In this stimulating work Stephen Charnock links the Old and New Testaments with this classic explanation of how the sacrifice of Jesus Christ fulfils the Old Testament sacrificial system. He particularly illustrates the importance of the Passover, and opens up our understanding of the differences which characterize the New Testament Church era. He shows that Jesus willingly submitted to the pai…
We are pleased to launch this series of books to help Christian leaders, missionaries, international student ministers, seminarians, and mission-minded Christians understand the complex relationship between the Christian gospel and Chinese culture. Chang offers succinct summaries of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Zen, Hinduism, and Islam, and critiques them from a biblical base.
The apostle Paul writes of an individual in conflict, with self, others, and God. The loser on this battlefield is truly a winner. A careful integration of social science and New Testament study interprets Paul's insights into the self, New Testament scholar J. Knox Chamblin presents what is essentially a systematic theology of the self.
An Eerdmans Reader in Contemporary Political Theology gathers some of the most significant and influential writings in political theology from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Given that the locus of Christianity is undeniably shifting to the global South, this volume uniquely integrates key voices from Africa, Asia, and Latin America with central texts from Europe and North America on…
The most penetrating and, indeed, prophetic book by an outsider taking a critical look at the Church.
One who has studied Koine Greek formally and desires to maintain his grasp of it will find this interlinear to be a great help, in his devotional as well as his exegetical study. The non-Greek-reading Bible student will be able to acquaint himself with the Greek New Testament through the English translation that is beneath each word of the Greek text. This volume is especially useful for those…
“Religion, the fear of God, must therefore be the element which inspires and animates all theological investigation. That must be the pulsebeat of the science. A theologian is a person who makes bold to speak about God because he speaks out of God and through God. To profess theology is to do holy work. It is a priestly ministration in the house of the Lord. It is itself a service of worship,…
Buku pertama dari Teologi Sistematika ini membahas tentang doktrin Allah: eksistensi Allah, kemungkinan untuk mengenal Allah, atribut dan nama Allah, Tritunggal, pekerjaan Allah, predestinasi, penciptaan, dan providensi.
Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was one of the great philosophers of our era whose concept of creative evolution continues to dominate a large area of modern thought. In Bergson’s view, the world includes two opposing tendencies-life and matter. Life is dynamics, has force and will, and struggles for richness and complexity through and beyond matter. Matter is the congealed residue of creation that…
Organized religion offers a symbolic integration of the varied elen1ents of American society; it infuses political institutions with religious symbolism; and by way of personal adjustment and psychological integration. But these useful services to the establishment leave out the essence of a twentieth-century response to the God who stands over against our society in judgment. Personal commi…