Overview: This book, is a complete revision of the monumental 1967 edition and of its 1996 Supplement. The ten-volume set presents readers with the finest classic entries from the first edition, along with hundreds of new entries written by the world's premiere philosophers and philosophical scholars. Including expansive coverage of traditional and enduring topics - like Aristotle, the Greek…
Overview: This book, is a complete revision of the monumental 1967 edition and of its 1996 Supplement. The ten-volume set presents readers with the finest classic entries from the first edition, along with hundreds of new entries written by the world's premiere philosophers and philosophical scholars. Including expansive coverage of traditional and enduring topics - like Aristotle, the Greek…
Overview: This book, is a complete revision of the monumental 1967 edition and of its 1996 Supplement. The ten-volume set presents readers with the finest classic entries from the first edition, along with hundreds of new entries written by the world's premiere philosophers and philosophical scholars. Including expansive coverage of traditional and enduring topics - like Aristotle, the Greek…
Overview: This book, is a complete revision of the monumental 1967 edition and of its 1996 Supplement. The ten-volume set presents readers with the finest classic entries from the first edition, along with hundreds of new entries written by the world's premiere philosophers and philosophical scholars. Including expansive coverage of traditional and enduring topics - like Aristotle, the Greek…
Overview: In this book, the author explains how to preach so that the powerful message of the Bible penetrates the daily lives of your congregation. While we need to be intimately acquainted with Scripture, we also need to understand the context which we preach. Some preach sermons firmly grounded in Scripture, but the message will fall flat if it is not contextually applied. Others excel at…
Overview: This book is the fruit of the first ever interdisciplinary international scientific conference on Mathew's story of the Star of Bethlehem and the Magi, held in 2014 at the University of Gronigen, and attended by world-leading specialists in all relevant fields: modern astronomy, the ancient near-eastern and Greco-Roman worlds, the history of science, and religion. The scholarly discu…
Overview: This book of the author presents a comprehensive defense of the thesis that the Synoptic Gospels present Jesus not as divine but as an idealized human figure. Counterbalancing the recent trend toward early high Christology in such scholars as Richard Bauckham, Simon Gathercole, and Richard Hays, the author thoroughly unpacks the humanity of Jesus as understood by Gospel writters wh…
Overview: This nonpartisan handbook explains that we need to develop habits of wise reflection if we are to engage faithfully with our political communities. To do so, we need to identify the key commitments of our faith that connect with contemporary public issues, understand the roots of those commitments, and learn what sorts of questions to ask when applying those values to the concrete r…
Overview: A fresch scholarly look at the apostle Paul and his significance in the early church and beyond. Long overshadowed by the apostle Paul, Peter has received increased scholarly attention of late. Building on that resurgence of interest, nineteen internationally prominent scholars of early Christian history examine and reassess the historical Peter and his significance, offering a com…
Overview: Lutheran theology is joyous spirituality, that fully appreciates the beauty of the world and is deeply affective by nature, cherishing the human emotions and imagination. This is the view that is opened by theology of music. Music was for Luther an excellent gift of God that was close to theology. This study examines the depths of this notion and attests the theological significan…
Overview: This book begins to delve into this relevant and contemporary subject through methodological reflection on the commands, purposes, values, and virtues of Christian life in today's context. To address these factors, an integrative approach to ethics is proposed, borrowing from classical ethical models such as a consequential ethics, principle ethics, virtue ethics, and value ethics. …
Overview: In autumn 1525, the author wrote this book as a response to humanist and theologian Erasmus of Rotterdam's On Free Will. The author's treatise is important on four accounts: First, the author wanted to show his own humanist education. Second, against Erasmus, who had maintained that the question of free will could not be decided just on the basis of the Bible, the author stressed t…
Overview: In the author book, set forth a reconsideration of the sacramental Christian life that centered on the Word. His thesis is that the papacy had distorted the sacraments with its own tradition and regulations, transforming them into a system of control and coercion... Yet the author does not replace one tyranny for another; his argument for a return to the biblical understanding of t…
Overview: - Presents a fresh overview of the theology, method, and influence of the initiator of the Reformation - Includes a detailed exploration of Luther's thought from a wide variety of perspective and approaches, providing analysis of Luther's hermeneutics, doctrinal teaching, social thought, and impact on subsequest eras - Seeks to engage Luther's views within contemporary contexts,…
Overview: This series focuses on what it means to think theologically and ethically. It presents a selection of important, otherwise unavailable texts - English-language texts and translations that have fallen out of print, new translations, and collections of significant statements about problems and themes of special importance - in an easily accessible form. Volumes in the series will ena…
Overview: The purpose of the book is to indicate what is possible in Christian ethics rather than to prescribe one way ought to be done. The aim is not to get readers to choose one among the Christian possibilities and use it exclusively but to use this introduction as a resource to arrive at their own ways of thinking about moral problems in order to act with integrity.
