya bahwa konseling Kristen harus memperhitungkan dosa manusia dan anugerah Allah. Baik dosa maupun anugerah akan terdistorsi bila yang satu ditekankan sambil yang lain diabaikan. Buku ini bertujuan untuk melengkapi para penyuluh dan pembina mengoperasikan kebenaran Injil ke dalam beragam p…
Outline : SELURUH CATATAN ALKITAB TENTANG KEHIDUPAN YESUS KRISTUS - pergaulan, ajaran, perbuatan mukjizat, doa - me- nyatakan jatidiri-Nya, relasi akrab-Nya dengan Bapa, kepri- hatinan-Nya yang besar terhadap beragam kesengsaraan manusia, ketekunan-Nya dalam memuridkan para murid. Namun dari sekian banyak teks alkitabiah, bagian yang paling menyatakan semua keindahan diri, relasi dan tindakan Y…
Outline: How does the New Testament echo the Old? Which versions of the Hebrew Scriptures were authoritative for New Testament writers? The appearance of concepts, images, and passages from the Old Testament in the books of the New raises important questions about textual versions, allusions, and the differences between ancient and modern meaning. Written by ten distinguished scholars, Hearing …
Outline: A History of Biblical Interpretation provides detailed and extensive studies of the interpretation of the Scriptures by Jewish and Christian writers throughout the ages. Written by internationally renowned scholars, this multivolume work comprehensively treats the many different methods of interpretation, the many important interpreters from various eras, and the many key issues that h…
Outline: The Roman Catholic papacy has long been a thorny issue dividing the ecumenical church. In this book several outstanding Lutheran and Catholic theologians, known collectively as the Group of Farfa Sabina, present the results of their five-year dialogue, showing how the papal (Petrine) ministry might actually serve to unify the worldwide communion of churches. Offering biblical, historic…
Outline: Studies in the History of Christian Missions. These studies explore the significant, yet often contested, impact of Christian missions around the world. Bringing together monographs by established and emerging scholars, collections of essays on themes in the history of missions, and new editions of seminal primary texts, this series provides rich source material for studying the relati…
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: Semua wawasan dunia membutuhkan lompatan iman, tetapi tidak semua lompatan itu sama. Sebagai buku sumber lengkap tentang kebenaran iman Kristen, Lompatan Tersingkat menyajikan penjelasan sains, historis, alkitabiah, dan penjelasan komprehensif yang mendukung iman Kristen, yang mendemonstrasikan bahwa iman kepada Yesus butuh lompatan tersingkat. Selain menyediakan bukti proaktif untuk K…
Outline: How people behave and think is largely determined by the social structure in which they live. Evangelism and church planting strategies, if they are to succeed, must take that group action into account. Incarnational Ministry describes the social-cultural settings of bands, tribes, peasantry, and urbanites. While urging planners not to use these general categories as simplistic pigeonh…
Outline : Paul Helm breaks fertile ground in this survey of theological anthropology in the Reformed tradition. Acknowledging the rich patristic and medieval heritage available to Reformed theologians, Helm works through a representative range of authors and materials during the period 1550 to 1750 in order to identify certain ways of thinking as well as elements of development and change. Addr…
Outline: Perjuangan bangsa Indonesia belumlah berakhir. Meskipun kemerdekaan dari penjajahan bangsa asing sudah tidak lagi kita rasakan, namun harus kita sadari masih adanya penjajahan berupa kecemburuan, iri hati dan ketidakpuasan. Gereja Tuhan dan juga beberapa sekolah kristiani yang merupakan aset bangsa Indonesia menjadi sasaran pelampiasan kemarahan karena kecemburuan, iri hati dan ketidak…
Outline: Melalui pendekatan naratif, buku Atlas dan Sejarah Alkitab ini memaparkan banyak hal menarik, mulai dari sejarah terbentuknya Alkitab (Perjanjian Lama dan Perjanjian Baru), cerita awal mula penciptaan, bapa-bapa leluhur, sampai kisah rasul-rasul Kristus (terutama Rasul Paulus), dan lahirnya Gereja Perdana. Dengan menggunakan temuan-temuan mutakhir dari sejarawan dan arkeolog sebagai su…
What do you do when you've really blown it? Is sin really as dangerous and is grace really as powerful as the Bible says they are? Is there such a thing as a new beginning? Sin and grace-these are the two themes of our lives. We all blow it and we all need to start over again. In Psalm 51, David tells his story of moral failure, personal awareness, grief, confession, repentance, commitment, …
Outline: Abuse is a growing problem and those who have been abused need help. This booklet equips the reader to offer compassionate biblical counsel to a victim of abuse. As well as providing practical instruction on how to help the victim gain safety and deal with the abuser in a biblical way, it points to the victory possible in Jesus Christ, who was abused for His people and who has compassi…
Outline: Eskatologi adalah doktrin yang terakhir dan tidak pentingkah di dalam rangkaian doktrin-doktrin Kristen? Pencerapan tepat tentang berbagai perkara akhir-akhir kehidupan perseorangan, akhir riwayat dan sejarah manusia, akhir dan awal baru dari bumi dan ciptaan yang kita kenal kini - tidak relevankah dengan moralitas-spiritualitas-realitas nyata kita? Bingungkah dengan berbagai ajaran te…
Outline: Abortion, Fetal Issue Use, Euthanasia, Civil Disobedience, Divorce and Remarriage, Genetic Engineering and Screening, Artificial Insemination, Freezing Embryos, Cloning, Surrogate Motherhood, Homosexuality, Capital Punishment, Sexual Minority, Birth Control, Nuclear Arms, War. "So much is changing today in regard to the control of life and death and the understanding of human sexuality…
