Outline : While many pastoral ministry books focus on the practical duties of the pastor, few actually consider how theological truth defines the pastor's role and responsibilities. Pastoral Theology constructs a theological framework for pastoral ministry that is biblically derived, historically informed, doctrinally sound, missionally engaged, and contextually relevant. Through careful integr…
Outline : The Trinity is one of the most essential doctrines of the Christian faith. The eternal God existing as three distinct persons―Father, Son, and Spirit―can be difficult to comprehend. While Christians often struggle to find the right words to describe this union, the Bible gives clarity concerning the triune God’s being and activity in nature (creation), grace (redemption), and g…
Outline : Revised, adapted, and condensed for a broader audience, this companion edition to Scott Christensen’s lauded What about Evil? shows how sin, evil, corruption, and death fit into redemptive history. Exploring the storyline of Scripture and addressing practical concerns, Christensen shows that God’s ultimate end in creation is to maximize his glory before his image-bearers by defeat…
Outline : How does God respond to trauma in a world full of horrors? Beyond their physical and emotional toll, the horrors of this world raise difficult theological and existential questions. Where is God in the darkest moments of the human experience? Is there any hope for recovery from the trauma generated by these horrors? There are no easy answers to these questions. In God of All Comfort,…
Outline : While understanding history has always been an essential task for God's people, rapid changes within the past two generations of Christianity have challenged many of our assumptions and methods for studying the past. How should thoughtful Christians—and especially historians and missiologists—make sense of global Christianity as an unfolding historical movement? The master teacher…
Outline : The Trinity is one of the most essential doctrines of the Christian faith. The eternal God existing as three distinct persons―Father, Son, and Spirit―can be difficult to comprehend. While Christians often struggle to find the right words to describe this union, the Bible gives clarity concerning the triune God’s being and activity in nature (creation), grace (redemption), and g…
Outline : From the voice of a loving Creator, life begins and and grows. Close to this careful Sower, there is abundant nourishment. Far from him, only suffering and brokenness. In this imaginative book, Scott James tells the story of redemption in Scripture, from God's creation and restoration to the promise of final reconciliation. Through engaging story and classic imagery, children learn ho…
Outline : We are far removed from the time and culture of the biblical world, and this distance easily leads to misunderstanding and misinterpretation. Our understanding and appreciation of God's Word increase exponentially when we know the historical and cultural context in which the biblical books were written. Richly illustrated with full-color photos throughout, The Baker Illustrated Bible …
Outline : Composed under different circumstances by giants of the Reformed tradition - Theodore Beza (1519 - 1605), Amandus Polanus (1561 - 1610), and Francis Turretin (1623 - 1687) - these texts represent three classical treatments of the same doctrine, each in its own genre. Beza's Defense of Justification by Faith Alone is polemical and in response to ecclesiastical controversy. Polanus's Fr…
Outline: This edited volume explores neglected aspects of the history, theology, and literary contribution of the Genevan reformer Theodore Beza (1519 - 1605). The contributors to this volume are an accomplished group of scholars who specialize in the religious and social history of 16th century reformed Protestantism. Theodore Beza at 500 celebrates the 500th anniversary of the reformer's birt…
Outline : Richard Hooker (1553/4 - 1600) was the premier theologian of the early church of England, and has been treated in the past by scholars primarily as the architect of "Anglicanism." The contributors to this volume facilitate new perspectives on Richard Hooker's theology. A wide range of scholars consider Richard Hooker's theology within the full context of late 16th- and early 17th-cent…
Outline : Christianity is a religion of persuasion. How can we defend the faith persuasively without reducing apologetics to a simplistic formula? As Christians, we're called to give an answer for the hope we have in Christ. But too often, this task can feel like we're doing PR work for God, limiting out apologetic efforts to a series of strategies and tactics. In The Faithful Apologist, Scott …
Outline: Passions of the Christ delves into the emotional life of Jesus in the Gospels - his anger, grief, disgust, surprise, compassion, and joy - revealing what mattered most to Jesus and what motivated his mission.
