Apa yang dulu hilang, sekarang ditemukan! Greg L. Bahnsen, jawara definitif dari metode apologetik Reformed revolusioner ala Cornelius Van Til, menulis risalah sistematis dan mempertahankan apologetika Alkitab ini bertahun-tahun sebelum kematiannya di usia yang masih muda. Karena kecelakaan sejarah yang tidak menguntungkan, satu-satunya salinan karya ini hilang. Karya itu, akibatnya, tidak p…
Tulip adalah akronim dari Total Depravity (Kerusakan Total), Unconditional Election (Pemilihan Tanpa Syarat), Limited Atonement (Penebusan Terbatas), Irresistible Grace (Anugerah yang Tidak Dapat ditolak), dan Perseverence of the Saints (Ketekunan Orang-orang Kudus). Semua itu adalah ringkasan atau pokok-pokok dari ajaran Calvinisme. Berdasarkan poin-poin itulah buku ini disusun. G. J. Baan …
Saint Augustine wrote Instructing Beginners in Faith as a reflection on the most suitable way of communicating the heart of Christian faith to those applying for membership of the Church. In the course of the past sixteen hundred years. however, the treatise has been frequently and creatively adapted to serve the needs of education in faith in many different contexts, including the education of…
Confessions is one of the most moving diaries ever recorded of a man's journey to the fountain of God's grace. Writing as a sinner, not a saint, Augustine shares his innermost thoughts and conversion experiences and wrestles with the spiritual questions that have stirred the hearts of the thoughtful since time began. Starting with his childhood in Numidia, through his youth and early adulthood …
Here is a book that was written over fifteen hundred years ago by a mystic in North Africa. Yet to those who have ears to hear, it has a great deal to say to many of us who are not mystics, today, in America. The City of God is a monumental theology of history. It grew out of St. Augustine’s meditations on the fall of the Roman Empire. But his analysis is timeless and universal. That is to sa…
Di balik alam semesta ada akal budi. Itulah yang menciptakan keteraturan dunia maupun proses berpikir manusia. Justru banyak ilmuwan piawani berubah menjadi mempercayai Ilahi. Sebab pada akhirnya mereka menyadari, dunia ini dapat dimengerti oleh akal budi manusia. Penjelasan tentang alam semesta dapat dijumpai dalam kategori- kategori yang logis, bukan hanya dalam materi saja. Mengapa sai…
Someone once said, "The past is another country - they do things differently there. "At times, indeed, the Old Testament resembles another very different country. Maneuvering through levitical laws, bloodshed in Joshua, or Daniel's apocalyptic visions, sincere readers often wonder what the Old The New International Commentary on the Old Testament has helped countless people traverse this diffic…
God's Revolution is a collection of the writings of Eberhard Arnold, founder of the Bruderhof movement in Nazi Germany. Arnold's refusal to bear arms, his rejection of private property, and his insistence on the indissolubility of individual and communal Christianity won him the respect of believers and the ire of Hitler's regime. His witness has lived on in the Community he founded and through…
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 …
Belajar dari sejarah memberi kita hikmat yang tak habis-habisnya. Mengingat masa lalu. melalui belajar sejarah, membukakan bagi kita pintu ke masa depan. Sejarah berlangsung di tengah realitas dan menolong kita untuk memahami realitas kehiduan kita sebagai bagian dari umat manusia, masyarakat dan bangsa Indonesia, maupun sebagai bagian dari gereja dan umat kristiani, Tulisan sederhana dimaksudk…