In this completely revised and updated edition, François Bovon provides a critical assessment of the last fifty-five years of scholarship on Luke-Acts. The study divides thematically, with individual chapters covering the subjects of history and eschatology, the role of the Old Testament, Christology, the Holy Spirit, conversion, and the church. Each chapter begins with a consideration of the…
Although Ephesians presents itself unambiguously as a letter from Paul the apostle, the genuineness of this claim has frequently been questioned, beginning in the late eighteenth century (Hoehner 2002: 6). At first this may seem surprising, but the practice of composing fictional letters in the name of some influential person was reasonably common in Greco-Roman antiquity and seems to have been…
This introductory-level text offers students and instructors a powerful pedagogical tool for increasing students ability to understand, analyze, evaluate, and construct arguments. THE POWER OF LOGIC provides balanced coverage of informal logic, traditional categorical logic, and modern symbolic logic. the authors direct and accessible writing style, along with a wealth of examples and imaginati…
Issues of gender and sexuality have recently come to the fore in all humanities disciplines, and this book reflects this broad interdisciplinary situation, although its own standpoint is a theological one. In contrast to many contemporary feminist theologies, gender and sexuality (eros) are here understood within a distinctively Christian context characterized by the reality of agape - the New …
While probing the depths of the Black Sea last year, a team of scientists made a surprising discovery, one that they weren’t even looking for.
The first book of Moses, which has the superscription בראשׁיח in the original, Γένεσις Κόσμον in the Cod. Alex. of the lxx, and is called liber creationis by the Rabbins, has received the name of Genesis from its entire contents...
What happens in a recession? How does money work? Why do we pay taxes? Economics affects every aspect of our lives, from how we get to work to where we spend our money-and big economic ideas continue to shape the world. Written in plain English, The Economics Book is packed with short, pity explanations that cut through the jargon, step-by-step diagrams that untangle knotty theories, classic…
The Neoliberal Republic traces the corrosive effects that the revolving door between public service and private enrichment has on the French state and its ability to govern and regulate the private sector. Casting a piercing light on this circulation of influence among corporate lawyers and others in the French power elite, Antoine Vauchez and Pierre France analyze how this dynamic, a feature o…
Finding the box top to the puzzle of life -- Can we handle the truth? -- Why should anyone believe anything at all? -- In the beginning there was a great surge -- Divine design -- The first life, natural law or divine awe? -- New life forms, from the goo to you via the zoo? -- Mother Teresa vs. Hitler -- Miracles, signs of God or gullibility? -- Do we have early testimony about Jesus? -- Do we …
A historical and systematic introduction to what the medieval philospher and theologian Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) said about faith in the Trinity. Gilles Emery, O.P., provides an explanation of the main questions in Thomas's treatise on the Trinity in his major work, the Summa Theologiae . His presentation clarifies the key ideas through which Thomas accounts for the nature of Trinitarian monoth…
This book explores the intertwining domains of artificial intelligence (AI) and ethics-two highly divergent fields which at first seem to have nothing to do with one another. AI is a collection of computational methods for studying human knowledge, learning, and behavior, including by building agents able to know, learn, and behave. Ethics is a body of human knowledge-far from completely unders…
Outline: Has historic Christianity - the Christianity of the New Testament, of the apostles and the early church - anything to say to the modern world? In the age of existentialism, anti philosophy and musique concrete, the Happenings and the new theology, many people have assumed that a religion based on revealed truth is totally irrelevant. But in this book Dr. Francis Schaeffer contends that…
Outline: Man is dead. God is dead. Life has become meaningless existence, man a cog in a machine. The only way of escape lies in a non-rational fantasy world of experience, drugs, absurdity, pornography, an elusive 'final experience', madness ... If this is the twentieth-century mentality, how did it come about? And how can the Christian faith be made meaningful today? In this highly original b…
