Outline: Mematahkan mitos. Ketika mendengar tentang pelipatgandaan jemaat, orang mungkin berbisik, "Pelipatgandaan jemaat, orang mungkin berbisik, "Pelipatgandaan jemaat mungkin kedengarannya sesuatu yang baik, namun pasti diperlukan banyak dana, terutama untuk pendidikan khusus, organisasi yang rumit, dan kepemimpinan eksekutif tingkat tinggi, dan bangunan yang mahal. Itulah mito yang beredar,…
Outline : Psikoterapi, Kesehatan mental, Psikologi & Psikiatri; Agama & Pelayanan Pendampingan Pastoral; Pernikahan dan Keluarga Buku ini berisikan materi pelayanan konseling berikut kasus, catatan, kegiatan, dan pekerjaan rumah yang sangat membantu pemulihan klien Anda Orang Kristen dihadapkan pada berbagai masalah yang juga dialami oleh orang lain di sekitamya. The Christian Therapist's Not…
Outline: Pertanyaan "Apakah Tuhan ada?" selalu mengusik para filsuf dari segala zaman. Sebagian menunjukkan berbagai macam argumen untuk mendukung jawaban afirmatif. Akan tetapi, sebagian lainnya secara skeptis menanggapi jawaban dan argumen tersebut. Graham Oppy adalah kelompok filsuf yang kedua. Di dalam buku ini, Oppy mengevaluasi argumen-argumen yang mendukung dan menentang keberadaan Tuhan…
Outline: The voice of God is a heartbeat away. In Fearfully & Wonderfully Made, Dr. Paul Brand and Philip Yancey revealed how God's voice is encoded in the very structure of our bodies. In His Image takes up where its predecessor left off, beckoning us once again inward and onward to fresh exploration and discovery. Brand and Yancey show how accurately and intricately the human body portrays th…
Outline: Alkitab mengatakan ada suatu masa ketika Allah dan Adam berjalan bersama di Taman Eden dan berbicara sebagai sahabat. Lalu, doa pun menjadi sama alaminya seperti obrolan dengan seorang rekan atau kekasih. Namun, kini banyak di antara kita yang menyuarakan komentar seperti ini: "Saya tidak selalu bersikap jujur saat berdoa. Kadang hal itu terasa seperti dipaksakan, mirip semacam ritua…
Outline: The apostle Paul has been justifiably described as the first and greatest Christian theologian. His letters were among the earliest documents to be included in the New Testament and, as such, they shaped Christian thinking from the beginning. As a missionary, theologian and pastor Paul's own wrestling with theological and ethical questions of his day is paradigmatic for Christian theol…
Outline: At the heart of the earliest Christian self-understanding, explicit or implicit in much Christian use of the Old Testament, and crucial for Christian theology and interpretation, the concept of "messiah" in the Old Testament has, however, been eclipsed by the pursuit of other goals in Old Testament studies. Few recent sustained treatments have appeared from any school of thought. The L…
Outline: How to Read and Teach Literary Genres from Scripture. To properly preach God's word, pastors must discern its specific literary nature. Many preachers, however, treat the Bible as a single genre and fail to do justice to each text. As a result, congregations over the years have lost this critical component to understanding Scripture. Douglas Sean O'Donnell and Leland Ryken distill more…
Outline: Because of the nature of his moral principles the therapeutic is, according to the author, the basic revolutionary type of our time, cutting across all lines that divide men in the social order. He is the true unbeliever, the postulant of an anticreed, using all faiths or none in the systematic pursuit of his sense of well-being. Philip Rieff's commanding study Freud: The Mind of the M…
Outline : Institutio Christianae Religionis, yang merupakan magnum opus John Calvin, terbitpertama kali pada tahun 1536 sebagai buku ringkas untuk menjelaskan iman Kristenyang alkitabiah dan mendasar. Sejak kemunculannya, Institutio menjadi buku yangmenentukan di dalam Reformasi dan pilar dari theologi Protestan dan segeraditerjemahkan ke dalam berbagai bahasa. Calvin memperluas isi Institutio …
Outline : Institutio Christianae Religionis, yang merupakan magnum opus John Calvin, terbitpertama kali pada tahun 1536 sebagai buku ringkas untuk menjelaskan iman Kristenyang alkitabiah dan mendasar. Sejak kemunculannya, Institutio menjadi buku yangmenentukan di dalam Reformasi dan pilar dari theologi Protestan dan segeraditerjemahkan ke dalam berbagai bahasa. Calvin memperluas isi Institutio …
The Byzantine Empire regarded itself as a continuation of the Roman Empire, differing from it only in being Christian in religion and Greek in language. No elements in its coinage, however, apart from the use of Latin in its inscriptions, go back before the fourth century.
