Overview: This book and its companion volume Moral Theory provide a much-needed alternative to consequentialist orthodoxy. This book focuses the central concepts of traditional morality - rights, justice, the good, virtue and the fundamental value of human life - on a number of pressing contemporary problems: abortion, euthanasia, animals, capital punishment and war. By challenging contempora…
Outline: This book and its companion volume Applied Ethics provide a much-needed alternative to consequentialist orthodoxy. This book set out the basic system used to solve problems, the system that consequentialist deride as "traditional morality" and which they believe is 'dead". The central concepts, principles and distinction or traditional morality are explained and defended: rights, jus…
Overview: In this book, the author offer a comprehensive introduction to philosophy from a Christian perspective. In their broad sweep they seek to introduce readers to the principal subdisciplines of philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, ethics and philosophy of religion. They do so with characteristic clarity and incisivenss. Arguments are clearly presented, …
Overview: David Kelsey's two-volume masterwork, Eccentric Existence: A Theological Anthropology, has been recognized as a major achievement, the culmination of decades of probing theological thought about what is means to be a human being in relationship with God. Ten distinguished scholars respond to and interact with Eccentric Existence in this book, celebrating both Kelsey and his landmark …
Overview: "American Christians are going to have to come to terms with the brute fact that we live in a secular culture, one in which our beliefs make increasingly little sense. We speak a language that the world more and more either cannot hear or finds offensive to its ears." From the inside, American churches are hollowed out by the departure of young people and by an insipid pseude-Christ…
Outline: This book offers a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to Christian theological writing in Western Europe from, roughly, the end of the French Wars of Religion (1598) to the Congress of Vienna (1815). Over the course of more than forty wide-ranging essays, employing a variety of approaches, the authors examine theology from Bellarmine to Johann Semler. They review the major …
Outline: The author presents a major study of the key elements of John Owen's writings and his theology. Presenting his theology in its historical context, the author explores the significance of Owen's work in ongoing debates on seventeenth-century theology, and examines the contexts within which Owen's theology was formulated and the shape of his mind in relation to the intellectual culture …
Overview: This book is a textbook study of the origin, collection, copying and canonizing of the New Testament documents. Like shrewd detectives reading the suble traces of evidence, biblical scholars have studied the trail of clues and pieced together the story of these books. The author tells the story, answering our many questions: - How were books and documents produced in the first cen…
Outline: The author's book is one of these books. When it was first published in 1988, few could predict that this volume would touch off a firestorm. Ironic, indeed, given the simple question on which it is based: What does Jesus mean when he says, "Follow me"? The answer - as MacArthur wrote - may not be what you think. The author tackes the error of easy-believism. Is it possible to acc…
Outline: Luke was a 1st Century doctor and historian. He realised the importance of the carpenter whose family came from an obscure Nazerene village, yet whose life's mission was foretold for centuries before his birth. Luke was concerned to record all that he knew about him and painstakingly collected information from eyewitnesses, giving an accurate account of the most important life in his…
Outline: This superb commentary in the Pillar series explores the meaning and relevance of Matthew in an eminently straightforward fashion. The author writers for readers who use commentaries to discover further what the Bible means. Throughout, the author makes clear what he considers to be the meaning of the Greek text that Matthew has bequeathed to the church. A perceptive introduction pr…
Overview: Buku ini menyadarkan kita, bahwa kemiskinan duniawi yang meliputi kelahiran Jesus di Betlehem mewahyukan penyelamatan umat manusia sebagai karya ilahi yang amat mulia. Cara Allah bukan cara manusia. Dalam buku ini para majus dari timur ditonjolkan sebagai teladan orang yang hatinya gelisah sampai menemukan jalan yang menuju kepada Jesus. Bintang - tanda dari atas - membimbing merek…
Overview: In this volume, the authoer explores how Matthew remodeled the form, the Christological message, and the moral demand of the gospel. Part I shows Matthew's church in crisis. It was experiencing a shift in its Christian existence: from a narrow Jewish-Christian past to a universal Gentile future. To preserve yet reinterpret the particularistic traditions of that Jewish-Christian pas…
Outline: The author offers a rich biblical theology in light of our contemporary culture that contends that Christians should - indeed, must - be engaged in the surrounding culture. By exploring what Scripture has to say about the role of culture and by gleaning insights from a variety of theologians of culture - including Abraham Kuyper, T. S. Eliot, H. Richard Niebuhr, and C. S. Lewis - he c…
Overview: The New Testament books of James through Jude - the General or Catholic Epistles - can be overlooked due to their brevity and location at the end of the canon. They contribute much, however, to our understanding of salvation and Christian living. In this accessible introduction to laypeople, pastors, and study group leaders, the author explains the content of these letters and thei…
