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…
Overview: The publication of the works of the leading English reformers in 55 volumes by the Parker Society between 1841 and 1855 was undoubtedly one of the major enterprises of evangelical Christianity in the 19th Century. Yet perhaps the very size of the project militated against its popular usefulness, for the 7,000 supporters who annually subscibed one pound were given little guidance as t…
Overview: The subject matter of this dissertation is the role of Scripture in theological ethics. The issue is broached by way of James M. Gustafson, R. Paul Ramsey, and Allen D. Verhey, three representative ethicists on the recent American Protestant scene. The chapters on Gustafson, Ramsey, and Verhey reveal the crucial components of the question, namely, the role of reason, the character of …
Overview: This book examines the thinking of several Reformed theologians on theological issues that are, historically or by content, related to philosophy. Three Dutch autors from succesesive generations are considered in particular: Gisbertus Voetius (1589 - 1676), Petrus van Mastricht (1630 - 1706), and Anthonius Driessen (1684 - 1748). A diversity of issues in Christian doctrine is discusse…
Overview: This book advances the challenging thesis that the Calvinism commonly accepted today is not an accurate representation of Calvin's thinking. This evaluation is presented through a detailed examination of the controversial doctrines of the seventeenth-century French theologian Moise Amyraut, whose Calvinim was chalenged in his lifetime by his own colleagues. The Reformed theologians of…
Overview: In this chapter-by-chapter and verse-by-verse commentary on Isaiah, the author succeeds admirably in making the Prophet Isaiah's meaning and purpose clear. The scholarly and informative general introduction (70 pages) to the book of Isaiah alone is worth the purchase price. As Dr. Unger points out in his Introduction, the author's unusual knowledge of Hebrew makes his work especially …
Overview: This is a historical geography of the land of the Bible that brings together, for the benefit of both the scholar and the general reader, the vast mass of research and exploration that has been done on a country whose origins now fascinate an educated public as never before, the author, himself a scholar of great repute, has converted the details of his own research and that of his co…