Outline: In A Christian's Response To Islam after giving a brief account of the history, doctrines, and practices of Islam, he explains the inadequacy of Islam to meet man's deepest needs. In addition he discusses the difficulties faced by a Muslim who considers becoming a Christian, the ability of Almighty God to overcome these difficulties, and the responsibility and privilege in which all Ch…
Outline: The Qumran covenanters as a penitential community - Mark A. Jason offers a detailed investigation of the place of repentance in the Dead Sea Scrolls, addressing a significant lacuna in Qumran scholarship. Jason established the importance of repentance as a fundamental way of structuring and describing religious experience within the Qumran community. Jason shows that repentance was a c…
Outline: Widely used by both family therapists and family physicians, the genogram is a graphic way of organizing the mass of information gathered during a family assessment of finding patterns in the family system. Until now, however, genogram symbols have sometimes been used idiosyncratically and underlying assumptions for generating hypotheses have been fuzzy. McGoldrick and Gerson remedy th…
Outline: Since his death in 1947, the writings of missionary Roland Allen have remained in constat demand. When Allen's careful analysis in Missionary Methods first appeared 82 years ago, it made a startling impression. And as Allen himself predicted, the true depth of his writings only began to be fully probed fifty years later. Profoundly biblical, Allen's "methods" are drawn from a scrupulou…
Outline: Since his death in 1947, the writings of missionary Roland Allen, have remained in constant of demand. When Allen's careful analysis in Missionary Methods first appeared 82 years ago, it made a strartling impression. And as Allen himself predicted, the true depth of his writings only began to be fully probed fifty years later. Profoundly biblical, Allen's "methods" are drawn from a scr…
Outline: A Companion Correspondence Course to ..... All that the Prophets have spoken. Using a discover-for-yourself approach to learning, this study helps you sort out in logical sequence the events found in the Word of God, and gives you the opportunity to determine the signifiance of each story. For ease of learning, lessons are divided into bite-sized amounts, making it do-able for busy liv…
Outline: Apabila kita ingin memasuki dunia studi Perjanjian Baru, apakah yang ingin kita harapkan akan kita peroleh? Apakah gunanya? Apakah relevansinya? Penulis buku ideal ini mengantar pembaca untuk mengenali dunia Perjanjian Baru yang sangat berbeda dari dunia kita. Juga diberikan pengantar dan sarana-sarana bantu untuk memahaminya. Buku penuntun ini membahas delapan pokok penting: - Membac…
Outline: Memang sudah banyak buku yang menuliskannya. Tapi buku ini lain dari yang lain, karena usahanya untuk melihat sisi lain dari praktek 'olah raga' ini. Selama ini buku-buku yang ada, hanya menguraikan jenis-jenis gerakan dan manfaatnya bagi tubuh jasmani manusia. Padahal, ada sisi lain yakni filsafat atau ajaran yang mendasarinya, yang perlu ditinjau dan dikaji kebenarannya. Sebagai umat…
Outline: In the second edition of this classic work, Ira Lapidus explores the origins and evolution of Muslim societies. The book, new revised and updated, is divided into three parts. The first covers the formative era of Islamic civilization. The second traces the diffusion of worldwide Islamic societies, while the third explores their reaction to European imperialism, and emergence as indep…
Outline: Salah satu masalah misioner gereja dan orang Kristen di Asia masa kini adalah bagaimana 'mengakarkan kembali' cara beragama mereka pada konteks Asia. Dalam kosa-kata pendidikan teologi masa kini upaya demikian disebut 'kontekstualisasi' teologi. Buku ini adalah salah satu studi sistematis-historis tentang pandangan-pandangan Protestan Asia mengenai misi dalam kurun waktu 1910-1961-1991…
Outline: The relationship between the Christian and Muslim worlds has been a long and tortuous one. Over the course of centuries, the balance of power has swung in pendulum fashion - at times the initiative seems to have lain with the Muslim community, with the Christian world simply being compelled to react to developments outside itself; at other times Muslims have found themselves having to …
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…
Overview: This book is more than just a comprehensive collection of information on Christian education. It is a working tool written by a group of Christian educators to provide both a clear understanding of basic principles of Christian education and a practical guide for day-to-day administration of church education programs. This book explores a full range of critical issues in Christian e…
Outline: The Old Testament displays a remarkable literary and theological unity through a variety of genres. But applying a single, one-size-fits-all method of exegesis can lead to confusion, misunderstanding, and even wrong interpretations or applications. The Handbook for Old Testament Exegesis series offers six books that provide readers with an enhanced understanding of different Old Testam…
Outline: If you would like to be a Mentor, or find a Mentor, but don't know where to start, this is it. Mentoring is an invaluable way of teaching skills, traditions, and cultural nuances that can't be captured in the classroom. It helps you (as protege) reach you full potential, and gives you (as mentor) the satisfaction of seeing your skills and ideals carried forward to the next generation. …
Outline: Peristiwa-peristiwa Perjanjian Baru disajikan dengan latar belakang bermacam-macam pengaruh kebudayaan. ... bangsa Romawi yang memerintah dunia di sekitar Laut Tengah ... bangsa Yunani dengan filsuf-filsufnya yang menghendaki jawaban yang logis untuk persoalan-persoalan hidup ... bangsa Yahudi yang terpecah-belah atas berbagai sekte yang bermusuhan Para penulis Perjanjian Baru mem…
