Calvin adalah seseorang yang hidup di dalam zaman tertentu, dengan pergumulan zaman tertentu, namun kita percaya theologinya tidak sepenuhnya cenderung pada konteks, melainkan juga memiliki aspek transendensi yang melampaui zamannya, sebagaimana para pemikir besar, namun terutama karena Calvin menimba dari kekayaan tradisi Alkitab. Kepekaan terhadap berubahnya zaman dari konteks perubahan perta…
Esai-esai di dalam buku ini dihasilkan oleh dua puluh tiga pakar mengenai Calvin bertaraf internasional. Tulisan mereka memperdalam pemahaman akan era Calvin, pemikiran dan pemahamannya akan Kitab Suci dan penerapan di dalam berbagai aspek kehidupan orang percaya, Gereja, dan negara, dan warisannya bagi kita sampai saat ini, dan bersama-sama mereka memberikan penghargaan bagi salah satu tokoh y…
TEMUILAH CALVIN YANG SESUNGGUHNYA! Nama John Calvin menimbulkan banyak gambaran yang kuat, kebanyakan negatif. Dalam pikiran banyak orang, dia dianggap sebagai seorang theolog menara gading, yang tidak praktis dan penyendiri, yang keras dan tidak masuk akal, kekuatan pendorong di balik sistem theologis yang berbahaya. Dlam buku ini, Burk Parsons dan delapan belas pendeta dan cendikiawan Reforme…
Over one hundred years ago, Dutch theologian, politician, and educator Abraham Kuyper delivered six remarkable addresses at Princeton University on the importance of Reformed theology in every part of our lives." "With passion borne from years of education and spiritual commitment, Kuyper asserted that Calvinism is a system of life that influences each aspect of human experience. Reformed theol…
John Calvin's name evokes powerful images, most of them negative. In the minds of many, he is perceived as an ivory-tower theologian who was harsh and unreasonable, the driving force behind a dangerous theological system. In this volume, Burk Parsons and eighteen other leading Reformed pastors and scholars authoritatively reveal the truth about Calvin and his teaching - that he was humble, cari…
The theological system known as Calvinism is often caricatured as harsh, dour, and illogical. But as Dr. Joel R. Beeke argues in this important new book, this image could not be further from the truth. Beeke, a pastor, educator, editor, and prolific author, shows instead that Calvinism is a theology that is firmly rooted in Scripture and works its way out into every area of the believer's life.…
Historians have credited—or blamed—Calvinism for many developments in the modern world, including capitalism, modern science, secularization, democracy, individualism, and unitarianism. These same historians, however, have largely ignored John Calvin the man. When people consider him at all, they tend to view him as little more than the joyless tyrant of Geneva who created an abstract theol…
This short work first appeared in The Princeton Theological Review Vol. 7 No. 3 (1909), translated by Geerhardus Vos. Bavinck observes, "The Christian religion is by no means the sole content of history; long before Christianity made its appearance there existed in Greece and Rome a rich culture, a complete social organism, a powerful political system, a plurality of religions, an order of mora…
The four studies that make up this book were originally prepared for the Princeton Theological Review in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Calvin's birth. The article by Emile Doumergue deals with Calvin's view of asceticism; Lang's study analyses Calvin's doctrine of natural law; Bavinck's essay discusses Calvin's understanding of common grace; Warfield analyses Calvin's teaching on the …
Dalam volume yang menarik ini, Simonetta Carr membawa para pembaca muda ini untuk berkenalan dengan hidup, pemikiran, dan karya John Calvin, salah satu Reformator terkenal bagi Kekristenan. Para pembaca akan mengenal pribadi Calvin, devosinya kepada Allah dan gereja, serta tantangan-tantangan yang ia hadapi. Mereka akan mengerti pergumulan Gereja Reformed saat itu, bukan hanya mereka harus bert…