Overview: Covering everything from Abba to Zwingli, this book offers a comprehensive account...
Outline : The New Testament is complicated. Have you ever wanted an expert who understand it thoroughly to lay it out for you in a clear, easy-to-comprehend way? In The Visual Word, Bible scholar Patrick Schreiner depicts the contours of the New Testament in a visual format alongside clear summaries of each book. This approach brings Scripture to life because you can see it pictured before your…
Outline: John Anthony McGuckin, one of the world's leading scholars of ancient Christianity, has synthesized a lifetime of work to produce the most comprehensive and accessible history of the Christian movement during its first thousand years. The Path of Christianity takes readers on a journey from the period immediately after the composition of the Gospels, through the building of the earlies…
Outline: Pendamaian, dan signifikansinya bagi kematian Kristus di atas salib, adalah doktrin yang sayangnya semakin dijauhkan dari fokus gereja-gereja Injili modern. Namun Richard Phillips menyatakan bahwa pendamaian adalah berita yang niscaya bagi keselamatan Kristen. Segera setelah kita mengajukan pertanyaan seperti "Bagaimana Yesus merupakan Kristus?", "Mengapa kita membutuhkan Juruselamat?"…
Outline: Resonant Witness gathers together a wide, harmonious chorus of voices from across the musical and theological spectrum to show that music and theology can each learn much from the other - and that the majesty and power of both are profoundly amplified when they do. With essays touching on J. S. Bach, Hildegard of Bingen, Martin Luther, Karl Barth, Oliver Messiaen, jazz improvisation, S…
Outline: The promise and peril in reading the Minor Prophets. Reading the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets confronts the unique challenges presented by this daunting section of the Old Testament. Authors from a variety of perspectives consider questions about hermeneutics and composition, reception history, theodicy, metaphors and characterization, and theology. These essays provide insights …
Outline: This comprehensive course provides intermediate students (TOEFL test scores 380 - 480) with the skills, strategies, practice, and confidence they need to improve their scores on all sections of the paper TOEFL test, including the Test of Written English (TWE). The Introductory Paper Test Book features: - Language skills sections that cover the intermediate-level language skills regul…
The Blackwell Bible Commentaries series, the first to be devoted primarily to the reception history of the Bible, is based on the premise that how people have interpreted, and been influenced by, a sacred text like the Bible is often as interesting and historically important as what it originally meant. The series emphasizes the influence of the Bible on literature, art, music, and film, its ro…
The subject of Being is one of the most important of all philosophical concerns. St Thomas Aquinas was one of the greatest of all philosophers. It will be the aim of this book to show that on this crucial topic this first-rank philosopher was thoroughly confused. The project may well seem a bizarre one, and to need explanation at the outset. The explanation will take an autobiographical form
This is Volume V of nine in the Studies in Ethics and the Philosophy of Religion collection. The Series is meant to provide an opportunity for philosophical discussions of a limited length which pursue in some detail specific topics in ethics or the philosophy of religion, or topics which belong to both fields. A draft of this book was delivered as a lecture course at Oxford over the terms of 1…
Sir Anthony Kenny tells the fascinating story of the birth of philosophy and its remarkable flourishing in the ancient Mediterranean world. This is the first of four volumes in which he unfolds a magisterial new history of Western philosophy. Specially written for a broad popular readership, but serious and deep enough to offer a genuine understanding of the great philosophers, Kenny's lucid an…
Here is the concluding volume of Sir Anthony Kenny's monumental four-volume history of philosophy, the first major single-author narrative history to appear for several decades. In this volume, Kenny tells the fascinating story of the development of philosophy in the modern world, from the early nineteenth century to the end of the millennium.
Sir Anthony Kenny's engaging new multi-volume history of Western philosophy now advances into the modern era. The Rise of Modern Philosophy captures the fascinating story of the emergence, from the early sixteenth to the early nineteenth century, of the great ideas and intellectual systems that shaped modern thought.
Sir Anthony Kenny here continues his fascinating account of the history of philosophy, focusing on the thousand-year-long medieval period. This is the second volume of a four-book set in which Kenny will unfold a magisterial new history of Western philosophy, the first major single-author history of philosophy to appear in decades.
What does it mean to forgive? The answer is widely assumed to be self-evident but critical analysis quickly reveals the complexities of the subject. Forgiveness has traditionally been the preserve of Christian theology, though in the last half century - and at an accelerating pace - psychologists, lawyers, politicians and moral philosophers have all been making an important contribution to ques…
I have described the aims, scope, and main arguments of this volume in the Introduction. There I have also suggested the range of readerships to which these are primarily directed. Nevertheless particular readers may be drawn more readily (at least initially) to certain specific chapters. The Introduction may well invite attention from the viewpoint of all interests. Those with more immediatel…
Outline: Dunia yang kita huni ini tidak berumur panjang. Indikasi ke arah itu banyak sekali: banjir, gelombang panas, lubang ozon, el nino dan la nina. Ia di ambang kepunahan, andaikata para penghuninya tidak cepat-cepat mengambil sikap konstruktif dan terpadu secara global. Bagaimana kita dapat menghindari kesemuanya ini? Secara deskriptif buku ini menyajikan berbagai masalah yang sedang terja…
Outline: Biografi Jusuf Tjitra atau Soe Yong Tje, sebuah catatan dan kesaksian tentang kehidupan seorang perintis gereja dan sekolah, yang juga merupakan bagian dalam mozaik sejarah Tanah Papua dan pelayanan Kristen di Tanah Papua.