Outline: Reconciling the existence of God and evil has been a long-standing conundrum in Christian theology, yet a philosophical approach - rather than a theological one - dominates the discussion. Turning to the Bible's grand storyline, Scott Christensen examines how sin, evil, corruption, and death fit into the broad outlines of redemptive history. He argues that God's ultimate end in creatio…
Outline : Unveiling the often-overlooked significance of Cornelius Van Til in the realm of Reformed ethics, this work draws light upon his unique moral philosophy. Grounded in the covenantal epistemology and metaphysics typically employed for apologetics, Van Til masterfully harmonized his insights with those of Geerhardus Vos’ biblical theology. In contrast to many ethicists who concentrate …
Outline: The goal of this book is to secure our knowledge of the triune God by rightly ordering the theological language with which we praise him. Its reaches its conclusions about how the doctrine should be handled on the basis of the way the Trinity was revealed. As such, it is a study that offers dogmatic principles for Trinitarian exegesis. Half of the volume establishes the biblical exposi…
Outline: Presbyterianism has a rich, robust, resilient history. Since Presbyterianism began in Scotland in the early 1560s, its adherents have spread to Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand. In some locales and ears, Presbyterians have flourished; in others, they have struggles. Today an estimated 35 million Presbyterians live in dozens of countries. Th…
Outline: The Worlds of the Preacher helps students and pastors understand the worlds - biblical, cultural, and personal - that influence their preaching. Contributors include Victor D. Anderson, Jeffrey Arthurs, Patricia M. Batten, Scott M. Gibson, Matthew D. Kim, Duane Litfin, Steveb D. Mathewson, Haddon W. Robinson, Donald R. Sunukjian, and Scott Wenig.
Outline : THE BETHANY PARALLEL COMMENTARY ON THE OLD TESTAMENT. Completing the whole Bible in a one-of-a-kind presentation-three of the most widely respected commentaries ever written now in parallel columns! The Bethany Parallel Commentary on the Old Testament offers three classic, evangelical commentaries in parallel columns for handy reference and comparison-the Old Testament commentaries of…
Outline: How are young people to arrive safely at the marriage altar? This book captures some of the premarital counsel which John Calvin gave to the youth and families of Geneva. It draws from two categories of Calvin's writings, bringing up interesting and helpful counsel for young people and their families in order to help them navigate the single years and enter successfully into marriage. …
Outline: The Oxford Handbook of Reformed Theology looks back to the resources of the past and surveys the present conversations that are vibrant and ongoing in Reformed theology. Firstly, the volume offers accounts of the great contexts of Reformed theology, the various relationships - ancient and modern - which it maintains and from which it derives. Recent research has shown the intricate tie…
Outline: This book draws together a collection of thirteen published and unpublished articles which together constitute a new reading of the character and development of Latin Trinitarian theology in the fourth and fifth centuries. The focus of the essays is on Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE), but Augustine is treated here as an inheritor of earlier Latin tradition. Many of the figures of that …
Outline : Today's pastors -- often expected to be multitasking marvels who can make their churches "successful" -- are understandably confused about their role. Craig Barnes contends that the true calling of a pastor is to help others become fully alive in Christ, to be a "minor poet," or poet of the soul. As such, pastors are to read the major poets of Scripture and history in light of the dus…
Outline: Read the Old Testament from a Biblical-Theological Perspective. Featuring contributions from thirteen respected evangelical scholars, this gospel-centered introduction to the Old Testament will help anyone who teaches or studies Scripture to better see the initial outworking of God's plan to redeem the world through Jesus Christ.
Outline: Three easy-to-use sections designed to help readers live out God's story. LISTEN to the Story: Includes complete NIV text with references to other texts at work in each passage, encouraging the reader to hear it within the Bible's grand story EXPLAIN the Story: Explores and illuminates each text as embedded in its canonical and historical setting LIVE the Story: Reflects on how each…
Outline : YOU HAVE BEEN UNFAITHFUL, and you want help but moving forward is complicated. Professional counselor Michael Gembola provides daily guidance and encouragement to help you make lasting change. He offers reflection questions, plus suggestions for practical actions, so you can form new qualities and habits as you move toward God in repentance and toward your spouse in reconciliation. In…
This article identifies and explores the realm of ‘social nothingness’: objects, people, events and places that do not empirically exist, yet are experienced as subjectively meaningful. Taking a phenomenological approach, I investigate how people perceive, imagine and reflect upon the meanings of unlived experience: whatever is significantly not present, never appeared or cannot happen to t…
Tujuan penulisan artikel ini adalah untuk menjelaskan makna gambar Allah menurut Kejadian 1:26-28 dan implikasinya terhadap pengembangan Artificial Intelligence. Adapun metode penulisan yang digunakan adalah analisis kualitatif dengan metode hermeneutik. Adapun metode hermeneutik yang dugunakan ialah hermeneutik terhadap Alkitab sebagai salah satu komponen teologi dalam mempelajari penafsiran A…
The Hindu religious tradition has a rich and complex history, with origins that extend as far back as the 3rd millennium bce, when the Mohenjo-daro and Harappan civilizations were thriving in the fertile valleys of the Indus River (see map, p. 17). Around 1500bce, the nomadic Aryans entered the Indian subcontinent from Persia, introducing new beliefs, customs and social structures to the agricu…
Describes those features of Intertestamental Judaism believed to be most relevant to the interpretation of the New Testament. Provides the context of Intertestamental Judaism and its beliefs that provide a background for Christian customs and issues.
