Outline: Most Christians would agree that the Bible provides a basis for mission. But Christopher Wright boldly maintains that there is a missional basis for the Bible! The entire Bible is generated by and all about God's mission. In order to understand the Bible, we need a missional hermeneutic, an interpretive perspective in tune with this great missional theme. We need to see how the familia…
Outline: St. Paul was a pivotal and controversial figure in the fledgling Jesus-movement of the first century. The New Cambridge Companion to St. Paul provides an invaluable entryway into the study of Paul and his letters. Composed of sixteen chapters by an international team of scholars, it explores some of the key issues in the current study of his dynamic and demanding theological discourse.…
Outline: The apostle Paul has been justifiably described as the first and greatest Christian theologian. His letters were among the earliest documents to be included in the New Testament and, as such, they shaped Christian thinking from the beginning. As a missionary, theologian and pastor Paul's own wrestling with theological and ethical questions of his day is paradigmatic for Christian theol…
Outline: Gunter Stemberger's revision of H.L. Strack's classic introduction to rabbinic literature, which appeared in its first English edition in 1991, was widely acclaimed. Gunter Stemberger and Markus Bockmuehl have now produced this updated edition. Following Strack's original outline, Stemberger discusses first the historical framework, the basic principles of rabbinic literature and herme…
Outline: Written by one of twentieth-century's foremost modern Trinitarian theologians The Christian Doctrine of God remains a classic ground work for scholars and students alike. Thomas F. Torrance offers a detailed study of the most profound article of the Christian faith - the Holy Trinity. Torrance adopts a holistic when examining the inter-relatedness of the three persons - Father, Son, an…
Outline: Nothing is more important than worship. And worship is more than a formal church activity; it is personal before it is public. This is not a book about worshiping in church. John MacArthur surveys the biblical teaching about worship and argues for a new understanding of the concept. The Ultimate Priority is a call to a radically different type of living that seeks to worship God contin…
Outline: From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible reveals a God whose creative power and loving care embrace all that exists. Yet the significance of the Bible's extensive teaching about the natural world is easily overlooked by Christians accustomed to focusing only on what the Bible says about God's interaction with human beings. In Creation Care, father and son team Douglas and Jonathan Moo inv…
Outline: Tak satu pun pemikir dunia masa kini yang memahami seni dan ilmu bisnis serta manajemen sebaik Peter Drucker. Tulisan-tulisannya telah menetapkan standar analisis dan juga nasihat bagi lebih dari satu generasi. Sebagaimana diperlihatkan dengan gamblang dalam buku baru yang bagus ini, ia menyoroti persoalan tantangan bisnis yang terpenting di era sekarang, yang penuh dengan perubahan me…
Outline: Christians want to be spiritual people. We seek after a spirituality that is more than merely intellectual agreement with certain doctrines, a spirituality in which our personal relationship with Jesus Christ overflows into our personal lives. A Practical Theology of Spirituality explores the question of what spirituality is and how it can find expression in everyday life. Part 1 brief…
Outline: Originally published in 1520, The Freedom of a Christian is one of Martin Luther's most well-know and enduring treatises. In it, the German Reformer examines Christian ethics and how justification by faith alone liberates believers, while also developing ideas and doctrines that were key to the Reformation. Featuring a new translation from the original German into English by renowned R…
Outline: Within Roman society, the earliest Christians stood out for the oddness of their beliefs and practices. They believed unusual things, worshiped God in strange ways, and practiced a whole new way of doing religion that would have been viewed as bizarre and dangerous compared to other religions of the ancient world. In Strange Religion, award-winning author and New Testament teacher Nija…
Outline: Do you know who you are? In this Scripture-saturated devotional, pastor and biblical counselor Paul Tautges provides 90 meditations on your complete identity before God in Christ as saint, sinner, and sufferer. Day by day, center your thoughts and affections on the Savior and stay on God's good path as you live in a broken world.
