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: Reconciling the existence of God and evil has been a long-standing conundrum in Christian theology, yet a philosophical approach - rather than a theological one - dominates the discussion. Turning to the Bible's grand storyline, Scott Christensen examines how sin, evil, corruption, and death fit into the broad outlines of redemptive history. He argues that God's ultimate end in creatio…
Outline : Unveiling the often-overlooked significance of Cornelius Van Til in the realm of Reformed ethics, this work draws light upon his unique moral philosophy. Grounded in the covenantal epistemology and metaphysics typically employed for apologetics, Van Til masterfully harmonized his insights with those of Geerhardus Vos’ biblical theology. In contrast to many ethicists who concentrate …
Outline: The goal of this book is to secure our knowledge of the triune God by rightly ordering the theological language with which we praise him. Its reaches its conclusions about how the doctrine should be handled on the basis of the way the Trinity was revealed. As such, it is a study that offers dogmatic principles for Trinitarian exegesis. Half of the volume establishes the biblical exposi…
Outline: Presbyterianism has a rich, robust, resilient history. Since Presbyterianism began in Scotland in the early 1560s, its adherents have spread to Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand. In some locales and ears, Presbyterians have flourished; in others, they have struggles. Today an estimated 35 million Presbyterians live in dozens of countries. Th…
Outline: The Worlds of the Preacher helps students and pastors understand the worlds - biblical, cultural, and personal - that influence their preaching. Contributors include Victor D. Anderson, Jeffrey Arthurs, Patricia M. Batten, Scott M. Gibson, Matthew D. Kim, Duane Litfin, Steveb D. Mathewson, Haddon W. Robinson, Donald R. Sunukjian, and Scott Wenig.
Outline: How are young people to arrive safely at the marriage altar? This book captures some of the premarital counsel which John Calvin gave to the youth and families of Geneva. It draws from two categories of Calvin's writings, bringing up interesting and helpful counsel for young people and their families in order to help them navigate the single years and enter successfully into marriage. …
Outline: The Oxford Handbook of Reformed Theology looks back to the resources of the past and surveys the present conversations that are vibrant and ongoing in Reformed theology. Firstly, the volume offers accounts of the great contexts of Reformed theology, the various relationships - ancient and modern - which it maintains and from which it derives. Recent research has shown the intricate tie…
Outline: This volume deals with with the crucial subject in today's theological debate, the authority of Scripture. Editor Henry in the Preface speaks of this subject as "the watershed of theological conviction." Twenty-four international scholars, under the editorship of Dr. Carl F. H. Henry, Editor of Chritianity Today, give evangelical view on such phases of the subject a ..., inspiration, t…
Outline: Here is a new, comprehensive look the broad range of topics related to the field of childhood education. Written by a wide variety of experts in Christian education, this volume has been designed for use in teacher training classes and in professional training in Bible colleges and seminaries. This will be a constant reference tool for the professional educator. The latest developments…
Outline: Read the Old Testament from a Biblical-Theological Perspective. Featuring contributions from thirteen respected evangelical scholars, this gospel-centered introduction to the Old Testament will help anyone who teaches or studies Scripture to better see the initial outworking of God's plan to redeem the world through Jesus Christ.
Outline: Three easy-to-use sections designed to help readers live out God's story. LISTEN to the Story: Includes complete NIV text with references to other texts at work in each passage, encouraging the reader to hear it within the Bible's grand story EXPLAIN the Story: Explores and illuminates each text as embedded in its canonical and historical setting LIVE the Story: Reflects on how each…
Outline : YOU HAVE BEEN UNFAITHFUL, and you want help but moving forward is complicated. Professional counselor Michael Gembola provides daily guidance and encouragement to help you make lasting change. He offers reflection questions, plus suggestions for practical actions, so you can form new qualities and habits as you move toward God in repentance and toward your spouse in reconciliation. In…
This article identifies and explores the realm of ‘social nothingness’: objects, people, events and places that do not empirically exist, yet are experienced as subjectively meaningful. Taking a phenomenological approach, I investigate how people perceive, imagine and reflect upon the meanings of unlived experience: whatever is significantly not present, never appeared or cannot happen to t…
Tujuan penulisan artikel ini adalah untuk menjelaskan makna gambar Allah menurut Kejadian 1:26-28 dan implikasinya terhadap pengembangan Artificial Intelligence. Adapun metode penulisan yang digunakan adalah analisis kualitatif dengan metode hermeneutik. Adapun metode hermeneutik yang dugunakan ialah hermeneutik terhadap Alkitab sebagai salah satu komponen teologi dalam mempelajari penafsiran A…
The Hindu religious tradition has a rich and complex history, with origins that extend as far back as the 3rd millennium bce, when the Mohenjo-daro and Harappan civilizations were thriving in the fertile valleys of the Indus River (see map, p. 17). Around 1500bce, the nomadic Aryans entered the Indian subcontinent from Persia, introducing new beliefs, customs and social structures to the agricu…
Describes those features of Intertestamental Judaism believed to be most relevant to the interpretation of the New Testament. Provides the context of Intertestamental Judaism and its beliefs that provide a background for Christian customs and issues.
