Outline: Written by four members of the Calvin College philosophy department, this book is a valuable resource for teachers and undergraduate students of philosophy. In addition to providing clear introductions to the modes of reasoning students encounter in their philosophy course readings, it includes a nuanced description of common informal fallacies, a narrative overview philosophical accou…
Outline: In this book, based on lectures that the author was invited to deliver in Japan, the author traces the dominant contours of religion as perceived by the sociologist. His themes range from the study of sectarianism, on which he is one of the world's leading authorities, to the subtleties of the relationship between religion and culture in modern societies of the West and the East. Alt…
Outline: Seri Dasar-Dasar Iman memperkenalkan pembaca kepada doktrin dan praktik Reformed yang mendasar, namun pembahasannya sesuai dengan situasi semua gereja. Di sini penulis mengajak para pembaca untuk memiliki pemahaman yang benar akan Firman Allah. Sambil menjelaskan istilah-istilah seperti wahyu, pengilhaman, dan ineransi, penulis menjernihkan kesalahpengertian yang biasa terjadi atas i…
Outline: Di dalam buku terobosan baru ini, penulis menelusuri sejarah theologi Kristen dari gereja mula-mula sampai zaman modern. Menelusuri alur pematangan ortodoksi secara bertahap di dalam respon terhadap tantangan-tantangan dari dalam maupun luar gereja, buku ini membukakan bagaimana orang-orang Kristen telah bergumul untuk memahami, mengakui, dan menyembah Allah Trinitas selama berabad-a…
Outline: Di dalam buku terobosan baru ini, penulis menelusuri sejarah theologi Kristen dari gereja mula-mula sampai zaman modern. Menelusuri alur pematangan ortodoksi secara bertahap di dalam respon terhadap tantangan-tantangan dari dalam maupun luar gereja, buku ini membukakan bagaimana orang-orang Kristen telah bergumul untuk memahami, mengakui, dan menyembah Allah Trinitas selama berabad-a…
Outline: Theolog terkemuka Gerald Bray telah menulis buku theologi sistematis ini untuk memberi kepada pembaca dari semua kalangan pemahaman yang solid tentang konsep-konsep theologis yang fondasional. Penulis secara unik menekankan tema tentang kasih Allah bersama setiap doktrin utama, dan menolong kita untuk melihat lebih banyak lagi tentang Allah yang adalah kasih itu.
Outline: Buku ini mencelikkan kita megenai karya dan kuasa Roh Kudus dalam diri kita. Menyadarkan kita sepenuhnya bahwa, "Di luar Aku kamu tidak dapat berbuat apa-apa." Buku ini membentangkan perjalanan kita dari proses menemukan iman hingga kita bisa menjadi seorang Kristen seutuhnya -- seorang Kristen sejati. Dalam buku ini terdapat 13 bab yang semuanya berisi ajaran Wesley mengenai iman,…
Outline: The central themes of covenant theology, as enshrined in the Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), are that all human beings are either 'in Adam' (a 'covenant of works') or 'in Christ' (a 'covenant of grace'), and that God's relationship with his chosen people is covenantal in nature. Some modern scholars have argued that covenant theology represents a legalistic departure from an …
Outline: In recent years, traditional Sunday school and education programs have decline in influence and effectiveness. Education in the church is often sidelined by other competing priorities, and many Christians have not learned the fundamental doctrinal content of the faith. As a response, a growing number of church ministries have moved toward an emphasis on Christian spiritual formation.…
Outline: Buku ini bukan hanya untuk para misiolog profesional tetapi juga bagi mahasiswa dalam persiapan pelayanan misi dan misionaris yang mengalami kesukaran dalam menghadapi tekanan-tekanan mengkomunikasikan Injil lintas budaya dan juga bagi para eksekutif yang merencanakan strategi-strategi untuk kekuatan tugas denominasionalnya atau seluruh masyarakat misinya dalam mengambil pelajaran dar…
Outline: This book is the first and only Bible of its kind - an entirely fresh approach to the study of God's Word using the New American Standard translation, the most literal word-for-word translation of the Bible available today. Other valuable features include: - Things to do. Specific instructions for every book of the Bible will lead you through the process of inductive study. - Thi…
Outline: Is science the only source of genuine knowledge about the world and ourselves? Is science our only guide to what exists? Scientism answers both questions in the affirmative, and is increasingly influential in the popular scientific literature and intellectual life in general. Yet philosophers have largely ignored it. This edited volume develops and assesses scientism as a serious …
Outline: Does God help those who help themselves? That may seem to be the message of the Books of Esther and Ruth. Some think that Ruth's attractiveness won over Naomi and Boaz, or that Esther's bold faithfulness saved her people. But a closer reading shows an embittered Naomi to have abondened the Promised Land and God's people, and Esther to have become thoroughly assimilated to the cultu…
Outline: The Larger Catechism, so rich in biblical teaching, has been long neglected, even by conservative Prebyterians who embrace it as one of their three standards. This commentary, written in the mid-twentieth century, is being published in book-form for the first time, to encourage the catechism's increased use and study. Because the Larger Catechism supplements the Shorter Catechism on…
