The knowledge base which has been the foundation of Catholic education in the passt and underlies Catholic educational practice today merits the attention of scholars and interested parties, both within and outside of the Catholic educational community. This comprehensive compendium of research focues on key aspects of Catholic education in the United States. The volume includes reviews of rese…
Like any other discipline, apologetics lacks a uniform definition. The standard that’s largely been adopted is “the defense of the faith,” but overlapping definitions abound. Apologetics has been defined as “that branch of Christian theology which seeks to provide a rational justification for the truth claims of the Christian faith,” “developing one’s authentic self so as to prese…
Takes the readers on a tour of the many faces of envy. This book considers what great thinkers have written about envy; distinguishes between envy, yearning, jealousy, resentment, and schadenfreude; and catalogs the many things that are enviable, including wealth, beauty, power, talent, knowledge and wisdom, extraordinary good luck, and youth.
Showcases the relationship between Kabbalah and Christianity on the one hand and New Age religion on the other. This work provides historical background, ranging from the mystical groups that flourished in ancient Judaism in the East, to the use of kabbalistic ideas in the influential modern Jewish religious movement, Hasidism.
Outline: Has Christianity become little more to you than a series of responsibilities and a list of requirements? Do you feel alone in the depths of your soul? Do you have a sense of your desperate need for God? Do you desire greater intimacy with Him? In Radical Reliance : Living 24/7 with God at the Center, nationally known Bible teacher Joe Stowell reminds you that God wants adoring devotion…
Outline : How can we reconcile the ideal church described by theology with the broken church that we see in the world? In this book Joseph Small argues that the church’s true identity is known somewhere in the tension between the two. Small revisits familiar ecclesiological concepts—people of God, the body of Christ, the communion of the Holy Spirit—but rather than focusing on theological…
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: 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 : Studi biblikal andalah panggilan mulia - yang dapat memampukan kita untuk semakin bertindak dengan adil, mencintai dengan penuh belas kasihan, dan berjalan dengan rendah hati di hadapan Tuhan. Studi biblikal dapat menolong kita memahami Injil Yesus Kristus lebih lengkap, sehingga kita dapat mengajarkannya dalam gereja-gereja kita secara lebih efektif. Berpikir dan Bertindak Alkitabiah…
Outline: This Reader examines biblical patterns and principles of communication, and presents six case studies investigating aspects of communication in an Asian context. Intended to help promote the study of communication, the chapters have wide application as readings for courses in missiology, Christian anthropology, cross cultural communication, mass media, sociology, strategy evaluation an…
Outline: If God has called you to spiritual leadership, be advised - He never promised flowery beds of ease. But He has given us what we need to His flock to growth and glory. We live in a most challenging time in history, and leading has never been tougher. Joe Stowell charts the course biblically to enable shepherds to do the best of things in the worst of times. How do we lead effectively in…
Outline: An Influencer motivates others to change. An Influencer replaces had behaviors with powerful new skills. An Influencer makes things happen. This is what it takes to be an Influencer. Whether you're a CEO, a parent, or merely a person who wants to make a difference, you probably wish you had more influence with the people in your life. But most of us stop trying to make change happen be…
Outline: The Counterpoints series provides a forum for comparison and critique of different views on issues important to Christians. Counterpoints books address two categories : Church Life and Bible & Theology. Amid a culture that is both fascinated by spirituality and inundated by a dizzying variety of options for pursuing it, many Christians long for a deep, historically rooted spiritual lif…
Outline: In this extensively redeveloped and expanded version of Apologetics to the Glory of God (1994), renowned theologian John Frame sheds light on the message and method of genuinely Christian apologetics in terms of proof, defense, and offense.
Outline: An important ongoling debate focuses on the present health and well-being of familites in American society. Much of the debate, however, is either ill-informed or consists of rhetoric that attempts to further particular political and social causes. The Family, Religion, and Culture series offers informed and responsible analyses of the state of the American family from a religious p…
Overview: Buku ini adalah edisi revisi dan diperluas dari buku Apologetika bagi Kemuliaan Allah karya theolog terkemuka Penulis. Di dalam buku ini Penulis memberikan pencerahan mengenai pesan dan metode apologetika yang benar-benar Kristen di dalam aspek pembuktian, pembelaan dan penyerangan.
Journal of Biblical Literature Vol.90, 1971 consists of:
1. Volume XC, Part I, March 1971;
2. Volume XC, Part II, June 1971;
3. Volume XC, Part III, September 1971;
4. Volume XC, Part IV, December 1971.
Overview: In this chapter-by-chapter and verse-by-verse commentary on Isaiah, the author succeeds admirably in making the Prophet Isaiah's meaning and purpose clear. The scholarly and informative general introduction (70 pages) to the book of Isaiah alone is worth the purchase price. As Dr. Unger points out in his Introduction, the author's unusual knowledge of Hebrew makes his work especially …
Overview: Buku ini menyadarkan kita, bahwa kemiskinan duniawi yang meliputi kelahiran Jesus di Betlehem mewahyukan penyelamatan umat manusia sebagai karya ilahi yang amat mulia. Cara Allah bukan cara manusia. Dalam buku ini para majus dari timur ditonjolkan sebagai teladan orang yang hatinya gelisah sampai menemukan jalan yang menuju kepada Jesus. Bintang - tanda dari atas - membimbing merek…
Telling the dramas of suffering / Arthur W. Frank --
Hoping, willing, and narrative re-envisioning / Cheryl Mattingly --
At the gates of the labyrinth: a meditation on suffering / Paul A. Komesaroff --
Just one critter / Jonathan Shay --
Suffering, pharmaceutical advertising, and the face of mental illness / Joseph E. Davis --
"Meditations on impermanence" / Deborah J. Haynes --
A convers…