This book represents the culmination of reflection over many years. Some of the ideas in it go back to the time of my doctoral studies in Oxford in the early 1980s especially my conviction that the historical investigation of what messages the New Testament authors conveyed to their original audiences must have theological significance when the texts are read in a Christian context today. Yet t…
JAMES A. FROUDE ENDED HIS MEMORABLE LECTURES ON ERASMUS at Oxford 1 in 1894 with the declaration that if you would understand the sixteenth century, "I believe you will best see it as it really was, if you will look at it through the eyes of Erasmus." "The eyes of Erasmus"—the pale blue, the frosty twinkle, the hooded reticences—how well we seem to know them, and how much do they proclaim t…
History and Interpretation is a collection of seventeen essays on the Old Testament and the history of ancient Israel and commemorates the sixtieth birthday of John H. Hayes, Professor of Old Testament at Candler School of Theology (Emory University). All the contributors were Hayes's doctoral students at Emory, and their essays cover a wide range of topics that reflect their teachers own schol…
Radical Orthodoxy is a new wave of theological thinking that aims to reclaim the world by situating its concerns and activities within a theological framework, re-injecting modernity with theology. This collection of papers is essential reading for anyone eager to understand religion, theology, and philosophy in a completely new light.
Is the Christian church in Europe doomed to collapse under the weight of globalization, Western secularism, and a flood of Muslim immigrants? Is Europe on the brink of becoming "Eurabia"?Though many pundits are predicting just such a scenario, God's Continent reveals the flaws in these arguments and offers a much more measured assessment of Europe's religious future. While frankly acknowledging…
Esler's innovative proposal features a cutting-edge combination of theology, exegesis, and social analysis. He argues for new thinking about New Testament theology in light of the early social history of Christian communities. His detailed analysis of Paul's letters to the Romans and 1 Corinthians validates his thesis and clarifies its significance for scholarship. Using both the tradition of "…
The main lines of inquiry pursued in this book are nearly all foreshadowed in the lengthy, wide-ranging Chapter 2, ‘Jesus and Gospel’. Here I explore the origin and the varied meanings of the ‘gospel’ word group all the way from its use by Jesus to refer to his own proclamation to its use as the title of a ‘book’ containing an account of the words and deeds of Jesus.
Beginning with an account of how Christian theology is called upon to read the signs of the time, Cities of God traces the shift in urban culture in North America and Western Europe that took place in the 1970s. The modern sites of eternal aspiration and hope became the postmodern cities of eternal desires. The old, modern theological responses to the city become unbelievable and inadequate, ne…
An exploration of Augustine's treatment of language in his Confessions - a major work of Western philosophy and literature, with continuing intellectual importance. Philip Burton traces the role of language in Augustine's career, up to his reinvention of himself as a Christian intellectual, commentating on Scripture and preaching to his flock.
In this work Jenkins takes a closer look at Christianity in the global South, revealing what it is like, and what it means for the future. The faith of the South, Jenkins finds, is first and foremost a biblical faith. Indeed, in the global South, many Christians identify powerfully with the world portrayed in the New Testament.
How, in this Christian age of belief, can we draw sense from the ritual acts of Christians assembled in worship? Convinced that people shape their meanings from the meanings available to them, Graham Hughes inquires into liturgical constructions of meaning within the larger cultural context of late twentieth-century meaning theory. Major theories of meaning are examined in terms of their contri…
What happens when a respected Christian journalist decides to put his preconceptions aside and take a long look at the Jesus described in the Gospels? How does the Jesus of the New Testament compare to the ''new, rediscovered' Jesus -- or even the Jesus we think we know so well? Best-selling author Phillip Yancey says, 'The Jesus I got to know in writing this book is very different from the Jes…
Religion has influenced human culture since prehistory, shaping everything from the politics of war and peace to notions of morality and issues of sex, reproduction, and family. On an individual level, it has also offered people a sense of meaning, purpose, and comfort, and even today, when science appears to offer answers to many of the world's conundrums, faith persists and many religions--in…
"The History Book is a fascinating journey through the most significant events in history and the big ideas behind each one, from the dawn of civilization to the lightning-paced culture of today. One hundred crystal-clear articles explore the Law Code of Hammurabi, the Renaissance, the American Revolution, World War II, and much, much more, bringing the events and people of history to life. As …
This work by Graham Ward contains nine interrelated studies of representations of Christ. Drawn from sources as diverse as the New Testament and twentieth-century continental philosophy. Ward develops his own original incarnational theology. From his exploration of contemporary categories such as the body, gender, desire, politics and the sublime, a Christology emerges that is both rooted in Sc…
