Eerdmans Publishing: 438 books
by Roger Lundin
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Garnering awards from Choice, Christianity Today, Books & Culture, and the Conference on Christianity and Literature when first published in 1998, Roger Lundin's Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief has been widely recognized as one of the finest biographies of the great American poet Emily Dickinson....
The Torah, the Gospel, and the Qur'an
Three Books, Two Cities, One Tale
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Discussing the Bible and the Qur'an in one breath will surprise some Jews, Christians, and Muslims. But Anton Wessels argues that all three traditions must read the Scriptures together and not against each other. As his book title suggests, the three books, in the end, are actually one tale.
Wessels...
Damning Words
The Life and Religious Times of H. L. Mencken
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Recounts a famously outspoken agnostic's surprising relationship with Christianity
H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) was a reporter, literary critic, editor, author—and a famous American agnostic. From his role in the Scopes Trial to his advocacy of science and reason in public life, Mencken is...
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Master translation of a neglected Russian classic into English
Long before Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago came Dostoevsky's Notes from the House of the Dead, a compelling account of the horrific conditions in Siberian labor camps. First published in 1861, this novel, based on Dostoevsky's...
by Edward T. Oakes S.J.
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Few topics in theology are as complex and multifaceted as grace: over the course of centuries, many seemingly arbitrary distinctions and arcane debates have arisen around it. Edward Oakes, however, argues that all of these distinctions and debates are ultimately motivated by one central question:...
Eros and Self-Emptying
The Intersections of Augustine and Kierkegaard
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
A thought-provoking comparative take on two seminal thinkers in Christian history
In this book -- the first volume in the Kierkegaard as a Christian Thinker series -- Lee Barrett offers a novel comparative interpretation of early church father Augustine and nineteenth-century philosopher-theologian...
The Crucifixion
Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Though the apostle Paul boldly proclaimed “Christ crucified” as the heart of the gospel, Fleming Rutledge notes that preaching about the cross of Christ is remarkably neglected in most churches today. In this book Rutledge addresses the issues and controversies that have caused pastors to speak...
Is Scripture Still Holy?
Coming of Age with the New Testament
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
In this volume A. E. Harvey asks, Is the notion of "Holy Scripture" still credible? In particular, in the light of modern critical study and postmodern literary theory, does the New Testament still qualify as a "holy" book?
Arguing that the New Testament must continually...
Abraham Kuyper
Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The definitive biography of Abraham Kuyper, giant of Dutch Calvinism
This is the first full-scale English-language biography of the highly influential and astonishingly multifaceted Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) -- theologian, minister, politician, newspaper editor, educational innovator, Calvinist...
Christianity in Roman Africa
The Development of Its Practices and Beliefs
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
In-depth, illustrated exploration of how early North African Christians lived out their faith
Using a combination of literary and archeological evidence, this in-depth, illustrated book documents the development of Christian practices and doctrine in Roman Africa -- contemporary Libya, Tunisia,...
Make a List
How a Simple Practice Can Change Our Lives and Open Our Hearts
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
What if writing a list could literally change your life?
From the ancient book of Numbers to the latest clickbait listicle, list-writing has been a routine feature of human experience. Shopping lists. To-do lists. Guest lists. Bucket lists. Lists are everywhere you look.
But what if...
Revelation as Testimony
A Philosophical-Theological Study
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2014
According to the pre-modern Christian tradition, knowledge of God is mainly testimonial: we know certain important truths about God and divine things because God himself has told them to us. In academic theology of late this view is often summarily dismissed. But to do so is a mistake, claims Mats...
Heavenly Bodies
Incarnation, the Gaze, and Embodiment in Christian Theology
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
Deep and wide study of 2,000 years of Christian thought on the human body
Does Christianity scorn our bodies? Friedrich Nietzsche thought so, and many others since him have thought the same. Ola Sigurdson contends, to the contrary, that Christianity — understood properly — in fact affirms...
Hermeneutics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2009
Anthony Thiselton here brings together his encyclopedic knowledge of hermeneutics and his nearly four decades of teaching on the subject to provide a splendid interdisciplinary textbook. After a thorough historical overview of hermeneutics, Thiselton moves into modern times with extensive analysis...