Their love story is not one of fairy tales. It is one of faithfulness from the beginning through to its tragic ending. Richard and Margaret Baxter had been married only nineteen years before she died at age forty-five. A prominent pastor and prolific author, Baxter sought consolation and relief the only true way he knew- in Scripture with his discipline of writing. Within days he produced a lov…
A Clear Outline of Basic Christianity from Theologian J. I. Packer Followers of Christ grow spiritually by learning and living out the essentials of their faith, which are often taken for granted or overlooked in daily life. Renowned theologian J. I. Packer believed that Christianity is not automatic and must be learned by new believers and mature Christians alike. In Growing in Christ, Packer …
J. I. Packer lays out his grandest panorama yet of the Christian faith. Here is an eloquent restatement of God's truth.
Present at the fall of the Bastille, journeying alone 3,500 miles through America, dining with George Washington, camping with the Iroquois Indians, Francois-Rene, vicomte de Chateaubriand embodied the romantic hero of the new world.
Buku ini membahas akronim TULIP yang menjadi salah satu ciri khas theologi Reformed tentang kerusakan manusia, predestinasi dan panggilan efektif Allah atas kaum pilihan kepada keselamatan, serta ketekunan sampai kepada kesudahannya. Palmer memberikan pembahasan yang lugas namun sangat berbobot.
TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Post-Conciliar perspectives by Joseph Papin -- 2.) God: a pragmatic reconstruction by Eugene Fontinell -- 3.) The role of the Bible in the theology of the future by Krister Stendahl -- 4.) The meaning of Revelation by Avery Dulles -- 5.) De-Judaization and Hellenization: the ambiguities of Christian identity by Jaroslav Pelikan -- 6.) Morality: underlying and unchanging p…
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus and sparked the montgomery, alamaba, bus boycott. A year later when the boycott was over, there was a federal injuction againts segregation on buses; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a national figure; the civil rights movement was a national cause; and Rosa Parks was out of a job. Yet there is much m…
TEMUILAH CALVIN YANG SESUNGGUHNYA! Nama John Calvin menimbulkan banyak gambaran yang kuat, kebanyakan negatif. Dalam pikiran banyak orang, dia dianggap sebagai seorang theolog menara gading, yang tidak praktis dan penyendiri, yang keras dan tidak masuk akal, kekuatan pendorong di balik sistem theologis yang berbahaya. Dlam buku ini, Burk Parsons dan delapan belas pendeta dan cendikiawan Reforme…
John Calvin's name evokes powerful images, most of them negative. In the minds of many, he is perceived as an ivory-tower theologian who was harsh and unreasonable, the driving force behind a dangerous theological system. In this volume, Burk Parsons and eighteen other leading Reformed pastors and scholars authoritatively reveal the truth about Calvin and his teaching - that he was humble, cari…
In this survey, John Passmore concentrates on the British tradition in logic, metaphysics and the theory of knowledge, yet he never neglects parallel developments in Europe and America. He considers the crucial new insights that were generated into probability, propositions and private languages, meaning, minds and bodies and the limits of science. Accounts explore the main schools and individu…