Wm B Eerdmans Publishing Co : 425 books
Incarnational Ministry
Being with the Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
With** may be the most important word in the Christian faith.**
In the Trinity, as Samuel Wells points out, we see the eternal persons of the Godhead being with each other. In the Gospels we see Jesus being with the people he encounters, mediating God's grace to them with his own incarnational...
Taking Jesus at His Word
What Jesus Really Said in the Sermon on the Mount
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Blessed are the poor in spirit. A city set on a hill cannot be hid. You cannot serve God and mammon. Judge not, that you be not judged. Though such sayings from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount are very familiar, many people -- including Christians! -- struggle to fully understand and follow them. For those...
Young Jerry Ford
Athlete and Citizen
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Rare has been the president whose life blended the individual drive that propels one to high office with the social responsibility of being an exemplary person. Gerald R. Ford (1913-2006) was one of those rare men.
In this biography Hendrik Booraem traces the early life of Gerald Ford in Grand...
Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places
A Conversation in Spiritual Theology
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places reunites spirituality and theology in a cultural context where these two vital facets of Christian faith have been rent asunder. Lamenting the vacuous, often pagan nature of contemporary American spirituality, Eugene Peterson here firmly grounds spirituality once...
Light When It Comes
Trusting Joy, Facing Darkness, and Seeing God in Everything
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
On finding joy and spiritual meaning in life's small moments
We all have moments of joy, moments that move us somehow, spiritual moments that we can't quite put a finger on. But then we rush on and soon forget. In this book Chris Anderson encourages us to remember and share such moments....
Bearing the Unbearable
Trauma, Gospel, and Pastoral Care
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
A Christ-centered approach to dealing with trauma on both a personal and a communal level
Traumas abound. Post-traumatic stress disorder, emotional and sexual abuse, unbearable anxiety and fear, and a host of other traumas afflict people everywhere. In this book Deborah van Deusen Hunsinger...
Word by Word
A Daily Spiritual Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
*Beautifully written meditations on fifteen well-chosen words *
In What's in a Phrase? — winner of the 2015 Christianity Today Book Award in Spirituality — Marilyn McEntyre showed readers how brief scriptural phrases can evoke and invite. In Word by WordMcEntyre invites readers to...
The Mediation of the Spirit
Interventions in Practical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
A noteworthy theology of the Holy Spirit that challenges current scholarship in the field
How might a distinctively Pentecostal and charismatic theological perspective inform and enrich the discourse of academic practical theology? In order to address that question, Mark Cartledge in this book...
by Tim Perry, Daniel Kendall
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
This volume provides a concise, nontechnical historical introduction to the church's thinking about Mary, the mother of Jesus. The first part of the book sketches the development of Marian thought from the second century to the twentieth century. The second part contains an annotated bibliography...
Church History
An Introduction to Research Methods and Resources
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
In their acclaimed, much-used Church History, James Bradley and Richard Muller lay out guidelines, methods, and basic reference tools for research and writing in the fields of church history and historical theology. Over the years, this book has helped countless students define their topics, locate...
The Crown and the Fire
Meditations on the Cross and the Life of the Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
This popular book by N. T. Wright offers thirteen powerful meditations and sermons that challenge readers to assess anew the meaning of Jesus' death and resurrection and the life of the Spirit in Jesus' followers today.
In Part One, "The Crown of Thorns," Wright considers not the...
The Way of the Lord
Christian Pilgrimage Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Vividly evoking the sights, sounds, and smells of the Holy Land, this book by N. T. Wright is ideal for both individual and group study by any readers who have embarked on the spiritual journey of the Christian life.
Wright explores all the sites that travelers usually visit on a tour of the...
Self, World, and Time
Volume 1: Ethics as Theology: An Induction
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Self, World, and Time takes up the question of the form and matter of Christian ethics as an intellectual discipline. What is it about? How does Christian ethics relate to the humanities, especially philosophy, theology, and behavioral studies? How does its shape correspond to the shape of practical...
Finding and Seeking
Ethics as Theology, vol. 2
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
This is the second of three volumes in Oliver O’Donovan’s masterful “Ethics as Theology” project. In his first volume -- Self, World, and Time -- O’Donovan discusses Christian ethics as an intellectual discipline in relation to the humanities, especially philosophy, theology, and behavioral...