Throughout history, the church has recognized the importance of studying and understanding God’s attributes. As the Creator of all things, God is unique and cannot be compared to any of his creatures, so to know him, believers turn to the pages of Scripture. In The Attributes of God, renowned theologian Gerald Bray leads us on an exploration of God’s being, his essential attributes, his re…
Outline: "Tidak ada yang bisa kita lakukan untuk membuat Allah lebih mengasihi kita. Tidak ada yang bisa kita lakukan untuk membuat Allah mengurangi kasih-Nya pada kita." Kita sering berbicara tentang kasih karunia. Tapi apakah kita memahaminya? Lebih penting lagi, apakah kita benar-benar mempercayainya ... dan apakah hidup kita menunjukkannya sekuat ucapan kita? Dalam bukunya yang paling prib…
Outline : Sebuah cara pandang baru terhadap Kasih. Kebanyakan orang tidak asing dengan "Pasal Kasih" di dalam Alkitab, yaitu 1 Korintus 12, tetapi di sini Phil Ryken memiliki sesuatu yang baru untuk disampaikan. Berangkat dari teladan hidup dan pelayanan Yesus, untuk menggambarkan apa kasih itu dan apa yang bukan kasih, Ryken menyodorkan sebuah perspektif unik dalam menyoroti perikop yang cukup…
Outline : Pulau-pulau dan pantai-pantai Asia Tenggara, dari Semenanjung Malaya, Indonesia, sampai Filipina—dalam buku ini diistilahkan “Nusantaria”—adalah kawasan kebudayaan maritim terbesar di dunia, dan sejak dulu menjadi pusat perdagangan dan pelayaran. Nusantaria merupakan satu kawasan dengan identitas budaya, bahasa, dan etnis Austronesia, bangsa pelaut dengan tradisi arung samudra…
Outline : Perenungan yang menyukakan hati dan penantian penuh rindu menandai masa Natal ketika orang-orang Kristen di seluruh dunia merayakan kedatangan Juruselamat mereka. Di dalam buku Good News of Great Joy, John Piper mengundang para pembaca untuk memfokuskan hati mereka kepada Yesus selama masa Adven. Masing-masing dari 25 bacaan harian di dalam buku ini menekankan sebuah ayat Alkitab dan …
Outline: In the midst of a troubled world, Christians believe in a good God who, as the Creator, has never lost interest in his broken creation. The key evidence for, and the chief symbol of, this divine commitment is the cross of Christ. This God, revealed in Scripture, has a project : and central to the divine strategy is Christ, his coming and his cross. The troubles and calamities will end.…
Outline: The questions and answers in this book are categorized under five main headings: Human relationships, Spiritual concerns, Psychological problems, Ethical issues, Biblical questions. Because this book responds directly to the heartfelt concerns of everyday people, this collection has the practical relevance that makes for compelling reading. The author's understandable and usable adv…
Outline: Dalam buku ini, Kevin Vanhoozer memperkenalkan pembaca kepada cara berpikir tentang theologi Kristen yang membawa usaha yang dimulainya dari buku Drama Doktrin ke tingkat berikutnya. Vanhoozer berpendapat bahwa theologi bukan hanya seperangkat keyakinan kognitif, tetapi juga melibatkan ucapan dan tindakan. Dia menggunakan model teater untuk menjelaskan cara doktrin membentuk pemahaman …
Outline: By the year 2050 only one Christian in five will be non-Latino and white, and the center of gravity of the Christian world will have shifted firmly to the Southern Hemisphere. The Next Christendom is the first book
Outline: This is a sociological religious study of popular religion in East Java in Indonesia. SRI is the Spirit of Javanese rice cultivation, the power within the life of thousands of Javanese people. It is the encounter between SRI and Christ that Professor van Akkeren investigates. "In many ways the life of the churches of Indonesia" says the editor's introduction "presents special features …
Outline: Is this book for you? Do you remember that number displayed on the television screen during Billy Graham Crusades? The Billy Graham Christian Worker's Handbook was developed for the people who answer those calls - at various telephone ministry centers around the nation. Either you or someone you know may have volunteered at one of those centers. The Handbook has also been used by numer…
Outline: Sejarah Filsafat dan Theologi Barat adalah buah karya John Frame selama empat puluh lima tahun mengajar mata pelajaran filosofis. Tidak ada survei lain tentang sejarah pemikiran Barat yang menawarkan perpaduan yang menyegarkan antara kejelasan eksposisi, wawasan kritis, dan hikmat alkitabiah. Rangkaian pertanyaan studi tambahan, bibliografi, tautan ke kuliah audio, kutipan dari para pe…
Outline: "Wah, kita punya beberapa petualangan menarik," kata Philip Yancey kepada istrinya di atas pesawat. Ia mengutarakan hal ini setelah ia harus membatalkan kegiatan tur buku di Mumbai, India, tahun2008, setelah sekelompok teroris menyerang hotel tempatnya menginap dan 10 tempat berbeda di sana. Kota tersebut berada dalam kondisi siaga setelah 165 orang tewas. Philip Yancey pun mulai membu…
Outline: Kitab Sejarah adalah salah satu judul dari enam buku pelajaran yang membahas Perjanjian Lama dan Baru, yang semuanya ditulis oleh penulis-penulis yang sudah sangat berpengalaman dalam mengajar mahasiswa tahun pertama dan kedua pada pembelajaran tingkat universitas. Buku ini memberikan penjelasan yang memungkinkan mahasiswa untuk berinteraksi dengan teks Alkitab secara langsung, dan tid…