Eerdmans Publishing Co : 435 books
Being Christian
Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
In this simple, beautifully written book Rowan Williams explores four essential components of the Christian life: baptism, Bible, Eucharist, and prayer. Despite huge differences in Christian thinking and practice both today and in past centuries, he says, these four basic elements have remained constant...
Called to Witness
Doing Missional Theology
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2015
Distillation of crucial issues for the church by one of the leading voices in missional theology
Since the publication of the groundbreaking volume Missional Church in 1998, there has been wide-ranging engagement with the theme of the missional church. One of the leading voices in the missional...
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses
The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
A groundbreaking work in New Testament studies expanded and updated
Winner of the 2007 Christianity Today Book Award in Biblical Studies, this momentous volume argues that the four Gospels are closely based on the eyewitness testimony of those who personally knew Jesus. Noted New Testament...
Life after Death
A New Approach to the Last Things
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Writing in the wake of a near-fatal stroke, eminent theologian Anthony C. Thiselton addresses a universally significant topic: death and what comes next. This distinctive study of "the last things" comprehensively explores questions about individual death, the intermediate state, the return...
The Human Being
A Theological Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
This overview of Christian anthropology by Hans Schwarz uniquely emphasizes three things: (1) the biblical testimony, (2) the historical unfolding of Christian anthropology through the centuries, and (3) the present affirmation of Christian anthropology in view of rival options and current scientific...
by Johnny Bernard Hill
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
In this book Johnny Bernard Hill argues that prophetic rage, or righteous anger, is a necessary response to our present culture of imperialism and nihilism. The most powerful way to resist meaninglessness, he says, is refusing to accept the realities of structural injustice, such as poverty, escalating...
Reforming Rome
Karl Barth and Vatican II
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Few people realize that Karl Barth, one of the twentieth century’s greatest Protestant theologians, was among a select group of non-Catholic guests who were invited to the Second Vatican Council (1962–65) to assist in the reform and renewal of the Roman Catholic Church. In Reforming Rome Donald...
Learning to Dream Again
Rediscovering the Heart of God
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Meditations that beautifully articulate a contemporary Christian wisdom
Through a series of short, thoughtful meditations, Learning to Dream Again shows what true wisdom -- wisdom shaped by Jesus' earthy humility, shameful suffering, and effervescent joy -- might look like for Christians today....
The Story Luke Tells
Luke's Unique Witness to the Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2015
Among New Testament writers, who is the best historian? Without a doubt, says Justo Gonzalez, it’s Luke. Concerned about the particulars of people and events, Luke also gives readers the big picture, positioning the stories of Jesus not just in the history of Israel but in the history of humankind....
by Barry G. Webb
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Eminently readable, exegetically thorough, and written in an emotionally warm style that flows from his keen sensitivity to the text, Barry Webb’s commentary on Judges is just what is needed to properly engage a dynamic, narrative work like the book of Judges. It discusses not only unique features...
Beloved Community
Critical Dogmatics after Christendom
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In this scholarly work Paul Hinlicky transcends the impasse between dogmatic and systematic theology as he presents an original, comprehensive system of theology especially apropos to the post-Christendom North American context.
Deploying an unusual Spirit-Son-Father trinitarian scheme, Hinlicky...
Yet One More Spring
A Critical Study of Joy Davidman
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The first comprehensive study of a gifted but largely overlooked American writer
Joy Davidman (1915–1960) is probably best known today as the woman that C. S. Lewis married in the last decade of his life. But she was also an accomplished writer in her own right — an award winning poet and...
Finding God
A Treasury of Conversion Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
The search for God is a staple of human history. Finding God records sixty first-person accounts of Christians who found God in different ways and the impact this discovery made on their lives and on the world in which they lived.
Ranging from the first century to the present, Finding God is...
Reality, Grief, Hope
Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Walter Brueggemann is one of the most highly regarded Old Testament scholars of our time; talk-show host Krista Tippett has even called him "a kind of theological rock star." In this new book Brueggemann incisively probes our society-in-crisis from the ground up.
Pointing out striking...