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

Religion & Spirituality

Ouweneel, Willem J.

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Paideia Press / Reformational Publishing Project

Probing the Past

What Then Is Theology?

Searching The Soul

Medical Books

Psychology

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

This book wishes to tell the story of Eden, from the beginning--even before Genesis 2!--until the very end of the new heavens and the new earth. It will be a sad story with a happy ending. It is a drama, but not a tragedy, because tragedies always end in a tragical way. It is not a comedy, either, because en route there will be little reason to laugh, except in this sense: Heaven-throned God breaks out laughing. At first he's amused at their [i.e., the God-deniers' and Messiah-defiers'] presumption; then he gets good and angry. Furiously, he shuts them up: "Don't you know there's a King in Zion? A coronation banquet is spread for him on the holy summit" (Ps. 2:4-6 MSG). To be sure, this "banquet" is not literally in the original text--but what a beautiful way of describing the ultimate Eden! "Eat!" said the serpent in the first earthly Eden to Eve, and Eve said it to Adam (Gen. 3:1-6). "Take, eat!" said Jesus the last night of his earthly life (Matt. 26:26). "Come, buy and eat!" the Lord will say in the end, followed by this Edenic promise: For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall make a name for the Lord, an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off (Isa. 55:1, 12-13 ESV). - From the author's Foreword

Paideia Press

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)

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)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

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)

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