One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus. What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the aristocrat? What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us today? Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, Dietrich Bo…
This title of this book was inspired by the happy resolution of a problem of translation. A number of the Latin legal, ecclesiastical, and literary texts discussed below use the expression 'aliena misericordia' to describe the motivation of the person who rescued abandoned children.
Historians have credited—or blamed—Calvinism for many developments in the modern world, including capitalism, modern science, secularization, democracy, individualism, and unitarianism. These same historians, however, have largely ignored John Calvin the man. When people consider him at all, they tend to view him as little more than the joyless tyrant of Geneva who created an abstract theol…
This book recounts the Roman and Jewish context of New Testament times...the lives of John and Jesus, and the history of the first two generations of the Church.
No Christian can afford to remain ignorant of The Pilgrim's Progress. In universality of spiritual appeal it stands second only to the Bible itself. To an extent matched by few other of the great books, it is “the echo of a great soul.” John Bunyan, the tinker and nonconformist preacher who wrote this greatest of Christian classics, was born in 1628 at Elstow near Bedford, England. As a …
Renowned for his Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy and Reflections on History, Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897) has well been described as “the most civilized historian of the nineteenth century.” Judgments on History and Historians consists of records collected by Emil Dürr from Burckhardt’s lecture notes for history courses at the University of Basel from 1865 to 1885. The 149 bri…
Handel is recognised as one of the principal creative figures in Baroque music. In this Companion acknowledged experts on Handel make their expertise accessible to the interested general reader and music lover. All the genres in which Handel composed are considered including oratorio, chamber cantata, opera, and church music, as well as works for the keyboard and orchestra. The wide-ranging, sp…
This is a biography of a member of the prominent Drexel family of Philadelphia who devoted her immense fortune and her life to the services of others, and in the black habit of a nun was content to walk “simple, silent and unknown.” Granddaughter of the first Francis Drexel, who built up one of the large financial empires of our country, Katharine Drexel grew up in ease, even in luxury.…
"Jesus Our Destiny" - This was the central theme of Wilhelm Busch's long ministry in Germany as pastor and youth leader, itinerant evangelist and author. He was convinced that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the most extraordinary message of all times. That is why he delighted to proclaim it to great crowds throughout all of Europe. Pastor Busch made it clear to all that Jesus is the ultimate end…
Karya devosional klasik ini akan membimbing Anda dalam mengaplikasikan prinsip-prinsip Alkitab. Devosi ini awalnya merupakan bagian dari karya besar Calvin, The Institutes of the Christian Religion, namun kekayaan isinya telah membuatnya diterbitkan secara terpisah dalam berbagai bahasa, termasuk latin, Prancis, Jerman, Belanda, dan Inggris. Banyak orang percaya telah memetik buah dari buku yan…