Outline : Building on his classic A Theology of Liberation, the world's preeminent liberation theologian addresses some of the challenges that have been raised against this "new way of doing theology" and charts its prospects for the future. Part I of the Truth Shall Make You Free consists of Gutierrez's defense of his work before the theological faculty of the Catholic Institute of Lyons. The …
Outline : Gustavo Gutierrez, the doyen of the Latin American liberation theologians, published his landmark A Theology of Liberation in English in 1973. In The Power of the Poor in History he presents in eight major essays his developing theological insights.
Outline : Gustavo Gutierrez, a Peruvian priest, transformed the theological landscape through his classic work, A Theology of Liberation, which challenged all Christians to hear the gospel message from the "underside of history," the perspective of the poor and oppressed.
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 : Drawing from all of his many published books, as well as little-known essays and several pieces translated specifically for his volume, Gustavo Gutierrez: Essential Writings provides an overview and an entry into the mind of a great modern Christian thinker. Gutierrez has permanently altered the modern theological landscape, challenging all theologians and the world church to hear the…
Outline : Embrace the greatness of our God in the expanse of His creation. Have you ever thought about why the Earth needs the Moon? Do you know how whirlpools form or what makes something glow in the dark? Have you ever wondered how bords learn to sing? Dig you know that there is Someone who knows the answers to these questions and to every question you could ever ask? Psalm 147: 5 says, "Our …
Outline: Science, technology and economic growth motivate our society. Each is carried on with little regard for Christian concerns. Brian Walsh and Richard Middleton yearn for change. They long to see Christianity penetrate the structures of society, reforming and remolding our culture. From scholarship in the universities to politics, business and family life, the Christian vision can transfo…
Outline : With Christian schools and home schooling on the rise as alternatives to government-controlled instruction, parents and teachers need to be reminded anew of the rationale for Christian education. This book recalls the prophetic voices of two educators who were especially qualified to clarify the foundational issues in Christian schooling. Writes volume editor Dennis E. Johnson, "Some …
Outline : Kapan terakhir Anda belajar beroa? Bukan sekadar tahu menjadi lebih banyak tentang doa ataupun rajin berdoa, buku ini mengundang Anda untuk menjadi pendoa yang memperkenan Allah, yang bergaul karib dengan Allah melalui kehidupan doanya.
Outline : This work by Wilfried Harle - long the most widely used German introduction to Christian doctrine - is finally available in English. More than merely a translation of Harle's classic German text, however, Outline of Christian Doctrine tailors the original work to the needs and resources of English-speaking readers around the world. Biblically rooted, contextually sensitive, alert to p…
Outline : Apakah saya harus menikah? Apakah ini pasangan yang dikehendaki Tuhan? Pekerjaan apa yang Allah inginkan bagi saya? Dimanakah saya harus tinggal? Rumah mana yang harus saya beli? Ada begitu banyak pertanyaan yang harus dijawab dan keputusan yang harus diambil. Kita sering ragu-ragu dan tidak berani memutuskan sesu-atu yang berkaitan dengan masa depan, pekerjaan, dan relasi. Bany…
Outline: Inti dari Kurikulum "Kenalkan Yesus Padaku" Allah kita yang berdaulat : Allah - Sang Raja, Penebus, dan Pencipta - kita yang berdaulat adalah fokus dari kurikulum ini. Tujuan hidup kita adalah untuk memuliakan dan menikmati Dia selamanya. Alkitab : Alkitab, dari Kejadian sampai Wahyu, secara keseluruhan merupakan pernyataan dari kisah keselamatan yang berfokus pada Yesus. Melalui kur…
Outline: Inti dari Kurikulum "Kenalkan Yesus Padaku" Allah kita yang berdaulat : Allah - Sang Raja, Penebus, dan Pencipta - kita yang berdaulat adalah fokus dari kurikulum ini. Tujuan hidup kita adalah untuk memuliakan dan menikmati Dia selamanya. Alkitab : Alkitab, dari Kejadian sampai Wahyu, secara keseluruhan merupakan pernyataan dari kisah keselamatan yang berfokus pada Yesus. Melalui kur…
Outline : In the constant changes and transitions of life that so often puzzle us ... where we can see goodness and joy? Ecclesiastes is a book filled with good news for those struggling to make sense of what is happening in life. Why does man madly pursue one thing and then another without meaning? In Coping with Change, noted theologian Walter Kaiser mines the riches of Ecclesiastes to reveal…
