In the Last Things: Resurrection, Judgment, Glory, Donald Bloesch takes up difficult and sometimes controversial themes such as the coming of the kingdom of God, the return of Jesus Christ, the life hereafter, the millennial hope, the final judgment, hell, heaven, purgatory, and paradise. Wrestling with biblical texts that often take metaphorical form, Bloesch avoids rationalistic reductionism …
TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Post-Conciliar perspectives by Joseph Papin -- 2.) God: a pragmatic reconstruction by Eugene Fontinell -- 3.) The role of the Bible in the theology of the future by Krister Stendahl -- 4.) The meaning of Revelation by Avery Dulles -- 5.) De-Judaization and Hellenization: the ambiguities of Christian identity by Jaroslav Pelikan -- 6.) Morality: underlying and unchanging p…
Imagine a sports-mad culture, deep into Eastern spirituality, political globalism, and religious syncretism. Where women, finding child-rearing an inconvenience, abandon or abort their babies. A society where divorce and remarriage touches everyone. Imagine a society overrun by sexual deviancy and perversion. Sound familiar? It would sound familiar to the apostle Paul. The culture to which he m…
"Far-reaching in the scope of literature discussed, sharp in exposing the salient features of others' writings, incisive in evaluating both the distinctive contribution of a given work and in assessing its place in the larger body of knowledge."--Christian Century "Fills a great need. Nothing like it has been available before now--a comprehensive, detailed account....Careful, critical, forceful…
A standard, much-used textbook updated and improved Comprehensive in scope, this carefully crafted introductory grammar of Biblical Hebrew offers easy-to-understand explanations, numerous biblical illustrations, and a wide range of imaginative, biblically based exercises. The book consists of thirty-one lessons, each presenting grammatical concepts with examples and numerous exercises judicious…
We are living in the midst of a literary, ideological and theological revolution which some predict will be as important as the Copernican revolution of the Middle Ages. The flood of literature on modernity and post- modernity, on secular and religious pluralism, and on religious fundamentalism and New Age movements is overwhelming. Most of us are left confused, yet we dare not ignore these cha…
A History of Western Philosophy and Theology is the fruit of John Frame's forty-five years of teaching philosophical subjects. No other survey of the history of Western thought offers the same invigorating blend of expositional clarity, critical insight, and biblical wisdom. The supplemental study questions, bibliographies, links to audio lectures, quotes from influential thinkers, twenty appen…
A Survey of Old Testament Introduction has been an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and laypeople who want to understand the conservative position on the Old Testament and are not afraid to examine critical views. In this revised volume, Gleason Archer approaches the study of the Old Testament from both the general and the specific point of view. Dealing first with issues over whi…
Pengakuan Iman Westminster dan Katekismus Singkat Westminster tanpa perlu diragukan lagi merupakan ungkapan yang setia dan ringkas tentang wahyu Allah di dalam Alkitab. Selama beberapa dekade ini, studi manual G.I. Willamson tentang Katekismus Singkat Westminster dan Pengakuan Iman Westminster telah menjadi penolong yang tak ternilai dalam memberikan petunjuk mengenai sistem doktrin yang telah …
Anthony Trollope, author of more than fifty books, including Barchester Towers, The Warden, and The Last Chronicle of Barset, was one of the most prolific and brilliant novelists of the Victorian Era. James Pope-Hennessy, biographer of Queen Mary - and the grandson of an Irish member of Parliament widely believed to have been the prototype fot he hero of Trollope's novel Phineas Finn - has writ…