The publication of this monograph marks the culmination of an interest panning a quarter of a century. In 1967,1 was a mature-aged student in a first-year Hebrew class at the University of Melbourne, and my attention was arrested by the lecturer's comment when we first encountered the word loj. I acknowledge my gratitude to Revd Dudley Hallam who described it as 'a rich, old, covenant word'. H…
This book argues that the modern separation of humanity from nature can be traced to the displacement of the triune God. Locating the source of our current ecological crisis in this separation, Peter Scott argues that it can be healed only within theology, through a revival of a Trinitarian doctrine of creation interacting with political philosophies of ecology. Drawing insights from deep ecolo…
This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term…
Defending the faith can be daunting, and a well-reasoned and biblically grounded apologetic is essential for the challenge. Following in the footsteps of groundbreaking apologist Cornelius Van Til, Scott Oliphint presents us with an introduction to Reformed apologetics as he sets forth the principles behind a distinctly "covenantal" approach. This book clearly explains the theological foundatio…
A multiple-view book on apologetic methods, this material deals with a very relevant topic in the midst of a changing culture. Its primary contributors are: William Lane Craig, Gary R. Habermas, Paul D. Feinberg, John M. Frame, and Kelly James Clark.
Outline: Through the liens of Jesus' farewell discourse (John 13: 31 - 17: 26), L. Scott Kellum provides a step-by-step illustration for producing an expository sermon series. After laying out the process to go from text to sermon, he then describes how to employ discourse analysis to a hortatory or expository document. Later, Kellum implements the theory on the Farewell Discourse, examining th…
Outline : The problem of evil is one we're all familiar with ... but what about the problem of good? If Christianity is true, why do many people seem to live moral, fulfilling lives outside the gospel? Do such moral non-Christians really need the gospel, or will their good deeds save them? Is the traditional view of hell really justified? And if it is, how do we evangelize people who seem more …
Outline: For years, William Gouge's Domestical Duties has stood as the foremost Puritan treatment of Christian family life. Yet due to its size and antiquated expression, it has become almost unknown among current generations of believers. To help revive the usefulness of this classic book, Scott Brown and Joel R. Beeke divided Gouge's work into three manageable volumes, updated the language to…
Outline: Ten American scholars sketch the contemporary relevance of evangelical Christianity in this sweeping survey of the present century of theological debate. Reaching into major spheres of life and thought - theology, philosophy, ethics, science, history, education, biblical studies, apologetics, evangelism and preaching - they discuss familiar fields with an eye on the theological turmoil…
Outline: A new commentary for today's world, The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible's grand story. The first commentary series to do so, SGBC offers a clear and compelling exposition of biblical texts, guiding everyday readers in how to creatively and faithfully live out the Bible in their own contexts. In story-centric approac…
Outline : How can God be three and one? How can God take on a human nature? If God planned everything, how can I be responsible? Do my prayers make any difference in God's plan? Will we finally knows everything when we get to heaven? These are questions that recognize some of the mysterious tensions that Scripture presents to us. They are good questions, but wrong answers to good questions can …
Outline : Although the doctrine of eternal generation has been affirmed by theologians of nearly every ecclesiastical tradition since the fourth century, it has fallen on hard times among evangelical theologians since the nineteenth century. The doctrine has been a structural element in two larger doctrinal complexes: Christology and the Trinity. The neglect of the doctrine of eternal generatio…
Outline: Haddon Robinson has influenced generations of students and preachers through his widely used classic text, Biblical Preaching, in which he contends that "a sermon should be a bullet and not buckshot." With the passing of years, does Robinson's "big-idea" approach to expository preaching still work in today's diverse cultures and fast-paced world? The Big Idea of Biblical Preaching pres…