Outline: "PREDESTINASI," ide inilah yang memulai perdebatan di antara orang Kristen. Apakah Allah menentukan sebelumnya di mana kita akan berada di dalam kekekalan? R. C. Sproul pernah membenci konsep ini, tetapi pada waktu ia meneliti firman Tuhan secara teliti, maka doktrin yang indah itu pun muncul. Apabila Allah sungguh-sungguh berdaulat, dan apabila manusia telah berdosa secara radikal, ma…
Outline : Do you ever feel like your past is haunting you? Maybe it's a mistake you made that can't be made right or something that was done to you that can never be undone. You see the effects of it in your daily life, but struggle to know how to move forward. Sometimes you manage to forget for awhile, but it feels like you are never completely free of it. Stephen Viars walks through the vario…
Outline : Technology has more benefits than we can possibly list. As Christians, however, we have to look at its negative effects, especially on children. The data is as convincing as it is alarming. Technology is directly responsible for increased teenage anxiety and depression, exposure to pornography, sex trafficking and online predators, screen addiction, and more. What if parents had a fra…
Outline : AIlah pasti punya alasan khusus untuk merancang Kitab Suci-Nya. Allah Sehingga sepertiga seperti dari Perjanjian Lama mencatat peristiwa-peristiwa sejarah. la tidak sekadar menghibur para pecinta sejarah. Sebuah tinjauan tentang masalah-masalah yang mengelilingi raja-raja akan memberi kita beberapa petunjuk. Raja-raja Ibrani ini berkuasa selama empat abad. Seluruhnya ada empat puluh d…
Outline : Kebanyakan keluarga Kristen modern hidup dibayang-bayangi K dengan rasa bersalah gara-gara tidak punya kebiasaan melakukan renungan keluarga secara teratur. One Year of Dinner Table Devotions: 365 Renungan bagi Keluarga Kristen membantu para keluarga mulai membangun tradisi rohani-di meja makan-supaya firman Allah terjalin secara alami di dalam kehidupan dan percakapan keluarga. Sepan…
Outline : Allah telah berfirman dan bertindak di dalam Yesus Kristus. Ia telah mengatakan sesuatu. Ia telah melakukan sesuatu. Itu artinya kekristenan bukan hanya tentang percakapan mengenai kehidupan saleh. Kekristenan bukanlah suatu kumpulan gagasan religius dan bukan juga sebuah katalog yang berisi aturan-aturan. Kekristenan adalah "Injil" (yaitu Kabar Baik) - dalam perkataaan Rasul Paulus: …
Outline : For more than thirty years, The Christological Controversy has been an essential text for courses in theology, church history, and early Christianity. The volume gives modern readers an ideal entry point into the issues by presenting clear, fresh translations of the most important primary sources, along with simple and informative introductions to explain the context of the writings. …
Outline : Editors Denis Alexander and Alister McGrath gather other intelligent minds from around the world to share their startling commonality: Richard Dawkins and his fellow New Atheists were instrumental in their conversions to Christianity. Despite a wide range of backgrounds and cultures, all are united in the fact that they were first enthusiasts for the claims and writings of the New Ath…
Outline : Creation is waking to start a new day. The birds lift their voices. We hear what they say: "Good morning, God loves you!" Being reminded of God's love is the best way to begin and celebrate each day.
Outline : One of the greatest theologians of the twentieth century, Karl Barth is best known for his monumental Church Dogmatics, a work that changed the modern theological landscape. It is less well known that Barth taught three distinct cycles of courses in dogmatics during his lifetime. HIs first effort consisted of a series of lectures at the University of Gottingen in 1924-25. These provoc…
Outline : This book is a major intellectual biography of perhaps the most influential theologian of the twentieth century, Karl Barth. McCormack offers the first full-scale revision of the well-known theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar's seminal interpretation of Barth, which was first published in 1951. Drawing on a wealth of material, much of it unpublished during Barth's lifetime, as well as a…
Outline : This innovative collection seeks to build bridges between the theology of Karl Barth and contemporary American evangelicalism and provide the impetus for moving evangelical engagement with Barth to a new level. The scholarly insights offered here shed much light on current trends in Protestant theology and show how Barth's thought can enrich evangelical interaction with current theolo…
Outline : Recovering a forgotten theologian. Klaas Schilder was a prominent Dutch Reformed theologian, pastor, and professor in the early twentieth century. While his fame spread to North America in the 1940s, he is mostly forgotten today. In The Klaas Schilder Reader: The Essential Theological Writings, readers will rediscover this important Dutch theologian. Working in the tradition of Abra…
