Ivp imprint: 1197 books
After College
Navigating Transitions, Relationships and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
"The first year out was one of the hardest years of my life." —Curt*"It's much rougher than I thought. I thought things would just play out, and they didn't. I don't have friends, I don't have a job and I hang out with my parents every night." —Kate*
The Reformation and the Irrepressible Word of God
Interpretation, Theology, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
According to Scripture, the Word of God is "living and active" (Heb 4:12). That affirmation was embraced by the Protestant Reformers, whose understanding of the Christian faith and the church was transformed by their encounter with Scripture. It is also true of the essays found in this volume,...
Shepherds After My Own Heart
Pastoral Traditions and Leadership in the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Scripture says, "I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding" (Jeremiah 3:15). Most of Israel's pastoral imagery is grounded in two traditions: Moses as God's under-shepherd and David as shepherd-king. These traditions, explains author...
Dominion and Dynasty
A Theology of the Hebrew Bible
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
(Tanakh)
by Joseph T. Lienhard
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
From its inception the church has always had a Bible--the Jewish Scriptures. But Christians have not read these Scriptures in the same way the Jews did. They have read them in the light of what God did in Jesus the Christ. Thus the Jewish Scriptures became for Christian readers the Old Testament....
by R. Alan Cole
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
The Tyndale New Testament Commentaries have long been a trusted resource for Bible study. Written by some of the world's most distinguished evangelical scholars, these twenty volumes offer clear, reliable, and relevant explanations of every book in the New Testament. These Tyndale volumes are designed...
by David G. Firth
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
By any assessment, Esther is a rather strange book to find in the Bible. Not only is it, along with Daniel, the only book of the Bible to be set entirely outside of the Promised Land, it also shows no interest in that land. More than that, Esther is the only book in the Bible which definitely does...
Making All Things New
God's Dream for Global Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
Often this world seems like a nightmare. Human trafficking, young girls trapped in brothels, child soldiers forced to become killers, unchecked plagues and diseases, economic injustice and the oppression of the poor. Millions around the world are trapped in this nightmare, and we may feel helpless...
Empathy for the Devil
Finding Ourselves in the Villains of the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Do we have anything in common with the bad guys of the Bible? The sins of wrath, idolatry, and abuse of power are closer to us than we think. How do we guard against them? We learn not only by following moral exemplars—we also need to look at the warnings of lives gone wrong. In this fictionalized...
The Pietist Option
Hope for the Renewal of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Historian Mark Noll has written that historic Pietism "breathed a badly needed vitality" into post-Reformation Europe. Now the time has come for Pietism to revitalize Christianity in post-Christendom America. In The Pietist Option, Christopher Gehrz, a historian of Pietism, and Mark Pattie,...
by Oren Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Just as the Old Testament book of Genesis begins with creation, where humans live in the presence of their Lord, so the New Testament book of Revelation ends with an even more glorious new creation where all of the redeemed dwell with the Lord and his Christ. The historical development between the...
Sealed with an Oath
Covenant in God's Unfolding Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Paul R. Williamson looks at the role of the covenant concept in Scripture and the meaning of this terminology. He then sets the idea of covenant in the context of God's universal purpose, and traces the idea through Noah and the patriarchs, the nation of Israel and the kingship of David. Lastly, he...
Listen In
Building Faith and Friendship Through Conversations That Matter
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
2015 Readers' Choice Award Winner We all know how discouraging it can be to share our story with someone who's not really listening. Being engaged in a conversation, just like friendship, is about so much more than simply talking. How can we use words to connect with each other in ways that can do...
Intercultural Theology, Volume Two
Theologies of Mission
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Christianity is not only a global but also an intercultural phenomenon. In this second volume of his three-volume Intercultural Theology, Henning Wrogemann turns to theologies of mission. Mission theologies, he argues, are found in a wide range of implicit as well as explicit forms, from the practice...