Outline : In The Biggest Story Bible Storybook, bestselling author and dad Kevin DeYoung takes kids on a Genesis-to-Revelation journey that demonstrates how all the parts of Scripture fit together. Using clear, kid-friendly language, he introduces big sections of the Bible, like the Gospels, and then provides engaging retellings of individual stories, ending each one with a short prayer. With p…
Outline: In The Biggest Story Bible Storybook, bestselling author and dad Kevin DeYoung takes kids on a Genesis-to-Revelation journey that demonstrates how all the parts of Scripture fit together. Using clear, kid-friendly language, he introduces big sections of the Bible, like the Gospels, and then provides engaging retellings of individual stories, ending each one with a short prayer. With po…
Outline: How we read the Bible has a profound impact on how we understand what mission is. This book encourages us to explore the Bible's grand narrative and to bring the whole counsel of God in Scripture to our understanding of who we are and what we must do as God's people.
Outline : Recognizing that faithful theological study is an integrative task, the Theology for the People of God series uniquely combines biblical and systematic theology in dialogue with historical theology and with application to church and life. The series addresses classic doctrines of systematic theology and other relevant topics, pairing careful scholarship with the practical understandin…
Outline : How we read the Bible has a profound impact on how we understand what mission is. This book encourages us to explore the Bible's grand narrative and to bring the whole counsel of God in Scripture to our understanding of who we are and what we must do as God's people.
Outline : Penjajahan di Indonesia meninggalkan jejak panjang dan penuh kekerasan. Masa antara kedatangan Marsekal Daendels dan akhir Perang Jawa, yaitu antara 1808 dan 1830, adalah masa yang penuh dengan darah. Peralihan kekuasaan yang singkat dari rezim Prancis-Belanda Daendels (1808-11) ke pemerintahan Inggris di bawah Raffles (1811-16) dan pasca-1816 ketika pemerintahan jajahan Belanda kemba…
Outline: John Calvin's understanding of works-righteousness is more complex than is often recognized. While he denounces it in some instances, he affirms it in others. This study shows that Calvin affirms works-righteousness within the context were faith-righteousness is already established, and that he even teaches a form of justification by works. Calvin ascribes not only a positive role to g…
Outline: Most Christians would agree that the Bible provides a basis for mission. But Christopher Wright boldly maintains that there is a missional basis for the Bible! The entire Bible is generated by and all about God's mission. In order to understand the Bible, we need a missional hermeneutic, an interpretive perspective in tune with this great missional theme. We need to see how the familia…
Outline: Arab and Indian traders brought Islam to the coastal trading ports of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Java between the 11th and 15th centuries, assimilating Hinduism and various animist sects that practices the supernatural. Over the centuries Southeast Asian Muslims became known for their tolerance of religious beliefs, including those of European colonists and laborers brought from…
Outline: A History of Biblical Interpretation provides detailed and extensive studies of the interpretation of the Scriptures by Jewish and Christian writers throughout the ages. Written by internationally renowned scholars, this multivolume work comprehensively treats the many different methods of interpretation, the many important interpreters from various eras, and the many key issues that h…
Outline: A Student-friendly workbook for use with basics of Biblical Greek Grammar. This workbook is a companion to Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar : Fourth Edition, the most widely used textbook for learning the Greek of the New Testament. Each chapter of the workbook contains exercises that correspond to the content of the chapter in the main grammar. The exercises for each chapter are divid…
