Eerdmans imprint: 438 books
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...
Preaching in Hitler's Shadow
Sermons of Resistance in the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
What did German preachers opposed to Hitler say in their Sunday sermons? When the truth of Christ could cost a pastor his life, what words encouraged and challenged him and his congregation? This book answers those questions.
Preaching in Hitler's Shadow begins with a fascinating look at Christian...
Can I Get a Witness?
Thirteen Peacemakers, Community-Builders, and Agitators for Faith and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
How do we transform American Culture through our religious convictions?
Discover here the compelling stories of thirteen pioneers for social justice who engaged in peaceful protest and gave voice to the marginalized, working courageously out of their religious convictions to transform American...
Sensing the Scriptures
Aminadab's Chariot and the Predicament of Biblical Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
This book explores the ways that Christians, from the period of late antiquity through the Protestant Reformation, interpreted the Bible according to its several levels of meaning. Using the five bodily senses as an organizing principle, Karlfried Froehlich probes key theological developments, traditions,...
Believe Me
The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
A historian’s discerning, critical take on current American politics
“Believe me” may be the most commonly used phrase in Donald Trump’s lexicon. Whether about building a wall or protecting a Christian heritage, the refrain has been constant. And to the surprise of many, a good 80...
At the Limits of the Secular
Reflections on Faith and Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2014
This volume presents an integrated collection of constructive essays by eminent Catholic scholars addressing the new challenges and opportunities facing religious believers under shifting conditions of secularity and "post-secularity."
Using an innovative "keywords" approach,...
How (Not) to Be Secular
Reading Charles Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
How (Not) to Be Secular is what Jamie Smith calls "your hitchhiker's guide to the present" -- it is both a reading guide to Charles Taylor's monumental work A Secular Age and philosophical guidance on how we might learn to live in our times.
Taylor's landmark book A Secular Age (2007)...
Lifting Hearts to the Lord
Worship with John Calvin in Sixteenth-Century Geneva
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
The Church at Worship is a series of documentary case studies of specific worshiping communities from around the world and throughout Christian history — case studies that can inform and enrich worship practices today. In Lifting Hearts to the Lord Karin Maag brings together a wealth of primary...
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...
by Joel B. Green
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 1997
This highly original commentary, part of the New International Commentary, is unique for the way it combines concerns with first-century culture in the Roman world with understanding the text of Luke as a wholistic, historical narrative.