This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around …
FOR OVER THIRTY YEARS, J. I. PACKER'S CLASSIC HAS REVEALED TO OVER A MILLION CHRISTIANS AROUND THE WORLD THE WONDER, THE GLORY AND THE JOY OF KNOWING GOD. NOw MORE THAN EVER, NEXT TO SCRIPTURE, THIS COULD BE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT BOOK YOU WILL READ THIS YEAR OR NEXT. "Plainly shows us ordinary folks what it means to know God." ELISABETH ELLIOT "Dr. Packer has the rare ability to deal wi…
The author believes that over the past forty years movements like New Age spirituality and society's obsession with human potential have combined like a "perfect storm" to redefine for popular culture what has been for centuries the classic biblical definition of the person, work, and teaching of Jesus Christ. In Why Jesus?, Ravi Zacharias looks at the impact of this "storm" by discussing the 6…
This volume is designed specifically 'for the general educated reader'. Here are great figures of the Reformation: Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, Knox, and Cramer. Here are great events: the Diet of Worms, the Institution of the Holy Commonwealth of Geneva, Henry VIII's break with Rome, William the Silent's struggle for Dutch independence. Here are great doctrines that created or grew out of the Prot…
In this survey, John Passmore concentrates on the British tradition in logic, metaphysics and the theory of knowledge, yet he never neglects parallel developments in Europe and America. He considers the crucial new insights that were generated into probability, propositions and private languages, meaning, minds and bodies and the limits of science. Accounts explore the main schools and individu…
Olympia Morata (1526-1555) is a girl far ahead of her time. A quick tongue and a ready pen are her mind s tools to record her vivid thoughts, poetry, songs, and opinions. Appointed tutor to Duchess Renèe s children, her future is bright when suddenly, evil rumors turn her world upside-down. In the midst of it all a young doctor comes courting. Will their love survive the danger waiting on the …
"~What appeared to be a failed revolution at Tian'anmen became the springboard for an unprecedented work of God in the hearts of Chinese intellectuals. Soul Searching represents the firstfruits of this spiritual revolution among former democracy activists who are finding, in the words of Wang Ce, ""the pearl inside the shell"".~"
"It takes no courage to sign up as a Protestant." With these words, David Wells opens his bold challenge to the modern church. In this volume, Wells offers the summa of his critique of the evangelical landscape, as well as a call to return to the historic faith, one defined by the Reformation solas (grace, faith, and Scripture alone), and to a reverence for doctrine. "The Courage to be Protesta…
In a wide-ranging study, Professor Robert Gordon leads the readers from the Garden of Eden to Jerusalem, from Genesis through the Psalms and the gospels to Revelation, and onwards through the patristic period, the Middle Ages, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Chapters one to four concentrate on Old Testament texts and themes relating to the 'holy land, holy city'. History, as well as…
Great teaching of God's word through a verse by verse exposition of the scripture.