Philosophy

In The Ten Commandments in History Paul Kuntz passionately argues that the Ten Commandments are universal principles of social order that have to be applied in concrete circumstances in order for their meaning to be fully understood. In a nearly seamless discourse about the tradition of the Ten Commandments, Kuntz engages the thought of more than twenty philosophers from antiquity to modernity, showing how great minds adapted the Decalogue to the needs of their particular age. Among the figures treated in the book are Philo, Aquinas, Wycliffe, Luther, Calvin, Hobbes, Locke, Edwards, Kant, Jefferson, Montaigne, Pascal, Hegel, and Nietzsche. By demonstrating the crucial role of the Decalogue in the history of ideas, Kuntz hoped that readers would find a new reverence for the Ten Commandments and once again value their place in civil society.

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In this book, Doctor Zheng discusses Christian ethics and introduces significant people and movements in Christian history, such as Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin and Barth.  He writes for today's Chinese who are influenced by postmodernism and consumerism, offering a pathway to a peaceful and caring society.

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The Legacy of Sovereign Joy is the first book in John Piper's series The Swans are Not Silent.  This book presents the lives and thoughts of Augustine, Martin Luther and John Calvin, showing how each man built his life and ministry on "the reality of God's omnipotent grace" and how "the glory of God, however dimly, is mirrored in the flawed lives of his faithful servants".

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A classic in the field of Christian counseling, Competent to Counsel has helped thousands of pastors, students, laypersons, and Christian counselors develop both a general approach to Christian counseling and a specific response to particular problems.  Using biblically directed discussion, nouthetic counseling works by means of the Holy Spirit to bring about change in the personality and behavior of the counselee.  As Dr. Jay Adams points out in his introduction, "I have been engrossed in the project of developing biblical counseling and have uncovered what I consider to be a number of important scriptural principles. . . . There have been dramatic results. . . . Not only have people's immediate problems been resolved, but there have also been solutions to all sorts of long-term problems as well."  Since its first publication in 1970, this book has gone through over thirty printings.  It establishes the basis for and an introduction to a counseling approach that is being used in pastors' studies, in counseling centers, and across dining room tables throughout the country and around the world

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J. I. Packer, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Iain Murray, and Ernest Kevan are among the distinguished contributors to this compilation of papers on a wide range of topics pertaining to Puritan and Reformed teaching, piety, and life. This volume, the first in a series, captures the principles and passion of Puritan belief as presented in the Puritan and Reformed Studies Conferences of 1956-1959. The twenty-three papers gathered here are, by design, "practical and constructive, not merely academic", says Packer, and therefore helpful to pastors as well as the whole church. Learn More

Lu Xun is a famous Chinese writer whose works are of great significance to Chinese people. In this book Qi Hongwei, a professor at Nanjing Normal University and a well-known author and researcher of Christian culture and comparative literature, explores Lu Xun from a new perspective. Dr. Qi looks at the influence that Christian culture may have had on Lu Xun, coming to a startling conclusion: Lu Xun's inspiration was not rooted in the Chinese traditional culture or in the humanism brought by the Enlightenment, but in the "Hebrew spirit ". By "Hebrew Spirit" he means the idea of the individual and the consciousness of dark (dark: the bad, the evil side of human beings and the world), and the pursuit of light (light: the good). This book will be of great interest to those of an academic bent who love Chinese literature. Learn More