Outline : In 1913, Dutch Reformed theologian Herman Bavinck (1854-1921) completed his Guidebook for Instruction in the Christian Religion. Although he originally intended it for high school students, Bavinck's ultimate goal was to educate the average churchgoer in the rich, deeo thoughts of Scripture as universally expressed in the Christian faith. An introductory systematic theology for anyone…
Outline : What does one make of Christ? This is the vital question Herman Bavinck (1854-1921) posed over a hundred years ago and still presents to us today. This volume includes Bavinck's "Chrisitianity" (Het Christendom) from 1912, as well as his earlier essay "The Christian Faith" (Het Christelijk Geloof) from 1883, both of which are published here for the first time in English. In these writ…
This book explores the variety of ways John contextually uses the Old Testament in the Apocalypse. The introduction surveys and evaluates recent studies, which have been divided over the issue of whether or not John uses the Old Testament with sensitivity to its original literary context (Beale, Fekkes and Bauckham argue in the affirmative, while Ruiz and Moyise contend that this was not John's…
Outline : The R.E.D.S. series addresses a spectrum of doctrines and contemporary theological questions. While the emphasis is on refining dogmatic formulation through rigorous exegesis and exploration into each doctrine's historical background, this is done alongside warm, earnest pastoral application - making these studies practically, as well as theologically, relevant. The corporate church o…
Outline : Will Jesus's return be preceded by a single world government? Will every person have a government-issued ID or mark? Does Christ return once or twice? Will believers go through a Great Tribulation? Will there be a literal battle of Armageddon? Does it even matter what we believe about future events? Biblical prophecies about the end times have confused, confounded, and even divided Go…
Outline : This accessible yet comprehensive primer on major issues in evangelical theology has been updated and revised throughout.
Outline : Deep faith requires consistent study of God's word, but to understand the original text as God intended, students of Scripture must develop a strong inductive, historical, and descriptive exegetical process. In Biblical Theology, Andreas J. Kostenberger and Gregory Goswell offer a clear, comprehensive methodology for interpreting the sixty-six books of the Bible - identifying their ce…
Outline : The ESV Church History Study Bible features notes from nearly 400 of church history's most prominent figures - including Athanasius of Alexandria, John Chrysostom, Martin Luther, John Bunyan, Jonathan Edwards, and Charles Spurgeon - to help believers in all seasons of life understand Scripture. Edited by Stephen J. Nichols, Gerald Bray, and Keith A. Mathison, this study Bible highligh…
Outline : "An accessible introduction to the portrayal of Jesus - and Jesus's divinity - in the New Testament canon"
Outline : This volume offers a fresh, comprehensive treatment of the messiah theme throughout the entire Old Testament and examines its relevance for the New Testament interpretation.
Outline: Ethnicity, nationality, and race are part of the fabric of life, but what are they and what are they for? Throughout history, misunderstandings about various forms of collective identity have led to division and hatred, even in the church. Many seek to dissolve difference through assimilation, mistaking unity for uniformity. Others speak about difference in ways that only seem to make …
Outline : For many people, their job is merely “the daily grind” needed to provide for family or pay the bills. In reality, our jobs - whether we're laying concrete or painting in a studio - are daily opportunities to display God's character and care. Pastor and author Bryan Chapell shares this biblical perspective on vocation, explaining how God gives purpose to our work by making it an in…
Outline : The venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar - an indispensable reference informing the editorial canon with sound, definitive advice. With the wisdom of nearly 120 years of editorial practice and a wealth of industry expertise from both Chicago's staff and an advisory board of publishing professionals, the eighteenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style is the go-t…