Overview: This book is the definitive biography of the central figure of the Protestant Reformation. Published in 1982 in Germany to great acclaim, the book portrays the controversial reformer in the context of his own time. The author argues that Luther is more the medieval monk than history has usually regarded him. Haunted by the devil, Luther saw the world, the author claims, as a cosmi…
Overview: With additional contributions from joint author Arthur Chadwick, this book presents Leonard Brand's continuing argument for constructive thinking about origins and earth history in the context of Scripture, showing readers how to analyze scientific data and approach unsolved problems. Faith does not need to fear the data but can contribute to progress in understanding earth history w…
Outline: How does the rest of the Bible relate to Genesis 1 and 2? Do the various biblical authors portray creation theologies that align or diverge? In this volume, the first of two, ten scholars - each addressing a different section, genre, or topic from the Old Testament - grapple seriously with this question. Collectively, they find that the weight of the textual data of the Old Testame…
Outlined: The book of Genesis has been called "the most important book ever writen." As the first book of the Bible, it is not only contains or anticipates all the biblical truths, it is also the book that, more than any other biblical book, has impacted the whole of Scripture, and theology at large. Without the book of Genesis, the Bible would be incomprehensible. According to the author, "T…
Overview: A new atlas of the European Reformations has been keenly needed. Fortress Press is pleased to offer this book. The atlas is built new from the ground up. Featuring more than sixty brand new maps, graphics, and timelines, the atlas is a necessary companion to any study of the Reformation Era. Concise, helpful text written by acknowledged authorities guides the experience and inter…
Overview: This book has become a standard reference work for Christian psychologists, counselors and pastors and a key text at Christian universities and seminaries. This thoroughly revised edition retains core material on counseling ethics that has made it so valuable in a variety of settings. Now fully updated, it weighs and assesses new and emerging ethical issues in the field. For exampl…
Outlined: Stressing the historical and theological significance of pivotal figures and movements, the author guides the reader through intriguing developments and critical interpretation of the New Testament from its beginnings in Deism through the watershed of the Tubingen school. Familiar figures appear in a new light, and important, previously forgotten stages of the journey emerge. The a…
Outlined: This book provides a fresh approached to the question by examining the works of Plutarch, a Greek essayist who lived in the first and second centuries CE, the author discobers three-dozen periscopes narrated two or more times in Plutarch's Lives, identifies differences between the accounts, and analyzes these differences in light of compositional devices identified by classical schola…
Outlined: From their decades of combined teaching, the authors have produced an ideal resource enabling students to properly read, exegete, and apply the Greek New Testament. Designed for those with a basic knowledge of Greek, this book is a user-friendly textbook for intermedite Greek courses at the college or seminary level. Unique features include: - Practical examples illustrating how k…
Overview: In fourteen chapters on the church's worship, witness and wisdom, the author sets the stage for the recovery of a more biblical imagination that sees every person, thing and event in the light of the one who directs the drama of life: the God of the gospel.
Overview: How do you counsel couples who have a high level of conflict? Utilizing a relational conflict and restoration model, the authors point the way beyond the cycle of pain toward martial healing. This book is a welcome resource to train counselors and therapists who deal with couples often heading toward divorce by the time they look for help.
Overview: Religious communities that possess sacred documents define themselves, at least in part, by how they understand and interpret their sacred texts and how those sacred texs inform the community. The author has brought together thirteen outstanding contributors to this book in order to explore recent understanding of the ways in which the early Jewish and Christian communities of faith…
Overview: "The chain of communication from God to us is strong. It has several solid links: inspiration, collection, transmission, and translations. Together, these four links provide the contemporary Christian with the moral certitude that the Spirit-inspired original text Scripture has been providentially preserved by God, so that for all practical purposes the Bible in our hands is the inf…
Overview: "The New Testament does not develop a systematic doctrine of salvation," writes the author. "Instead, it presents us with a variety of pictures taken from different perspectives." Viewed from different angles salvation may look like living under God's reign, freedom from internal and external forces, or the restoration of broken relationships with God, others, creation and even one's…
Overview: Unsuprisingly, given Sigmund Freud's understanding of religion, the conversation between Christianity and psychoanalysis has been long marked by mutual suspicion. Psychoanalysis originated within a naturalist, post-Enlightment context and sought to understand human functioning and pathology - focusing on phenomena such as the unconscious and object representation - on a strictly emp…
Overview: After years of discussion about the relationship between psychology and theology, it is time to move the discussions to a more intimate level: what actually happens in the Christian counseling office? It is here hat counseling becomes intensely personal, reflecting counselor's spiritual lives as much as their psychological preparation and theological sophistication. This updated lan…