Outline: The Prophets have spoken. History is strewn with wars and scrapping over religion. With the advent of the global village, people of different beliefs are being pressed up against each other, and the potential for major conflict is enormous. What did they say? It behooves us to know what our neighbors believe and why they believe it. Though we may never agree with them, when we know w…
Outline : Liberation theology has become an essential component of debate in the Catholic Church today. It is changing the face of political life in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and much of South America, and has played a role in the growing discontent of debt-plagued Brazil. In the Philippines it has contributed to the rise of "people power". Liberation theology is probably the most significant rel…
Outline: Through the liens of Jesus' farewell discourse (John 13: 31 - 17: 26), L. Scott Kellum provides a step-by-step illustration for producing an expository sermon series. After laying out the process to go from text to sermon, he then describes how to employ discourse analysis to a hortatory or expository document. Later, Kellum implements the theory on the Farewell Discourse, examining th…
Outline: The Quiknotes series offers concise resources on topics important to all Christians. It's essential knowledge within reach! Quiknotes: Devotional classics gives you the greatest Christian writings in a nutshell. Discover the spiritual wisdom of Christians through the ages. Useful for students and teachers alike. - Auther biographies - Book summaries - Timeline - List of sources for…
Outline: Each person who leaves the cultural isolation of his own community has to learn the significance of cultural interrelatedness, how to respect the cultural heritage of the community to which he is moving, and how coomunication takes place across cultural differences. Here is a wealth on insight and discussion on these complex problems, especially as related to questions of culture and C…
Outline: New churches of hope - Throughout the course of his theological career, Jurgen Moltmann has been interested in the ecclesial and societal consequences of systematic theology and what each doctrine means for our life in this world. The Transformative Church explores these concerns in Moltmann's major texts and highlights themes relevant for a transformative ecclesiology. Patrick Oden co…
Outline: Much of the spiritual teaching one hears does not seem to work. But I found that the Cross of Jesus Christ worked. I felt like a man perishing of thirst, to whom some beautiful, clear cold water that begun to flow ... I had so much to learn! It seemed as if God was saying: "You are crying to me to do a big among the Lisu; I am wanting to do a big work in you yourself." James Fraser was…
Outline: Isaiah is a book of literary, historical, theological and ecclesial riches. Paul R. House contends that Isaiah wrote the whole book during his long ministry and predicted the coming of the Messiah. Paul strives to treat Isaiah as a prophetic book, as a work that highlights major themes such as creation, sin in its many manifestations, proper ethical behavior, approaching judgement, and…
Outline : The Gospel of Luke is an orderly historical account, but it is far from ordinary. In the longest Gospel, Luke places great stress on the unique lordship of Jesus and God's plan to bring salvation into this world. Throughout, Luke stresses that Jesus' message reaches the forgotten people groups of this world, particularly the poor and women, showing us that the gospel is truly intended…
Outline: Challenges to religious liberty are increasingly common today as historical Christianity comes into conflict with a new, secular orthodoxy. In this thoroughly revised second edition of First Freedom, leading evangelical scholars present the biblical and historical foundations for religious freedom in America, and address pressing topics such as: - Religious freedom and the exclusivity…
Outline: Di tengah gencarnya upaya para ahli modern untuk membelokkan kebenaran tentang Yesus dan Injil, tak sekalipun Injil kehilangan taji untuk membungkam setiap pendapat "miring" tentang sosok Yesus. Injil Yudas, Injil Maria, dan Injil Thomas yang beredar belakangan ini mungkin membuat banyak orang percaya menjadi bingung dan meragukan keabsahan Injil dan sosok Yesus yang menjadi tokoh sent…
Outline: Marriage reveals something of eternal significance. From the beginning, God designed marriage to convey a greater reality - the passionate, unfailing, redeeming love of God for sinners, the eternal romance between Christ and his bride. In this volume, Ray Ortlund traces marriage throughout Scripture - from the first marriage in the garden of Eden to the ultimate marriage in the book of…
