Outline: New Testament introductions fall into two categories: those that emphasize the history behind the text through discussions of authorship, dating, and audience, and those that explore the content of the text itself. Few introductions weave the Old Testament into their discussions, and fewer still rely on the grand narrative of the Old Testament. But the New Testament was not written wit…
Outline : PLEASURE Pleasure was part of God's original design, but what happens when the things we enjoy become obsessions or escapes? David Powlison looks at two types of pleasures: those that bring pure, guilt-free enjoyment and those that are stained, empty, and disappointing. He points to the tell-tale signs that we are misusing pleasure to indulge ourselves or run from pain we need to fac…
Outline : THE NIV COMPLETE CONCORDANCE The NIV Complete Concordance is the first concordance produced for the New International Version of the Bible. A Bible concordance is a word index arranged alphabetically, to which are added a brief context and the location for every appearance of the key entry word. With a concordance one can find forgotten references of verses; locate specific persons, …
Outline : "The Post-Secular City" is the first attempt to systematically map and assess the recent debate about secularization. "The Post-Secular City" examines the alleged shift from a "secular" to a "post-secular" dispensation from the perspective of the ongoing de-construction of the secularization "theorem" (as Hans Blumenberg called it). Accordingly, the new secularization debate is descr…
Outline: Buku Semut dan Peta Kehidupan - Navigasi Hikmat dalam Realita Keseharian adalah buku pertama dari Seri Navigasi Hikmat yang diterbitkan. Buku ini sangat direkomendasikan bagi mereka yang tengah menghadapi permasalahan serupa, merasa terjebak di persimpangan jalan, atau merasa gelisah tanpa melihat jalan keluar. Buku ini memberikan jawaban dan perspektif baru untuk membantu membuka wawa…
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Time is almost up for another classic the final Lynx helicopters in service with the UK’s armed forces. On January 16, just days before this magazine hits the shelves, 657 Squadron, Army Air Corps (AAC), was due to fly a farewell tour with its Westland Lynx AH9As. It seems almost incredible that these machines are the last of their kind on frontline operations in the UK.
The theory of communicative rationality by Jurgen Habermas is a contemporary philosophical approach to practical reasoning. Habermas’ communication theory differentiates between two kinds of rationality, the emancipative communicative reasoning and the strategic or instrumental thinking. Hence, social action can be either success oriented strategic action or understanding-oriented communicati…
Ever since the emergence of open theism on the evangelical scene in the 1990s, there have been several attempts to saddle Arminianism with the theological interests of open theism. On the one hand, Reformed theologians find it to their advantage to identify Arminianism and open theism, if for no other reason than the slippery slope argument has a concrete example. Open theists, on the other han…
Jacobus Arminius is one of the best known and least studied theologians in the history of Christianity. His writings have been neglected by Calvinists and Arminians alike. Calvinists have disliked him because of his opposition to scholastic predestinarían theology. Most Arminians have neglected him because what little they have read of him reminds them more of Calvinism than they like. Arminiu…
The ‘Update Status’ phenomenon is a popular phenomenon among millennials. In the city of Solo the update status is much done around the world of food or culinary. Eating is no longer a necessity of life, but it has shifted to a lifestyle for young people. Where to share pictures around the café or food served on their social media becomes an important moment. Describe what they eat and whe…
Secara umum dikatakan bahwa agama resmi di Jepang ada dua yaitu agama Shinto dan agama Budha. Namun demikian pada saat Tahun Baru orang-orang Jepang pergi ke kuil Shinto yang disebut dengan Jinja dan pada saat perayaan Obon mereka pergi kuil Budha yang disebut dengan Otera, lalu di rumah mereka terdapat tempat pemujaan agama Shinto yang disebut dengan kamidana dan tempat pemujaan agama Budha ya…