Outline: This book summarizes a decade of research on its topic, while each specific perspective either formed in advance, or arose in the process of ethnography and its analysis. The book explores various aspects of Christian music in British Columbia, Washington State, and Oregon, but primarily its historical facets and local palette. The scope of the main topics covers aspects such as histor…
Outline: The Cambridge History of Christianity offers a comprehensive chronological account of the development of Christianity in all its aspects - theological, intellectual, social, political, regional, global - from its beginnings to the present day. Each volume makes a substantial contribution in its own right to the scholarship of its period and the complete History constitutes a major work…
Outline: The promise and peril in reading the Minor Prophets. Reading the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets confronts the unique challenges presented by this daunting section of the Old Testament. Authors from a variety of perspectives consider questions about hermeneutics and composition, reception history, theodicy, metaphors and characterization, and theology. These essays provide insights …
Outline: At the heart of the earliest Christian self-understanding, explicit or implicit in much Christian use of the Old Testament, and crucial for Christian theology and interpretation, the concept of "messiah" in the Old Testament has, however, been eclipsed by the pursuit of other goals in Old Testament studies. Few recent sustained treatments have appeared from any school of thought. The L…
Outline: The two volumes of Robert Jenson's Systematic Theology present a compendious statement of Christian theology in the tradition of the medieval summa. In the first volume, The Triune God, Jenson addresses the questions surrounding the nature of the Christian God, including classic christological as well as Trinitarian questions. Here, in The Works of God, Jenson examines such topics as t…
Outline: The two volumes of Robert Jenson's Systematic Theology present a compendious statement of Christian theology in the tradition of the medieval summa. In this volume, The Triune God, Jenson addresses the questions surrounding the nature of the Christian God, including classic christological as well as trinitarian questions. The second volume, The Works of God, examines such topics as the…
Outline: What is religion's place within the academy today? Are the perspectives of religious believers acceptable in an academic setting? IN the lucid and penetrating essay, Nicholas Wolterstorff ranges from Max Weber and John Locke to Ludwig Wittgenstein and Charles Taylor to argue that religious orientations and voices do have a home in the modern university, and he offers a sketch of what t…
Outline : This book initiates a dialogue where one does not exist, and continues a dialogue where one has been tentatively initiated, regarding the concept of God in the neoclassical philosophy of Charles Hartshorne and that found in analytic philosophers who adhere to classical theism. Two distinctive features of the book are a careful examination of Hartshorne's use of position martices in th…
Outline: This book argues that sound theological foundations are essential for sound pastoral care - and that pastoral care provides a rich resource for fresh, even profound theological reflection. The chapters present a series of case studies. Each begins with a chaplain's encounter with a patient in crisis, whether from pain, loss, abandonment, trauma, or guilt. The quest for God in these cir…
The modern chasm between "secular" work and "sacred" worship has had a devastating impact on Western Christianity. Drawing on years of research, ministry, and leadership experience, Kaemingk and Willson explain why Sunday morning worship and Monday morning work desperately need to inform and impact one another. Together they engage in a rich biblical, theological, and historical exploration of …
Outline: Teologi sebagai ilmu, tidak seperti ilmu-ilmu yang lain. Dari sisi sumbernya, ilmu ini sudah berbeda dengan sejumlah materi lain. Sumber teologi adalah wahyu Tuhan, yang dalam ilmu-ilmu lain tidak begitu terpakai sebagai sumber. Penghayatannya juga terjadi di dalam lingkungan yang berbeda dengan bidang yang telah pernah kita kenal; teologi dikembangkan dalam gedung dan dalam organisasi…
Outline: Long before the Megachurch, nearly 6,000 people crowded every service to hear Charles Spurgeon. Discover why his masterful preaching astonished his era! Considered by his peers then and now as "The Prince of Preachers," Charles Spurgeon built London's Metropolitan Tabernacle into the world's largest independent congregation during the nineteenth century. While many factors have been hi…
Outline: Coming alongside struggling children can feel like an uphill battle. Yet children can find hope in the same source adults can find hope - in Jesus. This manual helps counselors share Christ - the way, the truth, and the life - while tailoring interactions and teachings to the understanding of children.
