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…
Outline: The founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 turned a brand new page of Chinese history. For Wang Mingdao, this was an extraordinary time. Living under the harsh and cruel realities of Japanese occupation, he founght a fierce spiritual battle between life and death and won a glorious victory. The Long Road to Freedom follows his personal journey to become possibly the most in…
Outline: Many Christians live a faith that is "nowhen." They are disconnected from the past or imagine they are somehow "above" the flux of history, immune to it, as if self-starters from clean states in every generation. They lack an awareness of time and the effects of history - both personal and collective - and thus are naive about current issues, prone to nostalgia, and fixated on the end …
Outline: There is no easy answer to the meaning of life - even when you believe in God. Ecclesiastes seeks to answer the question: "What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun?" The book's central character is Qoheleth, the "Teacher," who wants to understand the meaning of life. He struggles to reconcile the beautiful world that we love with the baffling world of …
Outline: Habis Gelap Terbitlah Terang! Saat Kerajaan Allah datang dan hdadir dalam hidup orang percaya maka inilah yang menjadi pengharapan orang percaya yang bergumul dalam malam gelap jiwa. Dalam buku Terang Allah di Tengah Kegelapan, Jeffrey Lim memberikan refleksi teologis dan kesaksian mengenai anugerah Allah yang memberikan pengharapan saat ia menghadapi pergumulan malam gelap jiwa selama…
Outline: This festschrift aims both to survey and advance research on the use of the Hebrew Scriptures within the Bible as a whole. An international team of scholars, chosen for their expertise as well as their association with Barnabas Lindars, cover between them the major divisions of the Old Testament and Intertestamental literature as well as the writings of the New Testament. The work thus…
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: By bringing together the four best-selling Bible translations (KJV, NKJV, NIV, and NLT), The CBD Parallel Bible offers you a full range of the rich nuances found in God's Word. It also gives you the unique opportunity of comparing the NIV and the NKJV side by side for the first time!
Outline: Serene Jones takes a fresh look at the Institutes of the Christian Religion as she draws a compelling portrait of Calvin as a Christian teacher engaged in the classical art of rhetoric. According to Jones, this art was used knowingly and skillfully by Calvin to persuade and challenge his diverse audiences. Thus, she offers a theological-rhetoric reading of the first three chapters of C…
Outline: Buku ini adalah sebuah diskursus kebenaran. Jalan masuknya bukan lewat pintu agama, melainkan lewat pintu filsafat sains kontemporer. Dahulu dalam agama dan filsafat, kebenaran masih menyangkut seluruh kenyataan. Namun, dalam pengaruh sains modern, kebenaran mulai dipahami secara sempit sebagai kebenaran faktual. Mengapa kebenaran faktual bukan seluruh kebenaran? Bagaimana kebenaran te…
Outline: Kita sering membayangkan Yesus sebagai pembuat damai, yang begitu sabar dan lembut dalam menghadapi ajaran atau praktik ibadah yang salah. Ternyata Inji berkata berbeda. Yesus berkonflik keras. Dia banyak tidak setuju dan menentang banyak hal. Dia berdebat sengit dengan berbagai kelompok pemuka agama di zaman itu. Kontroversi apa saja yang Dia buat? - Dia beragumen bahwa kita akan me…
Outline: Edisi bahasa Inggris dari judul ini pertama kali diterbitkan pada tahun 1955 dan telah dicetak ulang berkali-kali. Karya John Murray, Penggenapan dan Penerapan Penebusan ini secara sistematis menjelaskan dua sisi dari penebusan, yaitu penggenapannya melalui pendamaian Kristus dan penerapannya pada hidup orang percaya. Dalam karya theologis klasik ini, John Murray menggali keniscayaan, …
Outline: Tuhan memanggil dan memilih kita untuk melaksanakan pekerjaan-Nya di dunia ini: tak peduli apa status sosial kita entah kaya atau miskin, pandai atau bodoh, bangsawan atau jelata. John Sung adalah salah satu dari banyak pekabar Injili di abad ke-20 yang Tuhan pilih. Sepintas karakter John Sung sesungguhnya jauh dari dugaan orang tentang kesopanan dan keramahan. Dia adalah orang yang ga…
