Apakah maksudnya Alkitab berkata bahwa umat kristen harus "mati bagi dosa"? Bagaimana mungkin Allah yang adil "membenarkan orang yang berdosa" tanpa membuat diri-Nya "tidak adil"? Apakah Lahir Baru itu? Apakah Pembenaran itu? Mengapa semua manusia berharap akan pembenaran? Jika saya sudah mati bagi dosa, mengapakah saya masih merasakan dampaknya? Sebagai orang kristen, apakah saya "manusia baru…
"The Death of Scripture and the Rise of Biblical Studies" examines the creation of the academic Bible. Beginning with the fragmentation of biblical interpretation in the centuries after the Reformation, Michael Legaspi shows how the weakening of scriptural authority in the Western churches altered the role of biblical interpretation. Focusing on renowned German scholar Johann David Michaelis (1…
Evangelicalism, a vibrant and growing expression of historic Christian orthodoxy, is already one of the largest and most geographically diverse global religious movements. This Companion, first published in 2007, offers an articulation of evangelical theology that is both faithful to historic evangelical convictions and in dialogue with contemporary intellectual contexts and concerns. In additi…
Abraham Kuyper?s Rooted & Grounded is the Word of the Lord for the Christian church today. Christians know the Gospel must permeate every area of life organically, that every vocation is integral and not accidental to the missio Dei, as my friend and colleague Steven Garber is fond of saying. This is what Kuyper means when he talks about the church being rooted in the organism of the Gospel. Bu…
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…
The Tyndale New Testament Commentaries have long been a trusted resource for Bible study. Written by some of the world's most distinguished evangelical scholars, these twenty volumes offer clear, reliable, and relevant explanations of every book in the New Testament. These Tyndale volumes are designed to help readers under-stand what the Bible actually says and means. The introduction to eac…
Calvin adalah seseorang yang hidup di dalam zaman tertentu, dengan pergumulan zaman tertentu, namun kita percaya theologinya tidak sepenuhnya cenderung pada konteks, melainkan juga memiliki aspek transendensi yang melampaui zamannya, sebagaimana para pemikir besar, namun terutama karena Calvin menimba dari kekayaan tradisi Alkitab. Kepekaan terhadap berubahnya zaman dari konteks perubahan perta…
Dalam bukunya, Dr. Kraemer, seorang awam dan ahli theologia menganggap panggilan kaum awam itu sebagai bagian yang hakiki dari pelayanan Gereja, mereka berfungsi sebagai "penyebaran Gereja" dan sebagai "kredit beku" yang tidak dipergunakan bagi iman Kristen yang mereka wakili. Menurut pandangan Dr. Kraemer, Gereja Kristen harus dihadapkan kepada tuntutan supaya memikirkan kembali seluruhnya rel…
Writing The Eyes Are Sunlight not only allowed Shirley Koers to work through the grief of a deep, personal loss, it provided a “faith experience in which I confronted the demands of God in the depths of my soul." The experience resulted in a superbly written and soothing reflection on the death of her husband and her own grieving process. “However,” she explains, “the story is incidenta…