Selama dua puluh lima tahun, Pendeta John Piper telah memprovokasi orang-orang Kristen dengan kebenaran yang sederhana namun memorak-porandakan paradigma kita bahwa Allah yang paling dimuliakan di dalam kita keika kita paling dipuaskan di dalam Dia. kepuasan, kebahagiaan, Sukacita, pengejaran kenikmatan di dalam Allah bukan hanya diperkenankan, tetapi juga esensial. Dengan membangun pesan…
Sepanjang dekade terakhir, kalangan Injili telah terbagi-bagi dalam hal bagaimana harus merespons tantangan-tantangan postmodernisme. Pilihan-pilihannya, yang meliputi penyangkalan naif sampai perangkulanyang tanpa keraguan, cenderung menderita kesalahan fatal yang sama: menempatkan penekanan pada kebudayaan ketimbang pada Kristus. Kumpulan esai ini mengoreksi kesalahan itu dengan cara menyedia…
Buku ini akan menantang Anda untuk percaya bahwa Allah benar-benar berdaulat, bukan hanya dalam tempat berlindung penelitian theologi yang aman, melainkan juga dalam kekacauan-balauan yang menyakitkan dari kehidupan nyata. Anda akan ditantang untuk hidup lebih konsisten oleh anugerah Allah dan untuk kemuliaan-Nya. -Mark D. Roberts, Pendeta Senior, Irvine Presbyterian Church Irvine, California.
John Piper writes, “I will tell you what a tragedy is. I will show you how to waste your life. Consider this story from the February 1998 Reader’s Digest: A couple ’took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta Gorda, Florida, where they cruise on their 30-foot trawler, play softball and collect shells. . . .’…
Pierced by the Word takes up thirty-one subjects as unique as "How to Be a Refuge for Your Children," "How to Drink Orange Juice to the Glory of God," and "Embracing the Pain of Shame." Some are longer, some shorter, like the real-world conversations they so closely resemble, and each comes from the fertile mind of John Piper and is written in his own inimitable style. Together, the readings wi…
A long-awaited major statement by pre-eminent analytic philosopher Alvin Plantinga, "Where the Conflict Really Lies" illuminates one of our society's biggest debates - the conflict between science and religion. Plantinga examines where this conflict is said to exist - looking at areas such as evolution, divine action in the world, and the scientific study of religion. He makes a case that their…
Alvin Plantinga, called by Time magazine "America's leading orthodox Protestant philosopher of God, " has had a profound impact on the philosophical discipline. This book gathers in one place Plantinga's most important work in the philosophy of religion generally and his contribution to the resurgence in Christian philosophy in particular. Organized into four sections -- "Natural Theology and A…
In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in and decides to discuss Socrates instead. Symposium gives an unsurpassed picture of the sparkling society that was Athens at the height of her empire. The setting of the other dialogues is more sombre. Socrates is put on trial for impiety, and sentenced to death. Euthyphro dis…
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In this Spectrum Multiview volume five experts in biblical hermeneutics gather to state and defend their approach to the discipline. Contributors include: Craig Blomberg with the historical-critical/grammatical approach Richard Gaffin with the redemptive-historical approach Scott Spencer with the literary/postmodern approach Robert Wall with the canonical approach Merold Westphal with the philo…