Outline: This masterful commentary on Matthew by the author focuses on exegesis of Matthew's text as it stands rather than on the prehistory of the material or details by Synoptic comparison. The exegesis of each section is part of a planned literary whole supplemented, rather than controlled, by verse-by-verse commentary, allowing the text as a complete story to come into brillian focus. The…
Outline: Teologia jelas bukan hanya dipelajari oleh pengerja gereja atau dosen/mahasiswa teologia saja, tetapi juga bagi semua insan yang rindu mengenal Sang Mahakudus. Teologia adalah uraian atau percakapan tentang Allah sehingga setiap manusia yang "haus" atau "lapar" akan kebenaran tentang Allah harus bertheologia. Para pengerja gereja, pemimpin persekutuan, guru/pengajar sekolah minggu, ak…
Outline: In our churches, much teaching on women begins with the "restrictive" passages in 1 Corinthians 11 and 14 and 1 Timothy 2 - and often ends there. While those passages are important, the author seeks to answer a more foundational question : How does the Lord see women? In this book, the author
Outline: Orang-orang Kristen Injili mengatakan bahwa mereka percaya pada standar-standar moral Alkitabiah dan pada kuasa Allah untuk mengubahkan hidup, namun hasil jajak pendapat baru-baru ini menunjukkan bahwa banyak dari antara mereka hidup tidak berbeda dengan orang-orang dunia lainnya. Mulai dari uang, seks, rasisme, hingga pemuasan keinginan pribadi, tersingkap betapa memalukannya angka …
Outline: This four-volume work combines rigorous historical and theological scholarship with application and practically - characterized by an accessible, Reformed, and experiental approach. In this volume, the authors explore the first two of eight central themes of theology: revelation and God.
Outline: Christians, now more than ever, face questions posed not simply by the existence of other religions, but also by their apparent flourshing: questions related to salvation, truth, and the nature and history of human religiosity. In this book, the author explores these issues and offers the beginning of a theology of other religions. Ambitious and interdisciplinary, this book synthesi…
Outline: Dalam rangka meningkatkan kualitas pendidikan pada tingkat yang lebih tinggi, maka setiap upaya meningkatkan kualitas tersebut perlu dilakukan penelitian. Supaya penelitian dapat menghasilkan informasi yang akurat, maka perlu menggunakan metode penelitian yang tepat. Metode penelitian secara umum dapat diklasifikasikan menjadi tiga, yaitu: (1) Metode kuantitatif, disebut sebagai me…
Outline: Buku ini akan membuat kita masuk ke dalam arena perlombaan iman berkemenangan atau pesta rohani penuh gairah, sebab dua penulis berpengalaman tentang spiritualitas, menolong kita menemukan harta karun pengalaman dan pengertian para raksasa iman sepanjang sejarah Gereja. Pengalaman dan perjalanan rohani para tokoh spiritualitas seperti Origen, Bernard dari Clairvaux, Martin Luther, Jo…
Outline: Penulis menawarka penguatan dan nasihat praktis yang selami ini pembaca cari. Penulis terlaris buku Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, memberikan metode yang mudah dipahami yang memiliki kekuatan untuk mengubah kehidupan doa kita : berdoa dengan menggunakan Alkitab. Buku yang sederhana tetapi mendasar ini akan terbukti sangat berharga saat Anda bersekutu dengan Bapa di so…
Outline: Aimed at preparing you to clearly and confidently defend your faith, this book sets forth an approach to apologetics that is rooted in Scripture and eminently accessible. Filled with real-world examples and practical advice, this book will equip you with the tools you need to think biblically and converse persuasively - offering unbelievers "a reason for the hope that is in you."
Outline: A century ago when this book was first published, marriage and the family were already weathering enormous changes, and that trend has not abated. Yet by God's power the unchanging essence of marriage and the family remains proof, as the author notes, that God's "purpose with the human race has not yet been achieved." Neither a ten-step guide nor a one-sided approach, this book embo…
Outline: The heart of the biblical understanding of idolatry, argues the author, is that we take on the characteristics of what we worship. Employing Isaiah 6 as his interpretive lens, the author demonstrates that this understanding of idolatry permeates the whole canon, from Genesis to Revelation. The author concludes his study with an application of the biblical notion of idolatry to the c…
Outline: The church in America has been willingly taken captive. The captors are American culture and ideals: consumerism, pragmatism, self-sufficiency, individualism, positive thinking, personal prosperity, and nationalism. These are antithetical to the gospel, but we have neverthelss made them part and parcel with it. We are well on our way to a Christless Christianity. The result? The f…
Outline: With the expertise of a veteran biblical scholar and the wisdom of a seasoned pastor, the author skillfully guides us on Jesus' journey from the Last Supper to the cross. Through the lens of the Old Testament, the author navigates the Gospel accounts of events that include the meal in the upper room, Peter's denials, the taunts and jeers of soldiers and bystanders, and the anguish of…
Outline: No one has shown better than Cornelius Van Til that Christianity is based on neither blind faith nor "brute" facts. The evidence for God's truth is as widespread and varied as the creation itself. Yet in order to get the facts straight, nonbelievers must be challenged to forsake presuppositions that reflects hearts and minds hostile to God's revelation. In this concise and readable…
Outline: Many introductions zero in on the historical contexts in which the New Testament literature was written. This introduction goes further - giving attention to the social, cultural, and rhetorical contexts of the New Testament authors and their writings. Few introductions integrate instructions in evegetical and interpretive strategies with the customary considerations of authorship, d…
Outline: In this volume thirty-seven first-rate evangelical scholars present a thorough study of biblical authority and a full range of issues connected to it. Recognizing that Scripture and its authority are now being both challenged and defended with renewed vigor, editor assigned the topics that these select scholars address in this book. After an introduction by the editor to the many fac…
Outline: Salah satu hal yang bisa dipelajari dari cerita adalah cerita dapat digunakan untuk membangun disiplin, sejak anak-anak masih kecil. Lewat cerita Natan menegur Daud; dan melalui cerita juga Yesus menyampaikan isi hati Bapa-Nya kepada manusia. Kini saatnya, kita mulai mendisiplin dan menanamkan tradisi luhur dalam hati anak-anak kita, lewat cerita, bukan pukulan atau kata-kata ancaman.
