Outline : Discover how to communicate best when it matters most. Crucial Conversations gives you the tools to handle life's most difficult and important conversations. You'll learn how to: - Prepare for high-stakes situations with a proven technique - Transform anger and hurt feelings into powerful dialogue - Make it safe to talk about almost anything - Be persuasive, not abrasive Master …
Outline : Pelayanan dalam lingkup gereja sering kali dibedakan menjadi dua; pelayanan oleh hamba Tuhan dan oleh orang-orang awam, atau pelayanan purnawaktu dan pelayanan paruh waktu. Sementara, beberapa orang tidak menyadari bahaya dari dikotomi ini, sejarah membuktikan bahwa gereja sering kali kehilangan kuasa dan otoritasnya ketika hanya memberi kesempatan pelayanan kepada mereka yang diangga…
Outline : Each volume of the Doctrines of Grace series illuminates one of the five points of Calvinism, presenting the context, content, and various implications of the doctrine. Featuring essays from several respected theologians, these works help readers understand key aspects of Reformed orthodoxy in all their historical, biblical, theological, and pastoral richness.
Outline : How Modernity Creates Atheists - and what the Church must do about it. Millions of people in the West identify as atheists. Christians often respond to this reality with proofs of God's existence, as though rational arguments for atheism were the root cause of unbelief. In Bulwarks of Unbelief, Joseph Minich argues that a felt absence of God, as experienced by the modern individual, o…
Outline : A classic study now available in English First appearing in 1885, Schlatter's Der Glaube im Neuen Testament (Faith in the New Testament) is a thorough analysis of the concept of faith. Taking into account Old Testament, rabbinic, and key first-century writings, Schlatter provides an exhaustive study on the meaning and implications of faith in the New Testament. It is a philological m…
Outline : Composed under different circumstances by giants of the Reformed tradition - Theodore Beza (1519 - 1605), Amandus Polanus (1561 - 1610), and Francis Turretin (1623 - 1687) - these texts represent three classical treatments of the same doctrine, each in its own genre. Beza's Defense of Justification by Faith Alone is polemical and in response to ecclesiastical controversy. Polanus's Fr…
Outline : Francis Robers, like other Puritans, believed Christians can and should have a deep assurance of their salvation. He was also convinced that 1 John contains more marks of being a true believer than any other book in the Bible, making it "a rich treasury for Christian assurance," In Believer's Evidences for Eternal Life, Robers curates this precious repository of comfort and exhibits i…
Outline: It happened so subtly that few people noticed at first. Little by little, morality and freedom started to crumble. It came first in government, in education, in the media and finally it began to shake our families and our own lives. Something fundamental has changed. Law and government no longer provide a foundation of justice and morality but have become the means of licensing moral p…
Outline : Knowing Creation is an essential resource for helping scholars from the fields of theology, biblical studies, philosophy, and science appreciate one another's concerns and perspectives. This constructive and informed account of a Christian theology of creation sets forth a convincing case for a positive relationship and mutually enriching dialogue between a theology of creation and co…
Outline : That there are four canonical versions of the one gospel story is often seen as a problem for Christian faith: where gospels multiply, so too do apparent tensions and contradictions that may seem to undermine their truth claims. In Gospel Writing Francis Watson argues that differences and tensions between canonical gospels represent opportunities for theological reflection, not proble…
Outline : The Landmark Book That Changed Us All. "The founder of L'Abri... shows how evangelism of modern man must begin with the reality of God." Leighton Ford. If you want to understand your world, The God Who Is There is the place to begin. We are constantly bombarded with conflicting ideas about God, religion and what our future holds. Where did these views come from? Where are they going? …
Outline : "Messiah" is one of the most contested terms in Christian reflection, with many people reading the concept back into early Old Testament texts. In The One Who Is to Come Joseph Fitzmyer contradicts that misreading, carefully tracing the emergence of messianism in Judaism to a much later date -- the second century B.C.