Outline : This groundbreaking work by Darrell Bock thoroughly explores the theology of Luke’s gospel and the book of Acts. In his writing, Luke records the story of God working through Jesus to usher in a new era of promise and Spirit-enablement so that the people of God can be God’s people even in the midst of a hostile world. It is a message the church still needs today. Bock both cove…
Outline: Hubungan antara iman dan budaya adalah masalah yang tidak ada habisnya. Apa budaya yang kita pegang bersifat Kristiani? Mana yang budaya dan mana yang Kristen? Apakah ada yang namanya kebudayaan Kristen? Untuk menjawab masalah ini perlulah kita menggali isi Alkitab. Buku ini berisi 10 bahan Pemahaman Alkitab tentang nisbah antara iman dan budaya untuk menolong kita menemukan dan menden…
Outline: Although several Orthodox theologians have significantly influenced the development of Ecclesiology in the twentieth century, the contribution of (Archbishop) Stylianos Harkianakis remains, without doubt, a landmark in the history of that theological field today. Essentially, the author's consideration of the Church is that it is the most intimate and graced communion not only of huma…
Outline: "I once was blind, but now I see" is the glad confession of the Christian's heart. However, what is it that a Christian now sees that so transforms his life? It is the Christian worldview. This is not an abstract philosophy so much as biblical doctrine for life. The Word of God establishes God-centered thinking, engages faithful living, and energizes ardent feeling for the kingdom of C…
Outline : It’s no secret that the center of Christianity has shifted from the West to the global South and East. While the truths of the Christian faith are universal, new contexts bring new questions, new understandings, and new expressions. What does this mean for theology? Is the Christian faith not only culturally translatable, but also theologically translatable? Timothy Tennent answers …
Outline: 2,000 Years of Christ's Power is a multiple volume series on the history of the church. Academically reliable, but written with an easy, even humorous style which makes it accessible to anybody with an interest, this work falls into a category all of its own. The Renaissance was a reaction against the attitude of the Middle Ages. And the Reformation was the passionate, divisive argumen…
Outline: Christians throughout the centuries have loved Paul's letter to Philippians for its call to rejoice in the Gospel of Jesus regardless of life's circumstances. But our familiarity with the letter can cause us to neglect or overlook Paul's message to the Philippians. After all, we must remember that this letter was not originally written to us, though as part of the canon of inspired Scr…
Outline: Theological interest in art is at a premium. However, theological engagement with art is often enacted without a clear sense of method. This text argues for a theological methodology in engaging the arts, and, specifically, the author puts forward a theological model for understanding human creativity in the light of Jesus' sacrificial redemption. In dialogue with theology, philosophy,…
Outline: A king refracted through crisis and dispute - Examining the different accounts of Hezekiah's reign in 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles, and Isaiah, Song-Mi Suzie Park describes a "Hezekiah complex" in which the king served as a symbol for the vicissitudes of Judah's history, as a positive reformer of the "pagan" ways of the country, or as a sinner, at least partly responsible for the threats and …
Outline : If we want a young seeker or new believer to read something that is both clear and filled with the gospel and good basic theology, we give them the Gospel of John. And if we want to study an incredibly deep theological masterpiece that stretches the brightest mind, we open the Gospel of John. It is the most evangelistic account of Jesus' life and ministry, and it also gives the mature…
Outline: Sakit dan berdosakah kaum lesbian, gay, bisexual dan transgender? Pertanyaan ini terkubur dalam "kuburan gereja" selama berabad-abad, namun pada permulaan abad ke-21 ini, banyak orang menggali kuburan tersebut, sehingga pertanyaan di atas ini pun kembali muncul ke permukaan gereja dan bahkan masyarakat luas, menjadi polemik. Banyak jawaban yang baru ditemukan menjadi alasan pertanyaan …