Overview: Berdasarkan pengalaman mereka sendiri, para penulis buku ini ingin memberikan sumbangan kebijakan untuk menyelesaikan persoalan-persoalan yang dihadapi oleh kaum usia setengah baya, seperti: - Bagaimana mengatasi perubahan fisik dan emosional? - Faktor-faktor apakah yang harus dipertimbangkan ketika memutuskan perawatan untuk orangtua? - Bagaimana merencanakan keuangan di ma…
Overview: Buku ini tidak hanya berguna bagi pembaca yang menggumuli pendidikan kristiani di lembaga pendidikan formal, tetapi juga bagi mereka yang mengemban tugas penggembalaan di gereja lokal sehingga lebih mampu menghadapi berbagai problem orang dewasa itu sendiri. Kalau gembala jemaat memberi perhatian kepada warga dewasa, besar harapan dampaknya akan dirasakan dan dinikmati oleh generasi…
Overview: In this theologically informed and philosophically nuanced introduction to the study of probability and chance, Vern Poythress argues that all events - including the seemingly random or accidental - fall under God's watchful gaze as part of his eternal plan. Comprehensive in its scope, this book lays the theistic foundation of our scientific assumptions about the world while addressi…
Overview: This radical reconstruction starts by observing that Josephus's sources on the early history of Israel do not agree with the Bible and that the oldest rabbinic traditions show no sign of a biblical foundation but only of secondary offshoots from the Bible. Another interesting question is raised by the Samaritan claim, at the time of the persecutions under Antiochus Epiphanes, that th…
Overview: Buku ini ditulis sebagai pegangan bagi kaum lansia dan para pembimbing untuk membimbing kelompok besar-kecil, baik di tingkat lingkungan, wilayah, umat separoki atau bahkan beberapa paroki bersama-sama. Namun, bisa juga dipakai secara perorangan, entah dari renungan awal sampai yang terakhir, atau mencuplik sebuah tema yang sedang dibutuhkan. Tujuannya agar di usia lanjut, kita teta…
Overview: Buku ini hadir untuk menyampaikan pengajaran Gereja Katolik tentang Bunda Maria
Overview: Seminary can be thrilling, with the potential to inspire and equip church leaders for a lifetime of faithful ministry. But it's not without its risks. For many who have ignored the perils, seminary has been crippling. But with an extra dose of intentionality, and God's help, this season of preparation can invigorate your affections for Jesus. This book takes a refreshingly honest…
Overview: Tujuan tulisan ini adalah menempatkan St. Montfort dalam konteks kultural dimana ia pernah hidup, yaitu akhir abad ke-17 dan awal abad ke-18 di Perancis, sehingga pemahaman tentang seluruh hidup, karya dan ajarannya menjadi lebih baik dan proporsional. Pada saat yang sama, ia juga menampilkan bahwa hidup, karya dan ajarannya masih tetap aktual dan relevan untuk Gereja di millenium k…
Overview: This collection of provocative essays by one of the world's most distinguished theologians deals with topic as diverse as the right to work, nuclear war, the Olympic Games, Lutheran and Reformed political thought, and the "common hope" of Judaism and Christianity - all within the framework of human rights. The author believes that the dignity of the human being is the source for all …
Overview: Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, this book develops the distinctive theory of sovereignty that made the author one of the most significant and controversial political theoritsts of the twentieth century. Focusing on the relationships among political leadership, the norms of the legal order, and the state of exception, …
Overview: Dalam buku ini, penulis menunjukkan bagaimana pembaca dapat mengenali pola komunikasi yang salah, yang selama ini mungkin telah pembaca warisi dari orangtua pembaca. Pembaca juga akan ditolong untuk mempelajari cara-cara komunikasi yang baru, benar dan efektif yang dapat pembaca gunakan untuk mengasuh, mendidik, mendisiplinkan anak-anak pembaca menuju kedewasaan. Melalui buku ini, …
Overview: Lewat buku ini, penulis mengajak pembaca untuk memahami sisi-sisi kesepian dan cara membangkitkan kembali antusiasme hidup berdasarkan Alkitab. Selain itu, terdapat pula beberapa tokoh Alkitab yang diangkat sebagai cerminan orang-orang kesepian: Kain : Kesepian akibat dosa Musa : Kesepian akibat pelayanan Elisa: Kesepian akibat mengasihani diri sendiri Maria dan Marta : Kesepian …
Overview: This book is a captivating account of the person at the heart of the world's most widely held faith: Jesus. Written in the author's trademark authoritative yet inviting style, this book invites the reader to consider the significance of Jesus' life in their own.