The series in which Christopher Dyer's excellent new work appears already has generated comment, much of it lauding the content of the books but an equal amount criticizing their format. In the case of Dyer's book, perhaps it would be preferable to deal with these latter criticisms before examining the former. Professional historians will immediately be struck by the fact that despite the enorm…
The Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible is a reference tool that introduces readers to key names, theories, and concepts in the field of biblical interpretation. It discusses these approaches and evaluates their helpfulness in enabling Christians to hear what God is saying to the church through Scripture. The contributors come from a variety of backgrounds, and the dictionary…
In God is Not Great, Hitchen tweezes through the major religious texts with forensic shrewdness. With chapters entitled Religion Kills', and Is Religion Child Abuse?', he fearlessly argues for a secular life based on science and reason, tarring religion as man-made wish-thinking. He documents the ways in which religion is a cause of dangerous sexual repression and a distortion of our origins in…
Christian exegesis of the Song of Songs has long interacted creatively with - and, more recently, reacted critically against - the allegorical interpretation developed by Origen of Alexandria (c.185-c.254) in his Commentary and two Homilies on the Song of Songs. Interest in Origen's exegesis of the Song's narrative elements has dominated past scholarship, which has almost entirely ignored how O…
"Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. He treats artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists as if they were all mem…
The rise of modern science and the proclaimed “death” of God in the nineteenth century led to a radical questioning of divine action and authorship – Bultmann’s celebrated “demythologizing”. Remythologizing Theology moves in another direction that begins by taking seriously the biblical accounts of God’s speaking. It establishes divine communicative action as the formal and materi…
What happens in a recession? How does money work? Why do we pay taxes? Economics affects every aspect of our lives, from how we get to work to where we spend our money-and big economic ideas continue to shape the world. Written in plain English, The Economics Book is packed with short, pity explanations that cut through the jargon, step-by-step diagrams that untangle knotty theories, classic…
If we are honest, we have to admit that there are many things we don’t understand about God. We do not have final answers to the deep problems of life, and those who say they do are probably living in some degree of delusion. There are areas of mystery in our Christian faith that lie beyond the keenest scholarship or even the most profound spiritual exercises. For many people, these problems …
An overview of discussions about the nature of New Testament theology, which examines the development, purpose and scope. * Contributions are written by some of the most distinguished writers in the field of New Testament studies. * Looks at the relationship of New Testament theology with other branches of theology.
In the old crenellated church of Mary of Zion in Aksum, Ethiopia, an object is kept that emperors, patriarchs, and priests have assured the world is the most important religious relic of all the Ark of the Covenant. Are the legends true? Or is this story a monumental deception? In a triumph of historical detective work the acclaimed Ethiopia expert Stuart Munro-Hay traces the extraordinary lege…
In this multi-faceted volume, Christian and other religiously committed theorists find themselves at an uneasy point in history--between premodernity, modernity, and postmodernity--where disciplines and methods, cultural and linguistic traditions, and religious commitments tangle and cross. Here, leading theorists explore the state of the art of the contemporary hermeneutical terrain. As they a…
If we are honest, we have to admit that there are many things we don't understand about God, especially in the face of terrible suffering and evil. Chris Wright offers reflections and encouragement from the Scriptures, so that those who are troubled by these tough questions can still sustain their faith.
