The Roots of the Reformation: Tradition, Emergence, and Rupture

Renowned historian G. R. Evans revisits the question of what happened at the Reformation. Contravening traditional paradigms of interpretation, Evans charts the controversies and challenges that roiled the era of the Reformation and argues that these are really part of a much longer history of discussion and disputation. Evans takes up several issues, such as Scripture, ecclesiology, authority,…

A Beginner's Guide to New Testament Exegesis: Taking the Fear out of Critical…

Let's face it. Just the word exegesis puts some of us on edge. We are excited about learning to interpret the Bible, but the thought of exegetical method evokes a chill. Some textbooks on exegesis do nothing to overcome these apprehensions. The language is dense. The concepts are hard. And the expectations are way too high. However, the skills that we need to learn are ones that a minister of…

Christian Theology

Leading evangelical scholar Millard Erickson offers a new edition of his bestselling textbook, now substantially updated and revised throughout. This edition takes into account feedback from professors and students and reflects current theological conversations, with added material on the atonement, justification, and divine foreknowledge. Erickson's comprehensive introduction is biblical, cont…

A Book Called in Latin Enchiridion Militis Christiani, and in English the Man…

"A Book Called In Latin Enchiridion Militis Christiani, And In English The Manual Of The Christian Knight"" is a book written by the famous Dutch philosopher and theologian, Desiderius Erasmus, in 1503. The book is a guide for Christian knights on how to live a virtuous life and how to defend their faith. It is divided into four sections, each focusing on a different aspect of Christian life: f…

Ambition: The Secret Passion

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…

Youth, Brainwashing, and the Extremist Cults

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9780310242710 / 0310242711

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Softcover; 221 hlm.; 21.5 x 27.7 cm

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F 306.6 E596 C1

God's Missionary People: Rethinking the Purpose of the Local Church

The author advocates a closer identification between the local congregation and the universal church. He works through the realities of church life and denominational organizations before challenging church leaders to redefine ecclesiology.

Reformed Education

In a tradition that goes back hundreds, even thousands, of years, godly parents in the churches of the Protestant Reformation establish and maintain Christian schools for the instruction of their children. This involves struggle and sacrifice. These parents willingly pay the price in the conviction that, as one of the Reformed confessions expresses it, good Christian schools are a "demand of th…

Suharto : Sebuah Biografi Politik

Muncul sebagai pemimpin di tengah kekacauan sosial yang ekstrem dan kekerasan massal yang melanda Indonesia pada 1966, Suharto telah menjadi ikon penting Indonesia modern. la membangun sebuah rezim kuat yang terkenal sebagai Orde Baru, dan terus memimpin negara terpadat keempat dunia ini hingga jatuh secara tragis pada 1998. Buku ini memberikan wawasan memukau tentang seorang pria yang naik …

Shadow of The Almighty

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" The life and Testament of Jim Elliot So wrote Jim Elliot at age 22, sweating over Greek roots and patristics at Wheaton College. Seven years later, writes his widow, "he and four other young men sat together on a strip of white sand on the Curaray River, deep in Ecuador s rain forest, waiting for the arrival of a group…