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 …
What is the role of the will in believing the good news of the gospel? Why has there been so much controversy over free will throughout church history? "Willing To Believe" is a major work on the Protestant doctrines of man's total depravity and God's effectual grace. R.C. Sproul traces the free-will controversy from its formal beginning in the fifth century, when Augustine took up the pen agai…
Interest in the historical Jesus continues to occupy much of today's discussion of the Bible. The vexing question is how the Jesus presented in the Gospels relates to the Jesus that actually walked this earth. Studying the Historical Jesus is an introductory guide to how one might go about answering that question by doing historical inquiry into the material found in the Gospels. Darrell Boc…
Building on Covenant and Eschatology: The Divine Drama, this volume is part two of a three-part project surveying essential topics of Christian theology through the lens of covenant. In Lord and Servant: A Covenant Christology, Michael Horton explores the topics that are generally grouped under the doctrines of God, humanity, and Christology. Rather than attempt a general systematic theology, H…
There is little doubt that in recent years the nature of the Genesis narrative has sparked much debate among Christians. This Counterpoints volume introduces three predominant interpretive genres and their implications for biblical understanding. Each contributor identifies their position on the genre of Genesis 1-11, addressing why it is appropriate to the text, and contributes examples of its…
The nature of spiritual experience is probably both the most interesting and the most difficult subject in Christian literature: interesting because it concerns human life in all observable stages from childhood to death, and embraces all the emotions and behaviour possible in a man regenerated by the Holy Spirit; difficult because the adequate treatment of the subject makes the immense demands…
Seringkali yang disalahmengerti, dan karena itu diabaikan, Allah Roh Kudus layak mendapatkan perhatian dan pengertian kita. Allah Bapa dan Allah Putra mengumpulkan banyak penjelasan dan eksplorasi, dan Allah Roh Kudus harus diberikan ketekunan, keingintahuan, dan kesarjanaan yang sama. Selain seri Foundations of Evangelical Theology karya Crossway ini, Dr. Graham Cole telah menulis sebuah karya…
Selama dua puluh lima tahun, Pendeta John Piper telah memprovokasi orang-orang Kristen dengan kebenaran yang sederhana namun memorak-porandakan paradigma kita bahwa Allah yang paling dimuliakan di dalam kita keika kita paling dipuaskan di dalam Dia. kepuasan, kebahagiaan, Sukacita, pengejaran kenikmatan di dalam Allah bukan hanya diperkenankan, tetapi juga esensial. Dengan membangun pesan…
Kehadiran putra-putri di dalam keluarga kita merupakan hal yang sangat membahagiakan bila mereka dapat bertumbuh dewasa dalam iman Kristen yang benar dan kokoh. Buku ini merupakan sarana yang sangat baik untuk menjalankan tugas kita tersebut. Starr Meade telah menyusun pengajaran-pengajaran yang begitu berbobot dan alkitabiah dalam Katekismus Singkat Wesmister menjadi sebuah bahan renungan hari…