Outline: It's impossible to know a man well until you know what he believes. Americans who are concerned about the people of Asia must be acquainted with the religions of Asia. One of the most important of these faiths is Buddhism, which in some form or other holds the allegiance of millions of human beings from the Hawaiian Islands west to Japan, Thailand, Burma, India, and other countries in …
Outline: Agama dan Sains Asal-Usul secara kritis mendiskusikan isu-isu dalam agama dan sains-sains asal-usul baik dalam konteks historis maupun kontemporer. Setelah mengembangkan pilihan-pilihan untuk hubungan antara sains dan kepercayaan—konflik, separasi, dan integrasi—buku ini mendiskusikan tiga peristiwa historis: revolusi saintifik, peristiwa Galileo, dan penerimaan tulisan Darwin Asal…
Outline: Divine Retribution, partiality, and impartiality in Biblical and Hellenistic Historiography - Scott Shauf compares the portrayal of the divine in Acts with portrayals of the divine in other ancient historiographical writings, the latter including Jewish and wider Greco-Roman historiographical traditions. This book explores especially how the divine is represented as involved in history…
Outline: Written by two philosophers and a theologian, 101 Key Terms provides easy access to key terms in philosophy and how they are understood and used in theology. The focused entries discuss what the terms have meant in classical and contemporary philosophy and then shift to what these philosophical understandings have meant in the history of Christian theology to the present day. The resul…
Outline: After the September 11 terrorist attacks against the United States, religious fundamentalism has dominated public debate as never before. Policymakers, educators, and the general public all want to know: Why do fundamentalist movements turn violent? Are fundamentalisms a global threat to human rights, security, and democratic forms of government? What is the future of fundamentalism? T…
Outline: Reconstructing the problem of evil - Why does God permit evil and suffering? This question, known as the problem of evil in theological and philosophical circles, has perennially vexed Christian theology. Academic studies on the problem of evil, however, have failed to move the conversation forward in recent years. In this volume, designed for students and scholars alike, Mark S. M. Sc…
Outline: From the dusty back roads of Montgomery, Alabama, to the legendary March on Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr., brought a stirring message of peace, equality, and justice to a divided people. He aspired only to be a Baptist minister, but by the time he was tragically assassinated in 1968 at the age of thirty-nine, he had led a movement that destroyed segregation in the South, an…
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: "Ibarat terbang dengan permadani ajaib menembus dunia tersembunyi cerita komik." "Saksi sejarah lebih daripada 3.000 tahun yang lalu." "Menguak rahasia antarpanel." "Merasakan kekuatan garis dan warna." "Menyingkap kekuatan simbol." "Menyaksikan dari dekat "pertempuran" antara kata-kata dan gambar." Dan yang terutama dari semua itu, mengerti mengapa komik bisa menjadi sangat penting da…
Outline: The Counterpoints series provides a forum for comparison and critique of different views on issues important to Christians. Counterpoints books address two categories : Church Life and Bible & Theology. Amid a culture that is both fascinated by spirituality and inundated by a dizzying variety of options for pursuing it, many Christians long for a deep, historically rooted spiritual lif…
Outline : This series seeks to retrieve the riches of classical Christian doctrine for the sake of contemporary theological renewal. NSD provides thoughtful, concise, and constructive treatments of major theological topics, expressing the biblical, creedal, and confessional shape of Christian doctrine for a contemporary evangelical audience. Many views holiness as accidental or expendable or ev…
Outline : The series seeks to retrieve of classical Christine doctrine for the sake of contemporary theological renewal. NSD provides thoughtful, concise, and constructive treatments of major theological topics, expressing the biblical, creedal, and confessional doctrine for a contemporary evangelical audience. The doctrine of justification stands at the center of our reflection on the meaning …