Eerdmans imprint: 438 books
by MaryAnn McKibben Dana
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
“We’re all improvisers,” says MaryAnn McKibben Dana, whether we realize it or not.
In this book McKibben Dana blends personal stories, pop culture, and Scripture into a smart, funny, down-to-earth guide to the art of living*.* Offering concrete spiritual wisdom through seven improv...
Amplifying Our Witness
Giving Voice to Adolescents with Developmental Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Nearly twenty percent of adolescents have developmental disabilities, yet far too often they are marginalized within churches. Amplifying Our Witness challenges congregations to adopt a new, practice-centered approach to congregational ministry -- one that includes and amplifies the witness of adolescents...
Balthasar
A (Very) Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
The enormously prolific Swiss Roman Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) was marginalized during much of his life, but his reputation over time has only continued to grow. He was said to be the favorite theologian of John Paul II and is held in high esteem by Benedict XVI. It is...
by James H. Moorhead
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
The story of Princeton Theological Seminary, the Presbyterian Church's first seminary in America, begins in 1812, shortly after the United States had entered into its second war against Great Britain. Princeton went on to become a model of American theological education, setting the standard for subsequent...
The Prophet Jesus and the Renewal of Israel
Moving beyond a Diversionary Debate
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Debate over whether or not Jesus can be best interpreted within an "apocalyptic scenario" has continued to dominate historical Jesus studies since Schweitzer and Bultmann. In The Prophet Jesus and the Renewal of Israel Richard Horsley shows that the apocalyptic scenario -- with its supposed...
by Ira C. Lupu, Robert W. Tuttle
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
In this book Ira Lupu and Robert Tuttle break through the unproductive American debate over competing religious rights. They present an original theory that makes the secular character of the American government, rather than a set of individual rights, the centerpiece of religious liberty in the United...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Sustained reflection on how Catholic theological formation is necessarily grounded in scriptural exegesis
In Verbum Domini, his 2010 apostolic exhortation, Pope Benedict XVI challenged the church to keep theology firmly rooted in the study of Scripture. The essays collected here respond thoughtfully...
The Spiritual in the Secular
Missionaries and Knowledge about Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
David Livingstone's visit to Cambridge in 1857 was seen as much as a scientific event as a religious one. But he was by no means alone among missionaries in integrating mission with science and other fields of research. Rather, many missionaries were remarkable, pioneering polymaths.
This collection...
The Gospel of John
A Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
The author of a much-loved two volume Matthew commentary (1990) that he greatly revised and expanded fourteen years later, Frederick Dale Bruner now offers The Gospel of John: A Commentary -- more rich fruit of his lifetime of study and teaching. Rather than relying primarily on recent scholarship,...
An American Conscience
The Reinhold Niebuhr Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) was an inner-city pastor, ethics professor, and author of the famous Serenity Prayer. Time magazine's 25th anniversary issue in March 1948 featured Niebuhr on its cover, and Time later eulogized him as "the greatest Protestant theologian in America since Jonathan...
The Notorious Isaac Earl and His Scouts
Union Soldiers, Prisoners, Spies
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
While large armies engaged in epic battles in the eastern theater of the Civil War, a largely unchronicled story was unfolding along the Mississippi River. Thirty "Special Scouts" under the command of Lieutenant Isaac Newton Earl patrolled the river, gathering information about Confederate...
Mentoring
Biblical, Theological, and Practical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Positive mentoring relationships are held to be essential to the formation of strong Christian leaders—but why? How can theological and biblical insights inform mentoring relationships? And what do these vital relationships look like across a range of Christian experience?
Opening multiple...
The First American Evangelical
A Short Life of Cotton Mather
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Cotton Mather (1663-1728) was America's most famous pastor and scholar at the beginning of the eighteenth century. People today generally associate him with the infamous Salem witch trials, but in this new biography Rick Kennedy tells a bigger story: Mather, he says, was the very first American evangelical.
A...
Preaching Christ from Daniel
Foundations for Expository Sermons
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
In Preaching Christ from Daniel Sidney Greidanus shows preachers and teachers how to prepare expository messages from the six narratives and four visions in the book of Daniel. Using the most up-to-date biblical scholarship, Greidanus addresses foundational issues such as the date of composition,...