Outline: This book, one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate to which Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Ruth Marcus and others have contributed, is an exploration and defence of the notion of modality de re, the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties. The argument is developed by means of the notion of possible worlds and ranges over key …
Outline: When the book of Acts is mentioned, a cluster of issues inevitably springs to mind including speaking in tongues and baptism with the Holy Spirit, church government and practice, and missionary methods and strategies. At the popular level at least, Acts is still often used more for answers to debates that were not necessarily Luke's concern than listened to for his own emphases. Alan T…
Outline: While the age of the Holy Spirit began with Pentecost, the twentieth century has seen as explosion in the Spirit's work through the remarkable growth of Pentecostalism and the changing face of global Christianity. The essays gathered in Spirit of God: Christian Renewal in the Community of Faith provide an ecumenical exploration of the Holy Spirit's person and work in biblical, historic…
Outline: It is appropriate that the first volume in this new series of interreligious documents is on relations between Christians and Muslims. Together they comprise the world's most populous religious traditions. The many occasions of their good relations have often been eclipsed by memories of rivalry, war and confrontation; and today in Africa, Asia, Europe, and America Christians and Musli…
Outline: Alfred North Whitehead's Science and the Modern World, originally published in 1925, redefines the concept of modern science. Presaging by more than half a century most of today's cutting-edge thought on the cultural ramifications of science and technology, Whitehead demands that readers understand and celebrate the contemporary, historical, and cultural context of scientific discovery…
Outline: Randall C. Zachman places Calvin in conversation with theologians such as Pascal, KIerkegaard, Ezra the Scribe, Julian of Norwich, and Karl Barth, and attends to themes in Calvin's theology which are often overlooked. Zachman draws out Calvin's use of astronomy and his great concern to see ourselves in comparison to the immensity of the universe, acknowledging in wonder and awe our not…
Outline: For nearly a half century J. I. Packer has distinguished himself as a theologian for the church. While his erudition sets him apart in the academy, his calling and his heart's desire have been doing theology for the people of God. In honour of his seventieth birthday, friends, colleagues and students from around the world have contributed this notable group of essays, making their own …
Outline: Death is one of the certainties of life. But what happens beyond death? What inexpressible wonders - or unspeakable horrors - will we encounter beyond the pale of this life? The topic of life and judgment beyond death is one that has occupied the minds of Christians in former eras but today seems to be in partial eclipse. As Bruce Milne argues, we are poorer for it - without even recog…
Outline: Yang saya suka dari seorang Ahok itu adalah ketika dia diam pun, orang sudah berkampanye untuk dia. Ahok ini raja media online dan sosial. Semua gerakannya terpantau dan selalu menarik untuk dibicarakan. Harus diakui, pilkada DKI kali ini lebih seru dari pilkada saat dia masih menjadi wakil Jokowi. DKI menjadi magnet nasional karena sosok orang satu ini. Dan itu dibuktikan dengan turun…
Outline : Although the doctrine of eternal generation has been affirmed by theologians of nearly every ecclesiastical tradition since the fourth century, it has fallen on hard times among evangelical theologians since the nineteenth century. The doctrine has been a structural element in two larger doctrinal complexes: Christology and the Trinity. The neglect of the doctrine of eternal generatio…
Outline: This study guide explains the truths of Calvinism in clear, contemporary terms. The five points of Calvinism - Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, Perseverance Of the Saints - are carefully analyzed and interpreted in the light of Scripture. Each of the chapters is followed by discussion questions, making this book ideal for classes and study…
Outline: Mengingat pentingnya pengajaran doktrin yang tepat kepada orang-orang muda di gereja, Louis Berkhof menulis pengantar yang komprehensif namun ringkas ini untuk doktrin-doktrin dasar iman Kristen dari perspektif Reformed. Berkhof merangkumkan berbagai doktrin gereja, dimulai dari doktrin Kitab Suci dan Allah dan dilanjutkan dengan pernyataan tentang antropologi, Kristologi, soteriologi,…
Outline: Leading and nurturing your family as you seek to glorify God and encourage spiritual growth in your home is both God's command and your privilege. One of the best and most effective ways to do this is through intentional, worshipful, daily family devotions where the truths of God's lifechanging Word are openly discussed chapter by chapter. Hand in hand with your Bible, this Family Wors…
Outline: The distinguished political philosopher and author of the widely acclaimed Just and Unjust Wars analyzes how society distributes not just wealth and power but other social "goods" like honor, education, work, free time - even love.
