Outline : Revised Second Edition contains over 5,000 main headings and over 11,000 definitions! For Office, Home, or Academic Use - Oran's Dictionary of the Law is your quick and dependable guide to all the legal words, phrases, and procedural language you'll ever need to know!
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Outline : Reason is subordinate to Scripture but never at odds with it. Natural Law is everywhere. It impacts every aspect of daily life, from moral choices, such as obeying road signs, to maintaining fidelity to one's spouse. In Faithful Reason, Andrew T. Walker argues that developing a Christian ethic is not only a matter of appealing to biblical authority but also of understanding how God h…
Outline : The Old Testament Law has been a subject of much confusion, debate, and theological division. To sort through the numerous interpretations, we need to start with a solid knowledge of the Law itself. Richard Averbeck provides a comprehensive, accessible discussion of how the Law fits into the arc of the Bible and its relevance to the church today. Beginning with the way God intended th…
Outline: An exploration of the parallels between Old Testament texts and contemporary writings from Mesopotamia, Egypt, and elsewhere in the Middle East. The fifth edition expands on the first four with additional texts.
Modern AI research began on a summer programme at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, in 1956, when a group of academics and students set out to explore how machines could intelligently think.
Hegel’s Outlines of the Philosophy of Right is one of the greatest works of moral, social, and political philosophy, comparable in scope and profundity of insight to Plato’s Republic, Aristotle’s Politics, Rousseau’s Social Contract, and, in the twentieth century, Rawls’s Theory of Justice.........
It gives me great pleasure to provide this preface to the revised edition of A Theory of Justice. Despite many criticisms of the original work, I still accept its main outlines and defend its central doctrines. Of course, I wish, as one might expect, that I had done certain things differently, and I would now make a number of important revisions. But if I were writing A Theory of Justice over a…
In contemporary American culture it has become commonplace to hear people on the street, and even politicians, arguing that government should not “legislate morality.”.........
As I have explained in the “personal introduction” to the first chapter, this book is the outgrowth of my lifelong study in the history of biblical interpretation, as amplified more recently by my consideration of the analogy between this history and the history of constitutional interpretation...
The Neoliberal Republic traces the corrosive effects that the revolving door between public service and private enrichment has on the French state and its ability to govern and regulate the private sector. Casting a piercing light on this circulation of influence among corporate lawyers and others in the French power elite, Antoine Vauchez and Pierre France analyze how this dynamic, a feature o…
God's Law is Christianity's tool of dominion. This is where any discussion of God's law ultimately the issue of dominion. Ask Who is to rule on earth, Christ or Satan? Whose followers have the ethically acceptable tool of dominion, Christ's or Satan's? What is this tool of dominion, the bibically revealed law of God, or the law of self-proclaimed autonomous man? Whose word is sovereign, God's o…
This book explores five major approaches to this important biblical topic as they've developed in Protestant circles:
Non-Theonomic Reformed View – the law is the perfection of righteousness in Jesus Christ.
Theonomic Reformed View – the goodness of the law is dependent on how it's used and does not offer a way to salvation. Heavily focused on Paul's discussion of the Law.
Law as "Gr…
In the final days of October, 1990, the long-predicted book by the faculty of Westminster Theological Seminary finally appeared: Theonomy: A Reformed Critique. In response comes Westminster's Confession. It is both a negative and a positive statement. Theonomists believe that "you can't beat something with nothing." It is not enough to demonstrate that someone is wrong; you must also show what …
Outline: Jika masih hidup, dan diminta melukiskan situasi sekarang, Mohammad Hatta hanya perlu mencetak ulang tulisannya yang terbit pada 1962: "Pembangunan tak berjalan sebagaimana mestinya..." Perkembangan demokrasi pun terlantar karena percekcokan politik senantiasa. Pelaksanaan otonomi daerah terlalu lamban sehingga memicu pergolakan daerah." Demokrasi dapat berjalan baik, menurut Hatta, ji…
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.
Kehadiran buku ini sangat penting bagi gereja-gereja di Indonesia, mengingat buku Azas-azas Hukum Gereja, oleh Bolkestein telah lama tidak diterbitkan. Buku ini disusun dengan lebih dahulu menguraikan kilasan sejarah Hukum Gereja dan dilanjutkan dengan praktik dan perkembangannya di Indonesia.