What is your only comfort in life and death? The Heidelberg Catechism begins with this powerful, personal question, and proceeds from there through the doctrine and experience of what it means to belong to the Lord Jesus Christ. In The Heidelberg Diary, Willem Ouweneel offers the reader 365 daily meditations that consider the entire text of the catechism.Discover and participate in the rich tradition of one of the earliest and most influential guides to Christian life and doctrine of the Reformation era.The Heidelberg Diary is a book to turn to day after day, year after year, to encounter the truths of Scripture and the living, personal, triune God who inspires it.

The Heidelberg Diary: Daily Devotions on the Heidelberg Catechism

Ouweneel, Willem J.

Religion & Spirituality

Paideia Press / Reformational Publishing Project

Probing the Past

What Then Is Theology?

Searching The Soul

Medical Books

Psychology

The set to which this volume belongs is informally entitled "The Eternal Series," because each volume of the set unfolds an aspect of the reality of God's relationship with humanity that reaches from eternity past to eternity future. The formal title of the series is "An Evangelical Introduction to Reformational Theology." Here are the volume titles:\nPart I: Scripture: The Revealed Source For Theology 
I/1 The Eternal Word: God Speaking To Us 
I/2 The Eternal Torah: Living Under God\nPart II: God: The Personal Source Behind Theology 
II/1 The Eternal God: God Revealing Himself To Us 
II/2 The Eternal Christ: God With Us 
II/3 The Eternal Spirit: God Living In Us\nPart III: Redemption: The Christ-Centered Heart of Theology 
III/1 The Eternal Purpose: Living In Christ 
III/2 Eternal Righteousness: Living Before God 
III/3 Eternal Salvation: Christ Dying For Us 
III/4 Eternal Life: Christ Living In Us\nPart IV: Consummation: The Lived Shape of Theology 
IV/1 The Eternal People: God in Relation To Israel 
IV/2 The Eternal Covenant: Living With God 
IV/3 The Eternal Kingdom: Living Under Christ\nPart V: Method: The Comprehensive Foundation of Theology 
V/1 Eternal Truth: The Prolegomena of Theology\nThese volumes have been written for the informed Christian who is somewhat familiar with both the Bible and Christian theology.\nAs you will learn in these volumes, that order-first Bible and then theology-is crucially important. So too is the distinction (but not the separation!) between these two: the Bible is not theology, and theology is not the Bible. Both following that order and honoring that distinction are prerequisites for healthy, charitable, and enduring Christianity.\nDr. Willem J. Ouweneel is a Dutch author whose three doctorates-one each in biology, philosophy, and theology-rank him among the premier Bible scholars of this generation, and equip him with breadth of vision and depth of insight.\nWhen these volumes are read alongside an open Bible, the patient reader will acknowledge the authority of the claims being defended. The reader's certitude will ultimately come to rest, not in any particular theological system or model, but in the inspired, infallible Word of God, and more importantly, in the God of that Word. As such, this entire series and these volumes are fresh and faithful reformulations of the essence of biblical faith and life as that was transmitted throughout the centuries, was rediscovered in the Reformation, and has come to be known as Reformational theology: sola Scriptura, sola gratia, sola fide, solus Christus, soli Deo gloria.

Eternal Torah: Living Under God (An Evangelical Introduction to Reformational Theology)

Paideia Press

The Eden Story: A History of Paradise, From its Demise to its New Rise

SEARCHING THE SOUL is the fourth volume by Willem J. Ouweneel that provides introductory insight into a significant area of Christian life. Clearly the healthy functioning of our emotional life is profoundly important for each of us, as well as for those with whom we come into daily contact. When we experience a physical problem, a broken leg, for example, we quickly rush off to a medical doctor to have the problem "fixed." Until recently the Christian community has been quite reluctant to seek the help of a psychological doctor when serious psychological breaks occur in our lives. Slowly, this condition is beginning to shift. But much like our political, economic, or social experiences, we need to pay close attention to what is informing our psychological views. To what extent ought we to trust the mainstream forms of psychology? Is it always a good idea to seek pastoral counseling in serious trauma cases, or should we be looking for well-trained Christian psychologists who can provide a holistic approach? In this classic work, Willem J. Ouweneel lays out a thorough analysis of what ought to constitute a scientific view of psychology grounded in a coherent biblical world-and-life view. Ouweneel provides a thorough assessment of the typical range of psychologies and their impact, along with their respective strengths and weaknesses. A highlight of the work is the close attention paid to the many confusions and distortions that have arisen in Christian circles as to precisely how psychology is to be understood from a biblical perspective. A clear alternative is provided in each case.

Searching the Soul: An Introduction to Christian Psychology (Academic Introductions for Beginners)

Power in Service: An Introduction to Christian Political Thought (Academic Introductions for Beginners)

History

World

WHAT THEN IS THEOLOGY? Throughout the life-time of the Body of Christ, Christians have typically identified theology, a theoretical enterprise, with the everyday non-theoretical language of the Bible. Enthralled with the idea that as the Logos of the Greek philosophers provided an "intelligent... principle of the universe," so too, the first verse of the Gospel of John similarly provides Christians with a rational entrée to the mind of God and his creation. With such a view the Bible easily becomes a textbook regarding the real nature of everything. Hence it is assumed in many orthodox circles that it is the task of theology to provide the systematic organization of the "logical" propositions of the Bible. Ouweneel asks, Is theology really the same as "Bible study", or the "study of Christian doctrine"? Is theology "science"? And if so, what does this involve? How can you distinguish between scientific and non-scientific - or even unscientific - theology? If the Apostles Peter, John, and Paul were indeed "theologians", were they scientific, non-scientific, or unscientific theologians? Does it matter whether theology is "scientific" or not? All these questions and many more evoked by these questions are investigated in this challenging and ground-breaking work by the Dutch theologian Willem J. Ouweneel.

What then Is Theology?: An Introduction to Christian Theology (Academic Introductions for Beginners)

Probing the Past is the fifth volume in the series Academic Introductions for Beginners which has so far addressed Philosophy, Politics, Theology, and Psychology. The present volume probes into a series of fundamental questions regarding the formative unfolding of the creation order. Beginning with the question of how to properly characterize history, Ouweneel goes on to ask about the "meaning" of history; can we discern distinctive "patterns" or "epochs" in history; how should we understand God's "providence" in history; and finally how does "the Kingdom of God" relate to the empirical unfolding of what is commonly called "world history"?\n"History is never just a recording of the mere facts, apart from the question whether such things exist in the first place. As I have explained in my Wisdom for Thinkers, facts are always facts-for-people; they are always contextually delineated. As far as we can ascertain, the Greek historian Thucydides (c. 460 - c. 395 BC) was the first, other than his somewhat older contemporary Herodotus (c. 484 - 425 BC), who attempted to limit himself to 'the facts.' However, both the choice and the representation of 'relevant' facts means that the historian has to develop some ideas, not only about the when, where, and how of history but also about the why." - From the Introduction

Probing the Past: An Introduction to Christian History (Academic Introductions for Beginners)

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