Outline : A groundbreaking book that reveals the hidden architecture of our conversations and how even small improvements can have a profound impact on our relationships in work and life—from a celebrated Harvard Business School professor and leading expert on the psychology of conversation. All of us can struggle with difficult conversations, but we’re often not very good at the easy ones …
Outline: How do you navigate the intersection between faith and your academic discipline? In Faithful Learning, Jacob Shatzer offers an accessible theological primer for Christian educators who desire to understand their disciplines through a theological lens. Each chapter includes doctrinal introductions followed by paradigms that reader can learn from and implement. Ultimately, Shatzer outlin…
Outline : Through God may seem far off, or invisible to your eyes, if you take a look around, then you just might be surprised! God is always working. Cuddle up and connect with your child as you experience the joy and awe of discovering hidden images in the pages of He Is There. With flashlight in hand, kids will clearly see God at work in creation and in their daily lives. Pick up this Shine …
Outline: Fearfully and wonderfully made to be loved, Valuable just 'cause you're you, Uniquely designed, you are one of a kind. Little boy, do you know this is true? Snuggle up and remind your little boy how special and treasured he is.
Outline: "I think the rock on which I had the nearest made shipwreck of the faith was the writings of the mystics," wrote John Wesley to his brother in 1736, eighteen months before his evangelical conversion on Aldersgate Street. Mysticism, in essence, is the belief in a direct and intimate union of the soul with God through contemplation and love. The Mystic believes that one must partake of t…
Modern AI research began on a summer programme at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, in 1956, when a group of academics and students set out to explore how machines could intelligently think.
Before we can define “Judaism” for the purpose of our study of the New Testament, we had best say what we mean by any religion, the genus of which Judaism forms a species (and, we shall argue, with earliest Christianity as a subspecies of that same species of religion). Defining religion comes before defining a particular religion, just as defining a particular religion takes priority over …
The study of human evolution is advancing rapidly. Newly discovered fossil evidence is adding ever more pieces to the puzzle of our past, whilst revolutionary technological advances in the study of ancient DNA are completely reshaping theories of early human populations and migrations. In this Very Short Introduction, Bernard Wood traces the history of palaeoanthropology from its beginnings in …
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: To many, Christianity appears as a Western religion, and missionaries were sent only to export a certain form of Western culture, and not religion or God. In this title, the authors do not claim to have found out answers to all the questions, but they have tried to present the cases of two large world religions - Christianity and Islam. This explicitly, in their historical and theologi…
Outline: Menurut Leon Wood, ada suatu kesinambungan di antara nabi-nabi Israel dari zaman sebelumnya yang tidak menulis kitab-kitab nubuat dengan nabi-nabi dari zaman sesudahnya. Keduanya harus kita pelajari untuk mendapatkan gambaran seutuhnya tentang kenabian Israel. Bukti-bukti yang diajukan oleh penulis untuk mendukung keyakinan ini mewarnai seluruh isi buku yang sangat berarti ini. Perhati…
Outline: Throughout history Christian thinkers have attempted to come to terms with the validity of views of scholars committed to non-Christian views of reality. This book gives twelve case studies of how important Christian thinkers in ancient, medieval and modern times have led the way in relating to non-Christian wisdom. The reader is given a sympathetic insight into the personal struggl…
Outline: John Calvin was a French refugee who ended up in Geneva and all of his life he felt himself a stranger in this city. Because of this, he had particular eye for those passages where the Bible speaks about 'stranger'. The author gives an analysis of Calvin's commentary on the Old Testament passages and deals with the question to what extent Calvin's personal experience influenced his …
Overview: This book contains seven of the author's essential works on the church as it relates to its surrounding culture. Here, the great pastor, theologians, and political lays out the vital mission of the church in the world. These essays call today's Christians to recapture the true calling of the worldwide church: It must be a living and life-giving, yet organized and established, church, …