Outlne: This informative survey of Paul's epistles is conversant with the latest scholarship, but written in an engaging style that emphasizes practical application. In each chapter, Gregory MaGee asks and answers a vital question for understanding Paul's letters, while prompting the reader to consider the discussion's personal implications. These questions get at the heart of understanding, in…
Outline: The great Reformed theologian Herman Bavinck (1854 - 1921) is well-known for his theological study of many disciplines, including psychology. The pinnacle of his studies in theological psychology is Biblical and Religious Psychology. This book is divided into two parts which work in harmony to cultivate a theological anthropology that attends to who man is psychologically, in relation …
Outline: The Christian Church is faced with new responsibilities and challenges in our postmodern culture. This ecumenical series, sponsored by the Christian Theological Research Fellowship, reaps the wisdom of Christian tradition and Scripture to propose fresh insights for today's church. Grounded in sound scholarship, it will appeal to thoughtful pastors, educated laypeople, theological stude…
Outline: Nurture and strength from fifty-two Christian devotional classics for individual study and group use - from RENOVARE, a movement committed to spiritual renewal. These fifty-two selections have been organized to introduce readers through the course of one year to the great devotional writers. The readings have been edited by James Smith, and each is accompanied by an introduction and me…
Outline : This study is the first to focus in depth on communion frequency in the Reformed tradition. It concludes that, although the sixteenth century Reformers desired more frequent communion, this was balanced by their desire to create mature Christian communities. So, preachers and church leaders stressed the priority of moral conduct, and the importance of understanding what the eucharist …
A central figure in the reconception of early Christian history over the last three decades, Wayne A. Meeks offers here a selection of his most influential writings on the New Testament and early Christianity. His essays illustrate recent changes in our thinking about the early Christian movement and pose provocative questions regarding the history of this period.Meeks explores a fascinating ra…
This expanded anniversary edition includes updates and expansions of existing tactics, as well as the addition of an all-new tactic and a chapter on Mini Tactics filled with simple maneuvers to aid in discussions. In a world increasingly indifferent to Christian truth, followers of Christ need to be equipped to communicate with those who do not speak their language or accept their source of aut…
Outline: Di dalam dunia yang semakin tidak memedulikan kebenaran Kristen, pengikut Kristus perlu diperlengkapi untuk berkomunikasi dengan orang-orang yang tidak berbicara dengan istilah Kristen atau orang-orang yang menolak sumber kuasa orang Kristen. Gregory Koukl menunjukkan bagaimana caranya mendapatkan kendali, menjaga setiap percakapan yang mengalir dengan diplomasi yang cerdik dan mendala…
Of all the demons, monsters, fiends, and ogres to preoccupy the western imagination in literature, art, and film, no figure has been more feared―or misunderstood--than Satan. But how accurate are the popular images of Satan? How--and why--did this rather minor biblical character morph into the very embodiment of evil? T.J. Wray and Gregory Mobley guide readers on a journey to retrace Satan's …
Of all the demons, monsters, fiends, and ogres to preoccupy the western imagination in literature, art, and film, no figure has been more feared―or misunderstood--than Satan. But how accurate are the popular images of Satan? How--and why--did this rather minor biblical character morph into the very embodiment of evil? T.J. Wray and Gregory Mobley guide readers on a journey to retrace Satan's …
Outline: This continuing series of studies in church history seeks to further the unity of the church. Contributors from many nations, races, and denominations offer fresch understanding of historical events in the light of the ecumenical movement.
