Outline : This volume presents the collection of papers presented at the 12th International Congress on Calvin Research that took place in Philadelphia in 2018. The plenary papers focus on Calvin's political context and religious liberty, while the selection of short papers provides a window into current research on a wide range of topics in Calvin studies.
Outline: In Philippians, Paul addresses his dear friends in the church at Philippi in hopes of healing a people plagued by a lack of unity. Celebrating their partnership in his mission, the apostle points the Philippians to their heavenly citizenship, their need for self-sacrifical love toward one another, and their need for self-sacrificial love toward one another, and their need to stand toge…
Outline : John Goldingay offers a substantive and useful commentary on the book of Genesis that is both critically engaged and sensitive to the theological contributions of the text. This volume is the first in the Baker Commentary on the Old Testament (BCOT): Pentateuch series, which complements the popular BCOT: Wisdom and Psalms series. Each series volume convers one book of the Pentateuch, …
Outline: For those on the firing line in pulpits, classes, study groups, and Bible fellowship clusters, here is a distinctly different kind of commentary. Mastering the Old Testament combines rich resources of the historical setting and textual interpretation with practical application to aid in contemporary Bible study. This commentary provides critical textual exposition, corollary verses of …
Outline: Every four years, the International Calvin Congress gathers together a wide spectrum of presents from leading scholars to early-career researchers to learn from each other through several days of plenary lectures, panel sessions, and discussions. The fruits of the 13th quadrennial international Calvin Congress are now available. Several contributors focus directly on the conference the…
Outline: The central theme of the Bible is expanded and expounded in this collection of sermons, compiled by one of today's great preachers. The reader will be encouraged by messages from such great pulpit masters. These Classic Sermons on the Birth of Christ will be a welcome addition to both preachers and teachers and will provide inspiration, ideas, and insights into this important event.
Outline: The Christian Church is faced with new responsibilities and challenges in our postmodern culture. This ecumenical series, sponsored by the Christian Theological Research Fellowship, reaps the wisdom of Christian tradition and Scripture to propose fresh insights for today's church. Grounded in sound scholarship, it will appeal to thoughtful pastors, educated laypeople, theological stude…
The Hebrew narrative art achieves its highest level in the stories of Saul, David, and Solomon. But beyond that, the description of these all-too-human characters and the dramatic events of the birth of the Israelite state depicts a change of eras that became determinative for half a millennium of Israelite history. In this volume Dietrich introduces readers to the stories of the early Israelit…
Outline : Membaca Perjanjian Lama tidak selalu mudah. Adakalanya kita tidak menyukai apa yang kita temukan. Adakalanya apa yang kita temukan tidak menghibur dan menguatkan, melainkan menantang, membingungkan atau menyakitkan. Bagaimana mungkin Allah yang adil bisa memerintahkan Israel úntuk menghabisi suatu bangsa, laki-laki, perempuan dan anak-anak? Bagaimana mungkin Allah bisa menyerukan per…
The Book of Jeremiah, second of the three major prophets, is immensely complex. Its different interpretive voices stretch across several generations and do not cohere into an easily identifiable and uniform theology. Instead, in both poetry and prose, the Book of Jeremiah witnesses an ongoing conversation among different advocates concerning the crisis of Babylon's expansion and Jerusalem's dem…
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…
Some books are easiest to describe by saying what they are not. This is not a collection of devotions or meditations, not a “feel-good” journal about walking with God, and not a guide for self-improvement or personal spiritual growth. It is, very simply, a book about discipleship–about following Christ humbly, obediently, and with an open heart. And it is written by a man whose message ca…
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be Friedrich Nietzsche’s masterpiece. It includes the German philosopher’s famous discussion of the phrase ‘God is dead’ as well as his concept of the Superman. Nietzsche delineates his Will to Power theory and devotes pages to critiquing Christian thinking, in particular Christianity’s def…
This accessible introduction to the Book of Genesis examines introductory issues, overarching themes, and the overall argument of the book.
