Wm B Eerdmans Publishing Co : 425 books
by Scot McKnight
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Scot McKnight here explains the Letter of James both in its own context and as it may be seen in light of ancient Judaism, the Graeco-Roman world, and emerging earliest Christianity.
From beginning to end, the book is shaped for pastors, teachers, and scholars. McKnight is less interested in...
by Brant Pitre
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Who did Jesus of Nazareth claim to be? What was his relationship to early Judaism? When and how did he expect the kingdom to come? What were his intentions? Though these key questions have been addressed in studies of the historical Jesus, Brant Pitre argues that they cannot be fully answered apart...
Stories with Intent
A Comprehensive Guide to the Parables of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Winner of the 2009 Christianity Today Award for Biblical Studies, Stories with Intent offers pastors and students a comprehensive and accessible guide to Jesus' parables. Klyne Snodgrass explores in vivid detail the historical context in which these stories were told, the part they played in Jesus'...
A Man Attested by God
The Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Thought-provoking alternative perspective on the full humanity of Jesus Christ
In A Man Attested by God J. R. Daniel Kirk presents a comprehensive defense of the thesis that the Synoptic Gospels present Jesus not as divine but as an idealized human figure.
Counterbalancing the recent...
The Apocalyptic Imagination
An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
One of the most widely praised studies of Jewish apocalyptic literature ever written, The Apocalyptic Imagination by John J. Collins has served for over thirty years as a helpful, relevant, comprehensive survey of the apocalyptic literary genre.
After an initial overview of things apocalyptic,...
Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy
On Jewish Apocalyptic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
A highly regarded expert on the Jewish apocalyptic tradition, John J. Collins has written extensively on the subject. Nineteen of his essays written over the last fifteen years, including previously unpublished contributions, are brought together for the first time in this volume. Its thematic essays...
by N. T. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Did the historical person Jesus really regard himself as the Son of God? What did Jesus actually stand for? And what are we to make of the early Christian conviction that Jesus physically rose from the dead?
In this book N. T. Wright considers these and many other questions raised by three...
Reading for Preaching
The Preacher in Conversation with Storytellers, Biographers, Poets, and Journalists
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
In Reading for Preaching Cornelius Plantinga makes a striking claim: preachers who read widely will most likely become better preachers.
Plantinga -- himself a master preacher -- shows how a wide reading program can benefit preachers. First, he says, good reading generates delight, and the...
The Story That Chooses Us
A Tapestry of Missional Vision
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Over the course of several decades, missiologist George Hunsberger has written numerous essays on crucial themes for the church’s recovery of its missional identity and practice. The Story That Chooses Us brings these essays together for the first time.
The book as a whole presents a composite...
Worship and Culture
Foreign Country or Homeland?
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
How are we to proclaim Christ in different cultures? This question was central to a landmark study on worship and culture conducted by the Lutheran World Federation between 1992 and 1999. Much has changed in the years since then: the world today more than ever is a multicultural global village. Worship...
Resurrection City
A Theology of Improvisation
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
In Resurrection City Peter Heltzel paints a prophetic picture of an evangelical Christianity that eschews a majority mentality and instead fights against racism, inequality, and injustice, embracing the concerns of the poor and marginalized, just as Jesus did. Placing society's needs front and center,...
Karl Barth
An Introductory Biography for Evangelicals
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
This refreshingly accessible introduction to Karl Barth by Mark Galli takes readers on a whirlwind tour of the life and writings of this giant of twentieth-century theology. Galli pays special attention to themes and topics of concern for contemporary evangelicals, who may need Barth’s...
Dignity and Destiny
Humanity in the Image of God
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Misunderstandings about what it means for humans to be created in God's image have wreaked devastation throughout history -- for example, slavery in the U. S., genocide in Nazi Germany, and the demeaning of women everywhere.
In Dignity and Destiny John Kilner explores what the Bible itself...
Spirit Hermeneutics
Reading Scripture in Light of Pentecost
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Biblical-theological reflection supporting a dynamic, experiential, Spirit-guided reading of Scripture
How do we hear the Spirit's voice in Scripture? Once we have done responsible exegesis, how may we expect the Spirit to apply the text to our lives and communities? In Spirit Hermeneutics biblical...