Outline: Cybulski and Rutkovska study secular and religious writings of secular authors as well as those belonging to the clergy and religious orders. Their main interest lies in exploring the different genres of early modern Polish and Lithuanian sermons and novels, and in tracing this heritage to its social and literary context. They also give insights into the origins or vernacular translati…
Outline : Der Prozess der Durchsetzung eines konfessionellen Luthertums unter den Siebenbürger Sachsen im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert war alles andere als eindeutig. Dieser „Uneindeutigkeit (Edit Szegedi) geht dieses Werk nach, indem es einen bestim- menden Factor der konfessionellen Uniformierung genauer betrachtet: das geistliche Buch. Die deutsche F römmigkeitsliteratur stammte fast ausschli…
Outline: Frances Luttikhuizen traces Constantino de la Fuente's religious experience from the Erasmian influence at Alcala de Henares during his university days in the 1520s to being the main spokesperson for the evangelistic tendencies emerging in Spain in the 1550s. His theology shows strong parallels with the renovating current within the Catholic Church of the first half of the 15th century…
Outline: Transylavanian Sabbatarianism emerged from the aspirations of the Reformation, without direct contact with the Jews. The book aims at demonstrating that although the Hungarian-speaking Szekely Sabbatarians sought to be Christians and Jews at the same time, and balanced for centuries on the border of the two world religions, the necessity and direction of their final choice could be pre…
Outline : Origins, reception, religious disputes and securing of the Reformation movements emanating from Wittenberg, Padua and Zurich and penetrating the zone of Ottoman influence are examined and discussed. The prevailing confessionalist perspectives of 19-20th centuries are called into question and replaced. On the basis of current research, the author presents impulses to stimulate the inte…
Outline : Bishop Oxendio Virziresco's pastoral activity and the church- union of the Armenians in Transylvania proved to be a marginal subject from church-historical point of view for a long time. This qualifies as simultaneously advantage as well as disadvantage for the scholarship, too. It was an advantage because just few information had been at scholarship's disposal through long decades. F…
Outline : Im 16. Jahrhundert war Wittenberg die wichtigste Universität der Protestanten Ungarns. Bis zum Ende des Jahrhunderts weilten hier etwa 1.200 Studenten, 430 von ihnen waren direkte Schüler Melanchthons. Die Natio (Coetus) entstand am 24. Juni 1555, als sich die Wittenberger Universität in ihrer Blütezeit befand. Dieses Werk enthält neben ausführlichen Hintergrundinformationen vor…
Outline : Anton Engelbrecht, Theologe und Humanist, war einer der Ersten im deutschsprachigen Raum, der im 16. Jahrhundert ein Plädoyer für Religionsfreiheit hielt, nämlich auf der Straßburger Synode von 1533. Er warnte vor den Folgen des Zwangs für Gläubige, die glauben wollen, wie sie es für richtig halten, aber nicht nach ihren eigenen Überzeugungen glauben und leben dürfen. Und mit…
Outline: Das Buch geht der Frage nach, wann in der Reichsstadt Speyerdie Reformation offiziell eingeführt wurde und der Prozess derevangelischen Konfessionsbildung einsetzte und wie bzw. überwelche Wege und Formen er sich vollzog. Der Untersuchungszeitraum deckt die Jahre 1538 bis 1580 ab. Auf der Grundlageeiner intensiven Auswertung der verfügbaren archivalischen undgedruckten Quellen kommt…
Outline: Confession and Politics in the Principality of Transylvania is a survey of the changing role the confessional element played in the foreign policy of this East Central European principality, which has traditionally been seen as a counterexample to the confessionalisation thesis even though its rulers were consistent supporters of the Protestant cause during the Thirty Years' War. The e…
Outline: Much of today's writing on children treats the child of any age as a problem or a set of problems to be solved, effectively reducing the child to a complex of biological and chemical factors, explainable in scientific terms, or regarding children as objects of adult control. In contrast, Martin Marty here presents the child as a mystery who invokes wonder and elicits creative responses…
Outline : "Messiah" is one of the most contested terms in Christian reflection, with many people reading the concept back into early Old Testament texts. In The One Who Is to Come Joseph Fitzmyer contradicts that misreading, carefully tracing the emergence of messianism in Judaism to a much later date -- the second century B.C.
