Overview: In this book, Christian philosophy is described in ters of its relation to such themes and notions as metaphysics, worldview, the limits of knowledge, common grace, Biblical revelation, hermeneutics, and criticism. In the process, the philosopher's relation to society - both the secular world and the Christian community - is discussed. A special effort is made to outline and distingui…
Overview: John Calvin was a man of manysided greatness and it is not surprising that when stress is laid on his work as a theologian and architect of Christian polity tht his homelier qualities as pastor and preacher are overlooked. The author has done good service, in recovering for the English reader, the picture of Calvin at work on sermon preparation and sermon delivery. Here, as in other a…
Outline: Calvin write in an age when traditional Christian thinking was being faced by a challene from lively and attractive alternatives. For many Renaissance thinkers wisdom no longer meant handed-down truth but an ultimate goal which might be reached by many paths, old and new. The way in which Calvin engaged in this struggle is the special interest of this new edition of a book first publis…
Outline: In this book, the author has provided a masterly account of this transition and what it signified for the meaning of Christian theology itself. In the decades preceding the outbreak of the Civil War, American theologians mastered the conceptual languages of republican political thought and commonsense moral reasoning. Because religious thinkers learned to speak these languages so well,…
Overview: One of the most interesting and intriguing aspects of Melanchthon is that as young Reformer he dismissed expositions about the doctrines of the Trinity, the nature of Christ, the incarnation and the creation as speculative, whilst later on he was a strong defender of these Patrisctic doctrines. First Melanchthon's views on the difference between futile speculation and useful knowledge…
Overview: The sermons contained in this volume show how masterfully Luther employed the cardinal principles of effective preaching. The Reformer expounds Scripture wih homespun directness, clarity, and forcefulness. He applies the words of Holy Writ to himself and to his hearers. His sermons abound in vivid and arresting illustrations. Luther gives instruction, reproof, comfort, encouragement, …
Overview: All of the manuscripts available are student notebook versions, and some of them apparently are even conflactions of several such student records. For our limited space we have decided to translate only one of the sources in its entirety, the so-called Altenburg manuscript, and to supply what this lacks from a Zwickau manuscript (Hosea) and from a Wittenberg manuscript (Malachi) in or…
Overview: This Companion brings together new contributions from internationally renowned scholars in order to examine the past, present, and future of Protestantism. The volume opens with an investigation into the formation of Protestant identity, looking at its historical development across Europe, North America, Asia, Australasia, and Afrika. This section includes coverage of leading Protesta…
Overview: Zwingli has been considered by some a 'humanistic rationalist' and by others a Reformer who mixed religion with politics. In fact, Ulrich Zwingli was a typical representative of the entire Reformation movement in the Swiss and South German cities. His once contested interpretation of the Lord's Supper as a celebration of community has been either misinterpreted or forgotten. This volu…
Overview: Each year many new Greek inscriptions and papyri are published. Others are supplemented or revised. For teachers and students of early Christianity and ancient Judaism such documents may be difficult to access and interpret. But they offer fresh insight into the cultural setting of the literary sources. In every case the ancient text is reproduced here. A parallel English translation …
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Outline: Here, the author argues that God's plant is radically more ambitious: he actually created us to work. We are to work together to make the world a better place, to help each other, and so to find purpose for our lives. Our faith should enhance our work, and our work should develop faith. With deep insight, the author draws on essential and relevant biblical wisdom to address our questio…
Outlined: In this book, New York Times bestselling author and renowned pastor Timothy Keller shows how people were changed when they met Jesus personally - and how we can be changed today through our own encounter with him. Originally published as an eSeries, this book focuses on several of these meetings - including with a skeptical student, a religious insider, an outcast, even Jesus' mother …
Overview: Martin Luther's struggle with scholastic theologians after 1517 was soon seen as an important contribution to the already-existing reform movement. Particularly after the Leipzig debate many humanists and other friends of reform began to support him actively. Apart from a party of theologians and mendicants, almost all the learned people in Germany were on his side, at least until the…
Overview: Johannes Theodorus Van der Kemp (1747 - 1811) was the most gifted and controversial figure in the history of Dutch missionary activity. He was well versed in a remarkable variety of fields, including the military, medical and physical sciences, philosophy, theology and modern, classical and eastern languages. His life, in the turbulent period before and after 1800, is marked by a kale…
Outline: This book contains the contributions to the second international conference of the IRTI. Leading theme of the conference was 'Church and Ministry'. Thoughts and experiences, problems and solutions were shared concerning the position of the church and the training of ministers in Reformed Churches. Most of the devotional contributors to the conference have been included in this volume a…
Overview: Eight distinguished theologians and historians, each a specialist in his field, have contributed to this sasil ymposium on the great Reformer. Professor Basil Hall writes on The Calvin Legend and on Calvin Against the Calvinists; Professor F. L. Battles on Calvin and Seneca; J.D. Benoit on Calvin the Letter-Writer and on The Growth of the Institutes; Professor Jean Cadier on Calvin an…
Overview: 'Things are preached not in that they are taught, but in that they are published.' There could be no better epigraph than this observation of Richard Hooker for the wide-ranging anthology within which the editor has brought together the finest flowering of the preacher's art - the art practised over rather more than a hundred years, from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth centur…
Overview: This book is a compilation (except for two chapters) of papers presented at a conference on Menno Simons which was held at Eastern Mennonite College & Seminary on March 23 - 24, 1990. This book also published as a Festschrift in honor of Irvin B. Horst in recognition of the significant contribution which he has made to Anabaptist scholarship, and especially to the research on Menno Si…