Outline: Pada zaman lampau orang percaya bahwa ada kaitan erat antara estetika dan etika, antara keindahan dan keluhuran watak, antara seni dan karakter seseorang. Namun sejak zaman Abad Pencerahan, filsuf Baumgartner membuat pemisahan tanra estetika dan etika yang kemudian diteguhkan oleh Kant. Divisi ini berdampak, setidaknya secara populer, pada pemiskinan pengalaman akan seni dan keindahan …
Outline: This booklet shows that every music reflects a certain of beauty (or ugliness) both in its form and content. The place of music in the church strongly relates to the church's theology of worship. The biblical principles of beauty should permeate the aesthetics of sacred music. With regard to society, we can observe its needs and fallenness through its musical products while at the sa…
Overview: Given the conclusions of recent research, that predestination was no central dogma to, and did not affect the method of reformed theology, this study investigates the question if and how the doctrine of predestination affected the ideas and the practise of preaching. The relation of predestination and covenant, congregation, atonement, faith etc. are researched in the theology and ser…
Overview: This comprehensive, controversial book is for everyone who wants to understand and apply the Bible -- and the New Testament in particular -- in a responsible, well-informed, and God-glorifying way. The author is an able guide, walking readers through a carefully field-tested twelve-stage interpretive process that pastors, scholars, teachers, and laypeople can use with benefit.
- Move…
Overview: For centuries, revivals - and the conversions they inspire - have played a significant role in American evangelicalism. Often unnoticed or unconsidered, however, are the particular theologies underlying these revivals and conversions of faith. In this careful study, church historian the author traces the fascinating story of American revival theologies from the First Great Awakening t…
Outline: This book is for everyone who wants to learn how to observe carefully, understand accurately, evaluate fairly, feel appropriately, act rightly, and express faithfully God's revealed Word, especially as embodied in the Old Testament.
- Follow an extensively field-tested twelve-step process to deepen understanding and shape theology (biblical, systematic, and practical).
- Engage with…
Outline: Here in a convenient daily format are 365 classic hymn texts, along with stories of how they came to be written. Helpful indexes enable you to locate specific titles or hymn writers or to look up hymns on specific topics. This book is an ideal starting point for personal or family devotions.
Outline: The writer shows you how in this book, a layman's guide to understanding the many non-Christian perspectives that influence our culture. This book offers insight on confronting today's moral and social issues with an effective biblical response. The writer first examines the major philosophies that affect the way Americans think and act: Secularism, Existensialism, Humanism, Pragmatism…
Outline: In this book, you will find the beauty of various personalities, character types, and giftedness interweaving the pages of these letters. We are not called to fit into a certain mold but to be helpmeets to our husbands, helpmeets who enable them to serve God more effectively with us at their side than they ever could alone.
Outline: Buku ini berisi perenungan tentang pengenalan akan diri kita dan hidup dalam kebajikan. Renungan-renungan pada bagian pertama mencakup isi identitas, pengudusan emosi, relasi dan kebersamaan, mendambakan Allah, persekutuan dengan Allah dan arti persekutuan Kristen. Bagian kedua dari buku ini berisi pembahasan tentang kebajikan-kebajikan Kristen, dimulai dengan kelemahlembutan dan diakh…
Outline: Buku ini tidak sekedar membicarakan tentang kebahagiaan hidup pernikahan, tetapi juga air mata di dalamnya. Kita harus bisa memandang air mata bukan sebagai hasil usaha kita, melainkan pemberian Tuhan. Bisa meratap dengan jujur dan menangis pun adalah anugerah Tuhan. Dan di tengah-tengah perkabungan inilah, Tuhan memandang kita untuk berharap hanya kepada-Nya. Buku kecil ini merupakan …
Outline: What, according to Christian thought, is the proper function of government? That is the key question this lively volume aims to address. It does not tell readers what to do, still less whom to vote for. Rather, it seeks to equip us to consider what we should be attempting to achieve in our roles as 'political Christians', that is, Christians employed, engaged or simply interested in p…
Outline: The three volumes present the current state of international research on Martin Luther's life and work and the Reformation's manifold influences on history, churches, politics, culture, philosophy, arts and society up to the 21st century. The work is initiated by the Fondazione per le scienze religiose Giovanni XXIII (Bologna) in cooperation with the European network Refo500.
Overview: Psikologi Kepemimpinan: adalah salah satu judul menarik yang telah lama digumuli serta menggugah hati penulis karena perannya sebagai seorang pemimpin untuk mengkaji lebih dalam. Pengalaman dalam memahami salah satu unsur terpenting dalam kepemimpinan adalah unsur manusia itu sendiri. Manusia terdiri dari Tubuh, Roh, dan Jiwa yang berkehendak, berpikir, berperasaan dan berperilaku. …
Outline: How does John Calvin view the church? What is the significance of Pentecost and the consequent work of the Holy Spirit for the formation and restoration of the church in Calvin's commentary on the book of Acts? In his commentary of the Acts of the Apostles Calvin shows how Pentecost and the preaching of the Gospel gives rise to the church. For Calvin and the new and peculiar aspect of …
Overview: The author has had an undeniable impact on Reformed thought. Yet his monumental work of systematic theology has previously been available only in its original Dutch. For the first time ever, you can now access Reformed Dogmatics in English, translated and edited by biblical theologian and Vos expert, Richard B. Gaffin, Jr. You'll gain valuable insight into the formative thought of thi…
Overview: The author has had an undeniable impact on Reformed thought. Yet his monumental work of systematic theology has previously been available only in its original Dutch. For the first time ever, you can now access Reformed Dogmatics in English, translated and edited by biblical theologian and Vos expert, Richard B. Gaffin, Jr. You'll gain valuable insight into the formative thought of thi…
Overview: The author has had an undeniable impact on Reformed thought. Yet his monumental work of systematic theology has previously been available only in its original Dutch. For the first time ever, you can now access Reformed Dogmatics in English, translated and edited by biblical theologian and Vos expert, Richard B. Gaffin, Jr. You'll gain valuable insight into the formative thought of thi…
Overview: The author has had an undeniable impact on Reformed thought. Yet his monumental work of systematic theology has previously been available only in its original Dutch. For the first time ever, you can now access Reformed Dogmatics in English, translated and edited by biblical theologian and Vos expert, Richard B. Gaffin, Jr. You'll gain valuable insight into the formative thought of thi…
Overview: The author has had an undeniable impact on Reformed thought. Yet his monumental work of systematic theology has previously been available only in its original Dutch. For the first time ever, you can now access Reformed Dogmatics in English, translated and edited by biblical theologian and Vos expert, Richard B. Gaffin, Jr. You'll gain valuable insight into the formative thought of thi…