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: This book analyses T. F. Torrance's theology of incarnation. His theology is built upon several crucial presuppositions. This book examines these presuppositions and their role within the framework of Torrance's theology. It explores its unitary structure by analyzing his fundamental methods in hermeneutics, dialectics, natural theology, and natural science. In particular, the stu…
Outline: Charles Spurgeon once said that just as every road in England leads to London, so every text in Scripture contains a path to Christ. But there's still a chance of going the wrong way, blazing misleading trails where none previously existed. How can we be sure tha we're leading our road map correctly? The author shows us that there are established routes we can trust. Guiding us alo…
Outline: It is difficult to imagine our understanding of the New Testament period without Luke's writings. For this reason, the question of Luke's historical reliability has been repeatedly investigated. In this study the author affirms Luke's trustworthiness as a historian. But Luke is more than a historian. He is also a theologian who finds his interpretive key in the great theme of salva…
Outline: Frustrated with the continuing educational crisis of our time, concerned parents, teachers, and students sense that true reform requires more than innovative classroom technology, standardized tests, or skills training. An older tradition - the Great Tradition - of education in the West is waiting to be heard. Since antiquity, the Great Tradition has defined education first and fore…
Outline: To see God is our heart's desire, our final purpose in life. But what does it mean to see God? And exactly how do we see God - with our phsysical eyes or with the mind's eye? In this informed study of the beatific vision, the author focuses on "vision" as a living metaphor and shows how the vision of God is not just a future but a present reality. This book is both a historical …
Outline: We've all heard sermons that sound more like a lecture, filling the head but not the heart. And we've all heard sermons tailored to produce an emotional experience, filing the heart but not the head. But biblical preaching both informs minds and engages hearts - giving it the power to transform lives. By the Spirit's grace, biblical preaching brings truth home from the heart of the …
Outline: Retorika adalah suatu metode ketrampilan, yang diartikan sebagai seni berbicara dengan baik yang digunaka dalam proses berkomunikasi antarmanusia dengan bahasa yang sederhana (efektif), sehingga apa yang diucapkan dapat didengar, dimengerti, disetujui, diterima, dihayati, dan selanjutnya dapat mengubah tingkah laku jemaat (pertobatan). Dalam mengenal retorika, Anda akan belajar untuk …
Outline: We are increasingly addicted to habits - and devices - that distract and "buffer" us from substantive reflection and deep engagement with the world. And we live in what Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor calls "a secular age" - an age in which all beliefs are equally viable and real transcendence is less and less plausible. Drawing on Taylor's work, the author describes how these re…
Outline: It has become a commonplace to say that the Latin Fathers did not really hold a doctrine of deification. Indeed, it is often asserted that Western theologians have neglected this teaching, that their occasional references to it are borrowed from the Greeks, and that the Latins have generally reduced the rich biblical and Greek Patristic understanding of salvation to a narrow view of …
Outline: Since its original publication in German, the author's two-volume book has influenced an entire generation of biblical scholars and theologians. Daniel Bailey's expoert translation makes this important work available in English for the first time. A concluding essay by Bailey applies the author's approach to specific texts in Romans and 4 Maccabees.
