A landmark publication in the social sciences, Linda Lindsey’s Gender is the most comprehensive textbook to explore gender sociologically, as a critical and fundamental dimension of a person’s identity, interactions, development, and role and status in society.
A series of authors assert the premise that Sunday is "a new day of worship that was chosen to commemorate the unique, salvation-historical event of the death and resurrection of Christ, rather than merely being another day for celebrating the Sabbath".
Aapartheid had been waged, for which so many of our people had been teargassed, bitten by police dogs, struck with quirts and batons, for which many more had been detained, tortured, and banned, for which others had been imprisoned, sentenced to death, for which others had gone into exile—the day had finally dawned when we would vote, when we could vote for the first time in a democratic elec…
Every two thousand years, the Earth moves into a different sign of the zodiac, and we presently have moved or soon will move (experts disagree on this) from the age of Pisces to the age of Aquarius. This new age, it is said, could bring about our spiritual reawakening and a golden era for humankind....
Recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in the history of the Huguenots, and new research has increased our understanding of their role in shaping the early-modern world. The ten essays in this collection provide the first broad overview of Huguenot religious culture from the Restoration of Charles II to the outbreak of the French Revolution.
A philosophical history of the concept of evil in western culture.'Evil is something to be feared, and historically, we shall see, it is the enemy within who has been seen as representing the most intense evil of all - the enemy who looks just like us, talks like us, and is just like us.'The Myth of Evil explores a contradiction: the belief that human beings cannot commit acts of pure evil, tha…
Apakah sasaran terpenting di dalam hidup Anda? Apakah sasaran itu memang layak dikejar? Dikelilingi oleh berbagai kebisingan di dalam dunia kita teramat sibuk ini, perhatian kita sering teralihkan oleh sasaran-sasaran yang remeh dan tidak berarti alih-alih berfokus pada hal yang sejati dan kekal. Di dalam buklet ini, Dr. R. C. Sproul mendeskripsikan pertandingan terpenting di dalam hidup kita: …
The recent publication of the long lost Gospel of Judas, with its remarkable portrayal of Judas Iscariot as the disciple closest to Jesus, provides a fitting occasion to reconsider the figure of Judas as presented in ancient texts and traditions.1 Typically Judas has been demonized in Christian sources as the quintessential traitor, the disciple who betrayed his master for the infamous thirty p…
On 7 April 1537 Philip Melanchthon sent a copy of an epigram he had written to his friend and correspondent in Nuremberg, the preacher Veit Dietrich.1 He had originally composed it as an inscription for a copy of the third edition of his Scholia on Colossians, which he had given to Matthew Devay. He thought Dietrich would enjoy it, too. Not only did these fourteen simple lines of Latin poetry s…
Demonstrates how God calls all individuals to express meaning and purpose through a career, sharing spiritual insights into finding relevance in cutthroat professional environments and staying true to Christian values in spite of competition.
Outline: Kita semua akan tiba di tempat tersebut. Sebagian orang mengatakan itu adalah arena purnakarya. Saya sudah di sana. Berjejak di karier kedua. Oleh karena itu, saya dapat melakukan shareloc. Tujuan itu bisa saya capai setelah menempuh sebuah peta jalan. Ada tangan Ilahi di sepanjang perjalanan. Sehingga saya dapat mendarat dengan mulus. Sebuah daratan indah bernama karier kedua. Izinkan…
This book examines how the priestly editors of the book of Numbers created a narrative of the forty-year journey through the wilderness to achieve their agenda. The book also focuses on politics, collective memory and transmission of tradition.
The late Thomas F. Torrance has been called "the greatest Reformed theologian since Karl Barth" and "the greatest British theologian of the twentieth century" by prominent voices in the academy. His work has profoundly shaped contemporary theology in the English-speaking world.
A central figure in the reconception of early Christian history over the last three decades, Wayne A. Meeks offers here a selection of his most influential writings on the New Testament and early Christianity. His essays illustrate recent changes in our thinking about the early Christian movement and pose provocative questions regarding the history of this period.Meeks explores a fascinating ra…
This expanded anniversary edition includes updates and expansions of existing tactics, as well as the addition of an all-new tactic and a chapter on Mini Tactics filled with simple maneuvers to aid in discussions. In a world increasingly indifferent to Christian truth, followers of Christ need to be equipped to communicate with those who do not speak their language or accept their source of aut…
This is an examination of all branches of the Christian Church in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales in the 20th century in their central interaction with politics, social issues, war, and culture. It considers their pursuit of an elusive unity throughout a century when prevailing cultural attitudes underwent massive change.