Outline: David is more than a great hero, a man of faith, and a model of Christians to follow. He is one of the most important Old Testament types of Jesus Christ. It is an anointed one - called and provided by God to lead Israel - that David plays his chief role in redemptive history and makes his distinctive contribution in preparing God's people for the Anointed One, the Messiah who comes to…
Outline: Today's Church growth is centered Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and evangelicalism must adapt to changing demographics or risk becoming irrelevant. Yet many evangelicals behave "tribally," valuing the perspective of only those like themselves while also denying any evidence of racial attitudes in the church. Anthony Bradley has gathered scholars and leaders from diverse "tribes" - b…
Outline: This paper is one in a series called "Research Notes and Discussions", published at regular intervals by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Each number represents either the summary of discussions or the tentative results of ongoing research, circulated for the purpose of stimulating further thought on the issues concerned. Because of the nature and objective of this series, eve…
Outline: Blessed through God's anointing, King David binds together a broken nation and gives his people victory - until, distracted, he is overcome by sin. The sword of God's judgment then falls on David and his house, but even as David is humbled, he returns penitently to the Lord. Richard Phillip's expository commentary carries us with David up to the heights and down to the depths, noting t…
Outline: The Bible is both a divine and a human book. It is the inspired word of God for his people. whether in biblical times or for the church today. It is also a fully human book, written by different people in a variety of cultural settings. Knowledge of biblical language and society is essential if the meaning of the human writer is to be grasped fully. The Apollos Old Testament Commentary…
Outline: Explaining The Trinity to Muslims. This book is a culturally relevant presentation of the truth of the Trinity to the Muslim mindset. Originally it was issued through a Turkish secular publishing house and had a countrywide repercussion, even in Islamic circles. It is a useful presentation for both Muslim and Christian readers, providing fundamental keys for understanding and explainin…
Outline: Anthony Thiselton's lengthy New International Greek Testament Commentary volume The First Epistle to the Corithians (2000) has become a standard work on 1 Corinthians. In this "shorter" commentary Thiselton draws on his excellent exegesis from that volume but combines it afresh with keen practical and pastoral application for readers at all levels. Thiselton delves deeply into the cont…
Outline: Emotional Quality Management "Enlightening, Enabling & Enhancing Your Life Through Emotional Power" Sebuah buku inspirasional bermutu mengenai penerapan kecerdasan emosional dalam konteks bisnis Indonesia. Buku ini ditulis dengan gaya penulisan yang penuh anekdot, kisah nyata serta cerita inspirasional disertai foto dan lukisan yang memberikan makna mendalam mengenai cara mengelola kek…
Outline: Ketika para murid mendekati Tuhan berkenaan dengan masalah doa, mereka tidak berkata "Ajarilah kami cara berdoa," melainkan, "Ajarilah kami berdoa." Jelaslah bahwa bahkan orang-orang yang dekat dengan Kristus sendiri juga perlu belajar untuk berdoa. Termasuk kita. Di dalam buku ini, beberapa guru dan ekspositor Alkitab yang terbaik memberi instruksi mengenai doa, mulai dari mengapa per…
Outline: The figure of Jesus is as enigmatic as he is influential. Is the man uncovered by historians really the same as the Christ of faith? And how did an obscure provincial religion become one of the most enduring movements in the world? From the siginificance of Jesus in his own time, in a world shaped by Greek philosophy, the Jewish expectation of a Messiah and the Roman deification of…
Outline: This book assembles the core of his most important writings and allows us to appreciate both the range of his interests and the scale of his achievement. Here is an unprecendented, comprehensive overview of the author's thought.
Overview: Sejak malam Yesus menetapkan Perjamuan Kudus atau Perjamuan Kudus, sakramen ini telah memainkah peran sentral dalam iman dan praktik gereja. Itulah mengapa sungguh aneh bahwa begitu banyak orang percaya yang hanya memberikan sedikit pemikiran mengenai Perjamuan Kudus. "Mereka jarang menjalankannya dan tidak memberi banyak signifikansi padanya," tulis penulis. "Mereka umumnya tidak…
Outline: Sebagai seorang perwira tentara yang menjadi gembala sidang, Penulis sangat mengenal kematian dan dapat menangani topik yang sulit ini dengan jelas dan cermat. Sesudah menggambarkan tanggapan yang benar terhadap kematian yang diteladankan oleh Yesus dan orang-orang Kristen yang terkemuka, Penulis memberikan penjelasan yang setia kepada Alkitab mengenai apa yang dapat kita harapkan di…
Outline: Interest in political theology has surged in recent years, and this accessible volume provides a focused overview of the field. Many are asking serious questions about religious faith in secular societies, the origin and function of democratic polities, worldwide economic challenges, the shift of Christianity's center of gravity to the global south, and anxieties related to bold and …
Outline: The author's volume, like the others in the series, contains the text in the NEB translation, with introductory material preceding it, and a commentary directly following each section of text. The author explains the nature and function of the whole book, its place in Jewish religious history and thought, and among the Old Testament books, and its continuing relevance today.
Overview: Melalui kisah Anselm ini, Penulis menggambarkan bagaimana situasi hidup pada masa abad pertengahan Eropa Barat. Para pembaca muda akan belajar tentang relasi antara gereja dan negara yang penuh gonjang-ganjing selama era ini. Di samping itu, mereka akan belajar signifikansi tulisan Anselm berkenaan dengan mengapa Allah menjadi manusia dan relasi antara iman dan akal budi.
Overview: Covering everything from "Abba" to "Zwingli," this book offers a comprehensive account of a wide sweep of topics and thinkers in Christian theology. Written entirely by eminent scholar, the book features a coherence lacking in most multi-authored volumes. Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge, gained from fifty-plus years of study and teaching. The author provides some six hundred …