Outline: Author Francis A. Schaeffer says this about his latest book: "He Is There and He Is Not Silent deals with one of the most fundamental of all questions - that of epistemology, or, how we know and how we know we know. Unless our epistemology is right, everything is going to be wrong. Epistemology, the theory of the method or grounds of knowledge, is the central problem of our generation;…
Outline: Teologi Kontekstual dan Kearifan Lokal Toraja mengajak kita untuk menelusuri ragam cipta dan nilai-nilai kebudayaan Toraja beserta relasinya dengan teologu. Hal yang menakjubkan di sini adalah ketika manusia sebagai makhluk yang kental dengan kebudayaan dapat menjalin relasi yang erat dengan Injil dan menemukan makna teologis dalam setiap lakunya. Buku ini akan mengungkapkan bagaimana …
Outline: Anak-anak punya banyak pertanyaan: Dari mana aku berasal? Seperti apakah Allah itu? Apakah yang Yesus lakukan ketika Ia masih kecil? Mengenal Yesus Kristus adalah sebuah panduan bagi keluarga untuk mempelajari kehidupan dan pelayanan Yesus Kristus. Buku ini diperkaya dengan berbagai aktivitas, doa, dan rujukan Alkitab. Bahan panduan yang interaktif ini akan mengakrabkan anggota keluarg…
Outline: Rapid urbanization and globalization processes worldwide have changed the landscape of our times. In Asia and Africa the number of urban dwellers increases by an average of one million per week, according to the United Nations. More than half of the globe's seven billion human beings now live in cities. These realities have far reaching implications for mission in urban contexts at the…
Outline : How should one approach the task of theology? The question of methodology is increasingly one of interest among theologians, who recognize that the very manner in which we approach theology informs both the questions we ask and the conclusions we reach. This volume in IVP's Spectrum Multiview series brings together five evangelical theologians with distinctly different approaches to t…
Outline: In this new, completely rewritten edition of his major 1986 book, Francis Watson extends, updates, and clarifies his response to E. P. Sanders's view of Paul, in order to point the way beyond the polarization of "new" and "old" perspectives on the apostle. The Paul who comes to light in these pages is both agent and thinker, apostle and theologian. He is a highly contextual figure, yet…
Outline: Aroma rempah yang wangi dan menguar dari bumi Nusantara menggoda para pelaut dari Portugal, Spanyol, Inggris, Belanda, dan lainnya berdatangan berabad-abad silam. Berbagai catatan sejarah menunjukkan bahwa negeri ini merupakan istana megah dari raja bumbu, yaitu rempah-rempah. Tidak hanya di masa lampau, hingga saat ini, potensi rempah Indonesia sangat tinggi. Berdasarkan penelusuran T…
Outline: Evangelicals are no strangers to the creation versus evolution debate. Now the argument has spread beyond the contents of the creation account in Genesis 1 and into Genesis 2-3, with speculation about the historicity of Adam and Eve and the Fall. But does it matter which position one holds? Is anything really at stake? The faculty of The Master's College have come together to show that…
Outline: John and Charles Wesley were the leaders of the Methodist revival that swept early eighteenth-century England and resulted in the founding of what was destined to become a major force in in the history of Christianity. In this volume, the works of the two men who shared a spiritual as well as a natural brotherhood are considered. From John's early period are taken his Forms of Prayer, …
Outline: Calvin: Asal Usul dan Perkembangan Pemikiran Religiusnya hadir menandai peringatan 450 tahun penerbitan pertama mahakarya Calvin, Institutes of Christian Religion. Bagian biografi menunjukkan dengan jelas bagaimana karier Calvin dibentuk oleh banyak pengaruh. Kehidupan dan pemikiran Calvin dengan teliti dikaitkan dengan arus-arus politik dan intelektual di masa Reformasi yang penuh ge…
Outline: Anak-anak punya banyak pertanyaan: Dari mana aku berasal? Seperti apakah Allah itu? Apakah hanya ada satu Allah? Mengenal Iman Kristen adalah sebuah panduan bagi keluarga untuk mempelajari iman Kristen yang sesungguhnya. Buku ini diperkaya dengan berbagai aktivitas, doa, dan rujukan Alkitab. Bahan panduan yang interaktif ini akan mengakrabkan anggota keluarga satu sama lain di saat mer…
Outline: Ten American scholars sketch the contemporary relevance of evangelical Christianity in this sweeping survey of the present century of theological debate. Reaching into major spheres of life and thought - theology, philosophy, ethics, science, history, education, biblical studies, apologetics, evangelism and preaching - they discuss familiar fields with an eye on the theological turmoil…
Outline: Bagaimana jika alasan-alasan terbaik Anda yang meragukan Tuhan justru membuktikan bahwa Ia ada? Dengan cara menarik dan mudah diingat, buku ini menunjukkan bagaimana sejumlah besar argumen ateis bukannya melenyapkan Tuhan namun justru menunjukkan bahwa Tuhan itu benar-benar ada.