In this completely revised and expanded edition of the Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism, Randall Balmer gives readers the most comprehensive resource about evangelicalism available anywhere. With more than three thousand separate entries, the Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism covers historical and contemporary theologians, preachers, laity, cultural figures, musicians, televangelists, movements, org…
The scribes of ancient Israel are indeed the main figures behind the Hebrew Bible, and this book tells their story for the first time. Drawing comparisons with the scribal practices of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, van der Toorn details the methods, assumptions, and material means that gave rise to biblical texts. Traditionally seen as the copycats of antiquity, the scribes emerge here as the …
Mancini is an expert in the movement to make churches more missional: moving them from an internal focus to an emphasis on participating in the culture and their community. In this book, he outlines a new model to help churches articulate strategy and live into their visions.
This clearly written textbook provides an accessible introduction to the three programming paradigms of object-oriented/imperative, functional, and logic programming. Highly interactive in style, the text encourages learning through practice, offering test exercises for each topic covered. Review questions and programming projects are also presented, to help reinforce the concepts outside of th…
When the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America was added, it was agreed that Congress and government in general would not be actively supporting or participating in the establishment of religion, nor would it be in the business of prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Religious life in our newly formed country would never be the same thereafter. The religious mili…
THIS ENCYCLOPEDIA IS non-traditional in every way. Typically, an encyclopedia contains brief descriptive statements that define institutions, movements, and individuals. A large number of the entries may be biographical sketches. The articles are organized alphabetically and only accidentally do related subjects happen to follow one another. While meant to cover a comprehensive list of topics, …
Addresses issues of sex and gender at the personal and the social level; examines issues of identity, status, class, ethnicity, race, and nation; of sexuality and the body; of social institutions and the structures of representation. Topics include changing conceptions of "the feminine," the family and masculinity, religion, morality, cultural images, medical practice, public health, economy an…
Explores the various forms of religious communication worldwide, with a special emphasis on oral and written forms of communication. This work analyzes how and why the world's religions have used different means of communications. It is intended for scholars, students, as well as the general reader interested in religion, media, or communications.
In books of this sort some introductory word is typically said concerning the notion of "coherence" and its application to theism. Following this pattern, the question I wish to raise is whether it is rational to embrace theism even in the face of unanswerable arguments for the incoherence of theism. That is to say, if as the result of our inquiry we are forced to conclude that we are unable to…
The DSM-5-TR is a comprehensive and critical resource for clinical practice. It features a new disorder--prolonged grief disorder--as well as codes for suicidal behavior available to all clinicians of any discipline without the requirement of any other diagnosis. With contributions from over 200 subject matter experts, this updated volume boasts updates based on scientific literature. The DSM-5…
Communication and Capitalism outlines foundations of a critical theory of communication. Going beyond Jurgen Habermas' theory of communicative action, Christian Fuchs outlines a communicative materialism that is a critical, dialectical, humanist approach to theorizing communication in society and in capitalism. The book renews Marxist Humanism as a critical theory perspective on communication a…
This volume includes selections from the works of Athanasius, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa. Through these works and those of other early Christian thinkers, this book surveys the development of early church theology. Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of...
Christian Counseling: A Comprehensive Guide was prepared to assist Christian leaders in their day-to-day counseling ministry. The first four chapters of Christian Counseling are designed to give an overview of counseling and may be read consecutively. The remaining twenty-seven chapters deal with specific problems, and since each chapter stands alone, they can be read in any order. Each chapter…
There are few things I love more than watching my children or students on the edges of their seats, listening to Bible stories with wide-eyed excitement. God’s Word is powerful and active for an audience of any age! Creating a craft that depicts a scene, character, or object from a Bible passage reinforces that story by prompting kids to retain and retell it as they show off their craft.
