Eerdmans Publishing Co : 435 books
Distance in Preaching
Room to Speak, Space to Listen
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Based on several years of teaching and careful observation in preaching classes, this book by Michael Brothers explores the benefits of "distance" in preaching -- and listening to -- sermons.
Having noticed that sermon listeners generally want to be given room for their own interpretations...
by Timothy R. Ashley
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 1993
The book of Numbers tells a story that has two main characters -- God and Israel. The way the story is told sounds odd and often harsh to readers today. In spite of the difficulties imposed by Numbers on today's readers, the main point of the book is of immense importance for God's people in any age:...
Preaching the Luminous Word
Biblical Sermons and Homiletical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Insights from one of the most distinctive and eloquent scholar-preachers of our time
Inviting serious theological engagement with texts from all parts of the Christian Bible, Preaching the Luminous Word is a collection of fifty-one sermons and five related essays from noted preacher and biblical...
Hauerwas
A (Very) Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Stanley Hauerwas is one of the most important and robustly creative theologians of our time, and his work is well known and much admired. But Nicholas Healy -- himself an admirer of Hauerwas’s thought -- believes that it has not yet been subjected to the kind of sustained critical analysis that...
Servant of All
Status, Ambition, and the Way of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
There exists a deep tension between the biblical view of servant leaders and the status that Christian leaders today often desire and pursue. Many pastors and other church leaders, like it or not, struggle with ambition. In this book Craig Hill shows how the New Testament can help Christian leaders...
Human Origins and the Image of God
Essays in Honor of J. Wentzel van Huyssteen
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
How did human beings originate? What, if anything, makes us unique? These questions have long been central to philosophers, theologians, and scientists. This book continues that robust interdisciplinary conversation with contributions from an international team of scholars whose expertise ranges from...
The Meaning of Christian Liturgy
Recent Developments in the Church of Sweden
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
The Church of Sweden is the largest Lutheran church body in the world, with 6.5 million members that represent about 70% of the Swedish population. The Meaning of Christian Liturgy illuminates and explains the changes that have occurred in the liturgy of the Church of Sweden from 1980 to 2000. In...
Human Rites
The Power of Rituals, Habits, and Sacraments
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
What are we doing when we gather around the sacraments— or when we make the same breakfast every morning? Embodying rituals, says Dru Johnson. And until we understand what we’re doing and why, we won’t know how these rituals work, what they mean, or how we might adapt them.
In *Human...
Dissident for Life
Alexander Ogorodnikov and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
This gripping book tells the largely unknown story of longtime Russian dissident Alexander Ogorodnikov -- from Communist youth to religious dissident, in the Gulag and back again. Ogorodnikov's courage has touched people from every walk of life, including world leaders such as Bill Clinton, Ronald...
Worship with Gladness
Understanding Worship from the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
In this invitingly written, deeply joyful book, Joyce Ann Zimmerman makes Scripture her foundation as she explores the meaning and purpose of authentic Christian worship today. Intended for Christian communities across the denominational spectrum, Worship with Gladness will appeal to a wide audience...
Sex Difference in Christian Theology
Male, Female, and Intersex in the Image of God
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2015
How different are men and women? When does it matter to us -- or to God? Are male and female the only two options? In Sex Difference in Christian Theology Megan DeFranza explores such questions in light of the Bible, theology, and science.
Many Christians, entrenched in culture wars over sexual...
Disagreeing Virtuously
Religious Conflict in Interdisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Disagreement is inevitable, particularly in our current context, marked by the close coexistence of conflicting values and perspectives in politics, religion, and ethics. How can we deal with disagreement ethically and constructively in our pluralistic world?
In Disagreeing Virtuously Olli-Pekka...
From Memory to Imagination
Reforming the Church's Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
The relatively recent "worship wars" over styles of worship — traditional, contemporary, or blended — have calmed down, and many churches have now reached decisions about which "worship style" defines them. At a more fundamental level, however, change has yet to begin.
In...
Not with Wisdom of Words
Nonrational Persuasion in the New Testament
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2016
Many texts in the New Testament do more than simply explain the main tenets of the Christian faith; they invite believers to imagine and experience their theological claims. In Not with Wisdom of Words Gary Selby shows how biblical authors used poetic, imaginative language to inspire their audiences to experience a heightened sense of God’s presence.