Outline : In one systematic volume, James Montgomery Boice provides a readable overview of Christian theology. Both students and pastors will benefit from this rich source that covers all the major doctrines of Christianity.With scholarly rigor and a pastor's heart, Boice carefully opens the topics of the nature of God, the character of his natural and special revelation, the fall, and the pers…
Outline : ‘Give thanks to YHWH, for he is good, for his covenant faithfulness endures for ever’ (Ps. 136:1; a.t.) There are now numerous models that seek to explain how the biblical covenants relate to one another. In an attempt to evaluate these models, James Hely Hutchinson mines the rich seams of the book of Psalms. After covering the key data on covenant relationships in Books 1–3 of…
Buku ini lebih dari sekedar pengantar. Buku ini melacak serta menguraikan perkembangan praktik dan teologi dari berbagai bentuk ibadah Kristen dalam sejarah kekristenan dan pelbagai tradisi-Protestan, Katolik Roma, Anglikan, Pentakosta dan lainnya. Berbagai praktik ibadah Kristen, seperti doa umum harian, pelayanan Firman, sakramen, inisiasi Kristen, ekaristi, dan tahun liturgi dibahas dan diba…
Outline: The Holy Spirit is the first of a planned trilogy on the Father, Son, and Spirit that will complement Letham's prizewinning The Holy Trinity.
Outline : This work stands among the most important publications in biblical studies over the past twenty-five years. Richard Bauckham, James Davila, and Alexander Panayotov’s new two-volume collection of Old Testament pseudepigrapha contains many previously unpublished and newly translated texts, complementing James Charlesworth’s Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and other earlier collections.…
Outline : How literally are we meant to take the creation week of Genesis 1? In this polarizing debate, contemporary interprets invoke great theologians from history to support their own side, whether that be a young earth, theistic evolution, or any other view. The problem lies in trying to force ancient authors into contemporary boxes, as Andrew H. Brown shows in this thought-provoking volume…
Outline : Robert Gundry is a beloved guide to the New Testament. His well-known textbook, A Survey of the New Testament, has been used by generations of students. In this two-volume commentary, Gundry focuses on what is most useful for preaching, teaching, and individual study in each book of the New Testament. He provides a fresh, literal translation of the entire New Testament and a pastorall…
Outline: Recent ferment in Luther studies has led to new appreciation of his thought and his significance in the emergence and shaping of the modern world. This exciting volume brings there perspectives on the Reformer into a systematic framework. Here new understandings of Luther's popular image, his effect on the Peasants' War, his contribution to language and letters, his chief theological i…
Outline : Contending for the Truth. There has been renewed interest in the five points of Calvinism among many Christians today. But these doctrines are not a product of the twenty-first century. So, where did they come from, and why are they so important? Dr. W. Robert Godfrey takes us back to 1618-19, when the Canons of Dort laid out these five points in response to a mounting theological ass…
Outline : Robert Gundry is a beloved guide to the New Testament. His well-known textbook, A Survey of the New Testament, has been used by generations of students. In this two-volume commentary, Gundry focuses on what is most useful for preaching, teaching, and individual study in each book of the New Testament. He provides a fresh, literal translation of the entire New Testament and a pastorall…
Outline: "[A] concise and readable history of the rise of early Christianity" A noted New Testament scholar explores how the movement founded by Jesus transformed more in the first seventy-five years after his death than it has in the two thousand years since.
Outline: Beginning as a marginal group in Galilee, the movement initiated by Jesus of Nazareth became a world religion within one hundred years. Why, among various religious movements, did Christianity succeed? This major work by internationally renowned scholar Udo Schnelle traces the historical, cultural, and theological influences and developments of the early years of the Christian movement…
Outline: The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our way who share a commitment to Scriptures as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical theology…
Outline : From the voice of a loving Creator, life begins and and grows. Close to this careful Sower, there is abundant nourishment. Far from him, only suffering and brokenness. In this imaginative book, Scott James tells the story of redemption in Scripture, from God's creation and restoration to the promise of final reconciliation. Through engaging story and classic imagery, children learn ho…
Outline: Exploring the Personal and Social Effects - of this momentous upheaval - Perhaps no period in Christian history experienced such vast religious tumult and rapid social change as the European Reformation, when it quickly became apparent that social and political issues - finding deep resonance with the common people - were deeply entwined with religious ones raised by the Reformers. Led…
Outline : The Culmination of James D. G. Dunn's Three - Volume Magnum Opus on the development of early Christianity.
Outline: A reassessment of the quests of the historical Jesus that promises to become the definitive history. Jesus of Nazareth ranks among the most important figures in history, yet contemporary scholarship finds little common agreement about his identity. It is accepted generally that there were three quests for the historical Jesus. The first was characterized by Albert Schweitzer and came t…
Outline: A reassessment of the quests of the historical Jesus that promises to become the definitive history. Jesus of Nazareth ranks among the most important figures in history, yet contemporary scholarship finds little common agreement about his identity. It is accepted generally that there were three quests for the historical Jesus. The first was characterized by Albert Schweitzer and came t…
Outline: Critical race theory has become a lightning rod in contemporary American politics and evangelical Christianity. This irenic book offers a critical but constructive and sympathetic introduction written from a perspective rooted in Scripture and Christian theology.
Outline: This commentary on Haggai and Malachi by Mignon Jacobs offers a rich and insightful interpretation of the ancient text while drawing out themes that are especially relevant to contemporary concerns, such as honoring or dishonoring God, the responsibilities of leaders, questioning God, and hearing the prophetic word in challenging times.
