Outline: A masterful account of humanity in relationship in God. What does it mean to be a human being? Kelsey expertly probes this complicated issue in his exhaustive and ambitious examination of theological anthropology. Eccentric Existence posits that humanity's relationship to God is a basic claim of Christianity and that God actively relates to human beings in three major ways: God creates…
Outline: What does it mean to be a human being? Kelsey expertly probes this complicated issue in his exhaustive and ambitions examination of theological anthropology. Eccentric Existence posits that humanity's relationship to God is a basic claim of Christianity and that God actively relates to human beings in three major ways: God creates home; God is there at the end of all things eschatologi…
Outline: The New American Commentary is for those who have been seeking a commentary that honors the Scriptures, represents the finest in contemporary evangelical scholarship, and lends itself to the practical work of preaching and teaching. This series serves as a minister's friend and a student's guide. The New American Commentary assumes the inerrancy of Scripture, focuses on the intrinsic t…
Outline : Bagaimana kehidupan seorang murid Yesus yang radikal? Pada intinya, hidup seorang murid adalah membiarkan Yesus untuk mengatur seluruh agenda hidup kita. Kita tidak memilah-milah dan memilih apa yang menyenangkan bagi kita dan menghindarkan diri dari harga yang harus dibayar oleh karena komitmen kita. Tidak ada tawar-menawar, karena Dia adalah Tuhan atas seluruh hidup kita. Dalam buku…
Outline: Seeking to bridge the existing gap between biblical studies and systematic theology, this distinctive series offers section-by-section exegesis of the Old Testament texts in close conversation with theological concerns. Written by respected scholars, the THOTC volumes aim to help pastors, teachers, and students engage in deliberately theological interpretation of Scripture. In this com…
Outline : Seorang nabi yang marah. Musuh yang menjijikkan dan ditakuti. Badai yang menghancurkan. Dan berita mengejutkan tentang Allah yang berbelas kasih pada umat-Nya. Cerita Yunus adalah salah satu perumpamaan yang paling dikenal dalam Alkitab. Cerita ini juga paling banyak disalahmengerti. Banyak orang, bahkan yang tidak beragama, tidak asing dengan cerita Yunus: seorang nabi pemberontak ya…
Outline: John Calvin is usually acknowledged as one of the formative Christian theologians, one of the great doctors of the Church. This book is the first substantial treatment of some of his key ideas which have a philosophical aspect to them. In the past Calvin has frequently been thought of as anti-philosophical in his bent, and attention has been drawn to his intense dislike of speculation.…
Outline: Ada banyak sekali diskusi hangat tentang konflik antara sains dan iman. Ini menimbulkan silang pendapat tentang beberapa perilaku yang dalam definisi alkitabiah adalah dosa dan pandangan bahwa kecenderungan tertentu disebabkan oleh predisposisi biologis. Fakta Biologis dan Dosa mengambil posisi tengah antara dua pendapat bertentangan ini, memberi kita wawasan seimbang dan saling meleng…
Outline: People express and receive love in different ways. Dr. Gary Chapman identifies these as the five languages of love: - Quality Time - Words of Affirmation - Gifts Acts of Service - Physical Touch If you express love in a way your spouse doesn't understand, he or she won't realize you've expressed your love at all. The problem is that you're speaking two different languages. Perha…
Outline: Christian education is so much more than a room of quiet faces staring at a teacher, and LeFever's ideas will make "creative teaching" a reality. You'll partner with your students to help them grow in their understanding of God's Word with time-tested methods like: - Acting Up - Drama in the Classroom - Never Too Old for "Tell Me a Story" - Teaching Without Walls - And more! Take…
