Eerdmans Publishing: 438 books
A Gathering of Larks
Letters to Saint Francis from a Modern-Day Pilgrim
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Who was Saint Francis? Today he is most often a sweet ceramic statue in a garden, a sentimentalized romantic figure. But A Gathering of Larks, containing forty personal letters from Abigail Carroll to Francis, reveals him to be a complex man who lived a fascinating life of radical faith.
These...
Bioethics
A Primer for Christians, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
In the face of continuing advances in medical research and treatment, bioethics remains a serious ongoing social concern. For nearly two decades Gilbert Meilaender’s Bioethics has offered discerning Christian guidance on a wide range of pressing issues in medical ethics.
Now in its third...
Divine Covenants and Moral Order
A Biblical Theology of Natural Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
This book addresses the old question of natural law in its contemporary context. David VanDrunen draws on both his Reformed theological heritage and the broader Christian natural law tradition to develop a constructive theology of natural law through a thorough study of Scripture.
The biblical...
by Angelo Scola
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
This book explores the philosophical, legal, and theological roots of Western multiculturalism, that is, the encounter and coexistence of different cultures within a liberal society. Rather than concerning themselves with the particulars of cultural dialogue, the authors of this volume go deeper and...
Paul
An Apostle's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Douglas Campbell has made a name for himself as one of Paul’s most insightful and provocative interpreters. In this short and spirited book Campbell introduces readers to the apostle he has studied in depth over his scholarly career.
Enter with Campbell into Paul’s world, relive the story...
Framing Paul
An Epistolary Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
All historical work on Paul presupposes a story concerning the composition of his letters -- which ones he actually wrote, how many pieces they might originally have consisted of, when he wrote them, where from, and why. But the answers given to these questions are often derived in dubious ways.
In...
Sacred Sense
Discovering the Wonder of God's Word and World
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
All too often Scripture is read only to find answers to life’s perplexing questions, to prove a theological point, or to formulate doctrine. But William Brown argues that if read properly, what the Bible does most fundamentally is arouse a sacred sense of life-transforming wonder.
In this...
Written to Be Heard
Recovering the Messages of the Gospels
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Recovers the lost messages of Mark, Matthew, Luke-Acts, and John for people today
The words of the gospels were meant to be heard. While we can still appreciate the construction and grasp some understanding when we read, we miss much of the message because we’re working in the wrong medium....
Canonical Theology
The Biblical Canon, Sola Scriptura, and Theological Method
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2016
What are the roles of canon and community in the understanding and articulation of Christian doctrine? Should the church be the doctrinal arbiter in the twenty-first century? In Canonical Theology John Peckham tackles this complex, ongoing discussion by shedding light on issues surrounding the biblical...
Called to the Life of the Mind
Some Advice for Evangelical Scholars
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
“I wasn’t supposed to spend my life in the world of scholarship,” Richard Mouw acknowledges at the beginning of Called to the Life of the Mind. Yet he has indeed spent his career in the academy -- and has become one of the most widely respected evangelical Christian scholars of our time.
In...
by Mark A. Seifrid
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Newest volume in the acclaimed Pillar New Testament Commentary series
The question that Paul set before the ancient church in Corinth -- Do you not recognize that Jesus Christ is in and among you? (2 Cor 13:5) -- remains a critical question for the church today. This commentary by Mark Seifrid...
by James D. G. Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
New Testament scholar James D. G. Dunn has published his research on Christian origins in numerous commentaries, books, and essays. In this small, straightforward book designed especially for a lay audience, Dunn focuses his fifty-plus years of scholarship on elucidating the New Testament witness...
by James D. G. Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
Authored by one of the world's leading New Testament scholars, this commentary on the Acts of the Apostles was originally published in 1996. James Dunn first takes the reader through questions of authorship, audience, date, purpose, and literary structure. He then considers the kind of history writing...
An Anomalous Jew
Paul among Jews, Greeks, and Romans
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Lively, well-informed portrait of the complex figure who was the apostle Paul
Though Paul is often lauded as the first great Christian theologian and a champion for Gentile inclusion in the church, in his own time he was universally regarded as a strange and controversial person. In this book Pauline...