Outline: Waktu telah membuktikan Tafsiran Matthew Henry sebagai sarana yang sangat menolong untuk memperdalam pengertian dan pengenalan akan Firman Allah. Sudah lebih dari 300 tahun Tafsiran Matthew Henry tetap menjadi salah satu tafsiran favorit para guru, pengkhotbah, dan orang Kristen secara luas. Penyampaian eksposisi dan aplikasi kebenaran Alkitab yang begitu kaya dalam bahasa yang luwes d…
Outline: Waktu telah membuktikan Tafsiran Matthew Henry sebagai sarana yang sangat menolong untuk memperdalam pengertian dan pengenalan akan Firman Allah. Sudah lebih dari 300 tahun Tafsiran Matthew Henry tetap menjadi salah satu tafsiran favorit para guru, pengkhotbah, dan orang Kristen secara luas. Penyampaian eksposisi dan aplikasi kebenaran Alkitab yang begitu kaya dalam bahasa yang luwes d…
Outline: Having been independent from the colonization of foreign countries for more than five decades, Indonesia is now under different from of colonization, such as; jealously, envy and discontent, bringing about the black part of the history of Indonesia. Hundreds of churches and some Christian schools-the assets of the nation-became the target of jealously, envy and discontent. Lots of serv…
Outline: When studying a book as significant as the Bible it is important to grasp the facts accurately. By This Name was written to make the Bible straightforward and clear. This Companion Workbook takes it the next step, having been designed with the express purpose of walking one through the Bible's primary message, using By This Name. The WorkBook uses a discover-for-yourself approach to le…
Outline: Di tengah kegiatan harian yang padat, banyak orang tua merasakan tekanan untuk melakukan segalanya "dengan benar" sekaligus mengasuh anak "dengan baik". Tekanan-tekanan itu membuat mereka mudah kehilangan fokus akan tujuan utama sebagai orang tua. Dalam buku yang menghidupkan ini, penulis menawarkan banyak hal kepada para orang tua. Ia juga mempresentasikan sebuah cara pandang meng…
Outline: What is the origin of evil? Where does what we term evil come from? According to Paul Ricoeur, to think through evil is to think through fallibity; because human freedom is summed up as existence prior to evil. Deriving from a lecture given in Lausanne in 1985, this small text adds to the immense ouevre of this philosopher who is not regarded as a theologian but whose thinking readily …
Outline: This reader of 20th-century analyses of Christianity by representative non-Christians gives rare insight into how the Christian faith appears from the outside. Christianity through Non-Christian Eyes provides new perspectives for thinking with theological seriousness and historical sensitivity about the reality and challenges of religious pluralism, by showing the extent to which the p…
Outline: As the old jokes goes, if you find a perfect church you should't join it, because if you do it won't be perfect anymore. Whenever sinners work together in close quarters, whether in churches or in families, conflict and disappointment will arise. Regardless of flaws God designed us to need one another and for the church to need us. But how do you find a good church? What are the qualit…
Outline: Kita hidup di dunia yang semakin sofistikated serta berpendidikan. Mengetahui apa yang kita percaya tidak lagi memadai. Kita harus mengetahui sebabnya kita percaya. Paul E. Little dengan amat teliti membahas doktrin Alkitab dan asas-asas kepercayaan orang Kristian. Bukunya yang terkenal ini menjawab tuduhan-tuduhan para pengkritik dan orang yang bersikap skeptis terhadap kebenaran Alki…
Outline: "Ecumenism" comes from the Greek oikos, "household," and in The Good News of the Kingdom members of God's household offer spirited assessments of how the family is doing in the business God gave them. In this path-breaking work, leading representatives of the major groups of conciliar and evangelical Protestants join with Catholics to reflect on basic issues in mission and evangelism. …
Outline: Isaiah is a book of literary, historical, theological and ecclesial riches. Paul R. House contends that Isaiah wrote the whole book during his long ministry and predicted the coming of the Messiah. Paul strives to treat Isaiah as a prophetic book, as a work that highlights major themes such as creation, sin in its many manifestations, proper ethical behavior, approaching judgement, and…
Outline: "I once was blind, but now I see" is the glad confession of the Christian's heart. However, what is it that a Christian now sees that so transforms his life? It is the Christian worldview. This is not an abstract philosophy so much as biblical doctrine for life. The Word of God establishes God-centered thinking, engages faithful living, and energizes ardent feeling for the kingdom of C…
Outline : Isaiah is a book of literary, historical, theological and ecclesial riches. Paul R. House contends that Isaiah wrote the whole book during his long ministry and predicted the coming of the Messiah. Paul strives to treat Isaiah as a prophetic book, as a work that highlights major themes such as creation, sin in its many manifestations, proper ethical behavior, approaching judgement, an…
Outline: Few teachings of the Puritans have provoked such strong reactions and conflicting interpretations as their views on preparing for saving faith. Many twentieth-century scholars dismissed preparation as a prime example of regression from the Reformed doctrine og frace for a mancentered legalism. In Prepared by Grace, for Grace, Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley make careful analysis of the Pur…
Outline : How should one approach the task of theology? The question of methodology is increasingly one of interest among theologians, who recognize that the very manner in which we approach theology informs both the questions we ask and the conclusions we reach. This volume in IVP's Spectrum Multiview series brings together five evangelical theologians with distinctly different approaches to t…