Outline: HERALDED BY CONGREGATIONS AND PEERS ALIKE as one of today's most compelling Christian voices, Fleming Rutledge here offers a profound, touching vision of the Cross and Resurrection. Progressing from Palm Sunday to Good Friday to Easter and on through Eastertide, these sermons display Rutledge's startling ability to bridge the message of the ancient biblical texts with the distinct need…
Outline: One of the benefits of the multicultural nature of Christianity has been the introduction of the Western church to worship music from around the world. However, while many songs from other parts of the world are now available in Western hymnal collections, little has been written to help church musicians and ministers understand, appreciate, and use these songs in worship. Gather into …
Outline: Commentary on the Second Epistle to the Corinthians, written in 1859, has remained a standard resource for teachers, pastors, and educated laypersons. Hodge's introductory material, chapter summaries, and verse-by-verse exposition provide - even after more than one hundred years - solid, relevant instruction for today's students of the Bible.
Outline: We Have Seen His Glory sounds a clarion call to worship in light of the coming Kingdom. Ben Witherington here contends that Christian worship cannot be a matter of merely continuing ancient practices; instead, we must be pre- paring for worship in the Kingdom of God when it comes on earth. The eight chapters in this thought-provoking book each end with questions for reflection and disc…
Outline : At its heart, the Protestant Reformation was about a deep, doctrinally shaped faith centered on God and his Word. But that historic, substantive faith is not faring so well in our contemporary Western context. In his 2008 book The Courage to Be Protestant, David Wells issued a summons to return to the historic Protestant faith, defined by the Reformation solas (grace, faith, and Scrip…
Overview: This Fetschrift to Douglas J. Moo is unique in several ways. Since Doug has been a key proponent to the Old Perspective on Paul, the reader will be interested in reading the essay by N.T. Wright in which he reflects on the phrase "the righteousness of God" in Romans 3. And where else can you read an essay by James D.G. Dunn on "What's Good about the Old Perspective on Paul" and by S…
Outline: This original work of scholarship clarifies how, in light of Matthew's Gospel, the first Christians understood and claimed Israel's messianic mission to people of every ethnic group immediately after Jesus' death and resurrection. In Part 1 James LaGrand examines the Hebrew Bible and other ancient documents to uncover the meaning in Matthew's time of the terms 'Israel' and 'the nations…
Outline: This is the complete and unabridged text of Spurgeon's classic of daily devotional readings, in a new edition that is re-edited with new type for greater readibility. These devotional meditations, one for the morning and one for the evening of every day in the year, 732 in all, are perfect guides for family devotions and individual private devotions.
Outline: What do you do when it's hard to hope? A story of adoption that's real, raw, redemptive, and edifying.
Outline : The New English Bible is a translation of the whole Bible in current English undertaken by the major Christian bodies (other than the Roman Catholic) of the British Isles. It is not a revision of the Authorized Version, nor is it intended to replace it Work on the Old Testament has occupied a group of scholars and literary advisers for over twenty years, and no pains have been spared…
Outline: Systematic Theology is the culmination and creative synthesis of John Frame's writing on, teaching about, and studying of the Word of God. This magisterial opus - at once biblical, clear, cogent, readable, accessible, and practical - summarize the mature thought of one of the most important and original Reformed theologians of the last hundred years. It will enable you to see clearly h…
Outline : Where Is Godin the Struggle? Looking away from despair towards hope can feel risky. What if God doesn't come through for you? What if you don't feel instantly better? Instead of offering simple platitudes or unrealistic cure-all formulas. Edward T. Welch addresses the complex nature of depression with compassion and insight, applying the rich treasures of the gospel, and giving fresh…
Outline: Practical Wisdom for dealing with depression. Depression - whether circumstantial and fleeting or persistent and long term - impacts most people at some point in their lives. Puritan pastor Richard Baxter spent most of his ministry caring for depressed and discouraged souls, and his timeless counsel still speaks to us today. In this book, psychiatrist Michael S. Lundy and theologian J.…
Outline : When you say "I do," you begin the journey of a lifetime - and you have dreams of that journey being perfect. But it won't take long for expectations of the perfect marriage to fade away in the struggles of everyday life. A long-term, vibrant marriage needs to be grounded in something studier than romance - it needs the life-changing power of the gospel. In this rebranded edition of W…