Outline: Jika Anda lelah bergumul dengan kecemasan dan kekhawatiran Anda sendiri, maka buku pedoman ini tepa untuk Anda baca. Saat Anda menyusuri rangkaian meditasi, kecemasan perlahan-lahan akan beralih pada pengharapan, kedamaian, dan ketenangan. Tentu saja, ini adalah proses seumur hidup, tetapi dengan membahas buku secara tuntas, baik seorang diri atau dalam kelompok kecil, akan memulai p…
Outline: Waktu telah membuktikan Tafsiran Matthew Henry sebagai sarana yang sangat menolong untuk memperdalam pengertian dan pengenalan akan Firman Allah. Sudah kebih dari 300 tahun Tafsiran Matthew Henry tetap menjadi salah satu Tafsiran Matthew Henry tetap menjadi salah satu tafiran favorit para guru, pengkhotbah, dan orang Kristen secara luas. Penyampaian ekposisi dan aplikasi kebenaran …
Outline: This book is a landmark new book that unpacks the core theological convictions that underlie sound counseling and offers practical wisdom for counseling today. The author guides readers through the various categories of theology, showing how eeach one addresses the day-to-day concerns that counselors address. Rich, theological insights are illustrated through powerful stories from w…
Outline: This groundbreaking book presents a system of biblical truth that brings together people, their problems, and the living of God. It is founded on three convictions: - That God's Word should be the counseling authority of Christians helping people with broken lives, - That counseling is a part of the essential ministry of the local church, - That God's people can and shoudl be trai…
Outline: The Teach the Text Commentary Series gives pastors the best of biblical scholarship and presents the information needed to move seamlessly from the meaning of the text to its effective communication. By keeping the discussion in each carefully selected preaching unit to six pages of focused commentary, the volumes allow pastors to quickly grasp the most important information. Each un…
Outline: Against the prevailing models for understanding the Apostle Paul's interpretation and use of Scripture, the author proposes a fresh approach toward developing a Pauline hermeneutic. He combines historical criticism with an intertextual strategy that takes seriously the work of the early church Fathers, and in so doing fills a void in current scholarship. The author applies his method…
Outline: On 31 October 1999, exactly 482 years after Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five theses to the church door in Wittenberg, the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation signed a historic joint declaration on the doctrine of justification. Recent agreements between Lutheran, Reformed, and Episcopal churches have expressed similar commitments. But what do these agreements…
Outline: How can we live wisely in the twenty-first century, alert to God and to other people amid the ups and downs of modern life? We find ourselves in the middle of complex situations, relationships, responsibilities, ongoing dramas, and challenges. Our response to these circumstances requires us to draw on many sources and to exercice imagination, discernment, and judgment. In this sequ…
Outline: Though bringing people to new birth in Christ through evangelism is essential, says the author, isn't growth in Christ equally essential? Yet the American church by and large does not treat Christian maturity ad character formation with much urgency. In this book the author brings the voice of Scripture - especially Paul's letter to the Ephesians - and the voice of the contemporary C…
Outline: Ancient-Future Bible Study incorporates contemporary study of the Bible with an experience of the church's most ancient way of reading Scripture, lectio divina. Designed for use by individuals or groups, these guides offer a transforming experience of the Word of God. An introduction to lectio divina and leader's notes are included.
Outline: The Engaging Culture series is designed to help Christians respond with theological discernment to our contemporary culture. Each volume explores particular cultural expressions, seeking to discover God's presence in the world and to involve readers in sympathetic dialogue and active discipleship. These books encourage neither an uninformed rejection nor an uncritical embrace of cul…
Outline: Offering dramatic evidence of the transformative power of forgiveness, this book shares the stories of people of diverse faiths and cultures who, despite all odds, found the courage to reconcile with their enemies. Gathering the voices of Desmond Tutu, Benazir Bhutto, Rajmohan Gandhi, Jonathan Sacks, the Dalai Lama and others, the author's masterful anthology is an insipiring step f…
Outline: Thomas Schreiner's substantial New Testament Theology examined the unifying themes that emerg from a detailed reading of the New Testament canon. This book provides a student-level digest of Schreiner's massive work, exploring the key themes and teachings of the New Testament in a more accessible and concise way. In addition to summarizing the findings of the author's large work, th…
Outline: There has been a remarkable resurgence of interest in the Trinity over the last fifty yearsd is among both laypeople and theologians. But if God is Father, Son, and Spirit, what does it meaning for us to be made in God's image? And what does the rich, fascinating doctrine of the Trinity have to do with our everyday lives? In this book, the author addresses these questions, asserting…
Outline: Distinguished Old Testament theologian John Goldingay is often asked about the interpretation of the Bible, the way we are to understand the stories in the Bible, the relationship between the Old Testament and the New, and so on. In this volume he explores twenty-three questions related to biblical interpretation, articulating creative, provocative explanations for today's church. Th…
Outline: What happens after death to Jesus and to those who follow him? This book offers a constructive theology that seeks to answer that very question, carefully considering both Jesus' descent into hell and eventual resurrection as integral parts of a robust vision of the Christian bodily resurrection. Taking on the claims of N. T. Wright and Richard B. Hays, the author draws strongly upo…
Outline: This book draws on current arhaeological and textual research to trace the spread of Christianity in the first millennium. The editor has assembled a team of expert historians to survey the diverse forms of early Christianity as it spread accross centuries, cultures, and continents.
