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 : 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 : Masyarakat luas memberi bermacam-macam tafsiran tentang etika. Begitu pula judul buku ini menimbulkan banyak pertanyaan. Di sini etika dilihat sebagai ilmu atau refleksi sistematik atas keseluruhan norma-norma dan penilaian-penilaian, yang digunakan oleh suatu masyarakat untuk mengetahui bagaimana manusia seharusnya menjalani kehidupannya. Buku ini merupakan usaha seorang ahli etika m…
Outline : Tulisan-tulisan dalam buku ini menanggapi situasi kita memasuki abad ke-21. Di alam sekularisasi, apakah kepercayaan pada Tuhan masih mempunyai masa depan? Sekitar 200 tahunlalu, Auguste Comte mempermaklumkan penggantian agama dengan ilmu pengetahuan. Kisah-kisah penciptaan yang diyakini agama kemudian dihantam oleh ajaran Charles Darwin tentang evõlusi: Manúsia keťurunan dari ker…
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 : 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.
The first book of Moses, which has the superscription בראשׁיח in the original, Γένεσις Κόσμον in the Cod. Alex. of the lxx, and is called liber creationis by the Rabbins, has received the name of Genesis from its entire contents...
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 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: 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: A Time and Place, the making of an immigrant, is a book made up of 130 short stories and anecdotes that span the years from war torn Germany 1943 through postwar occupied Germany 1955, as well as the momentous anxieties experienced during the first two years in the New World. The events described in this book are what molded the mind of the author during his formative years and made hi…
Outline: ... "Dalam wayang kita melihat bahwa setiap golongan - dewa, brahmana, satria, punakawan dan lain-lain - mempunyai norma-normanya sendiri. Lebih dari itu, masing-masing pribadi pun entah itu Bima, Kresna, Karna, real Bisma, Destarata atau pun Sengkuni, mempunyai tugas tersendiri yang ditentukan para dewa, masing-masing memainkan peranannya entah luhur entah rendah karena justru itulah …
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 : Tulisan-tulisan yang dikumpulkan dalam buku ini mengangkat masalah-masalah yang menantang kita bangsa Indonesia NOW. Kebangsaan berhadapan dengan kemajemukan, masa lampau dengan saat-saat gelap yang tetap belum berani kita hadapi, ancaman terhadap demokrasi hasil paling bagus reformasi, agama sebagai faktor yang semakin terasa dalam kehidupan bangsa sekaligus dengan ancaman ekstremis…
Outline: Pola kenegaraan modern berkembang bersamaan dengan revolusi ekonomi, sosial, dan budaya yang berlangsung di Eropa Barat tiga ratus tahun yang lalu dan mendapat ungkapan yang paling mengesankan dalam perwujudan masyarakat industrial dan pasca-industrial saat ini. Salah satu pertanyaan inti etika politik dewasa ini terkait dengan legitimasi kekuasaan. Klaim-klaim kenegaraan modern yang b…
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: Karakter khas kemajemukan kehidupan beragama di Indonesia justru menekankan bahwa berteologi terutama harus mulai dari pengalaman sejarah dan kemanusiaan bersama yang di Indonesia sejatinya terbukti bercorak lintas agama. Kemerdekaan tahun 1945 dari belenggu penjajahan tidak bisa dipagari sebagai pengalaman satu agama saja. Bahkan, seluruh agama yang hidup di Indonesia ini menemukan ak…
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.
Outline: In an environment of increasing religious pluralism, the State's responsibility for the protection of equal religious freedom for all is gaining in importance. Yet the more religion tends to assert a public role, the more the State must be able to count on the recognition by religions themselves of religious pluralism and religious freedom also for others. This requires an opening o…
Outline: An important ongoling debate focuses on the present health and well-being of familites in American society. Much of the debate, however, is either ill-informed or consists of rhetoric that attempts to further particular political and social causes. The Family, Religion, and Culture series offers informed and responsible analyses of the state of the American family from a religious p…
Outline: A Christian worldview, the idea of sphere soverignty, opposition to the autonomy of thought, a Free University, our supratemporal selfhood - these and other key ideas of neo-Calvinism all find their source in the Christian theosophy of Franz von Baader. This book traces the history of these ideas from Baader to Chantepie de la Saussaye to Gunning to Kuyper and to Dooyeweerd.
Overview: Buku ini adalah edisi revisi dan diperluas dari buku Apologetika bagi Kemuliaan Allah karya theolog terkemuka Penulis. Di dalam buku ini Penulis memberikan pencerahan mengenai pesan dan metode apologetika yang benar-benar Kristen di dalam aspek pembuktian, pembelaan dan penyerangan.
Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 95, 1976 consists of: 1. Volume 95, No. 1, March 1976; 2. Volume 95, No. 2, June 1976; 3. Volume 95, No. 3, September 1976; 4. Volume 95, No. 4, December 1976.
Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 94, 1975 consists of: 1. Volume 94, No. 1, March 1975; 2. Volume 94, No. 2, June 1975; 3. Volume 94, No. 3, September 1975; 4. Volume 94, No. 4, December 1975.
Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 93, 1974 consists of: 1. Volume 93, No. 1, March 1974; 2. Volume 93, No. 2, June 1974; 3. Volume 93, No. 3, September 1974; 4. Volume 93, No. 4, December 1974.
Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 92, 1973 consists of: 1. Volume 92, No. 1, March 1973; 2. Volume 92, No. 2, June 1973; 3. Volume 92, No. 3, September 1973; 4. Volume 92, No. 4, December 1973.
Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 91, 1972 consists of: 1. Volume 91, No. 1, March 1972; 2. Volume 91, No. 2, June 1972; 3. Volume 91, No. 3, September 1972; 4. Volume 91, No. 4, December 1972.