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…
This Ecclesiological Study argues that Reformed Ecclesiology cannot be separated from Reformed Christology. The Christological Foundation of Reformed doctrine of the church will be examined as Reformed theology portrays the important ecclesiological topicsin the light of its chrisological thoughts. This book offers potential for the future of the church with her pastoral concern. It will serve …
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…
For nearly thirty years, James M. Kittelsons Luther the Reformer has been the standard biography of Martin Luther. Like Roland Baintons biography of the generation before, Kittelsons volume is the one known by thousands of students, pastors, and interested readers as the biography that gave them the details of this dramatic man and his history. The accolades were well deserved. Fair, insightfu…
For too long students have had to resort to nineteenth-century works for scholarly, evangelical studies of Jesus' parables. At last they can turn to a contemporary analysis of the parables by an acknowledged New Testament scholar. While the exposition is in non-technical language, the footnotes are laden with references to scholarly monographs and discussions of technical matters. Each of th…