Eerdmans imprint: 438 books
by Heath W. Carter, Laura Porter
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Lucid, authoritative overview of a major movement in American history
The history of American evangelicalism is perhaps best understood by examining its turning points—those moments when it took on a new scope, challenge, or influence. The Great Awakening, the rise of fundamentalism and...
Justice as a Virtue
A Thomistic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
“Aquinas,” says Jean Porter, “gets justice right.” In this book she shows that Aquinas offers us a cogent and illuminating account of justice as a personal virtue rather than a virtue of social institutions, as John Rawls and his interlocutors have described it — and as most people think...
The Concept of Woman, Volume 3
The Search for Communion of Persons, 1500–2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
The culmination of a lifetime's scholarly work, this pioneering study by Sister Prudence Allen traces the concept of woman in relation to man in Western thought from ancient times to the present. In her third and final volume Allen covers the years 1500–2015, continuing her chronological approach...
by Helmut Thielicke
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Since it first appeared in English translation in 1962, A Little Exercise for Young Theologians has achieved classic status. In thirteen concise reflections Helmut Thielicke offers wise counsel on the difficulties—and vital importance—of maintaining one's spiritual health in the course of academic...
Evangelical, Catholic, and Reformed
Essays on Barth and Other Themes
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
In this book prominent Barth scholar George Hunsinger presents fifteen essays on Karl Barth’s understanding of Christian doctrine across a wide spectrum of topics, concluding with suggestions as to how Barth’s theology might fruitfully be retrieved for the future.
Hunsinger discusses Barth’s...
by George B. Connell
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) famously critiqued Christendom — especially the religious monoculture of his native Denmark. But what would he make of the dizzying diversity of religious life today? In this book George Connell uses Kierkegaard’s thought to explore pressing questions that contemporary...
by John M. G. Barclay
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
A fresh scholarly reading of grace in Paul's theology
In this book esteemed Pauline scholar John Barclay presents a strikingly fresh reading of grace in Paul's theology, studying it in view of ancient notions of "gift" and shining new light on Paul's relationship to Second Temple...
by Winter, Clark
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1993
The Book of Acts in Its Ancient Literary Setting includes fourteen chapters devoted to the literary framework that undergirds the Book of Acts. Topics include the text as historical monograph, ancient rhetoric and speeches, the Pauline corpus, biblical history, subsequent ecclesiastical histories,...
by Joan Chittister
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Everyone longs to be happy, yet many wrongly believe that happiness comes from having enough money, fame, personal comfort, worldly success, or even dumb luck. Happiness all too often seems to be an elusive, arbitrary thing -- something that is always just out of reach.
Joan Chittister sees...
The Way of the Wesleys
A Short Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2014
Engaging, accessible survey of major Wesleyan theological themes
The Wesley brothers -- John (1703–1791) and Charles (1707–1788) -- are famous as the cofounders of the Wesleyan tradition and the Methodist family of churches. Their impact and legacy have been huge: what began as the excited...
Women in the Story of Jesus
The Gospels through the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century Female Biblical Interpreters
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016
This volume gathers the writings of thirty-one nineteenth-century women on the stories of women in the Gospels—Mary and Martha, Anna, the Samaritan woman at the well, Herodias and Salome, Mary Magdalene, and more. Retrieving and analyzing rarely read works by Christina Rossetti, Harriet Beecher...
Acceptable Words
Prayers for the Writer
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Acceptable Words offers prayers that correspond with each stage of the writer's work -- from finding inspiration to penning the first words to "offering it to God" at completion. Gary Schmidt and Elizabeth Stickney, experienced writers themselves, introduce each chapter of prayers with pithy...
The Barmen Theses Then and Now
The 2004 Warfield Lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
In 1934 Christian churches in Germany faced strong pressure to conform their belief and practice to the pillars of Nazi thinking -- respect for the authority of the Fuhrer and fervent devotion to the history and culture of the German race. Defying this ideological agenda, leaders in the German Evangelical...
The Whole Church Sings
Congregational Singing in Luther's Wittenberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Authoritative study by a renowned musicologist and Reformation scholar
Many scholars think that congregational singing was not established in Lutheran worship until well after the start of the Reformation. In this book Robin A. Leaver calls that view into question, presenting new research to...