Outline: All Christian parents want to train their children to be "good kids." But that honorable goal is starkly shallow compared to the eternal purposes God has in mind for your parenting. The purpose of training is to prepare the soil of our children's hearts so they will seek God for themselves and be convicted of their own sinfulness and their need to repent. Compelling a child to "pray si…
Outline: The Westminster Assembly is celebrated for its doctrinal standards and debates on church polity. But how often is the assembly noted for its extraordinary intervention in the pulpit ministry of the Church of England? In God's Ambassadors, Chad Van Dixhoorn recounts the Puritan quest for a reformation in a preachers and peraching and how the Westminister Assembly fit into that movement…
Outline: Inti dari Kurikulum "Kenalkan Yesus Padaku" Allah kita yang berdaulat: Allah - Sang Raja, Penebus, dan Pencipta - kita yang berdaulat adalah fokus dari kurikulum ini. Tujuan hidup kita adalah untuk memuliakan dan menikmati Dia selamanya. Alkitab: Alkitab, dari Kejadian sampai Wahyu, secara keseluruhan merupakan pernyataan dari kisah keselamatan yang berfokus pada Yesus. Melalui kurik…
Outline: Inti dari Kurikulum "Kenalkan Yesus Padaku" Allah kita yang berdaulat: Allah - Sang Raja, Penebus, dan Pencipta - kita yang berdaulat adalah fokus dari kurikulum ini. Tujuan hidup kita adalah untuk memuliakan dan menikmati Dia selamanya. Alkitab: Alkitab, dari Kejadian sampai Wahyu, secara keseluruhan merupakan pernyataan dari kisah keselamatan yang berfokus pada Yesus. Melalui kurik…
Outline: Nineteen biblical scholars and theologians in this volume explore the notions of union and participation within Pauline theology, teasing out the complex web of meaning conveyed through Paul's theological vision of being "in Christ." With essays that investigate Pauline theology and exegesis, examine highlights from reception history, and offer deep theological reflection, this exempla…
Outline: Kebanyakan orang tidak mengharapkan kamu (baca: remaja) memahami apa yang akan kami katakan di dalam buku ini. Bahkan walaupun kamu paham, mereka tidak mengharapkan kamu peduli. Bahkan ketika kamu melakukan sesuatu, mereka tidak mengharapkan hal itu bertahan. Tetapi kami peduli. Ditulis oleh remaja untuk remaja, Melakukan Hal-hal Sulit memberantas pendapat mengenai masa remaja sebagai …
Outline: Paul's Letter to the Romans may well be the most influential book in Christian history. In this Romans commentary Colin Kruse shows how Paul expounds the gospel against the background of God's sovereign action as creator, judge, and redeemer of the world. Valuable "additional notes" on important theological themes and difficult texts - such as Paul's discussion of same-sex relationship…
Outline: The early church, after several centuries of controversy, came to an uneasy consensus that Jesus was both fully human and fully divine. In his divinity, orthodox Christianity claimed, he shared fully in the nature of the uncreated creator God. But was this doctrinal position crafted from whole cloth in the era of the great ecumenical councils? How did earlier Christ-followers understan…
Outline: "If ever there was need for re-affirming and teaching the true of doctrine of the Trinity, it is now." - Cornelius Van Til. Cornelius Van Til (1895 - 1987) offered a confessionally Reformed doctrine of the Creator-creature relation that stands out as distint in contrast to both traditional Roman Catholic and contemporary Barthian alternatives. His Trinitarian theology of the Creator-cr…
Outline: Ketika kita menjadi pengikut Kristus yang bersungguh-sungguh, kita ingin menjalani hidup yang penuh kasih, penuh sukacita, dan bebas dari kecemasan. Namun, mengasihi musuh-musuh kita tampaknya mustahil. Bahkan kita sering kali sulit bersubur dengan keluarga kita sendiri. Bagaimana kita dapat mengenakan "pakaian anugerah" kalau kita begitu sibuk memerangi pola perilaku lama kita? Dalam …
Outline: Siapa Yesus sebenarnya? Dari mana kita tahu bahwa Ia adalah Tuhan dan Juru Selamat? Apa yang Yesus sendiri katakan mengenai diri-Nya? Bagaimana itu semua berhubungan dengan kehidupan nyata kita sekarang ini? Sesungguhnya, Yesus telah menyakan itu semua melalui perkataan-Nya yang penuh kuasa. Itlah ketujuh perkataan "Ego Eimi". Mari kita dalami perkataaan Yesus dengan hati yang siap unt…