Outline: Sixty years ago, biblical scholars typically maintained that Israel's religion was unique, that it stood in marked contrast to the faiths of its ancient Near Eastern neighbors. Nowadays, it is widely argued that Israelite religion mirrors that of other West Semitic societies. What accounts for this radical change, and what are its implications for our understanding of the Old Testament…
Outline : This survey textbook is grounded in the view that the prophetic book of the Old Testament should be read as Christian Scripture. Although it covers critical issues such as authorship, background, and history, its primary focus is on the message and theology of the prophetic books and the contribution they make to the Christian canon. The prophetic books covered are Isaiah, Jeremiah, L…
Outline: Just as two bookends together a row of books, the covenant of works and the covenant of grace hold together the storyline of Scripture. Join a host of twenty-six scholars, including O. Palmer Robertson, Michael J. Kruger, and Scott R. Swain, as they explore how the concept of covenant is clearly taught in Scripture and how it lays the foundation for other doctrines of salvation. This m…
Outline: Old Testament Use of Old Testament by Gary Edward Schnittjer surveys hundreds of Old Testament allusions within the Old Testament and provides hermeneutical guidance for interpreting these interrelated Scriptures. The handbook takes an easy-to-navigate, book-by-book approach. Schnittjer provides a list of scriptural allusions for each book and follows with an interpretive profile of ho…
Outline : While many Christians are familiar with Paul's letters in the New Testament, they often miss the core principles of his writings. Building on a lifetime of study and teaching, scholar Richard B. Gaffin Jr. gives Christians a biblical and exegetically grounded framework for understanding the narrative of Acts and the nuanced theology of Paul. Gaffin covers a variety of topics including…
Outline : DOGMATICS FOR A NEW MILLENNIUM This systematic theology begins from the treatise De Deo Uno and develops the dogma of the Trinity as an expression of divine unicity, on which will depend creation, Christology, and ecclesiology. The Invisible God must be seen and known in the visible. In this way, God and God's relation to creation are distinguished but not separated-from Christology,…
Outline: Stanley E. Porter focuses upon the depiction of Paul in the book of Acts from literary-critical, rhetorical, and theological perspectives, among several others. The essays within this volume examine various topics related to the Paul of Acts such as the "we" passages of Acts as a source regarding Paul, and the theology and perspective of these passages in terms of their portrait of him…
Outline : BIBLICALTHEOLOGY OLD AND NEWTESTAMENTS. The aim of this book is no less than to provide an account of the unfolding of the mind of God in history, through the successive agents of his special revelation. Vos handles this under three main divisions: the Mosaic epoch of revelation, the prophetic epoch of revelation, and the New Testament. Such an historical approach is not meant to supp…
Outline : Di setiap abad dan tempat, gereja Kristen selalu menyusun pengakuan imannya, Pengakuan iman itu perlu disusun supaya warga-jemaat mengerti sedalam-dalamnya segala hal yang merekapercayai, tetapi juga supaya iman serta harapan-harapan merekadapat dipertanggung-jawabkan kepada setiap orang yang menanyakan hal itu, Di dalam sejarah gereja, kita melihat usaha yang sungguh-sungguh untuk me…
Outline: Marriage is the union of two people who arrive at the altar toting some surprisingly large luggage. Often it gets opened right there on the honeymoon, sometimes it waits for the week after. The Bible calls it sin and understanding its influence can make all the difference for a man and woman who are building a life together. When Sinners Say "I Do" is about encountering the life-trans…
Outline : Recent years have seen renewed interest in divine action, but much of the literature tends to focus on the science-theology discussion. Resulting from the multiyear work of the Scripture and Doctrine Seminar, part of the Kirby Laing Centre's Scripture Collective, this book explores the many different ways in which divine action is foregrounded and portrayed in one major biblical text,…
Outline: Genesis is a book of origins - the origin of the universe, the origin of life and the origin of man. It places man in his cosmic settling, shows his particular uniqueness, explains his wonder and his flaw, and begins to trace the flow of human history through space and time. Many today, however, view this book as a collection of myths, useful for understanding the Hebrew mind, perhaps,…
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: In this book, pastors and biblical counselors who are seeking to faithfully lead, mentor, and guide their flocks in a rapidly changing cultural landscape will find clear direction and guidance from a team of Christian lawyers and biblical counselors.
Outline: Based on the acclaimed sermon series by New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller, this book shows everyone-Christians, skeptics, singles, longtime married couples, and those about to be engaged-the vision of what marriage should be according to the Bible. Modern culture would have you believe that everyone has a soul mate; that romance is the most important part of a successful…