Eerdmans Publishing: 438 books
Discovering Genesis
Content, Interpretation, Reception
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Concise, student-friendly introduction to Genesis
Iain Provan here offers readers a compact, up-to-date, and student-friendly introduction to the book of Genesis, focusing on its structure, content, theological concerns, key interpretive debates, and historical reception.
Drawing on a range...
by Stephen G. Dempster
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
A distinctively theological take on the book of Micah
Readers of the book of Micah learn a great deal about God: he is a mighty God who controls the nations, yet he is also concerned with everyday matters like equity, poverty, and care for widows and orphans. In presenting this transcendent-yet-immanent...
1 Samuel as Christian Scripture
A Theological Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
This work by Stephen Chapman offers a robustly theological and explicitly Christian reading of 1 Samuel. Chapman’s commentary reveals the theological drama at the heart of that biblical book as it probes the tension between civil religion and vital religious faith through the characters of Saul and David.
by Peter C. Craigie
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 1976
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 1976
Craigie's study on the Book of Deuteronomy is part of The New International Commentary on the Old Testament. Like its companion series on the New Testament, this commentary devotes considerable care to achieving a balance between technical information and homiletic-devotional interpretation.
Reading Jesus's Bible
How the New Testament Helps Us Understand the Old Testament
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
For Jesus and his contemporaries, what we now know as the Old Testament was simply the Scriptures—and it was the fundamental basis of how people understood their relationship with God. In this book John Goldingay uncovers five major ways in which the New Testament uses the Old Testament. His discussion...
by Tremper Longman III
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1997
Ecclesiastes is one of the most fascinating -- and hauntingly familiar -- books of the Old Testament. The sentiments of the main speaker of the book, a person given the name Qohelet, sound incredibly modern. Expressing the uncertainty and anxieties of our own age, he is driven by the question, "Where...
by Tremper Longman III
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2001
Relationships are a wonderful, mysterious, often elusive, sometimes painful part of the human experience. The most intimate of all human relationships, according to the Bible, is that between a husband and a wife. It is no surprise, therefore, that there is a book of the Bible, the Song of Songs,...
Time and the Word
Figural Reading of the Christian Scriptures
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This book by Ephraim Radner constitutes the first significant theological account of the foundations and methods of the figural reading of Scripture. Radner's reintroduces contemporary scholars to a traditional approach to biblical interpretation that dates back to Jewish practice from before the...
The Theater of God's Glory
Calvin, Creation, and the Liturgical Arts
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
A theological framework for the liturgical arts rooted in John Calvin
Both detractors and supporters of John Calvin have deemed him an enemy of the physical body, a pessimist toward creation, and a negative influence on the liturgical arts. But, says W. David O. Taylor, that only tells half...
by Ronald J. Allen
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
The purpose of this book is to introduce the New Testament to those who have never read it. Ronald Allen offers a truly elementary guide to the New Testament's world, its story, and its message. Reading the New Testament for the First Time walks readers through the New Testament, covering key topics...
Participating in God's Mission
A Theological Missiology for the Church in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Explores how the church has engaged—and should engage—the American context
What might faithful and meaningful Christian witness look like within our changing contemporary American context?
After analyzing contemporary challenges and developing a missiological approach for the US...
The Authority of the Gospel
Explorations in Moral and Political Theology in Honor of Oliver O'Donovan
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Oliver O’Donovan is widely regarded as one of the preeminent Protestant Christian ethicists of our time. His teaching and scholarship have exerted a profound influence on countless moral theologians.
This volume honoring O’Donovan shows how the various contributors -- themselves distinguished...
by Robert W. Wall, Richard B. Steele
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
This theological commentary on 1 & 2 Timothy and Titus by Robert Wall powerfully demonstrates the ongoing relevance and authority of the Pastoral Epistles for the church today. Wall uniquely employs an apostolic "Rule of Faith" methodology for interpreting these texts as sacred Scripture....
by J. Brent Bill
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
An invitation to experience more fully the life-changing power of sacred silence
For over a decade, J. Brent Bill's Holy Silence has been regarded as a contemporary classic on sacred silence. With warmth, wisdom, and gentle humor, Bill presents the Quaker practice of silence and expectant...