Ten autobiographical accounts, written between 1737 and 1745.
Lord, teach us to pray," Alexander Whyte declared one Sunday in the winter of 1895, quoting the Gospel of Luke 11:1. This began a long series he taught, ranging from the prayers of Jacob to Paul's prayers and thanksgivings. This compilation of powerful sermons on prayer revolves around the central theme of Luke 11:1. Whyte's use and emphasis on imagination brings the message a vividness which g…
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…
"Lawrence Wright telah menghasilkan sebuah kisah yang membetot perhatian dalam buku luar biasa ini. Ditulis dengan gaya yang sangat hidup, Sejarah Teror- The Looming Tower bukan hanya cerita detail dan menakutkan mengenai berbagai peristiwa yang mengarah kepada 11 September, namun juga merupakan kajian matang mengenai dunia yang telah merongrong kita sampai saat ini... Wrigth telah mengungkapka…
In "The Holy Trinity" Robert Letham helps to redress this shortcoming. He offers a well-researched volume about "the One who is utterly transcendent and incomprehensible." After examining the doctrine's biblical foundations, the author traces its historical development through the twentieth century, and engages four critical issues : the Trinity and (1) the incarnation, (2) worship and prayer…
The culture of the Eastern Church is alien to our experience. Yet the more we familiarize ourselves with the Eastern Church the more we recognize, for all the differences, the family resemblances. The family has been parted for a very long time. But chances have arisen to meet again and get to know one another. In recent years, Eastern Orthodoxy has emerged vividly on the radar of Western Chris…
Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality: seventy-one chapters, of which twenty-eight appear in full in this edition. With style, learning and wit, Gibbon takes the reader t…
Over one hundred years ago, Dutch theologian, politician, and educator Abraham Kuyper delivered six remarkable addresses at Princeton University on the importance of Reformed theology in every part of our lives." "With passion borne from years of education and spiritual commitment, Kuyper asserted that Calvinism is a system of life that influences each aspect of human experience. Reformed theol…
Foreword by Marion Leathers Kuntz / Paul Grimley Kuntz was a deeply religious man who not only found religious profundity in the Decalogue but also was convinced that it offers the most reasonable paradigm for a well-ordered society. Decrying the loss of the true meaning of the Decalogue in modern times, Kuntz spent the last decade of his life preparing this book, his magnum opus, on the Decalo…