Outline: Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? Who - or what - can I trust to answer these questions? People are asking these questions in the 1990s. They were asking them centuries ago. They will ask them as long as human life endures on earth. There is no shortage of answers. But the various answers conflict. They can't all be right, can they? This book provides some answers. The…
Outline: New problems as well as new possibilities emerge from left and right when Christianity was first introduced to central and East Java in the nineteenth century. Here Christianity met with Javanese tradition, Islamic influence and nationalistic movements. How did the Dutch missionaries cope with these problems and possibilities? This dissertation makes an in-depth study of this decisive …
Outline: 160,000,000 street children around the world are facing a crisis on the streets. Who will weep for them?
"My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within, my heart is poured out on the ground ... because children and infants faint in the streets of the city. Arise, cry out ... pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of you…
Outline: Arab and Indian traders brought Islam to the coastal trading ports of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Java between the 11th and 15th centuries, assimilating Hinduism and various animist sects that practices the supernatural. Over the centuries Southeast Asian Muslims became known for their tolerance of religious beliefs, including those of European colonists and laborers brought from…
Outline: The Arrival Kit launches "The Year of Equipping" for all incoming Cell Group members, whether or not they are new believers. It explains that believers relate to each other through "Basic Christian Communities." It sees this lifestyle in the Kingdom of God as primary to the development of a Christian value system. It is solidly based on scripture. Each day's session begins with "theme …
Among the many types of sources for the history of Byzantine monasticism, none are more important than the typika, or foundation documents, collected and translated in these volumes, which will make possible for the first time a comprehensive study of religious life and institutions in the Greek East and a comparison between Greek and Latin monasticism.1 Together, the typika throw light on almo…
Outline; Ministry training often emphasizes expanding on the work of existing ministries to the neglect of addressing the difficulties of planting new churches in North America and across the world. This volume provides a practical, thorough, biblical, and inspirational corrective. Incorporating relevant sociological, anthropological, and historical insights, Hesselgrave extrapolates ten phases…
Outline: For many adults, the college years are an exciting period of self-discovery full of new relationships, new independence, and new experiences. Yet college can also be a time of personal testing and intense questioning-especially for Christian students confronted with various challenges to Christianity and the Bible for the first time. Drawing on years of experiences as a biblical schola…
Outline: The Old Testament Library ...provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing. The editorial board consists of William P. Brown, William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia; Carol A. Newso…
Outline: The book of Proverbs is the mainspring of the biblical wisdom tradition. Katherine Dell explores the possible social contexts for its varied material and provides an overview of the characterization of its theology by scholars. She discusses how individual proverbs, instructions and poems came together to fom the collections we have today. Dell also shows that echoes of other Old Testa…
Overview: In a crystal clear discussion of science and religion and their logical friendship in the search for truth and understanding, Polkinghorne draws on discoveries made in atomic physics to make credible the claims of Christianity, and helps refine Christian perceptions through the knowledge that the new science brings. He discusses belief in God, chaos, evolution, miracles, and prayer, a…
Outline: Demons, witches, and ghosts: drugs, divination, and the occult; shamans, priests, and prophets ... All these await you in Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion - an anthropological study of religious beliefs and practices both strange and familiar. This fascinating anthology of readings, now in its second edition, contains 16 new articles and provides a rich blend of modern and traditional t…
Outline: A Companion Workbook to ... When studying a book as significant as the Bible it is important to grasp the facts accurately. The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus was written to make the Bible straightforward and clear. This companion WorkBook takes it the next step, having been designed with the express purpose of walking one through the Bible's primary message, using The Stranger. The Wo…
Outline: This anthology invites Christians to find resources for faithful, creative thinking in the riches of the church's theological heritage and its worship traditions. Contributors include Robert Barron, Timothy George, Stanley Hauerwas, Alasdair MacIntyre, Mark Noll, and N.T. Wright, among others.
Outline: Like many believers, you may wonder how to integrate heartfelt worship into your private devotional times. Face to Face : Praying the Scriptures for Intimate Worship helps you bridge the gap between Bible reading and intimate, joyous worship. Adapting and personalizing select passages from the Bible, Dr. Kenneth Boa guides you through three months of daily prayers of Adoration, Confess…
Outline: The Islamic world is no longer way out there somewhere. It's right next door! The migration of millions of Moslems into the West and the terrorists that came with them is the most serious threat our culture has faced since Adolf Hitler. Though we didn't go looking for trouble, trouble has come looking for us. Five hundred years before Muhammad was born, the Bible prophets wrote about t…
Outline: The Cross as symbol of the faith. Upbending a longstanding consensus, Bruce W. Longenecker presents a wide variety of material artifacts to illustrate that Christians made use of the cross as a visual symbol of their faith long before Constantine appropriated it to consolidate his power in the fourth century. Constantine did not invent the cross as a symbol of Christian faith; for an i…
Outline: WHAT CHARACTERIZES YOUR MARRIAGE? Marriage is a place for sacrificial giving -- so a spouse who uses it to gain power and control is violating God's design. If you are being oppressed, you are probably feeling isolated and alone ... but you're not alone. Scriptures has much to say about your experience, your safety, and God's heart of you -- he does not blame you for your suffering and…
Outline: "Covenant theology sets the gospel in the context of God's eternal plan of communion with his people and its historical outworking in the covenants of works and grace." LIGON DUNCAN
Just as two bookends hold 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 Robertso…
Outline: The Torah in context and through the ages. Reading the books of the Law, the Pentateuch, in their original context is the crucial prerequisite for reading their citation and use in later interpretation, including the New Testament writings, argues Ben Witherington III. Here, he offers pastors, teachers, and students an accessible commentary on the Pentateuch, as well as a reasoned cons…
Outline: Do you long to embrace Muslim women as sisters in Christ? Can you envision hands of henna around His throne? In this book, you will discover
- the needs of Muslim women
- efforts that are bringing Muslim women to Christ
- tactics to help cross-cultural workers cope with life in the Muslim world
The contributions to this volume -- all active in Muslim ministries -- share their conce…