Outline: The relationship betwen Israel and the churh is a long-standing debate in Christian theology, and Romans 9 - 11 are th most important chapters for understanding it. These chapters are a linchpin for determining how one understands biblical theology, how the New Testament uses the Old Testament, and how the old and new covenants are related. To help readers draw their own conclusion,…
Outline: The figure of Jesus is as enigmatic as he is influential. Is the man uncovered by historians really the same as the Christ of faith? And how did an obscure provincial religion become one of the most enduring movements in the world? From the siginificance of Jesus in his own time, in a world shaped by Greek philosophy, the Jewish expectation of a Messiah and the Roman deification of…
Outline: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Zealot explores humanity's quest to make sense of the divine and sounds a call to embrace a deeper, more expansive understanding of God. In Zealot, the author replaced the staid, well-worn potrayal of Jesus of Nazareth with a startling new image of the man in all his contradictions. In his new book, the author takes on a subject even more …
Outline: The Preacher in Ecclesiastes reminds us that life under the sun does not play out according to neat and tidy rules. He asks us to see the world around us in all its messiness and explores what that messiness reveals about us, our world. and God. The Preacher is plainspoken, because people line in the midst of this mess and we have to talk about it. The author gives us a meditation t…
Outline: This book assembles the core of his most important writings and allows us to appreciate both the range of his interests and the scale of his achievement. Here is an unprecendented, comprehensive overview of the author's thought.
Outline: The author makes a systematic theological assessment of both Robert Jenson's and John Calvin's ideas of deification. The key to this seemingly impossible reality lies in the Triune God himself, effectuates in the incarnation of the Logos by the Spirit.
Overview: In this book, the author - master teacher, deft exegete, committed churchman, and fully attuned contemporary intellectual - takes up this challenge with extraordinary energy and intelligence. The result is a capstone volume that puts all the pieces together both for students who read it straight through it at their own pace. For all who read it, the book will become a standard refe…
Overview: A long-awaited major statement by perminent analytic philosopher Alvin Plantinga, this book illuminates one of our society's biggest debates-the conflict between science and religion. Plantinga examines where this conflict is said to exist-looking at areas such as evolution, divine action in the world, and the scientific study of religion-and he considers claim by Daniel Dennett, Ric…
Outline: Bagi orang-orang Kristen yang ingin meningkatkan keahlian berpikir kritis, inilah karya pengantar yang dapat diakses baik untuk mempelajari logika maupun untuk menyelidiki secara mendalam terhadap bidang ilmu tersebut dari seorang profesor yang mengantongi enam gelar akademis dan lebih dari tiga puluh tahun pengalaman mengajar. Pertanyaan-pertanyaan untuk direnungkan lebih lanjut dis…
Outline: This work offers a comprehensive examination of how Philip Melanchthon (1497 - 1560) used Greek patristic sources throughout his extensive career. It is organized around Melanchthon's use of Cappadocian works against his opponents: Roman Catholic, the Radical Reformers, the Reformed, and in Intra-Lutheran controversies. The author places Melanchthon within the context of the patrist…
Outline: This volume contains the collection of papers presented at the 11th International Congress on Calvin Research that took place in Zurich in 2014. The first paper of the book consists of the plenary papers. In the second part, the seminars held at the Congress are published, and the third part consists of a selection of short papers. The articles demonstrate that Calvin research is e…
Outline: This volume contains plenary papers and a selection of shortpapers presented at the Seventh Annual RefoRC conference, which was held May 10-12th 2017 in Wittenberg. The contributions concentrate on the effects of Luther's new theology up until the early seventeenth century.