Outline: Christians have, for centuries, found unity and solidarity through the confession of faith found in the Apostles' Creed. Many learned it as children, while others only became familiar with it later in life; some can recite it from memory, some in song, but all using the same essential words. Yet, familiar through it is, do we understand its meaning? When we profess these historic w…
Outline: Much has been written on apologetics of the Old Testament canon and historicity, investigating the Old Testament as an object of apologetics. However, this study is the first comprehensive investigation focusing on apologetics within the Old Testament -- i.e., the Old Testament theological foundations of the discipline of Christian apologetics -- investigating apologetics as an objec…
Outline: This book is your passage-way from the twenty-first century to the era of Jesus and the first Christians. A highly readable, one-volume introduction placing the entire New Testament and early Christianity in its original context, it is the only such work from distinguished scholar and author N. T. (Tom) Wright. Bringing together decades of the author's ground-breaking research, writ…
Outline: Get answers and clarity in this authoritative and reliable guide to messianic prophecy from some of the world's foremost evangelical Old Testament scholars. In this in-depth, user-friendly resource you get: - Essays from scholars on the big ideas and major themes surrounding messianic prophecy - A clear and careful commentary on virtually every passage in the Old Testament consid…
Outline: This book investigates humanities, social sciences and politics from the perspective of the concept of creation order. It is the second volume in a series that provides a unique and topical overview of attempts to assess the current health of the concept of creation order within Reformational philosophy when it is compared with other perspectives. Divided into a section on fundament…
Outline: This work provides an overview of attempts to assess the current condition of the concept of creation order within reformational philosophy compared to other perspectives. Focusing on the natural and life sciences, and theology, this first volume of two examines the arguments for and against the beauty, coherence and order shown in the natural world being related to the will or nature…
Outline: This book represents the first Gifford delivered by a New Testament scholar since Rudolf Bultmann in 1955. Against Bultmann's dehistoricized approach, the author argues that, since the philosophical and cultural movements that generated the natural theology debates also treated Jesus as a genuine human being -- part of the "natural world" -- there is no reason the historical Jesus sh…
Outline: The author stretches his project as a radical theologian to new limits in this groundbreaking book. Mapping out his summative theological position, he identifies with Martin Luther to take on notions of the hidden god, the theology of the cross, confessional theology, and natural theology. The author also confronts the dark side of the cross with its correlation to lynching and raci…
Outline: This book makes available over fifty primary source selections that address various challenges to the Christian faith in the history of Christian apologetics. The compilation represents a broad Christian spectrum, ranging from early writers like Saint Paul and Saint Augustine, to Saint Teresa of Avila and Blaise Pascal, to more recent and present-day apologists such as C.S. Lewis, Al…
Outline: In this book, bestselling author Dr. Scott Hahn recovers and conveys the creed's revolutionary character. Tracing the development of the first formulations of faith in the early Church through later ecumenical councils, The Creed tells the story of how the very profession of our belief in Christ fashions us for heavenly life as we live out our earthly days.
Outline: In this illuminating and enlightening new book, theologian the author works line-by-line and phrase-by-phrase through each section of the creed, explaining in clear terms what it means and how it equips Christians to live faithfully in a post-Christian culture. From the nature of the Trinity and the miracle of the Incarnation to the world-shaking truth of the resurrection and the hop…
Outline: The Apostles' Creed has become so familiar to us that we don't think about what we're saying. Christians from different times, places, and traditions have been united by its eternal truths. We believe them, we recite them, but do we build our lives on them?
Outline: This accessible overview walks readers through centuries of creeds, councils, catechisms, and confessions - not with a dry focus on dates and places but with an emphasis on the living tradition of Christian belief and why it matters for our lives today. As a part of the KNOW series, this book is designed not only for personal study or classroom use but also for small groups and Sunda…
Outline: The author believes that for Christians, and for others seeking faith, some powerful answers are contained in the Apostles' Creed, a historic statement of foundational Christian faith. In this compelling study, the author explores not only what Christian believe, but why it matters. In this Youth Study Book, popular youth writer Mike Poteet takes the ideas presented in Hamilton's st…