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Early Judaism
A Comprehensive Overview
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Culled from The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, a monumental, groundbreaking reference work published in late 2010, Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview contains fifteen first-rate essays from a diverse group of internationally renowned scholars. This volume provides the most comprehensive...
The Gospel of the Lord
How the Early Church Wrote the Story of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Balanced, comprehensive survey of the critical questions involved in studying the four Gospels
In this book, through a distinctive evangelical and critical approach, Michael Bird explores the historical development of the four canonical Gospels. He shows how the memories and faith of the earliest...
Wisdom's Wonder
Character, Creation, and Crisis in the Bible's Wisdom Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Wisdom's Wonder offers a fresh reading of the Hebrew Bible's wisdom literature with a unique emphasis on "wonder" as the framework for understanding biblical wisdom. William Brown argues that wonder effectively integrates biblical wisdom's emphasis on character formation and its outlook...
by Stanley E. Porter, Andrew W. Pitts
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Fills the need for a truly mid-level, quality textbook on New Testament textual criticism
Presenting all the essential, foundational elements necessary to grasp textual criticism of the New Testament, Stanley Porter and Andrew Pitts accurately define the subject of textual criticism, discuss the...
by J. Ramsey Michaels
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 1971
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 1971
This new commentary — part of Eerdmans’s acclaimed NICNT series — gives primary attention to John’s gospel in its present form rather than the sources or traditions behind it.
J. Ramsey Michaels assumes that the John who authored the book is someone very close to Jesus and, therefore,...
Karl Barth and the Making of Evangelical Theology
A Fifty-Year Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Swiss theologian Karl Barth traveled to the United States only once during his long career. In 1962, newly retired, he came to visit family and to deliver a series of lectures subsequently published (by Eerdmans) as Evangelical Theology: An Introduction, which remains in print and widely read to this...
Will Many Be Saved
What Vatican II Actually Teaches and Its Implications for the New Evangelization
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The question of whether and how people who have not had the chance to hear the gospel can be saved goes back to the beginnings of Christian reflection. It has also become a much-debated topic in current theology. In Will Many Be Saved? Ralph Martin focuses primarily on the history of debate and the...
The Sacredness of Human Life
Why an Ancient Biblical Vision Is Key to the World's Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This authoritative book is the most comprehensive examination ever of the sacredness of human life. Never before has one volume explored this subject in such a multifaceted way, encompassing biblical roots, theological elaborations, historical cases, and contemporary ethical perspectives.
Tracing...
by Brock, Brian ; Swinton, John
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For two millennia Christians have thought about what human impairment is and how faith communities and society should respond to people with perceived impairments. But never has one volume collected the most significant Christian writings on disability. This book fills that gap.
Brian Brock and John...
Should We Live Forever?
The Ethical Ambiguities of Aging
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Should We Live Forever? Christian ethicist Gilbert Meilaender puzzles over the implications of the medical advances that have lengthened the human life span, wrestling with what this quest for living longer means for our conception of living well and completely. As he points out in his introduction,...
Bible, Gender, Sexuality
Reframing the Church's Debate on SameSex Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Bible, Gender, Sexuality James Brownson argues that Christians should reconsider whether or not the biblical strictures against same-sex relations as defined in the ancient world should apply to contemporary, committed same-sex relationships. Presenting two sides in the debate -- "traditionalist"...
Gods Saving Grace
A Pauline Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Distinguished biblical scholar Frank Matera here views the theology of the Pauline letters through the lens of the saving grace that Paul experienced at his call and conversion. Focusing on Christology, soteriology, theology, anthropology, ecclesiology, ethics, and eschatology, Matera explores both...
Acceptable Words
Prayers for the Writer
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Acceptable Words offers prayers that correspond with each stage of the writer's work -- from finding inspiration to penning the first words to "offering it to God" at completion. Gary Schmidt and Elizabeth Stickney, experienced writers themselves, introduce each chapter of prayers with pithy...
Unfading Light
Contemplations and Speculations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Translated by Thomas Allan Smith
With its scholarly discussions of myth, German idealist philosophy, negative theology, and mysticism, shot through with reflections on personal religious experiences, Unfading Light documents what a life in Orthodoxy came to mean for Sergius Bulgakov on the...