Outline: The Swahili-speaking peoples of the East African coast are one of the most-studied and yet least-understood peoples of Africa. This paradox stems from the long-standing assumption that the Swahili represent an Arab Muslim culture divorced from their Bantu-speaking African neighbors - "alien jewels on a strange and distant shore." This has led historians, linguists, archaeologists, and …
Outline: Reformasi Luther merupakan peristiwa penting dalam sejarah gereja dan memberikan dampak khusus bagi perjalanan teologi selanjutnya. Namun Luther tidak terlalu mengembangkan teologi, perkembangan teologi dilakukan oleh Melanchton dan Calvin. Khususnya teologi yang dikerjakan oleh Calvin dengan begitu agung dan ketat kini menjadi dasar dari Gereja Reformed yang dikenal sebagai Teologi Re…
Outline: Islamic radicalism has commanded attention in recent years, to the neglect of more moderate voices and trends. This compelling volume introduces the current generation of reformist thinkers and activists and the intellectual traditions and activists and the intellectual traditions they carry on. Richly detailed, regionally focused chapters cover Iran, the Arab East, the Meghreb, South …
Outline: The Gentle Answer is a scholarly to a claim that many Muslims have made in relation to non-Muslims for mote than 1200 years; that the text of the Bible is corrupt and/or falsified. Since critical writing on the Bible is more abundant and has a longer history, Muslim polemicists have selectively used Western biblical criticism in an attempt to support the traditional Muslim accusation o…
Outline: - Is there a God? - What is the evidence for belief in such a being? - What is God like? - Or, is God a figment of human inspiration? - How do we know that such a being might not exist? - Should belief or disbelief in God's existence make a difference in our opinions and moral choices, in the way we see ourselves and relate to those around us? These are fundamental questions, and…
Outline: This book sketches the development of the public discourse in Indonesia until just before the monetary crisis of 1997. At that time, the discussion in civil society clearly showed the cracks in the walls of the New Order and foreshadowed its imminent undoing. The blatant contempt of justice, the regime's mendacity, its idelogical bankruptcy, the poignancy of columnists, the exacerbatio…
Outline: Buku ini mengandung uraian lengkap mengenai adat-istiadat orang Sunda dari mulai manusia itu dilahirkan sampai mati. Adat-adat yang dibahas di antaranya : adat orang ngidam, menjaga orang hamil, melahirkan, khitanan, menikah, kematian, dan membagi warisan. Adat-adat lain yang dibahas misalnya: pertanian di Priangan, sesuatu yang ditakuti manusia, waktu-waktu yang dimuliakan, tata kesop…
Outline: With Protestant missions passing through a time of rapid change, there is a need for a reassessment of planting churches. This book is an appraisal of the methods used in planting and advancing churches in these changing times. It begins with an examination of the New Testament church and the Biblical basis of missions in the Book of Acts. After the Biblical characteristics are determi…
Outline: You're trapped. You don't know how you ended up in such a mess - locked in habits you can't seem to break or caught in sin. You're a Christian and this sort of thing doesn't happen to Christians ... or so you've been told. You are not alone. The Bible warns repeatedly that all Christians will struggle against Satan and his spiritual forces of darkness. While the spiritual conflict th…
Outline: Sejarah Filsafat dan Theologi Barat adalah buah karya John Frame selama empat puluh lima tahun mengajar mata pelajaran filosofis. Tidak ada survei lain tentang sejarah pemikiran Barat yang menawarkan perpaduan yang menyegarkan antara kejelasan eksposisi, wawasan kritis, dan hikmat alkitabiah. Rangkaian pertanyaan studi tambahan, bibliografi, tautan ke kuliah audio, kutipan dari para pe…
Outline: This book is a handy tool for pastors, theological students, and laity seeking a better understanding of the teaching of John Calvin. With the new study guide, it is a comprehensive, easy-to-read introduction to the most influential book of the Protestant Reformation: Calvin's Institute of the Christian Religion. The translation used is that of Ford Lewis Battles. The brief quotations …
Outline: This resource book features 52 reproducible graphics and activities connected to lessons in The New City Catechism Curriculum.