Nothing confuses Christian ethics quite like the Old Testament. Some faithful readers struggle through its pages and conclude that they must obey its moral laws but may disregard its ceremonial and civil laws. Others abandon its teaching altogether in favor of a strictly New Testament ethic. Neither option, argues Chris Wright, gives the Old Testament its due. In this innovative approach to …
Outline: Biblical Counseling and the Church equips your congregation to be a family where every member is empowered to speak the truth in love so your entire church matures in Christ. Bob Kellemen and Kevin Carson have assembled over twenty respected ministry leaders who practically and relevantly describe the relationship between counseling and the local church. This comprehensive resource, pa…
Outline : What is evangelical theology today? In response to increasing evangelical fragmentation, Kevin Vanhoozer and Daniel Treier offer a clarion call to reconceive to reconceive evangelical theology theologically by reflecting on the God of the gospel as mirrored in Scripture. Such "mere" evangelical theology will be an exercise in Christian wisdom for the purpose of building up the fellows…
Outline: The twenty-first century is marked by a renewed emphasis on the missional responsibility of individual Christians and local churches. Churches on Mission : God's Grace Abounding to the Nations is an attempt to explore the relationship between the local church and its missionary responsibilities. Through history, theology, case studies, and actual ministry practices, each author in this…
Outline: While the age of the Holy Spirit began with Pentecost, the twentieth century has seen as explosion in the Spirit's work through the remarkable growth of Pentecostalism and the changing face of global Christianity. The essays gathered in Spirit of God: Christian Renewal in the Community of Faith provide an ecumenical exploration of the Holy Spirit's person and work in biblical, historic…
Outline: Dalam buku ini, Kevin Vanhoozer memperkenalkan pembaca kepada cara berpikir tentang theologi Kristen yang membawa usaha yang dimulainya dari buku Drama Doktrin ke tingkat berikutnya. Vanhoozer berpendapat bahwa theologi bukan hanya seperangkat keyakinan kognitif, tetapi juga melibatkan ucapan dan tindakan. Dia menggunakan model teater untuk menjelaskan cara doktrin membentuk pemahaman …
Outline: Subjects discussed include: - The unique nature of the Christian sacramental experience in prayer and devotion. - What is 'sacrament'? - The traditional seven sacraments in the life of the Church and the individual.
Outline: A distinguished group of scholars here introduces and illustrates the array of strategies and methods used in New Testament study today. Standard approaches - text criticism, historical methods, etc. - appear side by side with newer approaches - narrative criticism, Latino-Latina hermeneutics, theological interpretation of the New Testament, and more. First published in 1995, Hearing t…
Outline: There is no easy answer to the meaning of life - even when you believe in God. Ecclesiastes seeks to answer the question: "What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun?" The book's central character is Qoheleth, the "Teacher," who wants to understand the meaning of life. He struggles to reconcile the beautiful world that we love with the baffling world of …
Outline: In popular perception, Wisdom literature is a "self-help" or "philosophy" section of the Old Testament library - the odd and interesting bits of canonical mortar between History and Prophets. But Old Testament scholarship has come to see the wisdom of the wise as reflecting as aspect of the Israelite worldview. The covenant beliefs are presupposed, even if rarely rising to the surface.…
Outline: Di dalam buku yang hadir pada waktu yang begitu tepat ini, penulis Kevin DeYoung menantang setiap dari kita - orang yang skeptik dan yang sedang mencari, orang yang merasa pasti dan yang masih ragu - untuk dengan rendah hati melihat kepada Firman Allah mengenai isu homoseksualitas. Setelah mengkaji perikop-perikop kunci di dalam Alkitab, baik Perjanjian Lama maupun Perjanjian Baru, dan…
Outline: This leading textbook for world religions is designed to help students in their study and research of the world's religious traditions. Known and value for its balanced approach and its respected board of consulting editors, Introduction to World Religions, Third Edition addresses ways to study religion, provides broad coverage of diverse religions, and offers an arresting layout with …
Outline: Nineteen biblical scholars and theologians in this volume explore the notions of union and participation within Pauline theology, teasing out the complex web of meaning conveyed through Paul's theological vision of being "in Christ." With essays that investigate Pauline theology and exegesis, examine highlights from reception history, and offer deep theological reflection, this exempla…
Overview: Akankah Allah yang pengasih benar-benar mengirim orang-orang yang baik ke neraka? Apakah yang sebenarnya Alkitab ajarkan tentang neraka? Bagaimanakah seharusnya kepercayaan akan neraka memengaruhi kita? Dalam buklet ini, penulis memaparkan secara jelas theologi biblikal tentang neraka. Mereka membahas pertanyaan-pertanyaan utama yang orang-orang milik tentang subjek ini dan mener…
Outline: Christians are called to stand firm on the inerrancy of Scripture. Sadly, more and more people - not only from outside the church but also from within - are denying the complete truthfulness of God's Word. Edited by pastor John Mac Arthur, these commissioned essays by a host of evangelical pastors, theologians, historians, and biblical scholars contend that the Bible is completely t…