Outline : Drawing on years of teaching experience, James F. White provides a unique, comprehensive overview of Protestant worship. He examines the origins, development, and present characteristics of nine traditions: Lutheran, Reformed Anabaptist, Anglican, Separatist and Puritan, Quaker, Methodist, Frontier, and Pentecostal. To capture the "reality of worship," White looks beyond the printed …
Outline : Should Christians be embarrassed by the book of Revelation? The Revelation of John has long confused and disturbed readers. In The Apocalypse of John among Its Critics, leading experts in Revelation confront the book's difficulties. Each chapter wrestlers honestly with a question raised by the book's critics: Was John a misogynist? Does Revelation delight in violence? Can the book eve…
Outline: Along with a loss of faith in reason and science, the twentieth century witnessed a loss of faith in the human self and society as a whole. Two devastating world wars left scant reason for Enlightenment optimism. Commencing with Frege, Husserl and Bergson, Alan Padgett and Steve Wilkens chart the course of twentieth-century philosophy on its journey toward postmodernism. The voyage is …
Buku ini lebih dari sekedar pengantar. Buku ini melacak serta menguraikan perkembangan praktik dan teologi dari berbagai bentuk ibadah Kristen dalam sejarah kekristenan dan pelbagai tradisi-Protestan, Katolik Roma, Anglikan, Pentakosta dan lainnya. Berbagai praktik ibadah Kristen, seperti doa umum harian, pelayanan Firman, sakramen, inisiasi Kristen, ekaristi, dan tahun liturgi dibahas dan diba…
Outline : The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls altered our understanding of the development of the biblical text, the history and literature of Second Temple Judaism, and the thought of the early Christian community. Questions continue to surround the relationship between the caves in which the scrolls were found and the nearby settlement at Khirbet Qumran. In Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran, Si…
Outline : The Library of New Testament Studies (LNTS) is a premier book series that offers cutting-edge for a readership of scholars, teachers in the field of New Testament studies, postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates. All the many and diverse aspects of New Testament study are represented and promoted, including innovative work from historical perspectives, studies using social-s…
Outline: Kita hidup di zaman di mana banyak orang kurang mempedulikan nilai-nilai kejujuran dan moral. Hani nurani orang-orang tidak peka lagi terhadap apa yang benar dan apa yang salah. Mungkin juga hati nuraninya masih peka, tetapi situasi lingkungan mendesaknya untuk tidak melakukan apa yang benar menurut Firman Tuhan. Sesungguhnya Allah menghendaki supaya hidup orang-orang Kristen berbeda s…
Outline: Melalui pendekatan naratif, buku Atlas dan Sejarah Alkitab ini memaparkan banyak hal menarik, mulai dari sejarah terbentuknya Alkitab (Perjanjian Lama dan Perjanjian Baru), cerita awal mula penciptaan, bapa-bapa leluhur, sampai kisah rasul-rasul Kristus (terutama Rasul Paulus), dan lahirnya Gereja Perdana. Dengan menggunakan temuan-temuan mutakhir dari sejarawan dan arkeolog sebagai su…
Outline: Throughout Scripture the form of expression reminds us of God's gracious approach to us in covenant union, of our infidelity to sworn obligation, and of God's purpose to accomplish his promised purpose in spite of our infidelity. Chapter 4. Since Jesus teaches inerrancy, we may not abondon it. Chapter 5. It is not enough for the Church to know and confess that the Bible is inspired; …
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: The Cambridge History of Christianity offers a comprehensive chronological account of the development of Christianity in all its aspects - theological, intellectual, social, political, regional, global - from its beginnings to the present day. Each volume makes a substantial contribution in its own right to the scholarship of its period and the complete History constitutes a major work…
Outline: This volume deals with with the crucial subject in today's theological debate, the authority of Scripture. Editor Henry in the Preface speaks of this subject as "the watershed of theological conviction." Twenty-four international scholars, under the editorship of Dr. Carl F. H. Henry, Editor of Chritianity Today, give evangelical view on such phases of the subject a ..., inspiration, t…
Outline: A History of Biblical Interpretation provides detailed and extensive studies of the interpretation of the Scriptures by Jewish and Christian writers throughout the ages. Written by internationally renowned scholars, this multivolume work comprehensively treats the many different methods of interpretation, the many important interpreters from various eras, and the many key issues that h…
All religious beliefs prompt rejection. Souls are reincarnated? Ridiculous. The Bible is divinely inspired? Dangerous nonsense. Muhammad is the prophet of God? Poppycock. Jesus rose from the dead? Absurd. It is the common fate of doctrines to be dismissed; you’d almost think that’s what they were made for. But not all beliefs are dismissed in the same way. Some get an airy wave of the hand;…
When the Greek soldiers burst into the city of Troy, Cassandra—who had prophesied it all, who knew what fate awaited her and all the Trojan women—fled to the temple of Athena.
