Eerdmans Publishing: 438 books
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...
The Election of Grace
A Riddle without a Resolution?
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Few issues in Christian theology have sparked as much controversy over the centuries as the question of election. In this book -- the inaugural volume of the Kantzer Lectures in Revealed Theology series -- Stephen Williams offers a rich and nuanced account of the doctrine of election, arguing that...
Interpreting the Gospel and Letters of John
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Accessible, comprehensive, and up-to-date, Interpreting the Gospel and Letters of John is an ideal text for students new to the discipline of biblical studies. Sherri Brown and Francis J. Moloney present a broad overview of the story of Christianity arising out of its Jewish foundations and proceed...
by Heath A. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
The book of Habakkuk has much to teach us about suffering and complaint, faith and fear, and the fidelity of God in times of trouble; it generates reflection on prayer, peace, violence, and faithfulness. In this volume—one of the few commentaries examining Habakkuk by itself—Heath Thomas explores this overlooked Old Testament prophet in order to hear God’s word for us today.
Christians in South Indian Villages, 1959-2009
Decline and Revival in Telangana
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
A discerning study of a slice of modern Indian Christianity and Christian-Hindu encounter
This book revisits South Indian Christian communities that were studied in 1959 and written about in Village Christians and Hindu Culture (1968). In 1959 the future of these village congregations was uncertain....
Knowing Our Faith
A Guide for Believers, Seekers, and Christian Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
“I do not hope to convince you so that you will believe. That is to be left to the Holy Spirit. I write to you because you share the faith by which I live. I write so that you may share my joy in seeking to understand better this truth that our hearts believe and love.”** **
In *Knowing...
Strangers and Pilgrims Once More
Being Disciples of Jesus in a Post-Christendom World
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
In this book Addison Hodges Hart articulates some crucial questions for contemporary Christians: What sort of church must we become in today's post-Christendom world, where we can no longer count on society to support Christian ideals? What can we salvage from our Christendom past that is of real...
Practices of the Self and Spiritual Practices
Michel Foucault and the Eastern Christian Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
In this book Sergey Horujy undertakes a novel comparative analysis of Foucault’s theory of practices of the self and the Eastern Orthodox ascetical tradition of Hesychasm, revealing great affinity between these two radical “subject-less” approaches to anthropology. As he facilitates the dialogue...
On Christian Teaching
Practicing Faith in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Christian teachers have long been thinking about what *content *to teach, but little scholarship has been devoted to how faith forms the actual process of teaching. Is there a way to go beyond Christian perspectives on the subject matter and think about the teaching itself as Christian? In...
by Rolf A. Jacobson, Beth LaNeel Tanner, Nancy L. deClaisse-Walford
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
This work by Nancy deClaisse-Walford, Rolf Jacobson, and Beth Tanner is the most complete and detailed one-volume commentary available on the Psalms. Significantly, the volume reflects the combined insights of three superior (younger) biblical scholars.
DeClaisse-Walford, Jacobson, and Tanner...
Dust and Breath
Faith, Health — and Why the Church Should Care about Both
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Inspiration for churches seeking to develop whole-person ministries
Dust and Breath invites the Christian community into an expansive vision of salvation that includes ministries of health and healing. Inspired by the work of a remarkable ministry in Memphis, Tennessee, Kendra Hotz and Matthew...
by Victor P. Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1990
“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...