Someone once said, "The past is another country - they do things differently there. "At times, indeed, the Old Testament resembles another very different country. Maneuvering through levitical laws, bloodshed in Joshua, or Daniel's apocalyptic visions, sincere readers often wonder what the Old The New International Commentary on the Old Testament has helped countless people traverse this diffic…
Kitab Mazmur memiliki sebuah pesona yang dalam. Kalau kita mempelajari kitab Mazmur dengan teliti, maka kita terbentur dengan kesulitan-kesulitan. Bentuk puisi kitab Mazmur tidak lazim. Banyak image masih asing bagi kita. dan pemazmur kadang-kadang menggunakan pikiran-pikiran yang sepertinya tidak layak ada dalam Alkitab. Tremper Longman memberikan kita pertolongan untuk mengatasi jarak antara …
People have always been keen to figure out their place in the scheme of things. This book helps by providing a "theology roadmap" for the journey. These great biblical truths, when held together in our minds, will take us where we need to go in a healthy way.
In a time when divorce steadily stares down the best intentions and the strongest commintments, it's crucially important to plan for a marriage that will last " till death do you part". Focusing on the often neglected notion of the marriage covenant - a lifelong partnership that is indwelt by God - this book offers short, wisdom-packed chapters that will help you built strong foundations for a …
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…
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 …
For too long students have had to resort to nineteenth-century works for scholarly, evangelical studies of Jesus' parables. At last they can turn to a contemporary analysis of the parables by an acknowledged New Testament scholar. While the exposition is in non-technical language, the footnotes are laden with references to scholarly monographs and discussions of technical matters. Each of th…
The holy has been defined existentially and sociologically, and churches too often allow their expectations regarding holiness to be prompted by existential aspirations or the social mores of the Christian community. Perhaps it is not surprising that many view holiness as accidental or expendable, even as a legalistic and conformist posture opposed to the freedom of the gospel. But sanctificati…