From time to time a book appears which analyzes a great historical movement or event with an insight so sure and comprehensive that it becomes a classic. A classic is, of course, among other things, a work which retains some of its initial freshness upon being reread and which continues to have an illuminating relevance to the themes it treats. Eric Hoffer's The True Believer is a classic study…
Anthony Hoekema brings to the study of biblical prophecy and eschatology a maturity that is rare among contemporary works on the subject.
The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical theology. These widel…
Wherever he goes, trouble seems to follow Huckleberry Finn, an independent boy growing up in mid-1800s Missouri. Trouble finds Huck yet again on a great rafting adventure down the Mississippi River, where he runs into his old friend Jim. He also meets a few new acquaintances who seem eager to make Huck's life as difficult as possible.
How does the ordinary believing Christian "grow up" into spiritual maturity in Christ? Throughout Christian history in every age and every tradition countless answers to this question have been brought forward, raging from extreme legalism and salvation by "works" on the one hand, to the absolute passivity of quietism on the other. Now, Dr. Russell Hitt, a well-known and influential evangelical…
1937-1945. Lebih dari lima puluh juta manusia di seluruh dunia tewas akibat Perang Dunia II yang diprovokatori tentara Jerman. Enam juta diantaranya adalah warga Eropa keturunan Yahudi. Istilah untuk menyebut pembunuhan massal akibat perang yang sistematis ini adalah holocaust. Holocaust disponsori oleh Jerman dan sekutu-sekutunya, yang ketika itu berasa di bawah kepemimpinan Adolf Hitler, sang…
Kunang-kunang terserang flu! Mereka tak dapat lagi menerangi Pixie Hollow. Peri-peri- bakat- lampu menjadi sangat sibuk. Mereka harus menggantikan kunang-kunang, dan melakukan tugas-tugas mereka sendiri. Karena itu mereka gembira sekali ketika muncul tiga peri pendatang baru, kembar tiga, yang semuanya berbakat- lampu. Wah, mereka mendapat bala bantuan nih! Tapi... bukannya membantu, si kemba…
Protestant Reinhold Niebuhr (in the New York Times Book Review) Will Herberg has written the most fascinating essay on the religious sociology of America that has appeared in decades. He has digested all the relevant historical, sociological and other analytical studies and made these findings the basis of a new and creative approach to the American scene each chapter presents surprising, and…
The time between the conquests of Alexander the Great and the Maccabaean wars is one of the obscurest periods of Jewish history. Yet it is vitally important for our understanding of Judaism in the period up to and including the New Testament era because it was then that the foundations of first-century Judaism were being laid.In his now classic -- and encyclopaedic -- study/tic/aim and Hellenis…