Outline: Christian Philosophy offers a comprehensive narrative of philosophical thought from a distinctly Christian perspective. After exploring the interaction among Scripture, worldview, theology, and philosophy, Craig Bartholomew and Michael Goheen tell the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through postmodern times, positioning the philosophers in their historical contexts and providi…
Outline: This book examines the roles and functions that women assumed in the early Christian communities from AD 33 to the Council of Nicaea. It surveys, too, the views about women held by various New Testament authors including Paul and the Evangelist. In a careful and judicious study, Ben Witherington III shows that early Christianity was neither unreservedly patriarchal nor adamantly femini…
Outline: The doctrine of believers' union with Christ has undergone a renaissance in recent years. Evangelicals are rightly fascinated by this previously neglected doctrine - a doctrine with wide-ranging implications for the whole of Christian theology and the Christian life. Drawing on his extensive teaching and research experience, theologian Robert Peterson has written one of the most compre…
Outline : Designed for the pastor and Bible teacher, the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament brings together commentary features rarely gathered together in one volume. Written by notable evangelical scholars, each volume treats the literary context and structure of the passage in the original Greek, and each author provides an original translation based on the literary structu…
Outline: Waktu telah membuktikan Tafsiran Matthew Henry sebagai sarana yang sangat menolong untuk memperdalam pengertian dan pengenalan akan Firman Allah. Sudah lebih dari 300 tahun Tafsiran Matthew Henry tetap menjadi salah satu tafsiran favorit para guru, pengkhotbah, dan orang Kristen secara luas. Penyampaian eksposisi dan aplikasi kebenaran Alkitab yang begitu kaya dalam bahasa yang luwes d…
Outline: Pengalaman yang kita miliki membentuk lingkaran-lingkaran di dalam diri kita sama seperti lingkaran-lingkaran dalam sebatang pohon. Lingkaran-lingkaran yang terekam dalam ingatan kita ini memengaruhi perasaan, relasi, dan pemahaman kita tentang Tuhan. Namun ingatan-ingatan itu tidak memiliki kendali atas diri kita. Dalam buku edisi buku kerja Healing for Damage Emotions (Pemulihan Luka…
Outline: Di dalam masyarakat Jawa, perkembangan buah kelapa yang terdiri dari beberapa tahap punya namanya masing-masing. Berawal dari bunga kelapa yang disebut manggar, lalu tumbuh menjadi bluluk, kemudian cengkir, berlanjut dengan degan (kelapa muda), lalu akhirnya buah kelapa yang sebenarnya. Bak pertumbuhan buah kelapa ini, tahapan-tahapan pemahaman manusia terhadap agama pun demikian - khu…
Outline: Jurang antara visi yang alkitabiah tentang perkawinan dan konsep manusia selalu terbentang lebar. Sebagian budaya dalam sejarah menghargai pentingnya perkawinan dan kelanggengannya, lebih daripada budaya-budaya yang lain. Sebagian, seperti dunia Barat abad ke-21, memandang rendah, menyepelekan, dan tidak menghargai perkawinan. Dan bagi kebanyakan orang, visi yang alkitabiah ini menggel…
Outline: Kapan saja kita membaca, berpikir, mendengar atau bicara tentang apa pun mengenai hidup dan tentang Allah, kita sedang berteologi. Namun teologi bukan hanya menyangkut pemikiran kita. Teologi berdampak pada siapa kita. Kelly Kapic menyajikan sebuah introduksi ringkas, padat, dan segar menantang tentang pentingnya teologi untuk mahasiswa teologi baru atau lama juga awam. Ia memperlihat…
Outline: Mazmur dan Sastra Hikmat adalah salah satu dari enam buku pelajaran yang membahas Perjanjian Lama dan Perjanjian Baru, yang semuanya ditulis oleh penulis-penulis yang sudah sangat berpengalaman dalam mengajar mahasiswa tahun pertama dan kedua pada pembelajaran tingka universitas. Buku ini menawarkan pendekatan penjelasan yang memampukan pembaca untuk berinteraksi dengan teks Alkitab se…