Outline: Hermeneutika Pneumatologis adalah pendekatan penafsiran pada Alkitab dengan melihat teks-teks biblis sebagai Roh Allah yang dahulu telah dan sekarang masih berbicara dan berkarya bagi para pembacanya. Model hermeneutika pneumatologis dapat menjadi sebuah model bagi gereja manapun dalam memahami secara biblis forman dan karya Roh Allah dalam rangka menjawab pergumulan-pergumulan maupun …
Outline: During the past millennia, the Christian church has repeatedly faced challenges to its acknowledgment of both Old and New Testaments as Scripture. None of these challenges has been successful: at the dawn of the third Christian millennium, the Bible contains the same books as it did in the early church, with only silight variation between different traditions. And yet, doubts remain an…
Outline : Matthew's Gospel is the first document in the New Testament - a suitable location considering some scholars' opinions (for example, Theodor Zahn and Ernest Renan) that it is the pre-eminent piece of literature in antiquity. What sort of book is it? Who is its author, and why did he write it? What historical, literary and theological contexts influence it? Matthew's Gospel also tells a…
Outline: Many familiar Gospel narratives are filled with geographic details that we gloss over because of our distance from the Holy Land. Yet climate, landscape, natural resources, and other features of geography leave a lasting mark on the societies and cultures that have developed within them. In a world of dirt roads and dry riverbeds, where shepherds watch their flocks in the hills and fir…
Outline: This book fills a real need for pastors and students. Though there is currently a large body of material on the theological interpretation of Scripture, most of it is highly specific and extremely technical. J. Todd Billings here provides a straightforward entryway for students and pastors to understand why theological interpretation matters and how it can be done. A solid, constructiv…
Outline : Isaiah is a book of literary, historical, theological and ecclesial riches. Paul R. House contends that Isaiah wrote the whole book during his long ministry and predicted the coming of the Messiah. Paul strives to treat Isaiah as a prophetic book, as a work that highlights major themes such as creation, sin in its many manifestations, proper ethical behavior, approaching judgement, an…
Outline : How can we reconcile the ideal church described by theology with the broken church that we see in the world? In this book Joseph Small argues that the church’s true identity is known somewhere in the tension between the two. Small revisits familiar ecclesiological concepts—people of God, the body of Christ, the communion of the Holy Spirit—but rather than focusing on theological…
Outline: Persekutuan Doa Momentum adalah Persekutuan Doa yang diadakan oleh Lembaga Reformed Injili Indonesia khusus untuk mendoakan Penginjilan sedunia. Khotbah-khotbah dalam Persekutuan Doa ini seluruhnya bertemakan pelayanan dan ditujukan bagi mereka yang memang mau sungguh-sungguh melayani Tuhan, khususnya di dalam doa untuk penginjilan.
Outline: Geerhardus Vos devotes this work to a discussion of Jesus' greatest focus in ministry - the "kingdom of God" (and the "kingdom of heaven," which Vos interprets to be refershing the same thing.) Vos begins by connecting Christ's teaching on the kingdom to the Old Testament and its concepts of a Messianic king. Then he moves into the conception of the kingdom during the New Testament wit…
Outline: Ada orang berkata bahwa kita hidup di dalam dunia yang aneh dimana teori relativitas Einstein dianggap absolut, dan keabsolutan Alkitab dianggap relatif. Kebudayaan kita yang relatif ini dapat menjadikan orang-orang Kristen berusaha untuk membuat bunyi yang tidak pasti yang berasal dari terompet etika kita. Hal itu seharusnya tidak boleh terjadi. Oleh karena itu, kebutuhan untuk pemaha…
Outline: Stevri Indra Lumintang terpanggil dalam gerakan theologia reformasi gereja abad ke-21 ini, karena gereja sedang diubah menjadi serupa dunia (John MacArthur, Roland J. Sider, dan George Barna), bahkan kondisi gereja lebih buruk dari gereja pada abad ke-16 sebelum reformasi. Mengapa demikian? Karena gereja sedang mengikuti worldview masyarakat postmodern, yang lebih menuntut keberartian …
Outline: Few teachings of the Puritans have provoked such strong reactions and conflicting interpretations as their views on preparing for saving faith. Many twentieth-century scholars dismissed preparation as a prime example of regression from the Reformed doctrine og frace for a mancentered legalism. In Prepared by Grace, for Grace, Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley make careful analysis of the Pur…