Overview: What makes good people do bad things? The author, renowned social psychologist has an answer, and in this book, the author explains how - and why - we are all susceptible to the lure of "the dark side". Drawing on examples from history as well as his own trailblazing research, the author, the creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment, details how situational forces and group dynamics…
Overview : Penulis menunjukkan bahwa di balik keterbatasan yang ada, kaum lansia masih dapat mengejar impian mereka. Bahkan berkarya bagi kemuliaan Tuhan. Dengan mengangkat 43 tokoh dalam buku ini, penulis menunjukka bahwa hidup ini bisa bermakna dan bertujuan pada usia berapa saja. Dari mantan presiden seminari yang terus mengembangkan minatnya, sampai penyandang polio yang tetap melakukan …
Overview: In this classic work, internationally known Viennese psychiatrist the author, fouder of the school of logotherapy, set forth the principles of existential psychiatry. The author holds that man's search for a meaning in existence is a primary facet of his being; if the search is unrequited, it leads to neurosis. The role of the therapist, then, is to help the patient discover a purp…
Overview: The author is known to millions of readers as a psychoterapist who has transcended his field in his search for answers to the ultimate questions of life, death, and suffering. This book explores the sometimes unconscious basic human desire for inspiration or revelation, and illustrates how life can offer profound meaning at every turn.
Overview: It is the very problem of our time that people are caught by a pervasive feeling of meaninglessness, which is the most conspicuous symptom of the collective neurosis of our time. It is accompanied by a feeling of emptiness. The "existential vacuum" has increased and spread literally all over the world. Our industrialized society is out to satisfy all needs, and our consumer society…
Overview: Holocaust survivor the author converted the horrors he experienced in a German concentration camp into the pioneering philosophy he called logotherapy. Unlike Freud's "will to pleasure" and Adler's "will to power," the author based logotherapy on three things: the freedom of will, the will to meaning, and the meaning of life. By presenting three metodological concepts, the author s…
Overview: As internationally renowned psychiatrist, the author endured years of unspeakable horror in Nazi death camps. During, and partly because of his suffering, the author developed a revolutionary approach to psychotherapy known as logotherapy. At the core of his theory is the belief that man's primary motivational force is his search of meaning.
Overview: The third volume in this book, explores the specific roles of metaphysical and religious beliefs in explanation and theory construction in the natural sciences. The contributors present numerous case studies culled from the fields of astronomy, biology, cosmology, and physics to make their arguments. This volume is essential for anyone interested in the history of science and the th…
Overview: The second volume in the Pascal Centre's series of faith and science examines if and how the content of science and mathematics has been affected by religious and metaphysical beliefs. Many of the essays present ideas in the context of the revival of the historic Reformation in the Netherlands, and background studies on the philosophy and theology of the Reformation's makor represent…
Overview: What role do religious beliefs play in the construction of scientific theories and how do religion and science interact? The first volume of this book explores these and other questions and addresses the specific roles of metaphysical and religious beliefs in explanation and theory construction in the natural scienes. The contributors survey modes of interaction between religion and…
Overview : This book of the author's collected papers, brings together the author essays in epistemology from 1983 to 2008. It includes not only the essays which first presented "Reformed epistemology" to the philosophical world, but also the author's latest work on the topic of entitled (or responsible) belief and its intersection with religious belief. The volume presents five new essays a…
Overview: The last decade saw the arrival of a new player in the creation/evolution debate - the intelligent design creationism (IDC) movement, whose strategy is to act as "the wedge" to overturn Darwinism and scientific naturalism. This anthology of writings by prominent creationists and their critics focuses on what is novel about the new movement. It serves as a companion to the author's …
Overview: This book provides an accessible and engaging introduction to some of the most important ideas, topics, and figures in contemporary philosophy of religion through 74 historical and contemporary articles. You will explore such topics as: - The Concept of God - Traditional Arguments - Religious Experience - The Problem of Evil - Miracles, Death, and Immortality - Faith and…