Outline: With all of the different religions, sects, denominations, and belief systems out there, it can be difficult to separate fact from mere opinion, especially if we are relying solely on online sources that often have an ideological or political slant. How can we truly understand if we cannot even be sure we are getting the facts straight? In this comprehensive resource, more than seventy…
Outline: Those inside and outside of the biblical counseling movement recognize growing differences between the foundational work of Jay Adams and that of current thought leaders such as David Powlison. But, as any student or teacher of the discipline can attest, those differences have been ill-defined and largely anecdotal until now. Heath Lambert, the first scholar to analyze the movement's d…
Outline: Given the unique religious climate of the twenty-first century and the challenges to Christian mission it poses, Christianity Encountering World Religions proposes a new model for interacting with people of other faiths. The authors term this model "giftive mission," since it is based on the metaphor of free gift. They suggest that seeing mission activity as giving the greatest gift po…
Outline : The controversy rages ... The Bible Words of God? or Words of men? Is there enough evidence to support the BIble as the inspired Word of God? When Josh McDowell published his first powerful defense of the Bible, Evidence That Demands a Verdict, it became a national bestseller within a matter of months. Now John McDowell follows that impressive defense with Evidence That Demands a Verd…
Outline: Christians today face growing challenges to show that their faith is both relevant and credible. Josh McDowell's New Evidence That Demands a Verdict combines the two original best-selling volumes into one, maintaining their classic defense of the faith, yet answering new questions posed by today's culture. Special features include: - New research and documentation of archaeologica…
Outline : According to the Christian faith, Jesus Christ is the ultimate revelation not only of the nature of God the Creator but also of how God the Creator relates to the created order. The New Testament explicitly relates the act of creation to the person of Jesus Christ - who is also a participant within creation, and who is said, by his acts of participation, to have secured creation's ult…
Outline: Readers of Princess Sultana's extraordinary story, Princess, were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. Now, the princess turns the spotlight on her two teenage daughters, Maha and Amani. As second-generation members of the royal family who have benefited from Saudi oil wealth, Maha and Amani have never known the po…
Outline: The 28th Indian Zen Patriarch, Bodhidharma, made a fateful trip to China in 527 AD. The Zen teaching he introduced flourished in a foreign country and reached its Golden Age in TangChina whereas Buddhism was to eventually die out in the land of its birth. Orthodox Buddhism was often under attach in imperial China as being an alien philosophy. However, Zen flowered because it remained d…
Outline: Focusing on the private and public use of space, this volume explores the religious life of the new Muslim communities in North America and Europe. Unlike most studies of immigrant groups, these essays concentrate on cultural practices and expressions of everyday life rather than on the political issues that dominate today's headlines. The authors emphasize the cultural strength and cr…
Outline: Though Karl Barth wrote his lectures on John Calvin more than seventy years ago, the wrestling of one theological giant with another can hardly fail to be exciting and instructive. Delivered at the University of Gottingen in 1922, Barth's lectures offer a brilliant analysis of the Reformation - of Calvin in particular - while at the same time providing vital insights into the developme…
Outline: It is commonly claimed that Western Christianity teaches salvation as deliverance from sin through Jesus's sacrifice on the cross, while Eastern Christianity teaches salvation as deliverance from death - and as deification - through Christ's incarnation. But is it really true that no normative, unified doctrine of salvation is to be found in Scripture and tradition? Theologian Khaled A…
Outline: If God has called you to spiritual leadership, be advised - He never promised flowery beds of ease. But He has given us what we need to His flock to growth and glory. We live in a most challenging time in history, and leading has never been tougher. Joe Stowell charts the course biblically to enable shepherds to do the best of things in the worst of times. How do we lead effectively in…
Outline: The Stranger had a message ... for the person who knows nothing about the world's bestseller - the Bible, ... and for those who want to know more. It's been called "the most misunderstood book in history." Wars have been fought in its name, scandals have been precipitated by it, politics shaped and reshaped at its word. Theologians have both defended and reviled it. Skeptics have done …
Outline: What every Christian should know about Islam's sacred text? Who does the Qur'an teach Jesus is? What does the Qur'an say about salvation? How does the Qur'an describe Christians? A Christian Guide to the Qur'an will prepare Christians to understand the central messages of the Qur'an in simple terms, and illustrates how knowledge of Islam's sacred text can provide bridges to religious u…
Outline: Menelaah paham atau falsafah hidup orang Jawa melalui karya fiksi (novel) merupakan suatu hal yang baru. Tentunya sangat menarik untuk disimak mengingat penulis seorang novelis perempuan, sehingga nuansa manusia Jawa perempuan akan menonjol dalam buku ini. Penulis mencoba menganalisis dengan mengumpulkan gejala-gejala yang tersurat dalam novel-novel mutakhir Indonesia yang memberi tahu…
Outline: After the September 11 terrorist attacks against the United States, religious fundamentalism has dominated public debate as never before. Policymakers, educators, and the general public all want to know: Why do fundamentalist movements turn violent? Are fundamentalisms a global threat to human rights, security, and democratic forms of government? What is the future of fundamentalism? T…
Outline: In this book, Iqbal attempts to reconstruct the Muslim religious philosophy with due regard to the philosophical traditions of Islam and the more recent development in the various domains of human knowledge.