Outline: Genesis is a book of origins - the origin of the universe, the origin of life and the origin of man. It places man in his cosmic settling, shows his particular uniqueness, explains his wonder and his flaw, and begins to trace the flow of human history through space and time. Many today, however, view this book as a collection of myths, useful for understanding the Hebrew mind, perhaps,…
Algorithms have become near mystical beings. Here on earth they make their users happy and their creators very rich. Every minute a few algorithms manipulate millions of Uber drivers and their customers. It turned Garrett Camp, the Canadian inventor of the Uber algorithm and co-founder of the company, into the transcendental choirmaster of the ride-sharing world and a billionaire to boot. Curre…
Outline : Teks yang populer ini terus meneliti bidang komunikasi yang luas,termasuk situasi komunikasi antarpribadi, kelompok, publik, antarbudaya, dan massa, serta menjadikan proses belajar tentangkomunikasi efektif maupun menyenangkan. Edisi kelima ini disusunberdasarkan edisi sebelumnya, memperpadukan penetapan teori yenkuat dan dikaitkan secara langsung dengan perolehan keakomunikasi. Perub…
Origen was the most influential Christian theologian before Augustine, the founder of Biblical study as a serious discipline in the Christian tradition, and a figure with immense influence on the development of Christian spirituality.This volume presents a comprehensive and accessible insight into Origen's life and writings. An introduction analyzes the principal influences that formed him as a…
The knowledge base which has been the foundation of Catholic education in the passt and underlies Catholic educational practice today merits the attention of scholars and interested parties, both within and outside of the Catholic educational community. This comprehensive compendium of research focues on key aspects of Catholic education in the United States. The volume includes reviews of rese…
Like any other discipline, apologetics lacks a uniform definition. The standard that’s largely been adopted is “the defense of the faith,” but overlapping definitions abound. Apologetics has been defined as “that branch of Christian theology which seeks to provide a rational justification for the truth claims of the Christian faith,” “developing one’s authentic self so as to prese…
Takes the readers on a tour of the many faces of envy. This book considers what great thinkers have written about envy; distinguishes between envy, yearning, jealousy, resentment, and schadenfreude; and catalogs the many things that are enviable, including wealth, beauty, power, talent, knowledge and wisdom, extraordinary good luck, and youth.
Issues of gender and sexuality have recently come to the fore in all humanities disciplines, and this book reflects this broad interdisciplinary situation, although its own standpoint is a theological one. In contrast to many contemporary feminist theologies, gender and sexuality (eros) are here understood within a distinctively Christian context characterized by the reality of agape - the New …
Showcases the relationship between Kabbalah and Christianity on the one hand and New Age religion on the other. This work provides historical background, ranging from the mystical groups that flourished in ancient Judaism in the East, to the use of kabbalistic ideas in the influential modern Jewish religious movement, Hasidism.
