Eerdmans imprint: 438 books
Confucius for Christians
What an Ancient Chinese Worldview Can Teach Us about Life in Christ
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Shows how wisdom from an Eastern tradition can enrich the lives of Jesus followers everywhere
This unique book explores ways of using resources from the Confucian wisdom tradition to inform Christian living. Neither highlighting nor diminishing the differences between Confucianism and Christianity,...
Pandora's Box Opened
An Examination and Defense of Historical-Critical Method and Its Master Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2014
For many, the historical-critical method has released a host of threats to Christian faith and confession. In Pandora's Box Opened, however, Roy Harrisville argues that despite the evils brought upon biblical interpretation by the historical-critical method, there is still hope for it as a discipline.
Harrisville...
Between the Beginning and the End
A Radical Kingdom Vision
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Radical, comprehensive vision of the kingdom of God in light of the new creation
Twentieth-century Dutch missiologist and prolific author J. H. Bavinck was committed to confronting the world with the saving message of Christ. In this first English translation of the Dutch work published in...
Searching for a Universal Ethic
Multidisciplinary, Ecumenical, and Interfaith Responses to the Catholic Natural Law Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
The best contemporary English-language resource on pursuing a universal ethics
In this volume twenty-three major scholars comment on and critically evaluate In Search of a Universal Ethic, the 2009 document written by the International Theological Commission (ITC) of the Catholic Church. That...
Process and Providence
The Evolution Question at Princeton, 1845-1929
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Charles Hodge, James McCosh, B. B. Warfield -- these leading professors at Princeton College and Seminary in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are famous for their orthodox Protestant positions on the doctrine of evolution. In this book Bradley Gundlach explores the surprisingly positive...
The Revelatory Body
Theology as Inductive Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015
Argues that theology can respond faithfully to the living God only by paying due attention to human bodily experience
Scripture points to the human body and lived experience as the preeminent arena of God's continuing revelation in the world, says Luke Timothy Johnson. Attentively discerning...
Inspired
The Holy Spirit and the Mind of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Eugene Peterson calls Jack Levison ‘the clearest writer on the Holy Spirit that I have known.’ In this book Levison speaks a fresh prophetic word to the church, championing a unique blend of serious Bible study and Christian spirituality.
With rich insight, he shows Christians of any church...
by D.H. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Select ancient Christian writings on the Gospel of Matthew
The Church’s Bible series brings the rich classical tradition of biblical interpretation to life, illuminating Scripture as it was understood during the first millennium of Christian history. Compiled, translated, and edited by leading...
Power and Purpose
Paul Ramsey and Contemporary Christian Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Not long ago, Paul Ramsey (1913-1988) was a leading voice in North American Christian ethics. Today, however, his intellectual legacy is in question, and his work is largely ignored by current scholars in the field. Against the tide of that neglect, Adam Edward Hollowell argues in Power and Purpose...
The Touch of the Sacred
The Practice, Theology, and Tradition of Christian Worship
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2014
All over the world Christian communities meet on Sunday morning for worship. But what really happens during a worship service? How do worshipers participate in the service? What does it mean to sing, pray, and celebrate the Lord's Supper together? What do worshipers do when they listen to a sermon?
In...
Pagans and Christians in the City
Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced very...
On Secular Governance
Lutheran Perspectives on Contemporary Legal Issues
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
This volume puts forth an unprecedented, distinctive Lutheran take on the intersection of law and religion in our society today. On Secular Governance gathers the collaborative reflections of legal and theological scholars on a range of subjects — women’s issues, property law and the environment,...
A Gathering of Larks
Letters to Saint Francis from a Modern-Day Pilgrim
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Who was Saint Francis? Today he is most often a sweet ceramic statue in a garden, a sentimentalized romantic figure. But A Gathering of Larks, containing forty personal letters from Abigail Carroll to Francis, reveals him to be a complex man who lived a fascinating life of radical faith.
These...
Bioethics
A Primer for Christians, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
In the face of continuing advances in medical research and treatment, bioethics remains a serious ongoing social concern. For nearly two decades Gilbert Meilaender’s Bioethics has offered discerning Christian guidance on a wide range of pressing issues in medical ethics.
Now in its third...