Tidak banyak teolog dan pemimpin Kristen di Indonesia yang memiliki reputasi nasional dan internasional, apalagi mereka yang mampu mempertahankan reputasi dan konsistensi dalam kurun waktu yang lama, khususnya ketika usia mulai menggerogoti ketahanan fisik. Pdt. Dr. Stephen Tong adalah contoh pemimpin yang demikian, pemimpin yang mampu menjaga konsistensi warna teologi dengan integritas hidup y…
In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions-what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Following Wills’s biography of Augustine and his translation of the Confessions, this is an unparalleled introduction to one …
Although China has long been considered a culture of fables, legends, and the polytheistic worship of many deities, author Chan Kei Thong takes readers on a step-by-step journey through 4.000 years of ancient Chinese traditions and rituals to reach a startling modern-day conclusion : The ancient Chinese worshiped a monotheistic God whom they called Shang Di, the same God the Hebrews of the Bibl…
Garry Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his influential interpretation of the Christian doctrines of mind and body, wisdom and God. Saint Augustine explores both the great ruminator on the human condition and the everyday man who set pen to parchment. It challenges many misconceptions - among them the myth of Aug…
Did humans evolve from ape-like creatures? Have scientists found fossils of the missing link? Does the similarity between human and chimp DNA point to common ancestry? These and other questions are answered in this Pocket Guide to Apemen. Experts in the fields of paleontology, anatomy, genetics, and ancient Bible texts examine both the scientific evidence and the Biblical record to show that…
Eusebius' account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years. Bishop Eusebius, a learned scholar who lived most of his life in Caesarea in Palestine, traces the history of the Church from the time of Christ to the Great Persecution at the beginning of the fourth century, and ends with the conversion of the Emperor Constantine.
More than sixty years after his death B.B. Warfield;s witness remains a powerful influence in main-stream Christianity simply because no successor has attained to his eminence as a biblical theologian. In his years at Princeton, 1886-1921, he was unquestionably the best-known opponent of the rationalism and anti-supernaturalism which threatened the life of the Church in the 20th Century; for hi…
A HANDBOOK ON GOOD MANNERS FOR CHILDREN is considered to be the first treatise in Western Europe on the moral and practical education of children. It was written by Erasmus of Rotterdam who determined that manners are best instilled at an early age. It was a massive bestseller - indeed the biggest-selling book of the 16th century - going into nineteen editions and being translated into eight la…
"~Nearly two centuries ago there occurred a phenomenon unique in the history of the Western church the voluntary church of America. European visitors to America in the eighteenth and nineteenth century were deeply interested in this radical solution to the problem of religious diversity that had plagued Europe for so long a solution based…
Let Origins of Chinese Culture guide you through the perplexing maze of all things Chinese. Pick up interesting Facts about the "Four Treasures of the Study" - the brush, ink, paper and inkstone - which form the cornerstone of Chinese Culture. Be enthralled by the charming stories of Chinese Icons: * Cao Cao, who hinted that he wants a door widened just by writing a character on the door. …