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…
Overview: In this comprehensive and systematic volume, renowned literary expert the author introduces readers to the specific themes, patterns, and techniques used by the biblical authors. A companion to the author's book, this practical guidebook will equip you to interpret each book of the Bible through the lens of its literary forms and features - helping you faithfully read, understand, an…
Overview: This book, a single-volume introduction to Luther's most influential, noted and important writings in the modern translations - including excerpts of his sermons and letters - presents Luther the theologian "steeped in the word of God, speaking to the whole church," even as it takes the reader straight to Luther the man, to his controversial Reformation insights, to his strongest con…
Overview: Despite the author's earlier theological achievements and writings, it was his correspondence and notes from prison that electrified the postwar world. The materials gathered and selected by his friend Eberhard Bethge in Letters and Papers from Prison not only brought the author to a wide and appreciative readership, especially in North America, but they also introduced to a broad r…
Overview: This book is a classic exposition of what it means to follow Christ in a modern world beset by a dangerous and criminal government. "Every call of Jesus is a call to death", the author wrote. His own life ended in martyrdom on April 9, 1945. Using the acclaimed Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English translation, this new edition features supplemental material from Victoria J. Barnett a…
Overview: This book is the culmination of the author's theological and personal odyssey. Using the acclaimed Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English translation and adapted to a more accessible format, this new edition features an insightful introduction by Clifford J. Green and supplemental material from Victoria J. Barnett. Though caught up in the vortex of momentous forces in the Nazi period, t…
Overview: This book research methods text is updated and streamlined by Johnny Saldana, author of The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers. This new edition presents the fundamentals of research design and data management, followed by five distinct methods of analysis: exploring, describing, ordering, explaining and predicting. Several data displays strategies from previous editions are …
Overview: This book by the author has established itself as THE introductory book on the basics of social research. It provides practical and straightforward guidance for those who need to conduct small-scale research projects as part of their undergraduate, postgraduate or professional studies. This brand new fifth edition has been thoroughly updated and revised throughout and includes new m…
Overview: This concise introductory work explores the essentials of doing theological research and writing. It is a handy companion to assist persons as they begin and pursue theological education. It provides an overview of expectations that both various professors have shared and students have reported over many years as basic wisdom to foster quality theological work. It is a time-tested…
Overview: This book is for people working in ministry and mission who want to conduct research about what they do and the context in which they do it. The authors act as companions guiding readers through the process of doing research, the skills required and the ways of thinking theologically that shape research. By providing real examples as well as theory the authors encourage a realistic …
Outline : This book offers a third option, an affordable and accessible tool that walks students through the process. Its goal is to take students directly from a research assignment to a research argument - in other words, from topic to thesis.
Overview: The Apollos Old Testament Commnetary aims to take with equal seriousness the divine and human aspects of Scripture. It expounds the books of the Old Testament in a scholarly manner accessible to non-experts, and shows the relevance of the Old Testament to modern readers. Written by an international team of scholars, the commentaries are intended primarily to serve the needs of thos…
Overview: In this book, the first in the New Studies in Biblical Theology series, the author challenges the common assumption that the New Testament views sanctification as primarily a process. He argues that its emphasis falls upon sanctification as a definitive event, "God's way of taking possession of us in Christ, setting us apart to belong to him and to fulfil his purpose for us." Simply…
Overview: "The Power of Shame" masuk ke dalam diskusi kontemporer mengenai konsep malu, terutama malu dan hormat adalah bagian integral dari konsep masyarakat Indonesia. Teologi Kristen juga mulanya berasal dari orientasi malu, yang tentunya sesuai dengan konteks masyarakat Indonesia. Namun, dalam perkembangannya, pendekatan dunia Barat yang digunakan dalam penyampaian teologi, dan nanti diba…
Overview: This book presents eighteen commissioned articles on biblical exegesis in early Judaism, covering the period after the Hebrew Bible was written and before the beginning of rabbinic Judaism. The essays, all written by experts in the field, are arranged in seven categories: Hebrew Bible, Rewritten Bible, Qumran Literature, Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments, Wisdom Literature, Hell…
Overview: In this book, the author embarks on a dynamic investigation of the developmental history of orthodox theology and its impact on popular interpretations of the New Testament. Relayed in two parts, the first provides a panoramic view of Hellenic influence on the early Christian faith, while the second revisits biblical interpretation. Writing for both the dedicated Christian student …
Overview: What was Christianity to do with power? Why must Christians act as the voice of the voiceless? How can speaking of God in public to help to create new structures of justice and peace? Those are the central questions running through the author's latest book. Here the author demonstrates the many ways in which faithful interpretation of scripture can throw fresh light on the great …