Outline: Has historic Christianity - the Christianity of the New Testament, of the apostles and the early church - anything to say to the modern world? In the age of existentialism, anti philosophy and musique concrete, the Happenings and the new theology, many people have assumed that a religion based on revealed truth is totally irrelevant. But in this book Dr. Francis Schaeffer contends that…
Outline: Man is dead. God is dead. Life has become meaningless existence, man a cog in a machine. The only way of escape lies in a non-rational fantasy world of experience, drugs, absurdity, pornography, an elusive 'final experience', madness ... If this is the twentieth-century mentality, how did it come about? And how can the Christian faith be made meaningful today? In this highly original b…
Outline: Author Francis A. Schaeffer says this about his latest book: "He Is There and He Is Not Silent deals with one of the most fundamental of all questions - that of epistemology, or, how we know and how we know we know. Unless our epistemology is right, everything is going to be wrong. Epistemology, the theory of the method or grounds of knowledge, is the central problem of our generation;…
Outline: Has Christianity become little more to you than a series of responsibilities and a list of requirements? Do you feel alone in the depths of your soul? Do you have a sense of your desperate need for God? Do you desire greater intimacy with Him? In Radical Reliance : Living 24/7 with God at the Center, nationally known Bible teacher Joe Stowell reminds you that God wants adoring devotion…
Outline : How can we reconcile the ideal church described by theology with the broken church that we see in the world? In this book Joseph Small argues that the church’s true identity is known somewhere in the tension between the two. Small revisits familiar ecclesiological concepts—people of God, the body of Christ, the communion of the Holy Spirit—but rather than focusing on theological…
Outline: In this new, completely rewritten edition of his major 1986 book, Francis Watson extends, updates, and clarifies his response to E. P. Sanders's view of Paul, in order to point the way beyond the polarization of "new" and "old" perspectives on the apostle. The Paul who comes to light in these pages is both agent and thinker, apostle and theologian. He is a highly contextual figure, yet…
Outline: Evangelicals are no strangers to the creation versus evolution debate. Now the argument has spread beyond the contents of the creation account in Genesis 1 and into Genesis 2-3, with speculation about the historicity of Adam and Eve and the Fall. But does it matter which position one holds? Is anything really at stake? The faculty of The Master's College have come together to show that…
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 : Studi biblikal andalah panggilan mulia - yang dapat memampukan kita untuk semakin bertindak dengan adil, mencintai dengan penuh belas kasihan, dan berjalan dengan rendah hati di hadapan Tuhan. Studi biblikal dapat menolong kita memahami Injil Yesus Kristus lebih lengkap, sehingga kita dapat mengajarkannya dalam gereja-gereja kita secara lebih efektif. Berpikir dan Bertindak Alkitabiah…
Outline: JIKA KEINGINAN ALLAH YANG JADI, GEREJA KITA HARUSNYA SEPERTI APA? Dalam bukunya yang sangat berpengaruh ini, Francis Chan menggali kebenaran Alkitab, merenungkan berbagai kegagalan dan mimpinya, serta berbagai cerita tentang Allah menggunakan orang-orang biasa untuk mengubah dunia ini. Seperti katanya, "Kita telah melenceng jauh dari apa yang Allah inginkan terhadap gerejanya. Kita tah…
Outline: Francis Schaeffer's thought is exerting a significant influence. Students and professors, pastors and laymen, believers and seekers and skeptics are reading his books, listening to tapes from L'Abr Fellowship and attending his lectures. Many come into contact with his ideas in a piecemeal fashion, not realizing that three books lie at the heart of his thought. If these three books are …
Outline: This Reader examines biblical patterns and principles of communication, and presents six case studies investigating aspects of communication in an Asian context. Intended to help promote the study of communication, the chapters have wide application as readings for courses in missiology, Christian anthropology, cross cultural communication, mass media, sociology, strategy evaluation an…
Outline: If God has called you to spiritual leadership, be advised - He never promised flowery beds of ease. But He has given us what we need to His flock to growth and glory. We live in a most challenging time in history, and leading has never been tougher. Joe Stowell charts the course biblically to enable shepherds to do the best of things in the worst of times. How do we lead effectively in…
Outline: An Influencer motivates others to change. An Influencer replaces had behaviors with powerful new skills. An Influencer makes things happen. This is what it takes to be an Influencer. Whether you're a CEO, a parent, or merely a person who wants to make a difference, you probably wish you had more influence with the people in your life. But most of us stop trying to make change happen be…
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: James Livingston's widely acclaimed history of Christian thought - recently substantially revised and expanded - provides full, scholarly accounts of the major movements and thinkers, theologians and philosophers in the Christian tradition since the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, together with solid historical background and critical assessments. Distinctive in format and focus, the…
Outline: In this extensively redeveloped and expanded version of Apologetics to the Glory of God (1994), renowned theologian John Frame sheds light on the message and method of genuinely Christian apologetics in terms of proof, defense, and offense.