Overview: The publication of the works of the leading English reformers in 55 volumes by the Parker Society between 1841 and 1855 was undoubtedly one of the major enterprises of evangelical Christianity in the 19th Century. Yet perhaps the very size of the project militated against its popular usefulness, for the 7,000 supporters who annually subscibed one pound were given little guidance as t…
Outline: Each volume in the Understanding the Bible Commentary Series breaks down the barriers between the ancient and modern worlds so that the power and meaning of the biblical texts become transparent to contemporary readers. They present a careful section-by-section exposition of the biblical books with key terms and phrases highlighted and all Greek transliterated. Notes at the close of…
Overview: Anda ingin memahami Perjanjian Baru? Mulailah dengan inkarnasi -- kebenaran yang jauh melampaui Natal. Keajaiban inkarnasi Yesus menyentuh kebenaran-kebenaran yang mendalam, berbicara tentang natur Tuhan dan kemanusiaan itu sendiri. Penulis menunjukkan bagaimana Alkitab secara konsisten menyokong inkarnasi sebagai fakta yang aktual. Ia juga mendeskripsikan upaya gereja mula-mula …
Overview: Akankah Allah yang pengasih benar-benar mengirim orang-orang yang baik ke neraka? Apakah yang sebenarnya Alkitab ajarkan tentang neraka? Bagaimanakah seharusnya kepercayaan akan neraka memengaruhi kita? Dalam buklet ini, penulis memaparkan secara jelas theologi biblikal tentang neraka. Mereka membahas pertanyaan-pertanyaan utama yang orang-orang milik tentang subjek ini dan mener…
Outline: Sekali lagi penulis membuktikan kepiawaiannya sebagai seorang sosiolog yang, tanpa kehilangan hujah-hujahnya yang terkenal tajam -- dengan gaya penulisannya yang cemerlang dan padat -- melakukan kajian mengenai fenomena agama sebagai realitas sosial. Di dalamnya, penulis mengemukakan serangkaian analisa brilian mengenai sebuah cabang sosiologi -- sosiologi agama -- yang mampu menjela…
Outline: The modern church is suffering from crises in identity, belief and involvement with the State. As you read this collection of the works of William Barker you will find that they are all connected. The reason why the church has problems interacting with government is because it doesn't understand its mission, history and authority. The author, an internationally respected Professor o…
Outline : Esther often seems like an anomaly - a book of the Bible that never mentions God or his direct intervention. Yet the book feels closest to many Christians' own experience; few of us have experienced divine intervention, and our world seems just as secular as Esther's. We are tempted to ask, of her world and ours - where is God in all this? If he is real, why doesn't he show himself…
Outline: What can we believe about - and how can we believe in - Jesus Christ in light of the Holocaust and other atrocities of the twentieth century and the drift from religion that followed? In his urgent and provocative new book, the author traces centuries of religious history and theology to face this core challenge to modern faith, and to rescue it for the secular age. The author's sea…
Outline: In a groudbreaking historical work that addresses religious conversion in the West from an uncompromisingly secular perspective, the author challenges the conventional narrative of conversion as a purely spiritual journey. From the transformation on the road to Damascus of the Jew Saul into the Christian evangelist Paul to a twenty-first-century "religious marketplace" in which half …
Outline: "Menurut katamu siapakah Aku ini?" tanya Yesus kepada murid-muridNya. Bagi penulis, pertanyaan ini merupakan sebuah pertanyaan etis. Dalam buku ini, penulis memperkenalkan Yesus Kristus sebagai "manusia baru" yang bebas, adil, dan rendah hati. Sikap, tindakan, dan kepribadian Yesus merupakan gugatan terhadap moralitas yang melanggengkan penindasan, diskriminasi, ketimpangan sosial,…
Outline: Seminar yang telah diselenggarakan oleh Indonesian Calvin Society pada tahun 2000 mendiskusikan bagaimana pemikiran Calvin dan tradisi Calvinis tersebut dapat memberi sumbangsih dalam perikehidupan gereja-gereja di Indonesia. Demikianlah, dua belas tulisan dalam buku ini merangkum pembahasan dalam diskusi-diskusi tersebut, yang mencakup lima pokok pikiran:
1. kebebasan dan demokras…
Outline: Following this book and Lord and Servant, this third volume of four-part series examines Christian salvation fom the perspective of covenant theology. In this book, the author surveys law and gospel, union with Christ, and justification and theosis, conversing with both classical and contemporary viewpoints.
Outline: Buku ini oleh penulis terbit dalam bahasa Inggris pada tahun 1981 dan dijadikan buku pegangan tentang teologi Perjanjian Baru yang dipergunakan dalam sekolah-sekolah teologi dan pendidikan guru agama Kristen di seluruh dunia. Sekarang buku terkenal itu dipersembahkan kepada pembaca dalam terjemahan bahasa Indonesia, dengan harapan akan memberi pemahaman baru tentang makna Alkitab Perj…
Outline: Contours of Christian Theology is a series of concise introductory textbooks focused on the main themes of Christian theology. The authors introduce the perennial questions and their time-tested solutions while moving forward to explore contemporary issues and rework evangelical formulations of the faith. The word providence seems to have dropped out of our everyday Christian vocabu…
Outline: One of the most thorough and convincing statements on predestination to have appeared in any language, this book has been regarded as the authoritative work in this field