Corona virus is a virus capable of mutating very quickly and many other viruses that arise due to mutations of this virus. To find out the location of corona virus mutations of one type to another, DNA sequences can be aligned using the Needleman-Wunsch algorithm. Corona virus data was taken from Genbank National Center for Biotechnology Information from 1985-1992. The Needleman-Wunsch algorith…
This essay aims to describe the history of ancient religions development. This paper focuses on three ancient religions, i.e the belief of ancient Egypt, Zoroastrianism and Shinto. The result of this essay finds three conclusions. First, the belief of ancient Egypt started from each activities of Nile River society. Ancient Egypt society is a polytheism peoples (worshipping for many god). The s…
Whether the government interference is necessary or not, has already everlasting theme in term of the history of economy policy. Most of people believed in vary of irrational myths that market mechanism would be able to guarantee productivity, privatization would increase efficiency, the government role should be restricted and most of all, everything should be liberated to the private sector. …
Pandangan orang Jepang terhadap agama adalah sebagai ikatan budaya dan tradisi. Memiliki dua atau lebih agama dalam kehidupan seseorang adalah sesuatu yang wajar, dan hal tersebut menjadikan salah satu karakteristik agama Jepang. Dalam sejarahnya yang panjang, agama telah mengalami perkembangan, agama asli tetap dipertahankan walaupun muncul agama-agama baru, agama asli tetap hidup dengan harmo…
Tujuan penulisan artikel ini adalah untuk menjelaskan makna gambar Allah menurut Kejadian 1:26-28 dan implikasinya terhadap pengembangan Artificial Intelligence. Adapun metode penulisan yang digunakan adalah analisis kualitatif dengan metode hermeneutik. Adapun metode hermeneutik yang dugunakan ialah hermeneutik terhadap Alkitab sebagai salah satu komponen teologi dalam mempelajari penafsiran A…
Paul's historical aspects relating to his background in life and education since childhood have had a great impact on Paul's theological mindset and concepts before and after his conversion. Pauline scholars gave much attention to early education in Tarsus and in Jerusalem which later made Saul a respected rabbi Pharisee. The Apostle Paul, formerly known as Saul of Tarsus, grew up in a Hellenis…
The study aims to offer a rational explanation for the appearance of the so-called ‘digression’ in Plato’s Theaetetus and in so doing raises the question of whether it is indeed a digression. The starting point of the inquiry is the argumentative structure of the digression itself, which in the course of the inquiry will be made apparent, internally, through references to the Theaetetus i…
The arguments presented in this discussion point to some problems in the theory of communicative action considered as a starting point for a sociological theory with both normative and explanatory aspirations. It is argued that Habermas’s notion of consensus is not sufficiently developed to constitute a foundation of the ethics of public debates; that both social action and communicative acti…
Reformed epistemology has reclaimed for contemporary apologetics not only Calvin’s notion of sensus divinitatis) but also its negative counterpart—the idea of the corruption of human intellectual capacities through original sin. But while Alvin Plantinga’s retrieval of the concept finds some support in Calvin’s Institutes, it does not do foil justice to the exegetically determined histo…
Although anatomically modern humans emerged during the MSA, debates have focused on the timing for the development of cognitive thoughts, planning depth, and profound cultural innovations. While some scholars have attributed these qualities to the LSA population, others have proposed that the evolutionary modern human behaviors developed during the MSA. This paper is a contribution to this deba…
Pemahaman terhadap teori evolusi biologis sel sangat penting artinya untuk mengkaji tentang perkembangan makhluk hidup saat ini. Pada dasarnya teori evolusi makhluk hidup mengatakan bahwa hewan, tumbuhan dan manusia dalam berabad-abad yang lalu telah berkembang dari makhluk hidup yang berbentuk lebih sederhana. Selama ini sel dianggap merupakan unit struktural dan fungsional, sel juga merupaka…
This book is the fifth part of an original exposition of the book of Psalms, with a range of illustrative extracts and notes to help pastors prepare sermons. It covers Psalms 111 through 119.