This generation has been blessed with an abundance of excellent commentaries. Some are technical and do a good job of addressing issues that the critics have raised; other commentaries are long and provide extensive information about word usage and catalogue nearly every opinion expressed on the various interpretive issues; still other commentaries focus on providing cultural and historical bac…
Outline: The annihilation of distance through the achievements of modern World technology has brought all the living "great" religions, all over this world, into a much closer contact with one another than ever before. A World Civilization, which is actually in progress, has become a part of our daily life. Amidst this momentous worldwide progress, we are encountering the challenge of the conce…
Outline: Designed for the pastor and Bible teacher, the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament brings together commentary features gathered together in one volume. Written by notable evangelical scholars, such 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 structure. The …
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 structur…
Outline: Ephesians: Power and Magic, originally published in 1989 as part of the Society for New Testament Studies Monograph series, provides important insights into the spiritual warfare metaphor of Ephesians 6: 10-2- from historical, exegetical, and pastoral perspectives. Paul proclaimed God's awesome power to those who felt powerless against supernatural forces. Clinton Arnold looks at arche…
Outline : Designed for the pastor and Bible teacher, the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament examines the biblical text in its original environment. Notable evangelical scholars carefully attend to grammatical detail, literary context, rhetorical flow, theological nuance, and historical setting in their interpretation. Critical scholarship informs each step, but does not domina…
Outline: Buku ini dimulai dengan menafsirkan perikop-perikop tentang silsilah nenek moyang seluruh umat manusia, dari Adam hingga Nuh. Dilanjutkan dengan perikop tentang air bah, daftar bangsa-bangsa, kisah tentang menara Babel dan perserakan umat manusia, diakhiri dengan asal-usul dan pemanggilan Abraham. Sejak semula Dr. Lempp dengan sengaja menunjukkan karya tulisnya ini kepada para mahasisw…
Outline: "The purpose of this collection of Brueffemann's essays is to bring to the fore a much more extensive critical engagement on his part with the current discussion about the Old Testament, its character, its authority, its theology, and especially its God. ... Readers of these essays who think they may have grasped what Brueggemann has to say about the theology of the Old Testament from …
Outline : Sebuah pohon, baik jenis, kualitas, penyebaran, serta kecocokannya terhadap kondisi alam yang menyeputarinya, dapat menjadi lebih dari sekedar jenis dan menarik, bila kita mengetahui hal ihwalnya secara mendalam. Di situ kita bicara soal sejarah, pengalaman-pengalaman, kekuatan dan kelebihan, pendalaman dan pemekaran yang terjadi dsb. Imaji tadi perlu kita miliki bila membaca buku ini…
Outline: "The present book is an attempt to describe, not the personal religion of the author, but the glimpse of the Universe that his fellow-historians and he are able to catch from the point of view at which they arrive through following the historian's professional path.' Thus Arnold Toynbee defines his purpose in the opening chapter of this long-awaited book. With scholarly humanity he pre…
Outline: Machine learning and data analytics are powering a wave of groundbreaking technologies. Is your company ready? If you read nothing else on how intelligent machines are revolutionizing business, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you understand how these technologies work together, how to…
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 : In his epistle to the Colossians, Paul responds to challenges posted by various religious currents in first-century Asia Minor by pointing the church to the sufficiency of Christ's work and his lordship over believers' lives. Through this christological lens, Paul critiques the religious practices that fail to conform to the true gospel, and he presents an alternative way of living th…
Outline: Saat membahas misi, mudah untuk mengandalkan Perjanjian Baru dan mengabaikan pentingnya Perjanjian Lama. Penulis mengoreksi kecenderungan ini dengan menjelaskan pesan misioner dari Perjanjian Lama. Penulis mempertanyakan gagasan bahwa Perjanjian Baru mewakili penyimpangan dari maksud Allah yang seharusnya hanya menyelamatkan orang Israel. Penulis berpendapat bahwa -- bertentangan d…
Outline: This volume contains the collection of papers presented at the 11th International Congress on Calvin Research that took place in Zurich in 2014. The first paper of the book consists of the plenary papers. In the second part, the seminars held at the Congress are published, and the third part consists of a selection of short papers. The articles demonstrate that Calvin research is e…
Overview: At the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the Heidelberg Catechism, an international conference on the spirituality of the Heidelberg Catechism was held at the Theological University Apeldoorn in June 2013. While the contributors center on the Catechism's spirituality, they offer a broad range of scholarly perspectives on the Catechism. Its spirituality is famous for the first quest…
Overview: The author analyses and assesses John Calvin's idea of divine accomodation. The roots of this idea are traced back to Erasmus' terminology and partristic theology. The idea is analyzed from two perspectives: pedagofy and revelation. At the hand of I.A. Dorner's, K. Barth's, and H.M. Kuitert's respective theologies and critique of the accommodation idea, the author indicates weaker po…
Overview: Tujuan tulisan ini adalah menempatkan St. Montfort dalam konteks kultural dimana ia pernah hidup, yaitu akhir abad ke-17 dan awal abad ke-18 di Perancis, sehingga pemahaman tentang seluruh hidup, karya dan ajarannya menjadi lebih baik dan proporsional. Pada saat yang sama, ia juga menampilkan bahwa hidup, karya dan ajarannya masih tetap aktual dan relevan untuk Gereja di millenium k…
Overview: The author is one of the most highly regarded Old Testament scholars of our time; talk-show host Krista Tippett has even called the author "a kind of theological rock star." In this new book the author incisively probes our society-in-crisis from the ground up.