Outline: Buku ini memberi latar belakang, isi, sifat sastra, dan berita tiap kitab dalam Perjanjian Lama. Tentu saja tujuannya bukan mengganti Alkitab itu sendiri, melainkan untuk menolong pembaca agar memahami Kitab Suci secara lebih mendalam. Walaupun penulis membahas Perjanjian Lama dari sudut pandang umat Israel, mereka juga memperhatikan hubungan antara Perjanjian Lama dan Perjanjian Baru,…
Outline: New to this edition - A new chapter on Meditated Interpersonal Communication (Chapter 2) offers an evenhanded, research-based exploration of the pros and cons of communicating via social media and other communication technologies - A new section called "Conversation: From Monologue to Dialogue" (Chapter 13) provides an in-depth look at enhancing face-to-face communication skills, ran…
Outline: Harus diakui bahwa hari-hari ini kesadaran masyarakat Indonesia terhadap eksistensi Pancasila sebagai ideologi dan dasar negara terpecah antara setuju dan tidak setuju, menerima dan tidak menerima, menyadari dan tidak menyadari, dst. Terdapat cukup banyak masyarakat yang menyatakan bahwa Pancasila haruslah dipertahankan sebagai dasar negara. Bahkan sebagaian besar memandang bahwa Panca…
Outline: Pidato kebudayaan Mochtar Lubis (1977) di Taman Ismail Marzuki (TIM) diterbitkan menjadi buku berjudul Manusia Indonesia. Karena gaya dan sikapnya yang lugas dalam mengupas terutama sifat-sifat negatif orang Indonesia, buku ini menimbulkan pendapat pro dan kontra, selain membangkitkan pemikiran kritis tentang manusia Indonesia. Sifat-sifat manusia Indonesia yang dimaksud ialah munafik,…
Outline: Ada dua pertanyaan pokok yang akan kita hadapi selama kita membaca serangkaian pemikiran filsuf-filsuf besar tentang manusia ini. Pertama, apakah hidup kita saat ini masih bermakna? Dan, kedua, jika masih bermakna, makna yang bagaimana? Dua pertanyaan ini timbul dari kegelisahan eksistensial masa kini ketia kita dikejar-kejar oleh bayang-bayang hari esok. Pertanyaan itulah yang kemudia…
Outline: Simone de Beauvoir adalah satu dari sedikit filsuf yang secara serius merenungkan bagaimana sebaiknya perempuan menjalani hidupnya. Hasil refleksinya tentang perempuan tertuang dalam buku The Second Sex yang ketika terbit pertama di Paris, 1948, langsung menuai kritik, sekaligus mendatangkan decak kekaguman. Menuai kritik, karena pada saat itu dunia belum siap menerima pikiran dan pend…
Outline: The essays presented in this volume challenge commonly held assumptions about the prophetic books from Hosea to Malachi, also known as the Minor Prophets, the Book of the Twelve, or merely the Twelve. Never before in the history of the discipline have so many scholars explored the implications of ancient traditions treating these twelve prophetic writings as a single corpus. Reading an…
Outline: This book brings together lectures and articles by the renowned historian of world Christianity, making them available, many for the first time, to scholars and students of world mission. While examining the many aspects that have characterized mission, indigenous Christianity, and colonialism in modern Africa, The Missionary Movement in Christian History has a far broader reach. Essay…
Outline : Christians are taught in their churches and schools that prayer is the most powerful way to experience God. But few receive instruction or guidance in how to make prayer genuinely meaningful. In Prayer, renowned pastor Timothy Keller delves into the many facets of this everyday act. With his trademark insights and energy, Keller offers biblical guidance as well as specific prayers for…