Outline : The death and resurrection of Joseph. Towards the end of Genesis, the narrative slows down to tell the story of Joseph. There is no dispute that Joseph's story is unique, but why does it deserve such focused attention? And how does this story relate to the rest of Genesis? In Figuring Resurrection, Jeffrey Pulse presents the view that Joseph is a death-and-resurrection figure. A clo…
Outline : Mental ill-health is far more common than many of us think. Statistics suggest that one in six people will have experienced a mental-health struggle in the past week. That means there are many in our church families battling with thoughts, feelings and even voices that distract them, drag them down and nudge them towards despair. But when it comes to helping, we often find ourselves u…
Outline : The Acts of the Apostle is a substantial book, sitting right in the middle of the New Testament, looking back to the four Gospels and on to the mission of the early church. It provides a framework for our understanding of the letters; but it does more than that. It offers a sophisticated and nuanced view of what it means to think of the gospel of Jesus, Israel's Messiah, going out int…
Outline : For Christians, the Bible is a book inspired by God. Its eternal words are transmitted across the world by fallible human hands. Following Jesus's departing instruction to go out into the world. the Bible has been a book in motion from its very beginnings, and every community it has encountered has read, heard, and seen the Bible through its own language and culture. In the Bible, Bru…
Outline : Perkataan anda, tindakan anda, sikap anda, hidup anda setiap hari mempengaruhi orang-orang lain. Soalnya apakah anda mempunyai pengaruh yang positif dan efektif terhadap orang-orang lain atau sebaliknya. Setiap orang Kristen sepatutnya rindu untuk melayani Tuhan dan sesama. Bagaimana caranya melayani dengan efektif? Ronald W. Leigh, penulis buku ini, dengan latar belakang studinya yan…
Outline : Pelayanan dalam lingkup gereja sering kali dibedakan menjadi dua; pelayanan oleh hamba Tuhan dan oleh orang-orang awam, atau pelayanan purnawaktu dan pelayanan paruh waktu. Sementara, beberapa orang tidak menyadari bahaya dari dikotomi ini, sejarah membuktikan bahwa gereja sering kali kehilangan kuasa dan otoritasnya ketika hanya memberi kesempatan pelayanan kepada mereka yang diangga…
Outline : Buku Seri Katekese Liturgi ini merupakan pengolahan secara baru atas bahan-bahan buku Bulan Katekese Liturgi (BKL) yang diterbitkan oleh Komisi Liturgi Keuskupan Agung Semarang selama 20 tahun, yakni dari tahun 1999 sampai dengan 2018. Pada ulang tahun ke-20 dari BKL inilah, Komisi Liturgi KAS ingin mempersembahkan sebuah terbitan dalam bentuk seri, yang berisi katekese liturgi yang k…
Outline: Spiritualitas reformatoris bukanlah antinomianisme atau suatu sikap yang membuang dan merendahkan hukum-hukum Allah. Spiritualitas reformatoris dengan jelas menjunjung tinggi hukum atau perintah Allah, dan di sisi yang lain tidak menggantungkan keselamatan atas kesempurnaan ketaatan kepada hukum itu melainkan atas kesempurnaan cinta Allah pada manusia sebagaimana yang Yesus ajarkan den…
Outline: Buku ini menyajikan pendekatan yang menyeluruh dan mendalam tentang bagaimana seharusnya agama berperan dalam hubungan sosial-politik di Indonesia. Sebagai teologi publik, Neo-Calvinisme sejalan dan dapat berkembang secara harmonis dengan ideologi Pancasila serta dapat diaplikasikan dalam konteks masyarakat Indonesia yang majemuk. Prinsip-prinsip Neo Calvinisme dapat diandalkan untuk m…
Outline : In Reading Backwards Richard B. Hays maps the shocking ways the four Gospel writers interpreted Israel's Scripture to craft their literary witnesses to the Church's one Christ. Hays demonstrates that it was Israel's Scripture itself that taught the Gospel writers how to understand Jesus as the embodied presence of God, that this conversion of imagination occurred early in the developm…
Outline : While many pastoral ministry books focus on the practical duties of the pastor, few actually consider how theological truth defines the pastor's role and responsibilities. Pastoral Theology constructs a theological framework for pastoral ministry that is biblically derived, historically informed, doctrinally sound, missionally engaged, and contextually relevant. Through careful integr…
Outline : From Book 1: From 1978 to 1998, Pastor A.N. Martin taught Pastoral Theology in the Trinity Ministerial Academy, a church-based ministerial training institution. Every Friday throughout the academic year, all the students would gather for two hours of teaching presented in a four-year cycle. Subsequently various series of the audiotapes were widely circulated. Many expressed their desi…