Journey to the Common Good

A decade ago, Walter Brueggemann called the church to journey together for the good of our community through neighborliness, covenanting, and reconstruction. He distilled this challenge to its most basic issues: Where is the church going? What is its role in contemporary society? What lessons does it have to offer a world enmeshed in turbulent times? Published originally in 2010, Journey to the…

Christ and Culture Revisited

Called to live in the world, but not to be of it, Christians must maintain a balancing act that becomes more precarious the further our culture departs from its Judeo-Christian roots. How should members of the church interact with such a culture, especially as deeply enmeshed as most of us have become? D. A. Carson applies his masterful touch to this problem. He begins by exploring the classic …

God and Culture: Allah dan Kebudayaan

Apakah kaitan Kristus dengan kebudayan? Jawaban atas pertanyaan ini akan menentukan bagaimana kita melihat hubungan yang ada antara orang Kristen dengan kebudayaan, dan hubungan antara kita dengan lingkungan dan masyarakat di sekitar kita. Para penulis di dalam buku ini berpandangan bahwa karena Kristus tidak dapat dipisahkan dari kebudayaan maka orang Kristen tidak boleh bersikap acuh tak acuh…

Christ & Culture

In a message that rings as true today as it did fifty years ago, Richard Niebuhr speaks of Christ and culture as the two points of reference for faith and ethics and challenges a new generation of Christians to be true to Christ in a materialistic age. This fiftieth-anniversary edition of his seminal work includes a new foreword by distinguished historian Martin E.Marty. who regards this book a…

Seks dan Supremasi Kristus

Kepada semua orang Kristen Lajang yang memelihara diri mereka tetap murni demi nama Kristus dan semua orang Kristen yang telah menikah yang memegang janji mereka sampai kematian memisahkan mereka.

Stoicism in Early Christianity

How usefully do distinctly Stoic ideas illuminate the meaning of first and second century texts? This book suggests that early Christians—the authors of New Testament and noncanonical writings, including some early apologies—were often more influenced by Stoicism than by Middle Platonism. This insight sheds an entirely new light on the relationship between philosophy and religion at the bir…

The New Media Frontier: Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting for Christ

A Pew Study reports that only 2% of America's twelve million bloggers claim religion, spirituality or faith" as their main topic. This leaves a great mission field in cyberspace, say contributors to The New Media Frontier , because the latest forms of communication present so many opportunities to promote the cause of Christ in other topics and fields. Before blindly jumping in, however, Christ…

The Pain and the Possibility

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9780877931621 / 0877931623

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Softcover; 143 hlm.; 13.1 x 29.9 cm

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F 261.8 R593 C1

The Intellectual Challenge of The Gospel

In 1950 The Tyndale Press in London published the address contained in the present pamphlet. It is now being republished, with permission, in this country. The writer would gladly have extended the pamphlet by expounding more fully the dialectical and Roman Catholic positions. This has been suggested by reviews of the first edition. But such an extension would tend to defeat the purpose of havi…

Hidup Baru: Orang Kristen Dalam Konteks Kebudayaan Setempat

Bagaimanakah kita harus hidup sebagai orang Kristen dalam konteks kebudayaan kita? Lebih khusus lagi "dalam kebudayaan setempat di mana kita tinggal sekarang ini juga?". Pertanyaan ini sangat hakiki dan relevan dengan kekinian. Apalagi berkaitan dengan Indondesia sebagai satu bangsa yang Bhineka Tunggal Ika lagi serba tradisi. Salah satu kebijakan yang ditempuh oleh penulis ialah membukukan apa…