This book argues that the modern separation of humanity from nature can be traced to the displacement of the triune God. Locating the source of our current ecological crisis in this separation, Peter Scott argues that it can be healed only within theology, through a revival of a Trinitarian doctrine of creation interacting with political philosophies of ecology. Drawing insights from deep ecolo…
Theology of religions is an area of theological reflection on interreligious relations which raises fundamental questions not just for Christians but for all people of faith in a pluralist, post-modern world. How to practise a religious faith with integrity while respecting other claims to ultimate truth? Must ‘the other’ always be regarded as a problematic complication on the fringes of a…
This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term…
Defending the faith can be daunting, and a well-reasoned and biblically grounded apologetic is essential for the challenge. Following in the footsteps of groundbreaking apologist Cornelius Van Til, Scott Oliphint presents us with an introduction to Reformed apologetics as he sets forth the principles behind a distinctly "covenantal" approach. This book clearly explains the theological foundatio…
Truth, etc. is a wide-ranging study of ancient logic based upon the John Locke lectures given by the eminent philosopher Jonathan Barnes in Oxford. The book presupposes no knowledge of logic and no skill in ancient languages: all ancient texts are cited in English translation; and logical symbols and logical jargon are avoided so far as possible. Anyone interested in ancient philosophy, or in l…
Theology of religions is an area of theological reflection on inter-religious relations which raises fundamental questions not just for Christians but for all people of faith in a pluralist, post-modern world. How to practise a religious faith with integrity while respecting other claims to ultimate truth? Must ‘the other’ always be regarded as a problematic complication on the fringes of a…
Outline: Through the liens of Jesus' farewell discourse (John 13: 31 - 17: 26), L. Scott Kellum provides a step-by-step illustration for producing an expository sermon series. After laying out the process to go from text to sermon, he then describes how to employ discourse analysis to a hortatory or expository document. Later, Kellum implements the theory on the Farewell Discourse, examining th…
Outline: For years, William Gouge's Domestical Duties has stood as the foremost Puritan treatment of Christian family life. Yet due to its size and antiquated expression, it has become almost unknown among current generations of believers. To help revive the usefulness of this classic book, Scott Brown and Joel R. Beeke divided Gouge's work into three manageable volumes, updated the language to…
Outline: A new commentary for today's world, The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible's grand story. The first commentary series to do so, SGBC offers a clear and compelling exposition of biblical texts, guiding everyday readers in how to creatively and faithfully live out the Bible in their own contexts. In story-centric approac…
Outline : How can God be three and one? How can God take on a human nature? If God planned everything, how can I be responsible? Do my prayers make any difference in God's plan? Will we finally knows everything when we get to heaven? These are questions that recognize some of the mysterious tensions that Scripture presents to us. They are good questions, but wrong answers to good questions can …
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: Haddon Robinson has influenced generations of students and preachers through his widely used classic text, Biblical Preaching, in which he contends that "a sermon should be a bullet and not buckshot." With the passing of years, does Robinson's "big-idea" approach to expository preaching still work in today's diverse cultures and fast-paced world? The Big Idea of Biblical Preaching pres…
Outline: It's impossible to know a man well until you know what he believes. Americans who are concerned about the people of Asia must be acquainted with the religions of Asia. One of the most important of these faiths is Buddhism, which in some form or other holds the allegiance of millions of human beings from the Hawaiian Islands west to Japan, Thailand, Burma, India, and other countries in …
Outline: Divine Retribution, partiality, and impartiality in Biblical and Hellenistic Historiography - Scott Shauf compares the portrayal of the divine in Acts with portrayals of the divine in other ancient historiographical writings, the latter including Jewish and wider Greco-Roman historiographical traditions. This book explores especially how the divine is represented as involved in history…