Wm B Eerdmans Publishing Co : 425 books
The Monk's Record Player
Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan, and the Perilous Summer of 1966
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
The story of a monk, a minstrel, and the music that brought them together
In 1965 writer-activist-monk Thomas Merton fulfilled a twenty-four-year dream and went to live as a hermit beyond the walls of his Trappist monastery. Seven months later, after a secret romance with a woman half his age,...
A Faithful Farewell
Living Your Last Chapter with Love
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
When the time comes for us to die, how do we say good-bye to our friends, our families, and the lives we have lived? How do we remain faithful -- to God, to ourselves, and to loved ones -- as we face our final journey?
As Marilyn McEntyre acknowledges, these questions are especially challenging...
How to Survive the Apocalypse
Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Incisive insights into contemporary pop culture and its apocalyptic bent
The world is going to hell. So begins this book, pointing to the prevalence of apocalypse — cataclysmic destruction and nightmarish end-of-the-world scenarios — in contemporary entertainment.
In How to Survive...
Eva's Story
A Survivor's Tale by the Stepsister of Anne Frank
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Many know the tragic story of Anne Frank, the teen whose life ended at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. But most people don’t know about Eva Schloss, Anne’s playmate and stepsister. Though Eva, like Anne, was taken to Auschwitz at the age of 15, her story did not end there. / This incredible memoir...
Divine Honours for the Caesars
The First Christians' Responses
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Though the first century a.d. saw the striking rise and expansion of Christianity throughout the vast Roman Empire, ancient historians have shown that an even stronger imperial cult spread far more rapidly at the same time. How did the early Jesus-followers cope with the all-pervasive culture of emperor...
A Brief History of Sunday
From the New Testament to the New Creation
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
In this accessible historical overview of Sunday, noted scholar Justo González tells the story of how and why Christians have worshiped on Sunday from the earliest days of the church to the present.
After discussing the views and practices relating to Sunday in the ancient church, González...
Confess Your Sins
The Way of Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
An evangelical classic for a new generation of Christian readers
Back in print for the first time in many years, John Stott's classic treatise on confession discusses a neglected Christian practice. Though the Bible clearly teaches that confession is a necessary part of the redemption story,...
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...