Outline: Selama lebih dari 40 tahun Denmark selalu terpilih menjadi negara paling bahagia sedunia, menurut World Happiness Report oleh PBB. Tak terhitung banyaknya artikel dan kajian yang berusaha memecahkan misteri ini. Setelah riset bertahun-tahun , ternyata jawabannya sangat sederhana. Ini karena gaya pengasuhan mereka. Filosofi orang Denmark dalam membesarkan anak terbukti memberikan hasil …
Outline: This book has been written to stimulate the imagination. To make other life-ways more comprehensible. That is our hope. Is it really true that all people are bothers and sisters? We think so. We all laugh and we all cry; we all have our dreams and our disappointments. Yet this ancient idea, as old as mankind-appearing in sore form in all the world's religions, and written into the char…
Outline: Orang mengira ketika Anda ingin mengubah hidup, Anda perlu memikirkan hal-hal besar. Namun pakar kebiasaan terkenal kelas dunia James Clear telah menemukan sebuah cara lain. Ia tahu bahwa perubahan nyata berasal dari efek gabungan ratusan keputusan kecil - dari mengerjakan dua push-up, bangun lima menit lebih awal, sampai menahan sebentar untuk menelepon. Ia menyebut semua tadi atomic …
Outline : The Bible was not written and received in a historical vacuum-in fact, the social and historical context of the Bible illuminates key understandings that may have been otherwise missed. Biblical scholars use many different approaches to uncover this context, each engaging various aspects of the social and historical world of the Bible-from religious ritual to scribal practice to histo…
Outline : "This was the end of the old Rome. But it would turn out to be the rise of something much more powerful, both for good and for evil." (halaman akhir History of Ancient World). Apa yang terlintas di benak kita ketika membaca ending sebuah buku seperti di atas? Imaji yang terlintas adalah sebuah akhir yang "tidak biasa" untuk sebuah buku sejarah, tidak datar, tidak monoton, tapi menyi…
Outline: Sejak ratusan tahun umat Islam menunggu-nunggu Isa bin Maryam dan datangnya Imam Mahdi. Sebagian ulama mengatakan lain Isa lain pula Mahdi. Kedua-duanya akan datang di akhir zaman. Namun bila keterangan-keterangan Hadits itu dikaji dengan cermat dan dengan pendekatan netral, akan nyatalah yang ditunggu-tunggu umat itu ternyata satu tokoh yang menyandang berbagai julukan dan sebutan. Bu…
Outline: Akhirnya, My Utmost for His Highest, karya emas Oswald Chambers, yang merupakan salah satu buku yang tetap bertahan sebagai buku terlaris, diterbitkan dalam edisi bahasa Indonesia. Buku klasik yang sangat istimewa ini, dengan kekayaan pengertian rohaninya dan perspektif yang mengubahkan hidup kita, diterjemahkan ke dalam bahasa Indonesia dari edisi revisi yang ditulis oleh James Reiman…
Outline: Most women take on many different roles in life, and being prepared is an essential factor in their ability to succeed in each one. How can you be ready for the challenges that lie ahead? Where you can find the ultimate teacher to show you how to navigate your way through life and filfill your purpose? In A Woman Jesus Can Teach you'll explore the stories of several women in the Gospel…
Outline: God is at work in our world. As in the days of Hudson Taylor a century and a half ago, we live in a ttime when discovering purposeful involvement in God's affairs aroudn the world requires us to engage intentionally. Hudson Taylor - husband, father, physician, evangelist, visionary and founder of the China Inlad Mission - lived his life for God with intention and purpose. In the proces…
Outline: Heaven : Better By Far is a rare digest of biblical insights into the timeless ropic of heaven, and the finale of one who prepared himself for nearly a century for that day when he would experience how heaven is better by far. If your idea of heaven is having a "mansion just over the hilltop," J. Oswald Sanders has important news for you. While heaven will provide a final home for thos…
Outline: Siapakah orang-orang ini? Mereka bukan orang suci. Mereka bukan sarjana bahkan mereka bukan tokoh-tokoh agama. Hal paling menakjubkan tentang para murid ini adalah Yesus pernah memilih mereka; di antara mereka, sebagian besar nelayan biasa, pemungut cukai, dan politikus yang impulsif. Jika Anda melihat sekilas murid-murid ini, Anda akan dikejutkan dengan fakta yang membingungkan. Oran…