Outline: Pada abad-abad pertama pertama Masehi telah tercatat ratusan ribu martir Kristen, akibat penganiayaan kaisar-kaisar Romawi. Namun seberat apapun penganiayaan itu, tidak mungkin mampu menghapuskan kekristenan dari dunia ini. Sejauh sejarah merekam peristiwa dunia, khususnya setelah Reformasi, iman Kristen sejati telah menjadi motor pembaharuan dan kemajuan di segala bidang. Sekarang set…
Outline: Ecclesiastes raises questions that haunt everyone to some degrees. We live in a busy world, but does our busyness have a purpose? Or will the tyranny of time render all our labor pointless? If our efforts are doomed by death, how are we supposed to live in the meantime? Douglas O'Donnell turns to Ecclesiastes to show us that lives of seeming futility "under the sun" become filled with …
Outline: In Divine Rule Maintained, Stephen J. Caselli provides us with a window into the exegetical and theological underpinnings of the Westminster Confession's chapter on the law by delivering a in-depth analysis of Anthony Burgess's Vindiciae Legis. After a brief introduction to Burgess and his historical context, Caselli details the logical course of Burgess's book considering the law as g…
Outline: The Swahili-speaking peoples of the East African coast are one of the most-studied and yet least-understood peoples of Africa. This paradox stems from the long-standing assumption that the Swahili represent an Arab Muslim culture divorced from their Bantu-speaking African neighbors - "alien jewels on a strange and distant shore." This has led historians, linguists, archaeologists, and …
Outline: Reformasi Luther merupakan peristiwa penting dalam sejarah gereja dan memberikan dampak khusus bagi perjalanan teologi selanjutnya. Namun Luther tidak terlalu mengembangkan teologi, perkembangan teologi dilakukan oleh Melanchton dan Calvin. Khususnya teologi yang dikerjakan oleh Calvin dengan begitu agung dan ketat kini menjadi dasar dari Gereja Reformed yang dikenal sebagai Teologi Re…
Outline: Islamic radicalism has commanded attention in recent years, to the neglect of more moderate voices and trends. This compelling volume introduces the current generation of reformist thinkers and activists and the intellectual traditions and activists and the intellectual traditions they carry on. Richly detailed, regionally focused chapters cover Iran, the Arab East, the Meghreb, South …
Outline: The Gentle Answer is a scholarly to a claim that many Muslims have made in relation to non-Muslims for mote than 1200 years; that the text of the Bible is corrupt and/or falsified. Since critical writing on the Bible is more abundant and has a longer history, Muslim polemicists have selectively used Western biblical criticism in an attempt to support the traditional Muslim accusation o…
Outline: - Is there a God? - What is the evidence for belief in such a being? - What is God like? - Or, is God a figment of human inspiration? - How do we know that such a being might not exist? - Should belief or disbelief in God's existence make a difference in our opinions and moral choices, in the way we see ourselves and relate to those around us? These are fundamental questions, and…
Outline: This book sketches the development of the public discourse in Indonesia until just before the monetary crisis of 1997. At that time, the discussion in civil society clearly showed the cracks in the walls of the New Order and foreshadowed its imminent undoing. The blatant contempt of justice, the regime's mendacity, its idelogical bankruptcy, the poignancy of columnists, the exacerbatio…
Outline: Buku ini mengandung uraian lengkap mengenai adat-istiadat orang Sunda dari mulai manusia itu dilahirkan sampai mati. Adat-adat yang dibahas di antaranya : adat orang ngidam, menjaga orang hamil, melahirkan, khitanan, menikah, kematian, dan membagi warisan. Adat-adat lain yang dibahas misalnya: pertanian di Priangan, sesuatu yang ditakuti manusia, waktu-waktu yang dimuliakan, tata kesop…
Outline: With Protestant missions passing through a time of rapid change, there is a need for a reassessment of planting churches. This book is an appraisal of the methods used in planting and advancing churches in these changing times. It begins with an examination of the New Testament church and the Biblical basis of missions in the Book of Acts. After the Biblical characteristics are determi…
Outline: You're trapped. You don't know how you ended up in such a mess - locked in habits you can't seem to break or caught in sin. You're a Christian and this sort of thing doesn't happen to Christians ... or so you've been told. You are not alone. The Bible warns repeatedly that all Christians will struggle against Satan and his spiritual forces of darkness. While the spiritual conflict th…