Outline: Surat Petrus yang Pertama ditulis bagi orang-orang Kristen yang mengalami penderitaan dan penganiayaan karena kesetiaan mereka kepada Kristus. Di dalam suratnya Petrus mengingatkan bahwa sesuatu hal yang baru akan segera terjadi, yaitu datangnya suatu "api siksaan" dengan penganiayaan yang sesungguhnya. Petrus tahu betapa keadaan ini akan sangat menekan orang-orang yang beriman dan ia …
Outline: One exciting area of study is Paul's use of the Old Testament. The apostle routinely appeals to Scripture to support his arguments and to persuade his readers. One gets the impression that Paul has a high respect for Scripture and that his knowledge of it is broad and comprehensive. And yet, there is something enigmatic about his use of the Old Testament at the same time - something el…
Outline: Kitab Sejarah adalah salah satu judul dari enam buku pelajaran yang membahas Perjanjian Lama dan Baru, yang semuanya ditulis oleh penulis-penulis yang sudah sangat berpengalaman dalam mengajar mahasiswa tahun pertama dan kedua pada pembelajaran tingkat universitas. Buku ini memberikan penjelasan yang memungkinkan mahasiswa untuk berinteraksi dengan teks Alkitab secara langsung, dan tid…
Outline: Drawing on decades of counseling experience, Jim Newheiser explores forty crucial questions relating to the complexities of marriage, divorce, and remarriage - unpacking the answers given in God's Word. This useful reference work of pastors, counselors, and personal study can also be read straight through for a scriptural overview of the topic or assigned in small sections to counseles…
Outline: In this clear and provocative account of the epistemology of religious experience, William P. Alston argues that the perception of God - his term for direct experiential awareness of God - makes a major contribution to the grounds of religious belief. Surveying the variety of reported direct experiences of God, Alston demonstrates that a person can be justified in holding certain belie…
Outline: The past century has seen renewed interest in the doctrine of God. While theological traditions disagree, their shared commitment to Nicene orthodoxy provides a common language for thinking and speaking about God. This dialogue has deepened our understanding of this shared way of thinking about God, but little has been done across ecumenical lines to explore God's hiddenness in revelat…
Outline: 1 & 2 Kings, the second volume in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible, is the first Old Testament commentary in the series. It follows Jaroslav Pelikan's volume on Acts, winner of a 2006 Catholic Press Association Award. This commentary, like each in the series, is designed to serve the church - through aid in preaching, teaching, study groups, and so forth - and demonstrate…
Outline: In this addition to the Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms series, Tremper Longman combines a careful exegetical reading of the book of Job with keen theological insights. The series is tailored to the distinctives of poetry and Wisdom literature, featuring emphasis on the message of the biblical book; special attention to poetic structure and literary devices; inc…
Outline: James Livingston's widely acclaimed history of Christian thought - recently substantially revised and expanded - provides full, scholarly accounts of the major movements and thinkers, theologians and philosophers in the Christian tradition since the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, together with solid historical background and critical assessments. Distinctive in format and focus, the…
Outline: Reflecting the combined insights and strengths of three superior, this book is the post complete and detailed one-volume commentary available on the Psalms. Nancy deClaisse-Walford, Rolf Jacobson, and Beth LaNeel Tanner offer a succint introduction to the Psalter, a new translation of all the psalms that takes special account of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and individual entries on each psal…