The systematic philosophy presented in this book has arisen from two insights, formulable as two theses, resulting from a long and intensive occupation with the fundamental philosophical conceptions from history and of the present. The first thesis is that, in terms of its intention, self-understanding, and accomplishments, the theoretical enterprise that for over two thousand years has been de…
The An Encyclopedia surveys all aspects of the crusading movement from its origins in the 11th century to its decline in the 16th century. Unlike other works, which focus on the eastern Mediterranean region, this expansive four-volume encyclopedia also includes the struggle of Christendom against its enemies in Iberia, Eastern Europe, and the Baltic region, and also covers the military orders, …
A journey into the imagination of C.S. Lewis explores the themes and life events that contributed to The Chronicles of Narnia, the most enduring classics of children’s literature C.S. Lewis was one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century and arguably the most influential Christian writer of his day. Yet among his poetry, literary history and criticism, novels and Christian apologetics …
What is free speech?; Why does it matter? These are pressing questions. In this book, Alan Haworth outlines and analyses the main arguments philosophers have advanced over the centuries, in an attempt to answer them clearly. He emphasises the strengths but also the weaknesses of those arguments, demonstrating that an understanding of both is essential if one is to to grasp the true nature and v…
This book belongs to a fairly rare genre: that of a natural scientist writing for the general educated public on cultural issues that are only indirectly related to his field of research and teaching. No one nowadays, by contrast, bats an eyelash when academics whose training is in literaiy criticism hold forth on questions of sociology, economics and politics; indeed, such wideranging cultural…
Andrew Dickson White, the first president of Cornell University, devoted much research to the historical conflict between science and religion. His work culminated in this two-volume history which argues that religion was historically opposed to scientific progress. Volume two discusses theories of medicine, mythology, political economy and philology.
Andrew Dickson White, the first president of Cornell University, devoted much research to the historical conflict between science and religion. His work culminated in this two-volume history which argues that religion was historically opposed to scientific progress. Volume one discusses topics including creation, evolution, geography, ethnology and astronomy.
Outline: Peristiwa-peristiwa Perjanjian Baru disajikan dengan latar belakang bermacam-macam pengaruh kebudayaan. ... bangsa Romawi yang memerintah dunia di sekitar Laut Tengah ... bangsa Yunani dengan filsuf-filsufnya yang menghendaki jawaban yang logis untuk persoalan-persoalan hidup ... bangsa Yahudi yang terpecah-belah atas berbagai sekte yang bermusuhan Para penulis Perjanjian Baru mem…
Outline: Challenges to religious liberty are increasingly common today as historical Christianity comes into conflict with a new, secular orthodoxy. In this thoroughly revised second edition of First Freedom, leading evangelical scholars present the biblical and historical foundations for religious freedom in America, and address pressing topics such as: - Religious freedom and the exclusivity…
Outline: When the book of Acts is mentioned, a cluster of issues inevitably springs to mind including speaking in tongues and baptism with the Holy Spirit, church government and practice, and missionary methods and strategies. At the popular level at least, Acts is still often used more for answers to debates that were not necessarily Luke's concern than listened to for his own emphases. Alan T…
Outline: In this addition to the expanding Church Growth Series, Alan Tippett spells out the biblical basis for the concept of church growth held by Dr. McGavran and his colleagues at the School of World Mission and the Institute of Church Growth at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena. The author draws from the promises of God given to Israel in the Old Testament and the messages given to the Church in…
Outline: Thirty-four practical lessons for training young people to think biblically and to uncover the subtle tactics of cult systems. This in-depth study helps equip young people to discern truth from falsehood through six major considerations: Section One: The Deception of the Cults Section Two: Warning Signs of Deception Section Three: Four Common Threads of Deception Section Fou…
Outline: We are increasingly addicted to habits - and devices - that distract and "buffer" us from substantive reflection and deep engagement with the world. And we live in what Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor calls "a secular age" - an age in which all beliefs are equally viable and real transcendence is less and less plausible. Drawing on Taylor's work, the author describes how these re…
Outline: This book offers a fresh look at the ethics of submission, gender roles, and servant leadership in the New Testament. Through his careful interpretation of Paul's letters and broader New Testament teaching, theologian the author shows how Christ's submission to the church models as an appropriate understanding of gender roles and servant leadership. As Christ submits to the church, s…
Outline: The author is an outstanding expert in the interreligious field and has, throughout his career and ministry, built up a high reputation for understanding and dialogue between faith communities. Here, the author deals with the use of Scripture, inclusivism and exclusivism, pluralism and particularism, mission and dialogue. The text phase of Christian thought, he argues, will be shaped…
Overview: This book is the author's summa on making predictions about markets and economies, in theory and in practice. The author offers a thrillingly lucid and empirical argument about what exacty we can and can't know about economic decision making. With his trademark wisdom and nuance, he devises a brand-new economic map, one that intergrates the history of economic prediction, the recent…
Weak ontology: genealogy and critical issues / Stephen K. White -- White noise / William E. Connolly -- The 'weak ontology" thesis / Charles Taylor -- The ideas of individual infinitude / George Kateb -- The politics of avoidance: the limits of weak ontology / Jodi Dean -- Respect for persons / Charles Larmore -- Ontology and narrative / Leslie Paul Thiele -- Ontology: a useful category …
Overview: This book reveals how anybody can learn to sing and how any voice teacher or choral conductor can get anybody to sing, and keep making breakthroughs in singing. With multi-sensory techniques to match and build learning strengths, this book is for any singer from the rank beginner - including those thought to lack the ability - to the experienced and mature singer. Whether for self-gui…
This study presents the evidence, derived from letters and theological works, for theories of Christian friendship as they were developed by the leading fourth-century Church Fathers, both in East and West. The author attempts to find out how consistent and positive is the picture of friendship between Christians at the time, and considers friendship in the context of the relation between pagan…