Outline: No writer of our times has done more than Bronislaw Malinowski to bring together in a single comprehension the warm reality of human living and the cool abstractions of science. Malinowski's gift was double: it consisted both in the genius given usually to artists and in the scientist's power to see and to declare the universal in the particular. This volume includes three of the great…
Outline : An indispensable guide for exploring the literary, historical, and theological issues behind the Old Testament. The purpose of studying the Old Testament is to understand God and his redemptive work more fully. However, this goal is complicated by the fact that it was transmitted through a very different language and culture from our own. A Survey of the Old Testament addresses backgr…
Outline: Some Aspects of Malay Customs and Practices is written to enable non-Malay Singaporeans, especially community leaders, to have a better understanding and appreciation of Malay customs and practices. It also aims to provide some handy tips to non-Malay Singaporeans on how they can interact with the Malay community at large. The contents of the book are presented in a Question and Answer…
Outline: Asia is the continent where more than half of the world's population resides. This same continent contains millions of gods and goddesses of all the living religions that control the spiritual life of the masses. How can Christians in Asia effectively communicate the God of the Bible to other Asians who have different concepts of God in Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Islam? In th…
Outline: Kamu ingin melakukan hal-hal sulit, mengubah dunia sekitarmu, dan terpanggil untuk melakukan hal-hal yang luar biasa bagi Allah - tetapi kamu tidak tahu dimana harus memulainya, merasa lelah, letih lesu, dan terjebak pada hal-hal yang biasa saja. Melakukan Hal-Hal Sulit telah menginspirasi ribuan orang muda di seluruh dunia untuk melakukan hal terbaik selama masa remaja. Kini Alex dan …
Outline : Bagaimana kita dapat hidup sebagaimana Yesus hidup? Dallas Willard merupakan salah satu pemikir terhebat Kristen pada hari ini dan seorang penulis buku terlaris. Dia sedang menjelaskan suatu cara hidup yang bisa memampukan orang-orang biasa untuk menikmati kehidupan Kristen yang berbuah. Dia bicara tentang kunci perubahan diri di dalam melakukan disiplin rohani dan bagaimana disiplin …
Outline: Buku ini dirancang untuk membantu para pemimpin dan penanggung jawab dalam lembaga-lembaga misi dan gereja-gereja pengutus dalam membuat rencana member care yang komprehensif bagi para utusan misi mereka. Sembilan bab dalam bagian pertama buku ini menguraikan secara komprehensif sebuah program member care. Sembilan bab berikutnya membahas topik-topik yang menjadi tantangan untuk para u…
Outline: The Gospel of Luke was written, says its author, as an historical account of the ministry of Jesus. Not only would it serve as the basis for a sound faith on the part of professing Christians, but it would also claim a place for Christianity in history. Christ's ministry, as Luke shows, is realized prophecy; it is that time during which God's promises of salvation was fulfilled. His te…
Outline: HIDUP TIDAK HANYA BERBICARA TENTANG CINTA DAN PERNIKAHAN. MAKA BELAJARLAH UNTUK HIDUP DAN PACARAN DENGAN BENAR. Banyak dari Anda yang dibesarkan dengan asumsi bahwa pernikahan akan memenuhi segala kebutuhan Anda dan membuka tujuan Allah bagi hidup Anda. Tapi Allah punya rencana yang lebih besar dari sekadar menikah. Buku ini tidak ingin Anda berdiam diri di sudut dunia menunggu Allah m…
Outline: In 1822 Betsy Stockton, a freed slave indentured herself to a White family in order to be a blessing to spread the truth of the Gospel on the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii). In 1920 the Lott Carey Missions Society establishes a mission in the interior of Liberia so that Africa-Americans could spread the Gospel there. Today the Cooperative Mission Network of the African Dispersion (COMINAD)…