Eerdmans imprint: 438 books
Being Disciples
Essentials of the Christian Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Basic instruction in Christian discipleship from one of the world’s greatest living theologians
“Discipleship,” says Rowan Williams in this companion to his best-selling Being Christian, “is a state of being. Discipleship is about how we live; not just the decisions we make, not just...
Holy Days
Meditations on the Feasts, Fasts, and Other Solemnities of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2012
According to Pope Benedict XVI, "the liturgical year is a great voyage of faith on which the Church sets us out." The feast days in the Church's liturgical calendar follow the major events of Jesus' life as recounted in the Gospels. This cycle gives a rhythm to the life of the Church and...
Night Comes
Death, Imagination, and the Last Things
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
When he was 23 years old, Dale Allison almost died in a car accident. That terrifying experience dramatically changed his ideas about death and the hereafter. In Night Comes Allison wrestles with a number of difficult questions concerning the last things — such questions as What happens to us after...
Seeking Shalom
The Journey to Right Relationship between Catholics and Jews
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
The amazing, historic journey of Jews and Christians coming together.
In this book Philip Cunningham traces the remarkable developments in Catholic-Jewish relations over the last fifty years. Centuries of antipathy and suspicion, Cunningham says, have largely given way to a new, mutually enriching...
Liberty to the Captives
Our Call to Minister in a Captive World
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Liberty to the Captives is a book for any Christians who want to learn how to bring hope and redemption to their communities — for those who are ready to step beyond their comfort zone, leave the status quo behind, and take up Christ's call to minister within a world crying out for the freedom only...
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....