Masyarakat modern ditandai dengan kemajuan peradaban ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi. Namun, di sisi lain, ternyata peradaban modern menghasilkan masyarakat yang menderita secara psikologis. Dunia modern ditandai oleh masyarakat yang impersonal, orang-orang yang kurang harapan, yang menderita kesepian, terasing, tercabut dari akar budaya maupun pribadinya, cemas dan gelisah, gampang lari dari ke…
Rachel berjumpa dengan Lopez tanpa gagasan apa pun sebelumnya tentang dia. Ia adalah orang asing baginya. Ia bahkan tidak berbagi latar belakang agamanya. Rachel, barangkali, seorang peziarah pascagereja, yang mencari bagi dirinya kebenaran terdalam dan berjuang dengan masalah-masalah hidupnya sendiri. Ia berjumpa dari hati ke hati dengan Lopez, melintasi keterpisahan lima abad sejarah dan keti…
Tuhan Yesus Kristus, bersatu dengan pujian-Mu kepada Bapa dalam kekelan-Nya, seraya menyampaikan pujian dan doa, aku memohon kepada-Mu, karena belas kasih-Mu yang tanpa batas, anugerahkanlah kepadaku hati yang mau menyesal dan berbakti kepada-Mu, hati yang rendah hati, percaya dan hangat untuk mencinta bagaikan Hati-Mu.
Buku Satu Abad Gereja Jago Ambarawa 1924 - 2024 ini berisi kisah-kisah syukur; yang ditulis ke dalam lima bagian utama: (1) Berjalan Bersama Tuhan, (2) Berjalan sebagai Saudara, (3) Berjalan Bersama Semesta, (4) Berjalan Diiringi Doa, serta (5) Berjalan dari Bulan ke Bulan. Dengan membaca buku ini kita diajak melihat miniatur dari dinamika perjalanan iman umat Gereja Jago bersama dengan Allah d…
A comprehensive, richly illustrated overview of the world's diverse religious faiths features more than four hundred full-color, captioned photographs and illustrations, along with profiles of key religious figures--from Jesus Christ and Mohammed to Buddha and Krishna--along with explanations of religious iconography, and a discussion of the rituals, practices, and beliefs of each faith.
The present work contains records of the Christian Arabic Bible translations and Bible commentaries that are kept at the Department of Asian and African Studies at the British Library. Many of these manuscripts have previously been described in various catalogues, yet with different levels of detail. The main problem, however, for those interested in the material is to navigate through all thes…
Like most people of my generation, I first came across Theo Hermans’s work when I read The Manipulation of Literature: Studies in Literary Translation, the widely celebrated and agenda-setting volume he edited in 1985. Routledge’s reprint of the volume in 2014 seems to be based on a scan of the original, which was typed by his late wife Marion, probably on an electric typewr…
The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, one of the great masterpieces of the Christian canon, today continues to offer some of the most accessible and insightful guidance for going on retreat -- whether as a part of a group or by oneself. Based on the rich fruit of St. Ignatius' own meditations and practice, this guide for spiritual perfection has been treasured and faithfully used for centuri…
The Koran has constituted a remarkably resilient core of identity and continuity for a religious tradition that is now in its fifteenth century. In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Cook provides a lucid and direct account of the significance of the Koran both in the modern world and in that of traditional Islam. He gives vivid accounts of its role in Muslim civilization, illustrates the di…
There have been many studies of the women in the Gospels, but this is a new kind of book on the subject. Rather than offering a general overview of the Gospel women or focusing on a single theme, Richard Bauckham studies in great depth both the individual women who appear in the Gospels and the specific passages in which they appear. This unique approach reveals that there is much more to be…