Eerdmans imprint: 438 books
Loving Later Life
An Ethics of Aging
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Is loving later life possible? In our youth-obsessed culture, nobody enjoys growing old. We normally fear our own aging and generally do not love old people -- they remind us that death is inescapable, the body frail, and social status transitory. In Loving Later Life Frits de Lange shows how an ethics...
Kingdom Ethics
Following Jesus in Contemporary Context
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Comprehensive update of the leading Christian ethics textbook of the 21st century
Ever since its original publication in 2003, Glen Stassen and David Gushee's Kingdom Ethics has offered students, pastors, and other readers an outstanding framework for Christian ethical thought, one that is...
Missional Worship, Worshipful Mission
Gathering as God's People, Going Out in God's Name
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Missiology
"A robust and practical theology that integrates worship and mission into a seamless whole."
Anglican & Episcopal History
"A very useful and insightful text. . . . A remarkable synthesis of most of the best insights liturgical scholars and missiologists have gained...
by D.A. Carson
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Called to live in the world, but not to be *of *it, Christians must maintain a balancing act that becomes more precarious the further our culture departs from its Judeo-Christian roots. How should members of the church interact with such a culture, especially as deeply enmeshed as most of us have...
Always with Us?
What Jesus Really Said about the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
A strong theological call for ending the abomination of systemic poverty
Jesus's words "the poor you will always have with you" (Matthew 26:11) are regularly used to suggest that ending poverty is impossible, that poverty is a result of moral failures, and that the poor themselves...
The Kuyper Center Review, Vol 3
Calvinism and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Some religious traditions -- such as Lutheran, Wesleyan, and Eastern Orthodox -- have aesthetically rich resources on which to draw for the renewal of arts in everyday life. In contrast, Calvinism has generally been suspicious of the arts.
The essays in this volume attempt to explore new avenues...
by J. Denny Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This bold new statement on the nonviolence of God challenges long-standing assumptions of divine violence in theology, the violent God pictured in the Old Testament, and the supposed violence of God in Revelation. In The Nonviolent God J. Denny Weaver argues that since God is revealed in Jesus, the...
Neither Jew nor Greek
A Contested Identity (Christianity in the Making, Volume 3)
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The third and final installment of James Dunn's magisterial history of Christian origins through 190 C.E., Neither Jew nor Greek: A Contested Identity covers the period after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. through the second century, when the still-new Jesus movement firmed up its distinctive...
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,...
A Time to Embrace
Same-Sex Relationships in Religion, Law, and Politics, 2nd edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
In A Time to Embrace William Stacy Johnson brilliantly analyzes the religious, legal, and political debates about gay marriage, civil unions, and committed gay couples. This new edition includes updates that reflect the many changes in laws pertaining to civil unions / same-sex marriage since 2006.
by Lucas c. Ernest
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
In this erudite yet accessible commentary Ernest Lucas elucidates the book of Proverbs both exegetically and thematically. Explicating the text in light of its ancient Near Eastern context, Lucas also shows the relevance of Proverbs for the twenty-first century, speaking as it does to such issues...
Revelation
A Shorter Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
G. K. Beale’s monumental New International Greek Testament Commentary volume on Revelation has been highly praised since its publication in 1999. This shorter commentary distills the superb grammatical analysis and exegesis from that tome (over 1,300 pages) into a book more accessible and pertinent...
Summoned from the Margin
Homecoming of an African
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Summoned from the Margin tells the story of Lamin Sanneh's fascinating journey from his upbringing in an impoverished village in West Africa to education in the United States and Europe to a distinguished career teaching at the Universities of Yale, Harvard, Aberdeen, and Ghana.
He grew up...
Evangelical versus Liturgical?
Defying a Dichotomy
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Why is there such a deep divide between evangelical and liturgical churches, especially when it comes to worship? How did this unfortunate evangelical-liturgical dichotomy develop, and what can be done about it?
In this book Melanie Ross draws on historical analysis, systematic theology, and...