Eerdmans Publishing: 438 books
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...
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...
Preaching Romans
Four Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
First-rate scholars and preachers on four interpretive approaches to Paul and Romans
Pauline scholarship is a minefield of differing schools of thought. Those who teach or preach on Paul can quickly get lost in the weeds of the various perspectives. How, then, can pastors today best preach...
Justification Reconsidered
Rethinking A Pauline Theme
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Much has been written of late about what the apostle Paul really meant when he spoke of justification by faith, not the works of the law. This short study by Stephen Westerholm carefully examines proposals on the subject by Krister Stendahl, E. P. Sanders, Heikki Raisanen, N. T. Wright, James D. G....
by Lesslie Newbigin
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 1989
How does the gospel relate to a pluralist society? What is the Christian message in a society marked by religious pluralism, ethnic diversity, and cultural relativism? Should Christians encountering today's pluralist society concentrate on evangelism or on dialogue? How does the prevailing climate...
The Apostle Paul
His Life, Thought, and Letters
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
In this comprehensive introduction to the apostle Paul, Stanley Porter devotes serious consideration both to the background and major contours of Paul’s thought and to the unique contributions of each of his letters.
Porter begins by introducing the Pauline tradition and outlining the basics...