Overview: In this significant historical study, the author brings the wisdom of a lifetime of reflection and biblical interpretation to bear in answering questions and clearing away confusing surrounding the Christian canon of Scripture. Adept in both Old and New Testament studies, he brings a rare comprehensive perspective to his task. Though some issues have shifted since the original publ…
Overview: Dalam buku yang menginspirasi ini, penulis, pengajar, pengkhotbah, dan sekarang uskup dari United Methodist, memakai gayanya yang terang-terangan, mengesankan, dan humoris berhubungan dengan pertanyaan tentang dosa. Observasinya yang tajam akan diterima para pembaca yang tidak puas dengan kekristenan yang dangkal dan merasa nyaman (dari sayap kiri maupun kanan) yang tidak berusaha be…
Outline: Theologian Bruce Ware takes us back to the biblical text, where we meet a profoundly human Jesus who faced many of the same difficulties and limitations we experience today. The author explores the significance of Christ's humanity and helps us learn, by the power of the Spirit, to follow in Jesus's steps.
Outline: This book is a collection of texts written between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. First published in Greek in 1782, translated into Slavonic and later into Russian, this book has exercised an influence far greater than that of any book other than the Bible in the recent history of the Orthodox Church. It is concerned …
Outline: In recent decades there has been a shift in focus from psychological and social problems - what might be called the "dark side" of humanity - to human well-being and flourishing. The positive psychology movement, along with changes in attitudes toward organizational and societal health, has generated a surge of interest in human happiness. This book is the definitive text for resear…
Outline: This book is a philosophical examination of the logical problems associated with the claim that Jesus of Nazareth was one and the same person as God the Son, the Second Person of the divine Trinity. How can a being or person who is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, etc., have become human given that humans are limited in knowledge and beset with weaknesses. Unless this belief in t…
Outline: This is a book about ten Great Ideas. Each chapter is an attempt to savor one idea that has been discovered by several of the world's civilizations - to question it in light of what we now know from scientific research, and to extract from it the lessons that still apply to our modern lives.
Outline: In this book, the author offers a new perspective on the evidence of God that centers on a morally robust version of theism that is cognitively resilient. The resulting evidence for God is not speculative, abstract, or casual. Rather, it is morally and existentially challenging to humans, as they themselves responsively ad willingly become evidence of God's reality in receiving and …
Outline: This book is a selective historical and critical study of moral philosophy in the Socratic tradition, with special attention to Aristotelian naturalism, its formation, elaboration, criticism, and defence. It discusses the main topics of moral philosophy as they have developed historically, including: the human good, human nature, justice, friendship, and morality; the methods of mora…
Outline: In ordinary conversation, including among the "educated," the word "sin" rarely gets mentioned except when one is trying to be coy or facetious. As Thomas Mann once said, "sin" is nowadays "an amusing word used only when one is trying to get a laugh." But this small work will interpret sin in its true - that is, serious - meaning. What will emerge from its analysis is the discovery…
Outline: Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and nonspecialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thin…
Outline: In this book, the author takes a fresh look at happiness from a practical perspective: the perspective of someone trying to solve the wonderful problem of how to give himself a good life. From this perspective, 'happiness' is the name of a solution to that problem for practical deliberation. The author's approach to happiness falls within a tradition that reaches back to ancient Gree…
Outline: In this sweeping and highly praised book, historian the author traces the fascinating ways our ideas of happiness have changed through the ages. From ancient Greece, where happiness stood for virtue, to the early Christians who saved it for the afterlife, to the Enlightment ear, which branded it a natural right, its meaning has shifted to accomodate our evolving expectaions of life.
Outline: Culture and value are the essential concerns of these remarks, hitherto available only in German as Vermischte Bemerkungen. Although the passages date from various periods of Wittgenstein's life, over half were written during his later years, and this edition adds material probably written in 1944. The German text is presented alongside the English translation by Peter Winch, and all …