Outline: Is science the only source of genuine knowledge about the world and ourselves? Is science our only guide to what exists? Scientism answers both questions in the affirmative, and is increasingly influential in the popular scientific literature and intellectual life in general. Yet philosophers have largely ignored it. This edited volume develops and assesses scientism as a serious …
Outline: Does God help those who help themselves? That may seem to be the message of the Books of Esther and Ruth. Some think that Ruth's attractiveness won over Naomi and Boaz, or that Esther's bold faithfulness saved her people. But a closer reading shows an embittered Naomi to have abondened the Promised Land and God's people, and Esther to have become thoroughly assimilated to the cultu…
Outline: The Larger Catechism, so rich in biblical teaching, has been long neglected, even by conservative Prebyterians who embrace it as one of their three standards. This commentary, written in the mid-twentieth century, is being published in book-form for the first time, to encourage the catechism's increased use and study. Because the Larger Catechism supplements the Shorter Catechism on…
Outline: Christians have, for centuries, found unity and solidarity through the confession of faith found in the Apostles' Creed. Many learned it as children, while others only became familiar with it later in life; some can recite it from memory, some in song, but all using the same essential words. Yet, familiar through it is, do we understand its meaning? When we profess these historic w…
Outline: Much has been written on apologetics of the Old Testament canon and historicity, investigating the Old Testament as an object of apologetics. However, this study is the first comprehensive investigation focusing on apologetics within the Old Testament -- i.e., the Old Testament theological foundations of the discipline of Christian apologetics -- investigating apologetics as an objec…
Outline: This book is your passage-way from the twenty-first century to the era of Jesus and the first Christians. A highly readable, one-volume introduction placing the entire New Testament and early Christianity in its original context, it is the only such work from distinguished scholar and author N. T. (Tom) Wright. Bringing together decades of the author's ground-breaking research, writ…
Outline: Get answers and clarity in this authoritative and reliable guide to messianic prophecy from some of the world's foremost evangelical Old Testament scholars. In this in-depth, user-friendly resource you get: - Essays from scholars on the big ideas and major themes surrounding messianic prophecy - A clear and careful commentary on virtually every passage in the Old Testament consid…
Outline: This book investigates humanities, social sciences and politics from the perspective of the concept of creation order. It is the second volume in a series that provides a unique and topical overview of attempts to assess the current health of the concept of creation order within Reformational philosophy when it is compared with other perspectives. Divided into a section on fundament…
Outline: This work provides an overview of attempts to assess the current condition of the concept of creation order within reformational philosophy compared to other perspectives. Focusing on the natural and life sciences, and theology, this first volume of two examines the arguments for and against the beauty, coherence and order shown in the natural world being related to the will or nature…
Outline: This book represents the first Gifford delivered by a New Testament scholar since Rudolf Bultmann in 1955. Against Bultmann's dehistoricized approach, the author argues that, since the philosophical and cultural movements that generated the natural theology debates also treated Jesus as a genuine human being -- part of the "natural world" -- there is no reason the historical Jesus sh…
Outline: The author stretches his project as a radical theologian to new limits in this groundbreaking book. Mapping out his summative theological position, he identifies with Martin Luther to take on notions of the hidden god, the theology of the cross, confessional theology, and natural theology. The author also confronts the dark side of the cross with its correlation to lynching and raci…
Outline: This book makes available over fifty primary source selections that address various challenges to the Christian faith in the history of Christian apologetics. The compilation represents a broad Christian spectrum, ranging from early writers like Saint Paul and Saint Augustine, to Saint Teresa of Avila and Blaise Pascal, to more recent and present-day apologists such as C.S. Lewis, Al…
Outline: In this book, bestselling author Dr. Scott Hahn recovers and conveys the creed's revolutionary character. Tracing the development of the first formulations of faith in the early Church through later ecumenical councils, The Creed tells the story of how the very profession of our belief in Christ fashions us for heavenly life as we live out our earthly days.
Outline: In this illuminating and enlightening new book, theologian the author works line-by-line and phrase-by-phrase through each section of the creed, explaining in clear terms what it means and how it equips Christians to live faithfully in a post-Christian culture. From the nature of the Trinity and the miracle of the Incarnation to the world-shaking truth of the resurrection and the hop…
Outline: The Apostles' Creed has become so familiar to us that we don't think about what we're saying. Christians from different times, places, and traditions have been united by its eternal truths. We believe them, we recite them, but do we build our lives on them?
Outline: This accessible overview walks readers through centuries of creeds, councils, catechisms, and confessions - not with a dry focus on dates and places but with an emphasis on the living tradition of Christian belief and why it matters for our lives today. As a part of the KNOW series, this book is designed not only for personal study or classroom use but also for small groups and Sunda…
Outline: The author believes that for Christians, and for others seeking faith, some powerful answers are contained in the Apostles' Creed, a historic statement of foundational Christian faith. In this compelling study, the author explores not only what Christian believe, but why it matters. In this Youth Study Book, popular youth writer Mike Poteet takes the ideas presented in Hamilton's st…
Outline: The Apostles' Creed is the oldest, most beautiful succint summary of Christian beliefs. Though often recited in unison during worship services, the creed begins with the phrase "I believe," making it a deeply personal profession of faith. But when was the last time you examined it closely? In this book, an excerpt from Growing in Christ, noted Bible scholar and author J. I. Packer …
Outline: John Calvin was a transformative force from modern history, delivering thousands of sermons in Geneva's St. Pierre's Cathedral, where he pastored from 1536 until his death in 1564. What better way to celebrate the 500th anniversary of his birth than for many of today's preeminet Reformed pastors to preach in Calvin's home church? The sermons in this book show how Calvin's theology i…
Outline: This beautifully illustrated, compact volume traces the profile of 48 European cities in early Reformation times. It transports readers across Europe from Spain to Estonia, from Scotland to Romania, passing through many fascinating cities in the Reformation heartland of this continent. With finely drawn historical portraits and abundant pictorial material, the articles by different s…
Overview: The author has written this book because of the crucial theological and practical issues raised by the controversy, and the widespread publicity given to R. T. Kendall's recent book Calvin and English Calvinism to 1649. In being shown the weakness of Dr Kendall's case the reader is given a clear, well-reasoned account of the central themes of Puritan theology - the atonement of Christ…
Overview: This is the first full-length Life of Jonathan Edwards to appear for approaching fifty years. During the intervening period, the Paster of Northampton, Missionary to the Indians in Stockbridge, and President of the New Jersey College (later Princeton), has been widely recognized as the greatest intellectual figure in 18th-century America. Never before has so much material by Edwards, …
Outline: World-Renowned Christia Philosopher. Beloved professor. Author of the classic Lament for a Song. Nicholas Wolterstorff is all of these and more. His memoir, In This World of Wonders, opens a remarkable new window into the life and thought of this remakable man. Written not as complete life story but as a series of vignettes, Wolterstorff's memoir moves from his humble beginnings in…
Overview: Reformed theology today seems to be subject to contrary developments. In some parts of the world the influence of modernist theological currents is on the increase, at the cost of the position of classic Reformed theology. In other parts - especially in the 'younger churches' - the interest in Calvinistics, Reformed theology is growing noticeably. In this context, having an internatio…
Outline: The Teach the Text Commentary Series gives pastors the best of biblical scholarship and presents the information needed to move seamlessly from the meaning of the text to its effective communication. By keeping the discussion in each carefully selected preaching unit to six pages of focused commentary, the volumes allow pastors to quickly grasp the most important information. Each u…