Outline: JIKA KEINGINAN ALLAH YANG JADI, GEREJA KITA HARUSNYA SEPERTI APA? Dalam bukunya yang sangat berpengaruh ini, Francis Chan menggali kebenaran Alkitab, merenungkan berbagai kegagalan dan mimpinya, serta berbagai cerita tentang Allah menggunakan orang-orang biasa untuk mengubah dunia ini. Seperti katanya, "Kita telah melenceng jauh dari apa yang Allah inginkan terhadap gerejanya. Kita tah…
Outline: A Time and Place, the making of an immigrant, is a book made up of 130 short stories and anecdotes that span the years from war torn Germany 1943 through postwar occupied Germany 1955, as well as the momentous anxieties experienced during the first two years in the New World. The events described in this book are what molded the mind of the author during his formative years and made hi…
Outline: Francis Schaeffer's thought is exerting a significant influence. Students and professors, pastors and laymen, believers and seekers and skeptics are reading his books, listening to tapes from L'Abr Fellowship and attending his lectures. Many come into contact with his ideas in a piecemeal fashion, not realizing that three books lie at the heart of his thought. If these three books are …
Outline: ... "Dalam wayang kita melihat bahwa setiap golongan - dewa, brahmana, satria, punakawan dan lain-lain - mempunyai norma-normanya sendiri. Lebih dari itu, masing-masing pribadi pun entah itu Bima, Kresna, Karna, real Bisma, Destarata atau pun Sengkuni, mempunyai tugas tersendiri yang ditentukan para dewa, masing-masing memainkan peranannya entah luhur entah rendah karena justru itulah …
Outline: Given the unique religious climate of the twenty-first century and the challenges to Christian mission it poses, Christianity Encountering World Religions proposes a new model for interacting with people of other faiths. The authors term this model "giftive mission," since it is based on the metaphor of free gift. They suggest that seeing mission activity as giving the greatest gift po…
Outline : Tulisan-tulisan yang dikumpulkan dalam buku ini mengangkat masalah-masalah yang menantang kita bangsa Indonesia NOW. Kebangsaan berhadapan dengan kemajemukan, masa lampau dengan saat-saat gelap yang tetap belum berani kita hadapi, ancaman terhadap demokrasi hasil paling bagus reformasi, agama sebagai faktor yang semakin terasa dalam kehidupan bangsa sekaligus dengan ancaman ekstremis…
Outline: Pola kenegaraan modern berkembang bersamaan dengan revolusi ekonomi, sosial, dan budaya yang berlangsung di Eropa Barat tiga ratus tahun yang lalu dan mendapat ungkapan yang paling mengesankan dalam perwujudan masyarakat industrial dan pasca-industrial saat ini. Salah satu pertanyaan inti etika politik dewasa ini terkait dengan legitimasi kekuasaan. Klaim-klaim kenegaraan modern yang b…
Outline: What is Indonesia? Indonesia is a far-flung archipelago whose people insist that its more than 3,000 islands are united - not divided - by water! One of the world's newest nations, its population also makes it the world's fifth-largest, next after the United States. Like the other countries of Southeast Asia, it is caught in the worldwide throes of economic, social and cultural change.…
Outline : Kutipan inspiratif dari Mari Bermimpi: “Kita hidup pada suatu masa pencobaan. Kenyataannya, kita semua diuji dalam hidup. Dengan cara itulah kita tumbuh. Dalam ujian hidup, Anda menyingkapkan hati Anda sendiri: seberapa kuatkah ia, seberapa berbelas kasih, seberapa besar, atau seberapa kecil.” “Renungkanlah apa yang telah kita lihat selama krisis Covid-19 ini. Mereka semua adala…
Outline: Menurut Leon Wood, ada suatu kesinambungan di antara nabi-nabi Israel dari zaman sebelumnya yang tidak menulis kitab-kitab nubuat dengan nabi-nabi dari zaman sesudahnya. Keduanya harus kita pelajari untuk mendapatkan gambaran seutuhnya tentang kenabian Israel. Bukti-bukti yang diajukan oleh penulis untuk mendukung keyakinan ini mewarnai seluruh isi buku yang sangat berarti ini. Perhati…
Outline: Events in the Middle East alone make it imperative that those in the West learn more about the Muslim world, but ini addition many Christians in the United States have Muslim neighbors and business associates whom they need to get to know better. As this helpful book comments, "Instead of giving in to prejudice, which inevitably corrupts all human relationships, the time has come for C…