This one-volume history of Christian ethics is the only comprehensive resource currently available to survey major thinkers, movements, and issues from the early church to the present. Topics discussed are: the legacies of Christian ethics, the ethics of early Christianity, the Reformation and Enlightenment, eighteenth and nineteenth-century rationalism and evangelism, Christian ethics in the t…
The five books of the Pentateuch are filled with color and adventure, noise and upheaval. They are books of promise, hope, love, and redemption for those who trust their lives to God. The Christian cannot neglect an understanding of this portion of God's Word. Herbert Wolf has provided an opportunity to meet that challenge. As he highlights God's personal relationship with His creation and the…
Rumusan klasik Albert Wolters tentang wawasan dunia Kristen yang terintegrasi kini telah diperbarui untuk memberikan manfaat bagi generasi masa kini seperti bagi generasi sebelumnya. Secara lugas dan jelas Wolters menjelaskan kepalsuan dikotomi sakral-sekuler dan menyodorkan proposal alkitabiah. Diawali dengan pendefinisian natur dan cakupan sebuah wawasan dunia, yang dibedakan dari filsafat da…
The book is in one sense a narrative account of events--from the numbing telephone call on a sunny Sunday afternoon that tells of 25-year-old Eric's death in a mountain-climbing accident, to a graveside visit a year later. But the book is far more than narrative. Every event is an occasion for remembering, for meditating, for Job-like anguish in the struggle to accept and understand.. A profoun…
Tidak banyak orang yang telah begitu mempengaruhi perkembangan sekolah-sekolah Kristen di dalam tradisi Reformed di Amerika Utara dan bahkan di seluruh dunia seperti Nicholas Wolterstorff. Sebagai penghormatan atas kontribusi-kontribusinya, Gloria Goris Stronks dan Clarence W. Joldersma, yang juga adalah pendidik, telah mengumpulkan pemikiran dan refleksi dari sang filsuf mengenai pendidikan Kr…
Dalam bukunya Wolterstorff berbagi kedukaannya yang mendalam atas kematian putranya dan bagaimana ia merespons di dalam iman, sampai ia mengalami kuasa penebusan Kristus atas kedukaannya itu. Meskipun kita mungkin memiliki respons yang berbeda dalam menghadapi kedukaan, namun kita dapat belajar dari Wolterstorff tentang apa arti kedukaan, bagaimana mengalami kuasa penebusan Kristus atas kedukaa…
Expanding on his 1976 study of the bearing of Christian faith on the practice of scholarship, Wolterstorff has added a substantial new section on the role of faith in the decisions scholars make about their choice of subject matter.
How do we know what we know? What have wisdom, prudence and studiousness to do with justifying our beliefs? Jay Wood begins this introduction to epistemology by taking an extended look at the idea of knowing within the context of the intellectual virtues. He then surveys current views of foundationalism, epistemic justification and reliabilism. Finally he examines the relationship of epistemolo…
Turn heat energy into mechanical energy. Make a thermometer. Use gravity to cut an ice cube in two. Find out why popcorn pops and how a hammer generates heat. Formerly a little in Robert W. Rood's popular Physics for Kids series, this new edition brings thermodynamic principles to life with even more imaginative hands-on activities for home or school that will captivate children ages 8 and up. …