Eerdmans Publishing Co : 435 books
From Times Square to Timbuktu
The Post-Christian West Meets the Non-Western Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2013
In the last century, amazingly, world Christianity's center of gravity has effectively moved from Europe to a point near Timbuktu in Africa. Never in the history of Christianity has there been such a rapid and dramatic shift in where Christians are located in the world.
Wesley Granberg-Michaelson...
Just Immigration
American Policy in Christian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Few issues are as complex and controversial as immigration in the United States. The only thing anyone seems to agree on is that the system is broken. Mark Amstutz offers a succinct overview and assessment of current immigration policy and argues for an approach to the complex immigration debate that...
Christian Higher Education
A Global Reconnaissance
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
This book offers a fresh report and interpretation of what is happening at the intersection of two great contemporary movements: the rapid growth of higher education worldwide and the rise of world Christianity. It features on-site, evaluative studies by scholars from Africa, Asia, North America,...
Can a Renewal Movement Be Renewed?
Questions for the Future of Ecumenism
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2014
There is no doubt that ecumenism occupies a prominent place in the history of the church in the twentieth century: countless churches have been renewed through encounter with Christian sisters and brothers in other confessions and cultures. But it is not clear that this ecumenical impulse will continue...
With All Our Prayers
Walking with God through the Christian Year
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
A resource for both corporate worship and personal devotion, With All Our Prayers invites readers to pray, think, and live into God’s purpose for the world and for their own lives. Written by a longtime Presbyterian pastor, the beautiful prayers in this book are theologically grounded in God’s...
by Lindsay Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
In this commentary Lindsay Wilson shows the book of Job to be a coherent literary work that addresses this question: Is it possible for humans to have genuine faith in God regardless of their circumstances? Wilson argues that Job’s bold, sometimes questioning cries to God are portrayed as legitimate...
by John E. Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 1988
“In the Old Testament we read God’s word as it was spoken to his people Israel. Today, thousands of years later, we hear in these thirty-nine books his inspired and authoritative message for us.”
These twin convictions, shared by all of the contributors to The New International Commentary...
Love Big, Be Well
Letters to a Small-Town Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Jonas McAnn is a weary pastor without a congregation, trapped in a dead-end insurance job. Granby Presbyterian is a weary congregation without a pastor, overwhelmed by the prospect of finding someone who actually wants to be a pastor—not a manager, coach, or CEO.
When Granby's pastoral search...
What Do You Seek?
The Questions of Jesus as Challenge and Promise
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Throughout the Gospels, Jesus asks a lot of questions—questions that challenge and unsettle. Questions that cut to the heart of human experience. Questions that—like a plow plunging deep into hard soil—split life open.
In this book distinguished theologian Michael Buckley meditates on...
Walk Humbly
Encouragements for Living, Working, and Being
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Max Ehrmann’s prose poem “Desiderata,” with its direct instructions —“go placidly,” “enjoy your achievements,” and others— has inspired millions of readers.
In the spirit of Ehrmann’s “Desiderata,” world-renowned ethicist, theologian, and preacher Samuel Wells offers...
Forbearance
A Theological Ethic for a Disagreeable Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Offers a faithful, constructive way to deal with dissent
What happens when we approach disagreement not as a problem to solve but as an opportunity to practice Christian virtue?
In this book James Calvin Davis reclaims the biblical concept of forbearance to develop a theological ethic...
by William S. Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Informed, accessible textbook on law collections in the Pentateuch
In this book William Morrow surveys four major law collections in Exodus–Deuteronomy and shows how they each enabled the people of Israel to create and sustain a community of faith.
Treating biblical law as dynamic...
Church Planting in the Secular West
Learning from the European Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
An expert study of church planting in the most secular part of contemporary Europe
In this book Stefan Paas offers thoughtful analysis of reasons and motives for missionary church planting in Europe, and he explores successful and unsuccessful strategies in that post-Christian secularized context.
Drawing...
Covenant and Hope
Christian and Jewish Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
Covenant and Hope centers around two main themes in Jewish-Christian dialogue: "Covenant, Mission, and Relation to the Other" and "Hope and Responsibility for the Human Future." In the first section scholars from both faiths analyze the idea of covenant, how it determines their...