Outline: "Yang penting hanyalah percaya kepada Kristus, dan itu nyata dalam kasih kita kepada orang lain." Galatia 5:6b (BIS). Dalam buku ketiga dari Seri Pemuridan, James Bryan Smith membantu kita untuk mengetahui bagaimana kita hidup dalam relasi dengan orang lain sebagai murid-murid Yesus. "Murid Yesus bukanlah pelaku kebaikan paruh-waktu," tulisnya. " Murid Yesus hidup dalam hubungan yang k…
Outline : SERI PEMURIDAN. "Saya belum pernah bertemu seseorang yang memiliki tujuan untuk merusak hidupnya. Kita semua ingin bahagia dan menginginkannya terjadi sepanjang masa." James Bryan Smith membuka The Good and Beautiful Life dengan mengatakan bahwa masalah yang sering muncul dalam kehidupan orang percaya terjadi karena kita telah membawa gagasan palsu mengenai kebahagiaan dan kesuksesan …
Outline : "Tuhan ingin saya berusaha lebih keras." "Tuhan memberkati saya ketika saya baik dan menghukum saya ketika saya jahat." "Tuhan marah dengan saya." Kita semua memiliki pemikiran dalam diri kita tentang Tuhan dan bagaimana Dia bekerja dalam hidup kita. Sebagian bisa benar—tetapi banyak yang tidak tepat. James Bryan Smith meyakini pemikiran-pemikiran tersebut menentukan tidak hanya sia…
Outline: The Book of Daniel. Isn't ultimately about Daniel - it's about the Gospel of Jesus. Often we read the book of Daniel in one of two ways - either as a book about a heroic man whose righteousness should inspire us to keep the faith, or as a roadmap to the end times that can, through careful study, tell us the day and hour (or nearly so) of Christ's return. Both, says Bryan Chapell, are s…
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 The Story of Reality, Gregory Koukl membukakan kisah dunia kita melalui sudut pandang yang luas, menjelaskan bagaimana dunia ini bermula, mengapa dunia ini menjadi seperti sekarang, peran manusia dalam kisah ini, dan bagaimana seluruh alur kisah ini terselesaikan. Ini adalah kisah Alkitab yang lebih dari sekadar pandangan keagaamaan pribadi, relasi dengan Allah, ataupun sumber p…
Outline : Cerita apa yang diberitahukan pada Anda tentang Injil? Tentang Allah? Tentang kehidupan Kristen? Tentang Yesus? Tentang diri Anda sendiri? Jawaban Anda terhadap pertanyaan-pertanyaan di atas akan menentukan jalan hidup Anda. Jawaban tersebut menunjukkan kemampuan Anda untuk memercayai, mengasihi, berharap – bahkan kemampuan Anda untuk bersukacita. Setiap cerita yang diizinkan untuk …
Outline : DUNIA BISA TERASA SANGAT GELAP TETAPI, ADA JALAN YANG DIPENUHI SUKACITA. Kita diajarkan, "Pastikan terlebih dahulu dirimu sendiri aman" dan "Orang baik tidak akan berhasil." Tetapi, jalan itu membuat kita merasa sendiri dan cemas, bahkan bisa membawa kita ke dalam kehancuran. Ini bukanlah perjalanan yang menakjubkan. Ada sebuah jalan untuk ditempuh di dalam Kerajaan Allah yang tidak…
Outline: Hingga hari ini, wacana seputar relasi agama dan teori sosial masih menjadi penggalan pendek dari sejarah panjang peradaban manusia. Sejumlah pernak-pernik dari grand wacana hubungan panjang dan tak pernah berujung antara agama dan perubahan sosial ini dapat kita lihat secara jelas, misalnya dengan adanya fundamentalisme agama, konflik antaragama, dan lain sebagainya. Lantas, dimanakah…
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 : Esther often seems like an anomaly - a book of the Bible that never mentions God or his direct intervention. Yet the book feels closest to many Christians' own experience; few of us have experienced divine intervention, and our world seems just as secular as Esther's. We are tempted to ask, of her world and ours - where is God in all this? If he is real, why doesn't he show himself…
Outline: Written by four members of the Calvin College philosophy department, this book is a valuable resource for teachers and undergraduate students of philosophy. In addition to providing clear introductions to the modes of reasoning students encounter in their philosophy course readings, it includes a nuanced description of common informal fallacies, a narrative overview philosophical accou…
Outline: In this book, based on lectures that the author was invited to deliver in Japan, the author traces the dominant contours of religion as perceived by the sociologist. His themes range from the study of sectarianism, on which he is one of the world's leading authorities, to the subtleties of the relationship between religion and culture in modern societies of the West and the East. Alt…
Outline: - The complete text of the Greek Old Testament as it appears in the Rahlfs-Hanhart revised Septuaginta, laid out in a clear, modern, and highly readable format. - Includes all Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books, as well as double-texts, which are presented on facing pages for easy comparison - Every word occurring 100 times or fewer in Septuaginta - as well as every word that occurs…
Scottish Journal of Theology Volume 60 Number 1, 2, 3, 4 2007 consists of: 1. Volume 60, Number 1, 2007; 2. Volume 60, Number 2, 2007; 3. Volume 60, Number 3, 2007; 4. Volume 60, Number 4, 2007.