Can it be justifiable to commit oneself 'by faith' to a religious claim when its truth lacks adequate support from one's total available evidence? In Believing by Faith, John Bishop defends a version of fideism inspired by William James's 1896 lecture 'The Will to Believe'. By critiquing both 'isolationist' (Wittgensteinian) and Reformed epistemologies of religious belief, Bishop argues that an…
This volume includes the first edition of a previously unknown text which throws wholly new light on the intellectual history of early medieval Europe. The biblical commentaries (never before printed or studied) represent the teaching of two extraordinarily gifted Greek scholars who came to England from the Byzantine East. Theodore, archbishop of Canterbury (668-90) and his colleague Hadrian (d…
This book aspires to answer a relatively simple question: How did we get from John F. Kennedy’s eloquent speech at the Rice Hotel in Houston on September 12, 1960, in which he urged voters effectively to bracket a candidate’s faith out of their considerations when they entered the voting booth, to George W. Bush’s declaration on the eve of the 2000 Iowa precinct caucuses that Jesus was hi…
As Europe wrangles over questions of national identity, nativism and immigration, Olivier Roy interrogates the place of Christianity, foundation of Western identity. Do secularism and Islam really pose threats to the continent's 'Christian values'? What will be the fate of Christianity in Europe? Rather than repeating the familiar narrative of decline, Roy challenges the significance of secular…
Accommodation Theory. In apologetics, accommodation theory can refer to either of two views, one acceptable and one objectionable to evangelical Christians. It can refer to God’s accommodation of his revelation to our finite circumstances to communicate with us, as in Scripture or the incarnation of Christ ( see Bible, Evidence for ; Calvin, John ; Christ, Deity of ). Both of these are forms …
John Stuart Mill said in his Autobiography that his father, James Mill, was ‘‘the last of the eighteenth century.’’ He intended a deep homage to the man who had educated him to carry on the work of social amelioration and enlightenment—an homage a little touched by irony, since James Mill did in fact live most of his life in the nineteenth century...
This volume explores the legacy of the Dutch theologian and statesman Abraham Kuyper for contemporary Christian ecotheology. A crucial problem in ecotheology is how to do justice to both creation and salvation as acts of God, given the impact of the environmental crisis and the concern for creation (as creatura). Can Kuyper help one in this regard, given his controversial legasy, especially in …
Offers insights into the academic context of Arminius, and, along with a comparative analysis of his colleagues at Leiden University, explores new horizons in his doctrines of salvation and assurance. Arminius' search for true assurance of salvation emerges as a decisive factor in his famous dissent from Reformed theology.
This introduction to the New Testament provides a thorough grounding in the study and editing of the New Testament text combined with an emphasis on the dramatic developments in the field. It covers ancient sources in Greek, Syriac, Latin and Coptic and describes the manuscripts and other ancient textual evidence.
This volume contains two highly important writings of the period of the Protestant Reformation. Melanchthon's book Loci communes theologici, the first Protestant dogmatics, as it is sometimes called, represents the work of a young man writing at the very beginning of the Lutheran Reformation. Bucer's work On the Kingdom of Christ, the first Protestant treatise on social ethics, is the product o…
This study draws upon the biblical books of Kings, First Isaiah and Chronicles, in conjunction with Assyrian records and ancient Near Eastern archaeology, in order to provide an updated historical reconstruction of the influential Judean monarch Hezekiah.
Luther's commentary consists of two parts: the Gloss and the Scholia. I have translated the latter (WA 56, 155-528) in their entirety. It would not be practical to translate also all the interlinear and marginal glosses (WA 56, 1-154). However, I have translated all glosses to which Luther himself refers in the Scholia. Moreover, all glosses that contain important interpretations or have assume…
The purpose of the selection has been to show the young Luther at work in those vital formative years between 1517 and 1521, and to make available to English readers for the first time a representative selection of Luther's theological output during those years apart from the widely known Theses of 1517 and the Reformation Treatises of 1520.......
This second volume in the Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible series provides expert, comprehensive guidance in answering significant questions about the Hebrew text. While reflecting the latest advances in scholarship on Hebrew grammar and linguistics, the work utilises a style that is lucid enough to serve as a useful agent for teaching and self-study.
The American evolution/creation debate raged throughout the twentieth century and shows no sign of letting up in the twenty-first. American attitudes toward evolution typically show sharp divisions between, on the one hand, those who hold that a belief in the existence of God makes it impossible to accept evolution and, on the other hand, those who believe that the fact of evolution undermines …
Richard Swinburne analyses the purposes of practising a religion, and argues that religious faith requires belief that a particular creed provides the rationale for supposing that these purposes will be achieved.
The three works of St. Augustine translated in this volume, in whole or in part, were all published in the years between 410 and 420, when Augustine was in his late fifties or early sixties, still at the height of his powers, and not yet wholly absorbed by the Pelagian controversy, which forced him to imprison his doctrine of Grace in a system of rigid logic—the "Augustinianism" whose authori…
The Christian Church possesses in its literature an abundant and incomparable treasure. But it is an inheritance that must be reclaimed by each generation. THE LIBRARY OF CHRISTIAN CLASSICS is designed to present in the English language, and in twenty-six volumes of convenient size, a selection of the most indispensable Christian treatises written prior to the end of the sixteenth century.
The Christian Church possesses in its literature an abundant and incomparable treasure. But it is an inheritance that must be reclaimed by each generation. THE LIBRARY OF CHRISTIAN CLASSICS is designed to present in the English language, and in twenty-six volumes of convenient size, a selection of the most indispensable Christian treatises written prior to the end of the sixteenth century.