Outline : Herman Bavinck taught that the "Trinity is wholly unlike anything else, but everything in the world is like the Trinity." In this book, Vern Poythress uses a theological exploration of beauty to show how everything in the world reflects our Trinitarian God - from oak trees to image-bearers. Because our world is a Trinitarian world, to understand it properly requires using multiple per…
Outline : Christians have long discussed and debated the first three chapters of the Bible. How we interpret this crucial section of Scripture has massive implications for how we understand the rest of God’s Word and even history itself. In this important volume, biblical scholar Vern Poythress combines careful exegesis with theological acumen to illuminate the significance of Genesis 1–3. …
Outline: What do the attributes of truth reveal about God and his word? Skeptics and moral relativists may debate universal truth, but Christians know that its characteristics - including omnipresence, everlastingness, and unchangeability - reflect the existence of the one true God. In fact, the concept of truth informs and confirms every area of systematic theology. In Truth, Theology, and Per…
Outline: Understanding how to think and write about history in light of God's providence. In every major and minor incident a part of God's overarching redemptive plan? Scripture is filled with commands to remember history and teach it to the next generation. Though many people are inclined to leave the past behind, exploring the meaning of these events helps us glorify God's lordship in all th…
Outline : Placing the laws of human reasoning under the Lordship of Christ. Humans use reasoning to understand and order the world around us. We apply this logic in a variety of contexts, from classifying simple objects to considering complex philosophies. But how should our identity as Christians―made in the image of God (Gen. 1:26–27) with minds renewed by the Holy Spirit (Rom. 12:1–2)…
Outline: Do Trauma and Abuse have the last word? After forty years of counseling abuse survivors around the world, Dr. Diane Langberg, a world-renowned trauma expert, remains certain that what trauma destroys, Christ can and does restore.
Outline: Simone de Beauvoir adalah satu dari sedikit filsuf yang secara serius merenungkan bagaimana sebaiknya perempuan menjalani hidupnya. Hasil refleksinya tentang perempuan tertuang dalam buku The Second Sex yang ketika terbit pertama di Paris, 1948, langsung menuai kritik, sekaligus mendatangkan decak kekaguman. Menuai kritik, karena pada saat itu dunia belum siap menerima pikiran dan pend…
Outline : HOW TO STUDYTHE OLD TESTAMENT FOR SIGNS OF CHRIST Since the majority of the Bible was written before Jesus's life and death on the cross, the Old Testament is often used for historical context and moral guidance alone. When studied in detail, however, we see how even the Old Testament reveals Christ as the center of God's plan for redemption. In this book, biblical scholar Vern S. Po…
Westminster Theological Seminary has played a major role in the history of orthodox Reformed theology in America. Upon its founding in 1929, its original faculty affirmed that the seminary would continue the historic position of “old Princeton Seminary.” Princeton had for many decades represented the theology of Calvin and the Westminster Confession of Faith, as opposed to the liberal theol…
In this book we explore elementary parts of logic and neighboring fields. Part I of the book lays the foundation. In parts II and III we look at further developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These later developments have affected people’s views of logic as a whole. But not all readers will be equally interested in them. I have placed the discussion of Christian foundations f…
The Bible indicates in several places that God equips and empowers people for service within the church, which is the body of Christ. Since God is the source for our abilities, these empowerments may be called “gifts” from God. In the chart on the following page are five lists of types of gifts, taken from different passages. No one of the lists includes all gifts. The list in 1 Peter 4:11 …
New Testament scholar Vern Poythress defends the inerrancy of the gospels and explains basic principles for harmonization. He also tackles some of the most complicated exegetical problems and offers solutions.
Instead of letting the language change naturally, as the speakers feel the need for new forms, those who are pushing political correctness are trying to impose change on language from the outside. The politically correct language movement attempts to speed up and control the direction of language change. It is a conscious attempt to mold the language into the form that certain people think it s…
This robust volume explores life's big questions related to God, human existence, meaning, and knowledge, sketching a distinctly Christian approach to philosophical inquiry that is founded on the Bible and informed by Christian theology.
In their pursuit of social welfare, sociologists and everyday citizens alike have adopted a worldview that fails to account for both the nature of God and the depravity of humankind. Ignoring God and sin has resulted in misguided analysis and ineffective solutions to societal issues. The time has come to rethink the study of sociology as those faulty assumptions have clearly affected the discip…
Many people—even people who would call themselves Christians—have difficulties with the Bible. Some people are morally offended by parts of the Bible. Some parts of it do not fit modern ideas about good religion. What do we do with these parts? The Bible has exclusive claims about what is right and wrong in religion. It makes exclusive claims about God. It says that Jesus is the only way to…
Outline: Working in tandem with the resources and videos found at churchcares.com, this handbook brings together top experts from various fields to help pastors and ministry leaders understand and implement the best practices for handling a variety of abuse scenarios in churches, schools, or ministries. Although the most comprehensive training is experienced by using this handbook and the video…
Outline: Moving quickly from principle to practice, Vern Poythress helps us rethink how we interpret the Bible by showing us the implications of entering into God's presence as we study. This handbook outlines distinct steps for practicing faithful biblical interpretation by focusing on our fellowship with the God who speaks to us through his Word.
Outline: Each time God appears to his people throughout the Bible - in the form of a thunderstorm, a man, a warrior, a chariot, etc. - he comes to a specific person for a specific purpose. And each of these temporary appearances - called theophanies - helps us to better understand who he is, anticipating his climatic, permanent self-revelation in the incarnation of Christ. Describing the variou…
Outline: Inti dari Kurikulum "Kenalkan Yesus Padaku" Allah kita yang berdaulat: Allah - Sang Raja, Penebus, dan Pencipta - kita yang berdaulat adalah fokus dari kurikulum ini. Tujuan hidup kita adalah untuk memuliakan dan menikmati Dia selamanya. Alkitab: Alkitab, dari Kejadian sampai Wahyu, secara keseluruhan merupakan pernyataan dari kisah keselamatan yang berfokus pada Yesus. Melalui kurik…
Outline: What does God have to do with mathematics? Everything. In this book, Vern Poythress argues that the harmony of abstract mathematical truths, the physical world of things, and the personal world of our thinking depends on the existence of the Christian God. Poythress shows that these distinct "perspective" on mathematics cohere because all three find their origin in God's consistent cha…
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: The author, a leader in the New Atheism movement and best-selling author, is one of the foremost proponents of a gene-centered approach to evolutionary science. Not only does he claim that materialism offers a satisfying purpose for life, but he has trenchantly critized those who accept the existence of a supernatural creator. The author has had a great impact on perceptions of scienc…
Overview: Buku ini menelusuri secara runtun perkembangan historis pemikiran barat melalui sepuluh era. Buku ini menyoroti ide-ide fundamental yang merevolus cara orang berpikir dan bertindak mulai dari masa filsuf Yunani kuno dan para penulis Alkitab, melintasi periode Abadi Pertengahan, Renaisans, Reformasi, Pencerahan, Modern sampai kepada periode Postmodern saat ini.
Overview: In this theologically informed and philosophically nuanced introduction to the study of probability and chance, Vern Poythress argues that all events - including the seemingly random or accidental - fall under God's watchful gaze as part of his eternal plan. Comprehensive in its scope, this book lays the theistic foundation of our scientific assumptions about the world while addressi…
Overview: Scholar of science and theology Vern Poythress examines which of the contemporary interpretations of Genesis are most consistent with scientific evidence and careful biblical interpretation. He presents the case for young-earth creationism, mature creation, the day-age theory, the analogical-day theory, and the framework hypothesis to see which of them stand up to scrutiny. Written …