The language of the first verse indicates that James is a letter, though there is little in the remainder of the text to lead one to think of James as a letter. Letters in the first-century Jewish and Christian worlds varied in substance (Romans, 2 Corinthians, 1-2 Timothy) and style (Romans, 1 Thessalonians, Hebrews), so one should not infer from James's substance, which is largely hortatory, …
These books are not commentaries. They assume no understanding of the original Bible languages, nor a high level of biblical knowledge. Verse references are marked in bold so that you can refer to them easily. Any words that are used rarely or differently in everyday language outside the church are marked in gray when they first appear, and are explained in a glossary toward the back. There, yo…
Almost five hundred years before Paul’s words called Stott to an evangelism which focused on our relationship with God, Romans changed two other men, in a way that would completely transform the church.........
Science is a living, organic activity, the meaning and understanding of which have evolved incrementally over human history. This book, the second in a roughly chronological series, explores the evolution of science from the advents of Christianity and Islam through the Middle Ages, focusing especially on the historical relationship between science and religion. Specific topics include technolo…
Modern AI research began on a summer programme at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, in 1956, when a group of academics and students set out to explore how machines could intelligently think.
A certain established orthodoxy has settled over scholarly thinking concerning the relationship between the Christian church and political freedom. Consider the work of the political philosopher John Rawls, who has exerted a towering impact on a generation of political scientists, philosophers, legal scholars, practicing lawyers, public policy professionals, and judges. Rawls often begins his t…
The chief concern of the Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament (BECNT) is to provide, within the framework of informed evangelical thought, commentaries that blend scholarly depth with readability, exegetical detail with sensitivity to the whole, and attention to critical problems with theological awareness. We hope thereby to attract the interest of a fairly wide audience, from the …
Origen was the most influential Christian theologian before Augustine, the founder of Biblical study as a serious discipline in the Christian tradition, and a figure with immense influence on the development of Christian spirituality.This volume presents a comprehensive and accessible insight into Origen's life and writings. An introduction analyzes the principal influences that formed him as a…
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning-aut…
This text is designed for students and academics studying the doctrine of the incarnation. James Dunn clarifies in detail the beginnings of the belief in Christ as the Son of God and discusses the historical context of such beliefs.
The Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible is a reference tool that introduces readers to key names, theories, and concepts in the field of biblical interpretation. It discusses these approaches and evaluates their helpfulness in enabling Christians to hear what God is saying to the church through Scripture. The contributors come from a variety of backgrounds, and the dictionary…
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95) became known as 'Darwin's bulldog' because of his forceful and energetic support for Darwin's theory, especially at the notorious British Association meeting in Oxford in 1860. In fact, Huxley had some reservations about aspects of the theory, especially the element of gradual, continuous progress, but in public he was unwavering in his allegiance, saying in a lett…
Outline: Lompatan Tersingkat Jilid 2, karya Ally van den Herik ini, akan mencakup semua fakta inti yang terkait dengan pokok-pokok kepercayaan utama iman Kristen. Apabila jilid 1 meliputi bukti-bukti ilmiah, filsafat, sains untuk iman Kristen, Jilid 2 ini lebih tajam berfokus pada kebenaran Alkitab dan doktrin Kristen tentang Yesus Kristus. Kesaksian Alkitab tentang Yesus Kristus dan segala ses…
The Greek East in the Roman period abounded in fictions.In Fiction as History: Nero to Julian (1994), G. Bowersock has written memorably of what he characterizes as an explosion in the production of ancient fictions in the Roman empire,beginning in the reign of Nero (54–68 c.e.),and of the paradoxical character of some of these fictions.
In God and Human Freedom: A Kierkegaardian Perspective Tony Kim discusses Sren Kierkegaard's concept of historical unity between the divine and human without disparaging their absolute distinction. Kim's central analysis between the relation of God and human freedom in Kierkegaard presents God's absoluteness as superseding human freedom, intervening at every point of His relation with the world…