JATIDIRI MANUSIA Berdasar Filsafat Organisme Whitehead Tugas utana manusia", kata Sokrates, "adalah menggembalakan jiwanya". Untuk itu manusia harus mengenal dirinya yang sejati atau JATIDIRI-nya. "Siapakah aku?" merupakan pertanyaan yang sangat kompleks dengan unsur- unsur dan taraf-tarafnya yang berbeda-beda. "Aku" di hadapan orangtua tidak sama dengan aku di hadapan tanaman kesayanganku, …
Mempelajari Sejarah Gereja berarti memeriksa apa, bagaimana, dan sampai di mana Gereja sadar dan setia akan wujud dan amanatnya. Untuk itu dibutuhkan pengamatan dari berbagai aspek atau segi dalam kehidupan Gereja sepanjang sejarahnya. Di dalam buku ini akan diperlihatkan dan diperbincangkan segi-segi atau aspek-aspek seperti: kehidupan rohani gereja, corak kesalehan jemaat-jemaat, organisasi g…
Tuhan menciptakan alam semesta. Ia mengetahui segala hal yang besar di mana-mana. Tetapi Tuhan juga menyukai hal-hal kecil - lebah, bunga dan KAMU, Kamu istimewa bagi Tuhan - dan Ia mempedulikan segala yang kamu lakukan, baik yang besar maupun yang kecil. Buku kecil ini akan menunjukkan betapa besar cinta Tuhan kepadamu. Ditulis dalam bab yang mudah dibaca, gambar-gambar yang menarik dan war…
As we survey the educational ruins around us, classical and Christian education appears to be an idea whose time has come again. More and more Christian parents are seeing the failures of modern education, and they are hungering for a substantive alternative, one that has been tested before and found to be good. Classical and Christian education presents them with just such an alternative.
In this vivid portrait of the new business world, Thomas L. Friedman shows how technology, capital, and information are transforming the global marketplace, leveling old geographic and geopolitical boundaries. With bold reporting and acute analysis, Friedman dramatizes the conflict between globalizing forces and local cultures, and he shows why a balance between progress and the preservation of…
Religion on Capitol Hill is the first in-depth presentation of the religious beliefs and values of the United States Congress. It clarifies misconceptions. It shatters time-honored as well as recently formulated myths. It explores legislative voting behavior. And it suggests that religious belief has important but complex connections to political issues. Peter Benson and Dorothy Williams find, …
A complete summary of the views of the most important philosophers since the beginning of Western civilization. Each major field of philosophic inquiry is treated in a separate chapter, so that each chapter can be read as a complete unit, without reference to the others. Includes Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Dewey, Sartre, and many others.
What really happened to the dinosaurs? Did they live and then die out millions of years ago? Or have they lived recently, alongside man? Did dinosaurs evolve into birds? Are there dinosaurs alive today? More than any other subject, dinosaurs are used to promote the idea of evolution. Museums, media and schools all proclaim that dinosaurs died millions of years ago. They also teach that the bird…
Dark Night of the Soul tells the journey of the soul from its bodily home to its union with God. The journey occurs during the night, which represents the hardships and difficulties the soul meets in the world and reaching the light of the union with the Creator. The main idea of the book can be seen as the experience that people endure as they seek to grow in spiritual maturity and union with …
J. R. R. Tolkien is one of the most beloved and enigmatic writers of the twentieth century, yet surprisingly little is known about the personal life of the author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. After a traumatic childhood, Tolkien experienced the bloody trenches of World War I, then lived most of his life as an Oxford scholar in a cloistered academic community. In this fascinating illustr…