In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions-what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Following Wills’s biography of Augustine and his translation of the Confessions, this is an unparalleled introduction to one …
Tidak banyak teolog dan pemimpin Kristen di Indonesia yang memiliki reputasi nasional dan internasional, apalagi mereka yang mampu mempertahankan reputasi dan konsistensi dalam kurun waktu yang lama, khususnya ketika usia mulai menggerogoti ketahanan fisik. Pdt. Dr. Stephen Tong adalah contoh pemimpin yang demikian, pemimpin yang mampu menjaga konsistensi warna teologi dengan integritas hidup y…
Who among us is not interested in success? Yet ambition, the chief means to success, is in bad repute these days, especially in America, and above all among educated Americans. Such is the reluctance even to approach the subject with candor, Joseph Epstein suggest, that many people live "with confusion and contradictions running up the center of their lives, in a state of perturbation, distract…
Many schools of philosophy have blossomed ih the 5.000- year history of the Chinese society. Some philosophies are only suited to the political climate of that era, blossiming and withering quickly. Philosophies taht have withstood the test of time have been shining bright throughout history. From these emerge Chinese core values which have broad meaning in traditional Chinese society as well a…
Wisdom from Chinese Proverbs is a collection of comic strips designed to illutrate wise and witty sayings of ancient China. The themes of the comics are selected from a book entitled zeng guang xian wen, also known as Ancient and Modern Chinese Proverbs, compiled between the Northern Song and Yuan Dynasties. This book contains a rich collection of proverbs, idioms, maxims, legends, anecdote…
A Porposed Cover Blurb for The Great Explorer Cheng Ho: Colombus, da Gama ang Magellan are all familiar from the Western Great Age of Exploration (1400-1550). Columbus is well known as the discoverer of America; da Gama is the first European to sail to India; and Magellan is believed to have completed the first circumnavigation of the globe. Such common-sense knowledge has met a serious chall…