Outline: In this challenging book, four highly respected thinkers discuss the need for a renewal of Christian ethical reflection in a dramatically changed world and articulate their distinctive points of view on how this can responsibly be done. This book is thus both a call for renewal in our thinking and acting, and an introduction to the issue that must be addressed by any meaningful respon…
Outline: In recent decades biblical hermeneutics has been an ever-expanding field of thought and research, with new viewpoints unfolding and debated. This views selected for this volume cohere with a broad center of orthodox interpretation of Scripture. But while they share a common ground and a collection of common tools, their distinctive emphases are at points profound. In this book pro…
Outline: The Cultural Exegesis series is designed to complement the Engaging Culture series by providing methodological and foundational studies that address the way to engage culture theologically. Each volume works within a specific cultural discipline, illustrating and embodying the theory behind cultural engagement. By providing the appropriate tools, these books equip the reader to enga…
Outline: This book provides a critical reading of the history of major atonement theories, offering an in-depth analysis of the legal and political contexts within which they arose. The book engages the latest work in atonement theory and serves as a helpful resource for contemporary discussions.
Outline: This book offers a fresh look at the ethics of submission, gender roles, and servant leadership in the New Testament. Through his careful interpretation of Paul's letters and broader New Testament teaching, theologian the author shows how Christ's submission to the church models as an appropriate understanding of gender roles and servant leadership. As Christ submits to the church, s…
Outline: In his day, John Wesley offered Important insights on how to obtain knowledge of God, insights readily bear fruit in our own times. As premiere Wesleyan scholar the author shows, Wesley's most famous spiritual experience is rife with philosophical significance and implications. Throughout, the author brings Wesley's works into fruithful conversation with some of the most important wo…
Outline: Ancient-Future Bible Study is incorporates contemporary study of the Bible with an experience of the church's most ancient way of reading Scripture, lectio divina. Designed for use by individuals or groups, these guides offer a transforming experience of the Word of God. An introduction to lectio divina and leader's notes are included.
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…
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 o…
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 Hebrew transliterated. Notes at the close of…
Outline: The Teach the Text Commentary Series gives pastors the best of biblical scholarship and presents the information needed to move seamlessly from the meaning of the text to its effective communication. By keeping the discussion in each carefully selected preaching unit to six pages of focused commentary, the volumes allow pastors to quickly grasp the most important information. Each u…
Outline: The Teach the Text Commentary Series gives pastors the best of biblical scholarship and presents the information needed to move seamlessly from the meaning of the text to its effective communication. By concentrating each carefully selected preaching unit into six pages of focused commentary, each volume allows pastors to quickly grasp the most important information. Each unit of th…
Outline: The Teach the Text Commentary Series gives pastors the best of biblical scholarship and presents the information needed to move seamlessly from the meaning of the text to its effective communication. By keeping the discussion in each carefully selected preaching unit to six pages of focused commentary the volumes allow pastors to quickly grasp the most important information. Each un…
Outline: The Teach the Text Commentary Series gives pastors the best of biblical scholarship and presents the information needed to move seamlessly from the meaning of the text to its effective communication. By keeping the discussion in each carefully selected preaching unit to six pages of focused commentary, the volumes allow pastors to quickly grasp the most important information. Each u…