Eerdmans imprint: 438 books
George Bell, Bishop of Chichester
Church, State, and Resistance in the Age of Dictatorship
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The story of a significant British church leader who fought for justice and freedom
during World War II
It was to George Bell, an English bishop, that Dietrich Bonhoeffer sent his last words before he was executed at the Flossenbürg concentration camp in April 1945. Why he did so becomes clear...
Discovering the Human Person
In Conversation with John Paul II
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
A longtime friend and student of the late Pope John Paul II, Stanislaw Grygiel in this book reflects on the life and thought of this extraordinary pope, giving new insight into his character and his vision of beauty as the path that leads us to God.
More than simply biographical information...
After Vatican II
Trajectories and Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Since the closing of Vatican II (1962-1965) nearly fifty years ago, several multivolume studies have detailed how the bishops at the council debated successive drafts and finally approved the sixteen documents published as the proceedings of the council. However, opinions vary, sometimes sharply,...
Christian Practical Wisdom
What It Is, Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
In this richly collaborative work, five distinguished scholars examine the oft-neglected embodied practical wisdom that is essential for true theological understanding and faithful Christian living. After first showing what Christian practical wisdom is and does in several real-life situations, the...
The Intolerable God
Kant's Theological Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
The thought of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is often regarded as having caused a crisis for theology and religion because it sets the limits of knowledge to what can be derived from experience. In The Intolerable God Christopher Insole challenges that assumption and argues that Kant believed in God...
by Lisa DeBoer
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016
Although numerous studies have examined biblical and theological rationales for using the visual arts in worship, this book by Lisa J. DeBoer fills in a piece of the picture missing so far — the social dimensions of both our churches and the various art worlds represented in our congregations.
The...
Politics for a Pilgrim Church
A Thomistic Theory of Civic Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Presents an innovative, constructive alternative to Christian involvement in the "culture wars"
Church leaders and scholars have long wrestled with what should provide a guiding vision for Christian engagement in culture and politics. In this book Thomas Bushlack argues that a retrieval...
Explorations in Ecclesiology and Ethnography
Studies in Ecclesiology & Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Explorations in Ecclesiology and Ethnography Christian Scharen and several other contributors explore empirical and theological understandings of the church. Like the first volume in the Studies in Ecclesiology and Ethnography series, this second volume seeks to bridge the great divide between...
Jesus Christ
The New Face of Social Progress
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Based on a careful reading of Pope Benedict’s 2009 encyclical Caritas in Veritate (“Charity in Truth”), the essays in this substantial volume explore how an encounter with the person of Jesus Christ is the true basis for economic and social progress. The authors are experts in a wide range of...
Women of War, Women of Woe
Joshua and Judges through the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century Female Biblical Interpreters
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The stories of such women as Rahab, Deborah, Jael, Delilah, Jephthah's daughter, and the Levite's concubine raised thorny questions for nineteenth-century female biblical interpreters. Could a Victorian woman use her intelligence to negotiate like Rahab? Was the seemingly well-educated Deborah an...
The Book of Isaiah
Enduring Questions Answered Anew
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
A fresh window on Isaiah studies today
Representing the highest echelon of Isaiah studies, this volume explores distinct issues that arise from the critical study of the text of Isaiah. The contributors acknowledge and comment on the exegetical contributions of distinguished biblical scholar...
A Shorter Guide to the Holy Spirit
Bible, Doctrine, Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
Anthony Thiselton’s scholarly book The Holy Spirit — In Biblical Teaching, through the Centuries, and Today was published to wide acclaim in 2013 and received a 2014 Christianity Today Book Award. This shorter volume makes Thiselton’s vast biblical-theological knowledge and brilliant insight more accessible to more readers.
The Depth of the Human Person
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
This volume brings together leading theologians, biblical scholars, scientists, philosophers, ethicists, and others to explore the multidimensionality and depth of the human person. Moving away from dualistic (mind-body, spirit-flesh, naturalmental) anthropologies, the book's contributors examine...
Dementia
Living in the Memories of God
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Dementia is one of the most feared diseases in Western society today. Some have even gone so far as to suggest euthanasia as a solution to the perceived indignity of memory loss and the disorientation that accompanies it.
In this book John Swinton develops a practical theology of dementia for...