Outline: This standard work in the field is now available for the first time in paperback. The Story of Religion in America not only explains the religious aspects of our national life but also relates them to the political, economic, and social factors operating at the same time. Throughout the book there runs the strand of historical continuity which brings understanding out of seeming confus…
Outline: With millions of copies sold, HALLEY'S BIBLE HANDBOOK is treasured by generations of Bible readers. As a bestseller for more than ninety years, this world-renowned Bible handbook has been consistently updated to accurately provide even greater clarity, insight, and usefulness. This large-print edition of HALLEY'S BIBLE HANDBOOK makes the Bible's wisdom and message accessible to everyon…
Outline: Most parents have never seriously considered that they need training for parenthood - even thought it's probably the hardest job they will ever have. Even the handful who might have wanted training in parent effectiveness would not have found it. Now they can. More than 60,000 parents have completed Dr. Thomas Gordon's Parent Effectiveness Training, a course being taught in hundreds of…
Outline: The establishment of the Christian Church throughout the world is due in large measure to its heroic local pioneers. But all too often we have overlooked these dedicated leaders, preferring, instead, to cast the spotlight on our missionaries. In this book Dr. John T. Seamands seeks to rectify this situation and to give due credit and praise to these national Christians - these men and …
Outline: He is our Helper, Comforter, and Counselor, and without Him we cannot live the Christian life. Yet His role in believers' lives is at the heart of one of the church's most difficult and controversial issues. It's significantly easier to recognize that the Day of Pentecost changed the role of the Holy Spirit in the lives of God's people than to clearly identity how that role changed. At…
Outline: In the ten years since its publication, Celebration of Discipline has brought thousands of Christians to an enriched spiritual life infused with joy, peace, and a deep understanding of God. For this newly revised and updated edition, the author expands on the inward Disciplines of prayer and meditation, the outward Discipline of simpliciy, and the corporate Discipline of celebration. H…
Outline: Westminster John Knox Press is proud to introduce an exciting new phase in the renowned Interpretation commentary series. Instead of focusing on individual books of the Bible, these additions will focus on the Bible's most enduring passages and most vital themes, bringing to these topics the insight and faithful wisdom that are longtime hallmarks of the Interpretation commentary series…
Outline : Westminster John Knox Press is proud to offer an exciting new phase in the renowned Interpretation commentary series. Instead of focusing on individual books of the Bible, these additions focus on the Bible's most enduring passages and most vital themes, bringing to these topics the insight and faithful wisdom that are longtime hallmarks of the Interpretation commentary series. This e…
Outline: Westminster John Knox Press is proud to introduce an existing new phase in the renowned Interpretation commentary series. Instead of focusing on individual books of the Bible, these additions will focus on the Bible's most enduring passages and most vital themes, bringing to these topics the insighand faithful wisdom that are longtime hallmarks of the Interpretation commentary series. …
Outline: Westminster John Knox Press is proud to offer an exciting new phase in the renowned Interpretation commentary series. Instead of focusing on individual books of the Bible, these additions focus on the Bible's most enduring passages and most vital themes, bringing to these topics the insight and faithful wisdom that are longtime hallmarks of the Interpretation commentary series. This ex…
Outline: This is the first book to describe and analyze, sequentially and in detail, all the persons, places, times, and events mentioned in the Gospel accounts of Jesus' last week in Jerusalem. Part reference guide, part theological exploration, Eckhard Schnabel's Jesus in Jerusalem uses the biblical text and recent archaelogical evidence to uncover depths of meanign in Jesus' final days on ea…
Outline: Kedatangan orang Barat dan masuknya agama Islam ke Indonesia membuka lembaran sejarah baru Indonesia. Proses perubahan sosial, ekonomi, dan politik secara mendasar pun terjadi sebagai dampak dari kejadian-kejadian itu. Berawal dari kegiatan perdagangan rempah-rempah (emporium), lalu berlanjut dengan meluasnya sebuah imperium, yang membawa pengalaman baru bagi bangsa Indonesia bahkan di…
Outline: "There is no correlation between the size and the strength of a church!" insists Rick Warren. "Big is not automatically better, and neither is being small automatically better. Healthy is better!" As a "pastor or pastors," Rick Warren has trained over 400,000 pastors from 164 countries, insisting that church health, not church growth, should be our focus. "If a church is healthy, growt…
Outline: Salah satu pekerjaan Roh Kudus yang terpenting, selain mencerahkan kita, memperanakkan kita, dan bersaksi dalam hati kita bahwa kita anak-anak Allah, adalah memimpin dan menguduskan kita dalam seluruh perjalanan hidup kita mengikut Tuhan. Pengudusan ini mencakup ketiga unsur dasa pembentukan pribadi kita yang paling hakiki, yaitu pikiran, emosi, dan kemauan. "Jikalau pikiran kita dipen…
Outline : Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) mengatakan ada tiga macam kebohongan: bohong, bohong banget, dan statistik. Kendati peringatan ini telah berusia lebih dari seabad, statistik yang mengecoh masih saja kita jumpai hingga sekarang. Masih ingat iklan “tujuh dari sepuluh perempuan Indonesia menggunakan produk X”? Spanduk di belakang gedung MPR yang bertuliskan “jika Anda menolak si X ma…
Outline: Bagaimanakah kita harus hidup sebagai orang Kristen dalam konteks kebudayaan kita? Lebih khusus lagi, "Dalam Kebudayaan setempat di mana kita tinggal sekarang ini juga"? Pertanyaan ini sangat hakiki dan relevan dengan kekinian. Apalagi berkaitan dengan Indonesia sebagai satu bangsa yang Bineka Tunggal Ika lagi serba tradisi - budaya yang mau tidak mau harus bersosialisasi dengan sesama…