Outline: Menurut Islam, Isa adalah manusia. Menurut pemeluk Kristen, Isa adalah Tuhan. Tentu saja, timbul pertanyaan : "Yang benar yang mana?" Sebagai seorang Muslim, apakah Anda percaya begitu saja, hanya karena itu kata orang tua atau kata guru agama? Buku ini mengupas secara rinci, membahas dengan alasan jelas dan tuntas tentang siapa Isa itu. Disajikan dengan lemah lembut dan dalam bahasa y…
Outline: In popular perception, Wisdom literature is a "self-help" or "philosophy" section of the Old Testament library - the odd and interesting bits of canonical mortar between History and Prophets. But Old Testament scholarship has come to see the wisdom of the wise as reflecting as aspect of the Israelite worldview. The covenant beliefs are presupposed, even if rarely rising to the surface.…
Outline: Muhammad ranks among the most influential single figures in human history. For Muslims he is incomparably the greatest. How should others see him? More particularly, how should Christians respond to the insistent Islamic desire for their verdict about him? This book is one man's venture of response reached out of long study of long study within Islam and of commitment to Christian fait…
Outline: Sertillanges asks in the preface of the 1934 edition: "Do you want to do intellectual work?" He follows with the prescription: "Begin by creating within you a zone of silence, a habit of recollection, a will to renunciation and detachment which puts you entirely at the disposal of work: acquire that state of soul unburdened by desire and self-will which is the state of grace of the int…
Outline: APAKAH ANDA TELAH MENYADARI HARGA DARI MENGIKUT YESUS? Yousef, diancam oleh ibunya akan dibunuh karena memiliki Alkitab, sekarang ia justru menyelundupkan Alkitab sama seperti cara keluarganya dulu menyelundupkan narkoba. Setelah majikan Parveen memukulinya karena ia pergi ke gereja, Parveen mulai menolong para wanita Kristen muda lainnya yang bekerja di rumah-rumah keluarga Muslim. Ab…
Outline: In many churches today, the psalms have been forgotten. They are still read, perhaps, but their rich history as the backbone of Christian worship - from the earliest days of the church through the nineteenth century - is unknown. In this, the contemporary church is out of step with our forebears in the faith; we are the oddity in church history. And we suffer for it. Forgotten Songs se…
Outline: His name has become a by-word for faith throughout the world. In the early 1830's he embarked upon an extraordinary adventure. Disturbed by the faithlessness of the Church in general, he longed to have someting to point to as 'visible proof that our God and Father is the same faithful creator as he ever was'. Praying in every penny of the costs, he supervised the building of five large…
Outline: Mengapa Soekarno menempatkan Kebangsaan sebagai sila pertama dan Ketuhanan sebagai sila kelima pada rumusan Pancasila. Apakah dengan demikian, founding father ini telah melakukan penistaan terhadap keyakinan agama? Inilah sejumlah pertanyaan yang kerap muncul saat membaca teks awal Pancasila yang dibacakan Bung Karno pada 1 Juni 1945. Teks Pancasila inilah yang sering disebut Pancasila…
Outline: This book examines the roles and functions that women assumed in the early Christian communities from AD 33 to the Council of Nicaea. It surveys, too, the views about women held by various New Testament authors including Paul and the Evangelists. In a careful and judicious study, Ben Witherington III shows that early Christianity was neither unreservedly patriarchal nor adamantly femin…
Outline: The Titles of Jesus in Christology was recognised as a major contribution to Christological study when it was first published in German in 1963. Its translation into English a few years later cemented this status. Hahn undertakes a massive and detailed examination of the various traditions that led to the use
Outline: Four months after Raffles landed in Singapore, he granted a piece of land of London Missionary Society to commence activity. Five months later, the first missionary arrived. Since then, the church has grown at a rather uneven pace, depending upon various sociopolitical events as well as the spiritual calibre of her leaders. This book not only seeks to chronicle the major events that bo…
Outline: Dunia suka berpikir bahwa kekristenan telah dibentuk sesuai dengan pandangan dunia Barat dan tepat sebagaimana kebenaran yang diungkapkan dalam Alkitab. Pada kenyataannya, kekristenan telah berkembang selama kurun waktu 2000 tahun yang terjalin dengan pemikiran Barat. Akibatnya, ajaran Kristen sering kali disebut Kekristenan Barat. Ketika kelompok-kelompok orang dari kebudayaan lain me…
