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 …
Outline: This book containing the structure, growth, and preservation of the Bible, Introductions to the several Books, with Summaries of Contents, History and Chronology, Antiquities, Natural History, Glossary of Bible Words, Index of Proper Names, Index of Subjects, Concordance, Maps, and Index of Places.
Outline: In the first book wholly concerned with divine authority, the author explores the extent of God's rule over created rational beings. The author challenges the view - widely supported by theists and nontheists alike - that if God exists, then humans must be bound by an obligation of obedience to this being. He demonstrates that this view, the "authority thesis," cannot be sustained by…
Outline: This book addresses one of the central theological problems of Matthew's Gospel: what are the relationships between Israel and the Church and between the mission to Israel and the mission to the Gentiles? To answer these questions, the author traces the surprising transition from the Israel-centered words and deeds of Jesus (and his disciples) before Easter to the universal mission o…
Outline: "Berkobar-kobar memberitakan Injil, rela menderita bagi Kristus and buka ladang baru" Slogan itulah yang membuat Dr. Jaffray dan kawan-kawannya rela meninggalkan rumah, keluarga, kampung halaman mereka untuk melakukan sebuah pekerjaan misi bagi Tuhan di Asia Tenggara. Lewat Chinese Foreign Missionary Union (CFMU) yang didirikannya pada tanggal 26 Maret 1929, Dr. Jaffray dan kawan-kaw…
Outline: Here the author argues with a wealth of documentation that the tradition views the origin and content of the Gospel of Mark have far more to be said for them than has been usually allowed by modern New Testament scholars. The author argues that the tradition contained in the Gospel is that handed down by Peter through Mark, and that the Gospel was written in Rome in AD 69. The famous…
Overview: This book collects the paper presentations and seminar reports by these prominent international Calvin scholars: Heiko A. Oberman, James A. De Jong, James B. Torrance, Wilhelm H. Neuser, Paul E. Rorem, Richard C. Gamble, Richard Horcsik, Cornelis Augustijn, Luke Anderson, Erik A. de Boer, I. John Hesselink, Francis M. Higman, Nobuo Watanabe, Irene Backus, Adrianus D. Pont, Mitsuru Shi…
Overview: In this book the author examines that group's rejection of infant baptism, its excommunication of members after the second admonition, its refusal to bear arms, and its withdrawal from politics and government. The author concludes by treating the doctrines of the incarnation and of the soul's state after death. A twentieh-century Mennonite scholar has said that the author, for his tim…
Outline: "Situation Ethics rang a bell without thousands of readers," says the editor - and the clamor of praise and criticism is pealing loud and clear in lay and theological circles. "Racy" and "frightening and ruthless," "what [situationism is] is a deterioration in morals," says the critics. "Sprightly," "a great book," "a watershed in the history of moral theology," say the applauders. …
Overview: The primary goal of this book is to assist graduate students, PhD candidates and research fellows in developing an effective research design. In addition this book offers supervisors and tutors an opportunity to tighten their grip on their counseling roles while enabling them to perfect their student's progress counseling roles while enabling them to perfect their student's progress …
Outline: The late Thomas F. Torrance has been called "the greatest Reformed theologian since Karl Barth" and "the greatest British theologian of the twentieth century" by prominent voices in the church and academy. In this book, the author presents a full account of the meaning and significance of the life and person of Jesus Christ, demonstrating that his work of revelation and reconciliatio…
Outline: Following his critically acclaimed book Jesus the Temple, the author offers a fresh paradigm for understanding his historical Jesus in Jesus the Priest. The author challenges the "standard reading" of classic texts (including the parable of the sower, the Beatitudes, and the Lord's Prayer) to argue that the historical Jesus primarily identified himself not as sage or prophet but as Is…
Outline: In this remarkably original work, the author brings us to a discovery of Orthodoxy within the dynamics of history - including the profound crisis that the Christian churches, with their too often congealed identities, are passing through today. Faced with internal tensions and the millennium - old fragmentation of Christendom, the path to a common Christian identity has been rendered…
Outline: A Christian worldview, the idea of sphere soverignty, opposition to the autonomy of thought, a Free University, our supratemporal selfhood - these and other key ideas of neo-Calvinism all find their source in the Christian theosophy of Franz von Baader. This book traces the history of these ideas from Baader to Chantepie de la Saussaye to Gunning to Kuyper and to Dooyeweerd.
Outline: In this eight-session video Bible study, well-known Bible scholars the authors team up to take you on a tour of story behind the explosive story of the New Testament. You will discover things you never knew about Jesus' baptism and journey into the wilderness, the meaning behind his parables and miracles, the significance of his death and resurrection, the incredible expansion of the…
Outline: Thought biblical criticism in its traditional forms continues to be widely practiced, it faces increasing hostility on two fronts: from biblical conservatives, who claim it is inherently positivistic and religiously skeptical, and from postmodernists, who see it as driven by the falsities of objectivity and neutrality. In this magisterial overview of the key factors and developments i…
Outline: Raising the current level of discussion, the author offers a positive but critical evaluation of biblical authority. Among other topics, he discusses the canon, the value of the Bible as historical evidence, the Bible's witness to the faith, and the place of scripture in worship. He shows Christians that critical reading of scripture is a help rather than a hindrance to their faith …
Outline: In this deeply engaging exploration of what it means to be human, this author addresses such questions with lucid meditations that draw on insights from neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, and literature. He then probes the relation of faith to human flourishing ad shows how a traditional Christian practice - namely, science - can help us realize our fullest human potential.