Outline: The formula simul iustus et peccator is a shorthand for the nucleus and heart of the Reformation. The concept of simul takes readers directly to the heart of Lutheran theology, justification by faith alone; at the same time it constitutes a thought pattern which is a characteristic feature of much of Lutheran theology. The concept, which implies a tension or even a paradox, appears to …
Outline : GOD IS SOVEREIGN OVER ALL. This truth has been especially precious to Christians in times past, and for good reason. When it comes to knowing and serving God, the significance of this doctrine is hard to overstate. Yet do we truly understand what God’s sovereignty means and how it ought to impact our lives? In this accessible little book, noted theologians discuss God’s sovereignt…
Outline : The Bible was written within collectivist cultures. When Westerners, immersed in individualism, read the Bible, it's easy to misinterpret important elements―or miss them altogether. In any culture, the most important things usually go without being said. So to read Scripture well we benefit when we uncover the unspoken social structures and values of its world. We need to recalibrat…
Outline: The Hebrew Old Testament, Reader's Edition combines the text of the Westminster Leningrad Codex with a running list of glosses of every word that occurs fewer than 75 times in the Hebrew Old Testament. Those with limited knowledge of Hebrew can smoothly read the text without needing to constantly refer to other reference resources - accelerating their facility with the Hebrew text and …
Outline: Learning Greek is one thing. Retaining it and using it in preaching, teaching, and ministry is another. Greek for Life offers practical guidance, inspiration, and motivation to help readers learn, retain, and use Greek for ministry, setting hem on a lifelong journey of reading and loving the Greek New Testament. The book also surveys helpful resources for recovering Greek after a long …
Outline: As you look to the future for Christ’s return, learn how to live now for his glory. James Boice was known in his pastoral ministry for offering clear, practical, and biblical instruction. Never before published, this dynamic work on Revelation 1–6 gives his final thoughts on the church and on worship, as well as on facing trials in the light of heavenly realities and Christ’s re…
Outline : Herman Bavinck's Classic Work on Christian Scholarship, Translated and Edited for the First Time in English. After completing his well-known book Christian Worldview, Dutch Reformed theologian and scholar Herman Bavincks focused his attention on how the Christian faith benefits higher learning, particularly religious studies, natural sciences, and the humanities. This translated and…
Outline : The Library of New Testament Studies (LNTS) is a premier book series that offers cutting-edge for a readership of scholars, teachers in the field of New Testament studies, postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates. All the many and diverse aspects of New Testament study are represented and promoted, including innovative work from historical perspectives, studies using social-s…
Outline : Increasing numbers of conservative evangelicals are denying basic tenets of classical Christian teaching about God, with departures occurring even among those of the Calvinistic persuasion. James D. Dolezal's All That Is in God provides an exposition of the historic Christian position while engaging with these contemporary deviations. His convincing critique of the newer position he s…
Outline: "I think the rock on which I had the nearest made shipwreck of the faith was the writings of the mystics," wrote John Wesley to his brother in 1736, eighteen months before his evangelical conversion on Aldersgate Street. Mysticism, in essence, is the belief in a direct and intimate union of the soul with God through contemplation and love. The Mystic believes that one must partake of t…
Outline: How the West Was Lost Secular Humanism has become a deeply influential and big successful movement. Our schools, government, mass media, co and even our churches have fallen under the sway of ideas the proclaim man's independence from God and assert his freedom to shape his own future. The philosophy that declares "no deity will save us; we must save ourselves" has quietly woven its w…
Outline: The call to make the world a better place is inherent in Christian belief and practice. But why have efforts to change the world by Christians so often failed or gone tragically awry? And how might Christians in the twenty-fist century live in ways that have integrity with their traditions and are more truly transformative? In To Change the World, James Davison Hunter offers persuasive…
Outline : Setiap kehidupan yang mempunyai tujuan. Kita perlu menyusun rencana yang mantap untuk mencapai tujuan itu. Rencana kerja adalah suatu prinsip yang mengatur terwujudnya tujuan hidup seseorang. Tujuan yang jelas memungkinkan kita mengetahui cara kerja yang tepat untuk melaksanakan rencana Allah yang sempurna dalam kehidupan kita. Inilah yang harus kita perhatikan dalam menyusun rencana …
Outline: Sixteen internationally recognized church historians here examine Martin Luther in an uncommon way - not as Reformer or theologian but as pastor. After first introducing the pastoral Luther, including his theology of the cross, these chapters discuss Luther's preaching and use of language (including humor), investigate his teaching ministry in depth, especially in light of the catechis…
Outline: Kitab 1 dan 2 Samuel menampilkan sejarah umat Israel pada waktu kerajaan didirikan dan raja-raja pertama memerintah. Tokoh-tokoh dalam kisah itu digambarkan secara hidup dan mengesankan. Pembaca diundang untuk memahami pikiran serta emosi para raja, pegawainya, panglima tentara, dan seterusnya. Orang-orang itu sering melakukan kesalahan, bahkan dosa yang berat; mereka tidak selalu menj…
Outline: Tahukah Anda apa ciri dari tulisan yang disebut berasal dari E (Elohis)? Bagian mana saja teks-teks Alkitab yang dianggap berasal dari E? Buku ini merupakan buku kedua dari tiga serangkai dari Robert B. Coote yang membahas sejarah sumber Pentateukh, yang membahas E. E adalah sekelompok teks di dalam kitab Kejadian dan Keluaran dengan serangkaian ciri yang membedakannya dari Y (Yahwis)…
Outline: Abraham Kuyper, the Dutch Neo-Calvinist theologian, pastor, and politician, was well-known for having declared that there is "not a square inch" of human existence over which Jesus Christ is not its sovereign Lord. This principle is perhaps best reflected in Kuyper's writings on Calvinism originally delivered as the Stone Lectures in 1989 at Princeton Theological Seminary. These lectur…