Outline: Oxford Textual Perspectives is a series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures, and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh interpretations of fundamental works and of the vital and challenging issues emerging in English literary studies. By engagin…
Outline: In the biblical drama of the living God's works in creation and redemption, no theme is more lustrous than that of God's gracious intention to enjoy communion with humans who bear his image and whose lives have been broken through sin. Cornelis Venema summarizes and defends a broad consensus view of the doctrine of the covenants in the history of Reformed theology, clarifying areas of …
Outline: In his study of the Greek cults of the Roman emperor in Asia Minor, Simon Price attempts to discover why the Roman emperor was treated like a god. He contends that ever since the emergence of Christianity within the Roman empire the problem has been misinterpreted; a Christianizing distinction between religion and politics has led to the cult being considered simply as a form of politi…
Outline: In this book, Matthew Levering unites eschatologically charged biblical Christology with metaphysical and dogmatic Thomistic Christology, by highlighting the typological Christologies shared by Scripture, the Church Fathers, and Aquinas. Like the Church Fathers, Aquinas often reflected upon Jesus in typological terms (especially in his biblical commentaries), just as the New Testament …
Outline: One of the paradoxes about psychiatry is that we have never known more about and better treated mental disorders, yet there exists so much unease about the practice of mental healthcare. Patients feel still stigmatized, psychiatrists are struggling with their roles in a rapidly changing system of healthcare, there is lack of consensus about what mental disorders are and what the focus …
Outline: Hikmat duniawi berkata, Buatlah kelas Sekolah Minggu lebih menyenangkan! Atau, Buatlah menjadi lebih mudah! Tetapi Kenalkan Yesus pada Mereka menantang cara dunia mengajar dan mengudang para guru untuk mengajarkan dan menghargai kabar baik tentang Yesus dalam setiap pelajaran Sekolah Minggu. Pendekatan yang diajarkan penulis akan melengkapi dan memperkaya bahan Sekolah Minggu yang ters…
Outline: Surat Paulus kepada Filemon ini merupakan salah satu surat pribadi Paulus. Surat ini memberikan suatu contoh praktis tentang cara menerapkan iman Kristen dalam kehidupan sehari-hari, terutama dalam hal penyelesaian suatu masalah pribadi. Di samping itu, Surat Filemon ini memberikan kerangka pemikiran kristiani dalam menghadapi isu ras dan status sosial dalam masyarakat. Di sini diulah …
Outline: Tafsiran Kitab Yehezkiel ini digali dari dua sudut pandang, yakni : pertama, corak panggilan Yehezkiel, dan yang kedua adalah teori "Mnemohistory". Corak panggilan yang dialami Yehezkiel berbeda dengan kedua nabi besar lainnya, Yesaya dan Yeremia. Yehezkiel memiliki corak panggilan yang unik, yaitu melalui penglihatan - Yehezkiel pasal 1 dan 2. Buku ini mengupas ayat demi ayat dari Kit…
Outline: Berteologi adalah upaya untuk menjabarkan dan mengkomunikasikan 'teks' di dalam 'konteks'. Berteologi, oleh karenanya, harus selalu memperhatikan konteks Teologi harus selalu kontekstual - tumbuh dari dalam konteks untuk menjawab pergumulan konteks. Inilah yang menjadi pokok dalam buku ini. Tulisan-tulisan yang terangkum dalam buku penghormatan untuk HUT ke-70 Prof. Dr. P.D. Latuihamal…
Outline: Masih di ibukota Mataram, Cebolang belajar berbagai macam ilmu. Di antaranya, Sastra Jendra Hayuningrat, ilmu nepton, dan petungan dengan aksara Jawa. Cebolang juga berguru pada pertapa dari Gunung Merapi, belajar perhitungan hari menurut petungan dan pasaran, ilmu bermain kartu, menilai dan memilih wanita, ilmu asmaragama, sejarah ilmu makrifat Jawa, juga sejarah Islam di Jawa. Di Pra…
Outline: The Larger Catechism stands as one of the three major doctrinal standards produced by the Westminster Assembly. Ofter overshadowed by the Shorter Catechism and the Confession of Faith, the Larger Catechism exhibits the Assembly's most mature theological reflection and insight. In this remarkable volume, John Bower provides extensive historical background for the making of this colossal…
Outline: Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels - of destiny, death, human relationships and the irrenconcilable contradictions of existence. It en…