Overview: The publication of the works of the leading English reformers in 55 volumes by the Parker Society between 1841 and 1855 was undoubtedly one of the major enterprises of evangelical Christianity in the 19th Century. Yet perhaps the very size of the project militated against its popular usefulness, for the 7,000 supporters who annually subscibed one pound were given little guidance as t…
Outline: Each volume in the Understanding the Bible Commentary Series breaks down the barriers between the ancient and modern worlds so that the power and meaning of the biblical texts become transparent to contemporary readers. They present a careful section-by-section exposition of the biblical books with key terms and phrases highlighted and all Greek transliterated. Notes at the close of…
Overview: Anda ingin memahami Perjanjian Baru? Mulailah dengan inkarnasi -- kebenaran yang jauh melampaui Natal. Keajaiban inkarnasi Yesus menyentuh kebenaran-kebenaran yang mendalam, berbicara tentang natur Tuhan dan kemanusiaan itu sendiri. Penulis menunjukkan bagaimana Alkitab secara konsisten menyokong inkarnasi sebagai fakta yang aktual. Ia juga mendeskripsikan upaya gereja mula-mula …
Overview: Akankah Allah yang pengasih benar-benar mengirim orang-orang yang baik ke neraka? Apakah yang sebenarnya Alkitab ajarkan tentang neraka? Bagaimanakah seharusnya kepercayaan akan neraka memengaruhi kita? Dalam buklet ini, penulis memaparkan secara jelas theologi biblikal tentang neraka. Mereka membahas pertanyaan-pertanyaan utama yang orang-orang milik tentang subjek ini dan mener…
Outline: Sekali lagi penulis membuktikan kepiawaiannya sebagai seorang sosiolog yang, tanpa kehilangan hujah-hujahnya yang terkenal tajam -- dengan gaya penulisannya yang cemerlang dan padat -- melakukan kajian mengenai fenomena agama sebagai realitas sosial. Di dalamnya, penulis mengemukakan serangkaian analisa brilian mengenai sebuah cabang sosiologi -- sosiologi agama -- yang mampu menjela…
Outline: The modern church is suffering from crises in identity, belief and involvement with the State. As you read this collection of the works of William Barker you will find that they are all connected. The reason why the church has problems interacting with government is because it doesn't understand its mission, history and authority. The author, an internationally respected Professor o…
Outline : Esther often seems like an anomaly - a book of the Bible that never mentions God or his direct intervention. Yet the book feels closest to many Christians' own experience; few of us have experienced divine intervention, and our world seems just as secular as Esther's. We are tempted to ask, of her world and ours - where is God in all this? If he is real, why doesn't he show himself…
Outline: What can we believe about - and how can we believe in - Jesus Christ in light of the Holocaust and other atrocities of the twentieth century and the drift from religion that followed? In his urgent and provocative new book, the author traces centuries of religious history and theology to face this core challenge to modern faith, and to rescue it for the secular age. The author's sea…
Outline: In a groudbreaking historical work that addresses religious conversion in the West from an uncompromisingly secular perspective, the author challenges the conventional narrative of conversion as a purely spiritual journey. From the transformation on the road to Damascus of the Jew Saul into the Christian evangelist Paul to a twenty-first-century "religious marketplace" in which half …
Outline: "Menurut katamu siapakah Aku ini?" tanya Yesus kepada murid-muridNya. Bagi penulis, pertanyaan ini merupakan sebuah pertanyaan etis. Dalam buku ini, penulis memperkenalkan Yesus Kristus sebagai "manusia baru" yang bebas, adil, dan rendah hati. Sikap, tindakan, dan kepribadian Yesus merupakan gugatan terhadap moralitas yang melanggengkan penindasan, diskriminasi, ketimpangan sosial,…
Outline: Seminar yang telah diselenggarakan oleh Indonesian Calvin Society pada tahun 2000 mendiskusikan bagaimana pemikiran Calvin dan tradisi Calvinis tersebut dapat memberi sumbangsih dalam perikehidupan gereja-gereja di Indonesia. Demikianlah, dua belas tulisan dalam buku ini merangkum pembahasan dalam diskusi-diskusi tersebut, yang mencakup lima pokok pikiran:
1. kebebasan dan demokras…
Outline: Following this book and Lord and Servant, this third volume of four-part series examines Christian salvation fom the perspective of covenant theology. In this book, the author surveys law and gospel, union with Christ, and justification and theosis, conversing with both classical and contemporary viewpoints.
