Outline: What might be described as a Pentecostal worldview has become a powerful cultural phenomenon, but it is often at odds with modernity and globalization. This book confronts questions of spirituality in the face of contemporary science. The essays in this volume illustrate how Pentecostalism can usefully engage with technology and scientific discovery.
Overview: For four decades, from 1951 to 1990, the Reformed Journal set the standard for top-notch, venturesome theological reflection on a broad range of issues.
Outline: When Jesus ascended to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God The Father, He poured out His Holy Spirit at Pentecost. This significant historical and redemptive event was not the last time Christ poured out His Spirit in redemptive history. Mindful of these subsequent acts, Pentecostal Outpourings presents historical research on revivals in the Reformed tradition during the eight…
Outline: Islam - once an obscure Middle Eastern religion - has rapidly grown into the second largest religion in the world. There are now more Muslims than Episcopalians in the United States. What attraction does Islam hold for its followers? What part does it play in shaping the outlook and attitudes of nearly one billion people? Noted author Robert Morey, one of Christianity's clearest commun…
Outline: The cold-hearted Scrooge (played by Dean Jones) is a man in fear ... a man in bondage ... a man whose life is about to be changed forever! Based on the author's book, What If Jesus Had Never Been Born?, Scrooge & Marley is a surprising and powerful spin-off from the Charles Dickens classic. Through this beautifully presented drama with a unique modern twist, the questions of the wel…
Outline: Demons, witches, and ghosts: drugs, divination, and the occult; shamans, priests, and prophets ... All these await you in Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion - an anthropological study of religious beliefs and practices both strange and familiar. This fascinating anthology of readings, now in its second edition, contains 16 new articles and provides a rich blend of modern and traditional t…
Outline : The earliest Christians expressed their faith creatively. In Christ the Center, Tomas Bokedal shows how careful numerical patterns of nomina sacra - scribal reverence for divine names - shape the canon. These patterns revolve especially around Christ. The emerging rule of faith and early christological hermeneutics are evinced in the very text of Scripture. Christ the Center shows the…
Outline : Few countries as culturally rich, politically pivotal, and naturally beautiful as Indonesia are al often misrepresented in global media and conversation, Stretching 3,400 miles east to west along the equator, Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world and home to more than four hundred ethnic groups and several major world religions. This sprawling Southeast Asian nati…
Outline: The biblical story is about more than sin and salvation. It is about the creator's purposes and the fulfillment of those purposes in the climatic revelation of God's glory in Sabbath with creation. Christ Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega, the one through whom all things are created and all things are fulfilled. We are creatures made in God's image, called to develop and govern the eart…
Outline : A Companion to Comparative Theology offers a unique survey of a rapidly developing field of modern theology in 32 chapters coordinated by five editors. Its first part discusses some of the main historical developments in theology and religious studies before 1985 that are relevant for understanding contemporary approaches in comparative theology. The main part of the companion traces …
Outline : There are some things in life so evil that when we meet them we only want to destroy them-like starvation or tyranny, excessive drink or drugs, sickness, hunger, old age and death, or a three-year-old with a fragment of a bomb in his head. Dorothee Sölle knows about them all and burns for change and revolution. But here feelings are tempered by patience. Sometimes we have to endure. …
Outline: Buku ini menjelaskan arti penting dari akal budi baik untuk memenangkan orang-orang lain kepada Kristus dan juga untuk mengalami perkembangan rohani pribadi...
Outline : Discovering the New Testament is a new and comprehensive introduction to the New Testament in three volumes, reflecting current research and scholarship in New Testament studies. Each volume provides a thorough discussion of background issues as well as treating theological themes and practical application. In this third volume, Mark J. Keown surveys the General Letters (including Heb…
Outline: Menjadi Kristen Abad XXI berarti hidup pada masa sekarang, dan bergerak seiring waktu tanpa terlalu mengkhawatirkan masa lalu maupun masa depan. Seri Kristen Abad XXI membentangkan pertanyaan-pertanyaan mengenai doktrin dan pemuridan di bawah lima judul: Injil, Murid, Alkitab, Gereja, dan Dunia. Dunia : Misi Harus Diwujudkan mengundang kita memperkenalkan Yesus yang unik, dalam pribad…
Outline: Menjadi Kristen Abad XXI berarti hidup pada masa sekarang, dan bergerak seiring waktu tanpa terlalu mengkhawatirkan masa lalu maupun masa depan. Seri Kristen Abad XXI membentangkan pertanyaan-pertanyaan mengenai doktrin dan pemuridan di bawah lima judul: Injil, Murid, Alkitab, Gereja, dan Dunia. Murid : Panggilan Menjadi seperti Kristus mengundang kita menjadi murid sejati yang mendeng…
Outline: Menjadi Kristen Abad XXI berarti hidup pada masa sekarang, dan bergerak seiring waktu tanpa terlalu mengkhawatirkan masa lalu maupun masa depan. Seri Kristen Abad XXI membentangkan pertanyaan-pertanyaan mengenai doktrin dan pemuridan di bawah lima judul: Injil, Murid, Alkitab, Gereja, dan Dunia. Injil : Pesan Pengubah Kehidupan mengundang kita melihat kemuliaan dan rasa malu kemanusiaa…
Outline: Menjadi Kristen Abad XXI berarti hidup pada masa sekarang, dan bergerak seiring waktu tanpa terlalu mengkhawatirkan masa lalu maupun masa depan. Seri Kristen Abad XXI membentangkan pertanyaan-pertanyaan mengenai doktrin dan pemuridan di bawah lima judul: Injil, Murid, Alkitab, Gereja, dan Dunia. Gereja : Persekutuan yang Unik mengundang gereja untuk mewujudkan misi-Nya - dipanggil kelu…
Outline : Gustavo Gutierrez, the doyen of the Latin American liberation theologians, published his landmark A Theology of Liberation in English in 1973. In The Power of the Poor in History he presents in eight major essays his developing theological insights.
Outline : For many years the theology of liberation, which emerged from Latin America in the 1970s, was viewed with suspicion and even hostility in Rome. In this historic exchange, Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, one of the original architects of liberation theology, and Cardinal Gerhard Müller, current Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, offer a new and positive chapter. Car…
Outline : Drawing from all of his many published books, as well as little-known essays and several pieces translated specifically for his volume, Gustavo Gutierrez: Essential Writings provides an overview and an entry into the mind of a great modern Christian thinker. Gutierrez has permanently altered the modern theological landscape, challenging all theologians and the world church to hear the…