An introduction to ongoing debates on the apostle Paul's life and teaching and his letters' ramifications for the Church of today. The apostle Paul was a vital force in the development of Christianity. Paul's historical and religious context affects the theological interpretation of Paul's writings, no small issue in the whole of Christian theology. Recent years have seen much controversy about…
Penulis Tom Bisset berbicara dengan mereka yang pernah meninggalkan imannya. Dengan keterbukaan dan kejujuran, ia menemukan inti masalahnya dengan menanyakan: • Mengapa Anda meninggalkan iman Anda? • Adakah sesuatu yang dapat seseorang lakukan atau katakan yang mungkin mengubah keputusan Anda? Ternyata ini bukanlah sekadar buku tentang "mengapa mereka meninggalkan imannya?" Penulis bu…
Melalui buku ini, Blamires ingin mengubah orang Kristen untuk bangkit memerangi apa yang disebutnya berhala dunia modern. Ia menunjukkan bebagai manuver media massa yang berupaya melumpuhkan efektivitas prinsip-prinsip kekristenan dalam berbagai aspek kehidupan seperti halnya aspek politik, ekonomi, kesehatan, lingkungan, hak asasi manusia, moralitas, pernikahan, dan kehidupan keluarga.
Buku ini menawarkan kontribusi positif dalam mempertumbuhkan hidup Kristen yang utuh dan bertanggungjawab. Penulis menyadarkan kita akan kegagalan banyak orang Kristen masa kini yang terjebak dengan cara berpikir dualistis yang memisahkan realitas rohani dan kehidupan praktis. Akibatnya banyak kali kita jatuh ke dalam ketidaktaatan tanpa pernah menyadari kegagalan rohani.
Bestselling author of The One-Minute Manager, Ken Blanchard, along with Phil Hodges, offers guidance for how to become a successful modern-day servant leader modeled after Jesus Christ. Based on years of leadership study and proven leadership styles, Blanchard gives established and up-and-coming business leaders solid examples, tools, and methods for life-changing results in their leadership of…
"Evil is conquered as evil because God turns it back upon itself." -From the Conclusion Evil. All languages have a word for it, yet philosophers and theologians alike have been unsuccessful in trying to understand it. Where did it come from? Why is it here? In an attempt to answer these questions, both Christians and non-Christians have turned to the only place they can--the Scriptures. I…
The opening chapters of Genesis - important at any time - have been the focal point of controversy for more than a century. Few topics have been so hotly debated by theologians, philosophers and scientists alike. Henri Blocher argues that our primary task is to discover what these key chapters of the Bible originally meant. Only then will we be able to unravel the knotty issues surrounding huma…
"~Voted one of Christianity Today's 1996 Books of the Year! The doctrine of God is receiving renewed and vigorous attention among theologians. Even a cursory examination of recent scholarship reveals what leading evangelical theologian Donald Bloesch describes as ""a mounting controversy over the concept of God."" God is variously portrayed as vulnerable (J?rgen Moltmann, Clark Pinnock), as lov…
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 …
In this volume Donald Bloesch explores with charity and balance the contours of eccesiology. He forthrightly takes up the most controversial of issues raging from matters of church authority, the sacraments and worship, to the church's place in the plan of salvation, the church and the kingdom of God, and the issue of church reunion. Evangelical in spirit, ecumenical in breacth and biblical in …