Outline: Buku ini oleh penulis terbit dalam bahasa Inggris pada tahun 1981 dan dijadikan buku pegangan tentang teologi Perjanjian Baru yang dipergunakan dalam sekolah-sekolah teologi dan pendidikan guru agama Kristen di seluruh dunia. Sekarang buku terkenal itu dipersembahkan kepada pembaca dalam terjemahan bahasa Indonesia, dengan harapan akan memberi pemahaman baru tentang makna Alkitab Perj…
Outline: Contours of Christian Theology is a series of concise introductory textbooks focused on the main themes of Christian theology. The authors introduce the perennial questions and their time-tested solutions while moving forward to explore contemporary issues and rework evangelical formulations of the faith. The word providence seems to have dropped out of our everyday Christian vocabu…
Outline: One of the most thorough and convincing statements on predestination to have appeared in any language, this book has been regarded as the authoritative work in this field
Outline: In appreciation of Carson's lifework, editors Andreas J. Kostenberger and Robert W. Yarbrough have assembled a team of his former students and colleagues to produce this volume of essays on contemporary New Testament studies. This book explores New Testament studies as they relate to special topics and ancillary disciplines, and it surveys the state of New Testament scholarship aroun…
Outline: The word providence seems to have dropped our of our everyday Christian vocabulary. But questions about God's activity in our world - his provide-ence for us and his creation - are as alive as ever before. Providence is the point at which theologians and the broader Christian community find their intense conversations. Questions about God's activity in the world today, his guidance…
Overview: A fresh, inviting text on the content of Christian faith in our contemporary context, this one- volume systematic theology offers a splendid, orthodox explication of the Christian faith for students, teachers, pastors, and serious lay readers alike. The autors not only cover all the traditional themes -- God, creation, sin, Jesus Christ, Scripture and so on -- but also relate those cl…
Overview: This book offers a rich, unprecedented photographic depiction of the life of Dutch stateman and theologian Abraham Kuyper (1837 - 1920). Substantive, detailed captions accompany all of the more than four hundred illustrations - family photos, political cartoons, posters, pictures of important places in Kuyper's life - many of them never published before. Though there is little disagr…
Outline: Over the last sixty years, J.I. Packer has exerted a steady and remakable influence on evangelicalism. In this biography, well-known scholar Leland Ryker acquaints us with Packer's life, heart, and mind, tracing the outworking of God's sovereign plan through his childhood, intellectual pursuits, and professional life. Filled with personal anecdotes and little-known facts, this appre…
Outline: Christians are called to stand firm on the inerrancy of Scripture. Sadly, more and more people - not only from outside the church but also from within - are denying the complete truthfulness of God's Word. Edited by pastor John Mac Arthur, these commissioned essays by a host of evangelical pastors, theologians, historians, and biblical scholars contend that the Bible is completely t…
Outline: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Hume, Kant, Hegel. These names and the philosophies associated with them ring through the minds of every student and scholar of philosophy. And in their search for knowledge, every student of philosophy needs to know the history of the philosophical discourse such giants have bequeathed us. Noted philosopher C. Stephen Evans brings his expertise to this…
Outline: An important ongoling debate focuses on the present health and well-being of familites in American society. Much of the debate, however, is either ill-informed or consists of rhetoric that attempts to further particular political and social causes. The Family, Religion, and Culture series offers informed and responsible analyses of the state of the American family from a religious p…
Outline: The essays in The Beauty and Glory of the Reformation call you to be grateful to God and to grow in appreciation for the rich biblical, doctrinal. experiential, and practical heritage passed on by the great sixteenth-century Reformation. Through these studies, you will be challenged to treasure basic Reformation principles such as Scripture alone, Christ alone, and the glory of God a…
Outline: The present study aims to analyse the impact of Luther's theology on his thoughts about music. It limits itself to an analysis of the topic by focusing on the three most important statements of Luther about music in his unfinished treatise [On Music]. The first statement is that music is "a gift of God and not of man", second, music "creates joyful soul", and third, music "drives aw…
Outline : Time and time again, God uses insignificant and desperately sinful people to fulfill his marvelous plans. In short, he uses people lis us! We find vivid examples of this truth in Isaac and Jacob, two men who couldn't live up to Abraham's example, let alone God's standards - yet God never abondoned them. The author's study of their stories in Genesis shows us how the gospel triumphs…