Outline : For many years the theology of liberation, which emerged from Latin America in the 1970s, was viewed with suspicion and even hostility in Rome. In this historic exchange, Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, one of the original architects of liberation theology, and Cardinal Gerhard Müller, current Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, offer a new and positive chapter. Car…
Outline : Nigel Voak examines the genesis and evolution of religious evidentialism in England from 1585 to 1700, a deeply influential epistemology which claims that religious beliefs are only justified to the extent that we have evidence to substantiate them, and that we have an obligation to proportion our assent to the strength of our evidence. Given the propositions of faith lack the evident…
Outline: One Saturday morning, Lucy and her brother, Lewis are each allowed to pick out a piece of candy from the store. But Lucy's delight quickly disappears when she unwraps her chocolate and discovers it melted! Envying her brother's long-lasting lollipop, Lucy spirals into a pattern of discontent: see, covet, take, and hide. Through colorful illustrations and engaging characters, Lucy's sto…
Outline : Too often scholars impose on the past modern terms and theories. This is particularly evident concerning discussions of divine sovereignty and human responsibility, where libertarian and compatibilist notions of freedom obscure older understandings of concurrence. Providence, Freedom, and the Will is one historian’s attempt to help us interpret early modern documents in context with…
Outline: For many adults, the college years are an exciting period of self-discovery full of new relationships, new independence, and new experiences. Yet college can also be a time of personal testing and intense questioning-especially for Christian students confronted with various challenges to Christianity and the Bible for the first time. Drawing on years of experiences as a biblical schola…
Outline: The overarching research question which is answered in this study by means of several different angels is: "What kind of perspectives could an investigation of the Hebrews sermon offer to the homiletical praxis of people living in arduous times?". This study want to indicate and illustrate that the Hebrews sermon offers piercing perspectives for the discipline of homiletics and, moreov…
One of the questions fairly consistently raised by modern studies of Arminius's thought is the question of his relationship to the Reformed tradition and, specifically, to Dutch Reformed theology. To pose the question succinctly, was Arminius Reformed? The answer is quite complex. Arminius certainly understood himself as Reformed—and his appointment both to the pastorate in Amsterdam and to t…
The monograph waited and, in fact, was placed on a "back burner"
while I revised the dissertation for publication as Christ and the Decree
and wrote a Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms, Drawn
Principally from Protestant Scholastic Theology. When I returned to the
project, my bibliography had expanded and my thoughts on the subject had elaborated considerably.
In recent years, ideas of post- and transhumanism have been popularized by novels, TV series, and Hollywood movies. According to this radical perspective, humankind and all biological life have become obsolete. Traditional forms of life are inefficient at processing information and inept at crossing the high outer space. While humankind can expect to be replaced by their own artificial progeny,…
Outline: In this book, Rolland Muller removes the mystique from shame-based cultures. Using the Bible, he introduces us to honor, shame, and fear-based cultures, illustrating their development over the years and demonstrating their influence on our understanding of the gospel message. Muller goes on to illustrate how the 10/40window is made up almost exclusively of shame-based cultures. He then…
Outline: Most cross-cultural church-planting ministries face three critical issues. First, church planters must be accepted as valid messengers. They must be people with credibility that can speak clearly into their listeners' situation. Second, their message must be understandable. Muller explains that everyone has a worldview built from three basic building blocks found in Genesis 3: shame, g…
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: 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…
Outline: This book offers a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to Christian theological writing in Western Europe from, roughly, the end of the French Wars of Religion (1598) to the Congress of Vienna (1815). Over the course of more than forty wide-ranging essays, employing a variety of approaches, the authors examine theology from Bellarmine to Johann Semler. They review the major …
Overview: The Reformed tradition is characterized by a rigorous commitment to theological formulation, yet it is equally known for its commitment for rooting its life and practice in the authority of God's Word. While these two commitments are commonly acknowledged, the path from biblical interpretation to doctrinal formulation is often overlooked. Examining a diverse group of thinkers across…
"Richard Muller, a world-class scholar of the Reformation era, examines the relationship of Calvin's theology to the Reformed tradition, indicating Calvin's place in the tradition as one of several significant second-generation formulators. Muller argues that the Reformed tradition is a diverse and variegated movement not suitably described either as founded solely on the thought of John Calvin…