Outline: 20 engaging, dynamic, and creative lessons for children ages 8-11 corresponding to questions 1-20 of The New City Catechism. Question 1: What is our only hope in life and death? Question 2: What is God? Question 3: How many persons are there in God? Question 4: How and why did God create us? Question 5: What else did God create? Question 6: How can we glorify God? Question 7: Wh…
Outline: Tsai Chih Chung's first volume of cartoons on the Taoist classic Dao De Jing was so well-received that he was prompted to do a second volume. His skills in illustration had improved by leaps and bounds since his first volume was published and this led him to tackle some of the more abstruse passages which he did not include in the first volume. The Dao De Jing is the most widely transl…
Outline: This book comprehensively surveys the origin, production and reception of the canonical gospels in the early church. The discussion unfolds in three steps. Part One traces the origin of the 'gospel' of Jesus, its significance in Jewish and Hellenistic contexts of the first century, and its development from eyewitness memory to oral tradition and written text. Part Two then more specifi…
Outline: Theodore Beza's A Clear and Simple Treatise on the Lord's Supper (1559) advances a tireless defense of the Reformed perspective on the Lord's Supper, responding chapter by chapter to specific arguments raised against John Calvin by his Lutheran opponent Joachim Westphal. Beza makes great use of the concept of metonymy, or a figure of speech, in his interpretation of the words of instit…
Outline: Whether it's terrorists in the Middle East who claim inspiration from Islam and express their hatred for the West, or the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, or the violence done by the religious extremists in the United States, it seems religion too often leads to lethal results. Charles Kimball, the author of When Religion Becomes Evil, builds on his bestselling book …
Outline: 17 engaging, dynamic, and creative lessons for children ages 8-11 corresponding to questions 36-52 of The New City Catechism. Question 36: What do we believe about the Holy Spirit? Question 37: How does the Holy Spirit help us? Question 38: What is prayer? Question 39: With what attitude should we pray? Question 40: What should we pray? Question 41: What is the Lord's Prayer? Qu…
Outline: Modernist Islam was a major intellectual current in the Muslim world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Proponents of this movement typically believed that it was not only possible but imperative to show how "modern" values and institutions could be reconciled with Islamic ideals. While the movement declined after the 1930s, replaced by secular projects such as nationalism …
Overview: Penulis menulis buku ini untuk menjawab keresahan terhadap bahaya dari Kekristenan yang dangkal, bukan yang sejati. Kekristenan yang sejati mutlak harus dimulai dan didasarkan pada ajaran yang benar dari Firman Tuhan. Dan TULIP bisa menjadi sarana kita untuk mengenal dan mempelajari seperti apakah ajaran yang benar itu. Doktrin-doktrin dari Calvinisme dan Reformasi merupakan waris…
Outline: Ayub 5: 1 mengatakan, "Di antara yang kudus, kepada siapakah aku berpaling?" Inilah tantangan yang telah berlangsung ribuan tahun yang lalu. Kita merasakan tantangan dan rangsangan kuno ini tetap sangat relevan hingga hari ini, karena di antara sekian banyak agama - khususnya di tengah masyarakat Indonesia yang majemuk - kita harus memilih agama mana yang harus kita anut. Dalam situasi…
Outline: Taiwanese author cartoonist, Tsai Chih Chung, has enlivened the sayings of Confusius through lively cartoons and simple dialogue, much to the delight of Chinese readers. Now Asiapac brings to you, as part of the Chinese Philosophers in Comics Series, as English translation by Goh Beng Choo featuring events in the life of Confucius, selected sayings from Lun Yu (The Analects) and some o…
Outline: Tragedi Cikeusik menyentak seluruh rakyat Indonesia, bahkan masyarakat dunia ikut prihatin. Peristiwa yang semestinya tak perlu terjadi jika kita semua mampu menahan diri. Kejadian Cikeusik adalah satu di antara berbagai kejadian menyangkut Ahmadiyah yang selama ini terus menjadi polemik. Terbitnya SKB Tiga Menteri belum secara maksimal terlaksana di semua lapisan. Untuk tataran elite …
Outline: The first of his works to be translated into English, Risalat al Tauhid, represents the most popular of Muhammad 'Abduh' s discussions of Islamic thought and belief. From its major arguments the general direction of current apology derives. The author died in 1905 but is still quoted and revered as the father of twentieth century Muslim thinking in the Arab world. Though timid and con…
Outline: "Mengapa orang baik bisa menderita?" Itulah pertanyaan sepanjang masa. Ada yang menduga bahwa penyebabnya adalah dosa tersembunyi dari orang itu. Ada yang mempersalahkan orang-orang dianggap sebagai lawan, yang cemburu kepadanya. Ada yang mengaitkan dengan perselisihan dewa-dewi. Ada yang yakin penyebabnya adalah tatanan masyarakat yang tidak adil. Ada orang yang berpendirian bahwa mu…
Outline: Berabad-abad lamanya para teolog dan mahasiswa yang mendalami studi Alkitab telah bertatap muka dengan narasi (penceritaan) tanpa memahaminya betul-betul. Mereka sudah berulang kali membaca dan mempelajari Kitab-Kitab Injil, tetapi mereka tidak cukup menyadari bahwa kitab-kitab itu merupakan narasi. Para penulis seri buku ini mencoba menyadarkan pembaca dalam berhadapan dengan Kitab-K…
Outline: Apakah Perjanjian Lama itu? Apa inti pokoknya? Apa makna Perjanjian Lama bagi kita yang hidup pada awal milenium ketiga Masehi? Temukanlah jawabannya dalam buku ini! Selain membantu para mahasiswa, buku ini juga bermanfaat bagi pembaca awam yang ingin mengenal Perjanjian Lama.
Outline: As the boundaries between cultures and religions blur in an increasingly globalized world, the church finds itself in need of new approaches to understanding and embracing otherness - both inside and outside of its established communities. Southeast Asia has long been one of the world's most diverse regions, with over a hundred ethnicities represented and members of every major religio…