Imagine a sports-mad culture, deep into Eastern spirituality, political globalism, and religious syncretism. Where women, finding child-rearing an inconvenience, abandon or abort their babies. A society where divorce and remarriage touches everyone. Imagine a society overrun by sexual deviancy and perversion. Sound familiar? It would sound familiar to the apostle Paul. The culture to which he m…
The seed of the Good News of Jesus Christ has grown and is growing strongly amidst many obstacles and much hardship in the soil of Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago with the world's fourth largest population. Now Indonesia has one of the most dynamic and fastest growing churches in the contemporary world. Unfortunately, Christians outside Indonesia rarely have the opportunity to listen…
In this very readable biography, a noted scholar traces Erasmus's youth, his years as an itinerant scholar, sojourns in England, France, Switzerland, and Italy, friendship with Sir Thomas More, and disputes with Martin Luther. The author also probes Erasmus's mind and character and discusses his writings.
There is a "crisis of truth in our time", asserts Michael Horton, "even in our evangelical church. And it is due at least in part to our cultural accommodation." Horton believes the time has come to call evangelicals back to faith and truth.
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…
"This book may give you the best opportunity of deciding the truth about me and the ministry I hold so dear." — Oral Roberts "Among several biographies of Oral Roberts, the most recent, most accurate, and best documented is Oral Roberts: An American Life, an objective, impressive study... " — New York Review of Books "Oral Roberts: An American Life is more than the story of a well-kno…
Esai-esai di dalam buku ini dihasilkan oleh dua puluh tiga pakar mengenai Calvin bertaraf internasional. Tulisan mereka memperdalam pemahaman akan era Calvin, pemikiran dan pemahamannya akan Kitab Suci dan penerapan di dalam berbagai aspek kehidupan orang percaya, Gereja, dan negara, dan warisannya bagi kita sampai saat ini, dan bersama-sama mereka memberikan penghargaan bagi salah satu tokoh y…
Dalam rangka memperingati ulang tahun Calvin yang ke-500 buku ini memberikan survei atas hidup Calvin secara kronologis dan pengaruh Calvin bukan hanya di dalam Kekristenan, tetapi juga di dalam berbagai bidang yang mendorong kemajuan budaya Barat yang berdampak terhadap seluruh dunia.
Many Christians today long to become reacquainted with their ancient ancestors in the faith. They see a deeper worship and devotion in the prayers and hymns of the early church. And they believe that the writings of the early church can shed new light on their understanding of Scripture. But where and how do we begin? Our first encounter with the writings of the church fathers may seem like vis…