"If an earlier generation people sometimes were said to be so heavenly-minded that they were no earthly good," begins Carl F.H. Henry, "in our day the very opposite is more apt to be the case." At the same time the hunger for spiritual vitality is growing. What, therefore, is the nature of spiritual experience, and how can it be integrated into Christian and academic disciplines? This is the ta…
"~""Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst,"" declared Thomas Paine, adding, ""every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity."" Paine's years of study and reflection on the role of religion in society culminated with his final work, The Age of Reason. This …
Present at the fall of the Bastille, journeying alone 3,500 miles through America, dining with George Washington, camping with the Iroquois Indians, Francois-Rene, vicomte de Chateaubriand embodied the romantic hero of the new world.
Buku ini membahas akronim TULIP yang menjadi salah satu ciri khas theologi Reformed tentang kerusakan manusia, predestinasi dan panggilan efektif Allah atas kaum pilihan kepada keselamatan, serta ketekunan sampai kepada kesudahannya. Palmer memberikan pembahasan yang lugas namun sangat berbobot.
Apakah Hermeneutika itu? Dalam Webster's Third New International Dictionary dijelaskan, bahwa hermeneutika adalah studi tentang prinsip-prinsip metodologis interpretasi dan eksplanasi. Definisi ini sudah cukup memuaskan bagi orang yang hanya ingin memahami arti kata itu. Tapi, bagi orang yang berharap mendapatkan gagasan-gagasan dari bidang hermeneutika, ia memerlukan definisi yang lebih luas.…
Buku ini, Pohon Filsafat : Pengantar bagi Peminat Filsafat, merupakan terjemahan dari The Tree of Philosophy : A course of Introductory Lectures for Begining Students of Philosophy. Buku ini merupakan teks kuliah Pengantar Filsafat yang diajarkan di Hong Kong Babtist University. Bidang yang dikaji mencakup seluruh tubuh Filsafat: akar (metafisika), batang (logika), cabang (ilmu), dan daun (onto…
WOLFHART PANNENBERG is widely regarded as one of the foremost theologians in the world today. The publication of this book advances Pannenberg's masterly three-volume Systematic Theology - a work that will surely come to stand as one of the grand and lasting theological statements of the twentieth century. Moving beyond his commanding discussions of epistemology and theology proper in Volume…
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…
Membaca dan merenungkan kehidupan Yohanes Pembaptis membawa kita, gereja Tuhan, kembali ke dalam kondisi yang sadar akan kerusakan kita sendiri. Kerusakan karena kita sudah begitu menghargai stabilitas dan rutinitas kehidupan pelayanan kita. Dengan sangat gentar kita mempelajari kehidupan Yohanes Pembaptis, dan dengan sangat gentar pula kita menantikan orang-orang seperti dia merombak keteratur…