Wm B Eerdmans Publishing Co : 425 books
After Vatican II
Trajectories and Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Since the closing of Vatican II (1962-1965) nearly fifty years ago, several multivolume studies have detailed how the bishops at the council debated successive drafts and finally approved the sixteen documents published as the proceedings of the council. However, opinions vary, sometimes sharply,...
The Intolerable God
Kant's Theological Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
The thought of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is often regarded as having caused a crisis for theology and religion because it sets the limits of knowledge to what can be derived from experience. In The Intolerable God Christopher Insole challenges that assumption and argues that Kant believed in God...
by Lisa DeBoer
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016
Although numerous studies have examined biblical and theological rationales for using the visual arts in worship, this book by Lisa J. DeBoer fills in a piece of the picture missing so far — the social dimensions of both our churches and the various art worlds represented in our congregations.
The...
Politics for a Pilgrim Church
A Thomistic Theory of Civic Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Presents an innovative, constructive alternative to Christian involvement in the "culture wars"
Church leaders and scholars have long wrestled with what should provide a guiding vision for Christian engagement in culture and politics. In this book Thomas Bushlack argues that a retrieval...
Jesus Christ
The New Face of Social Progress
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Based on a careful reading of Pope Benedict’s 2009 encyclical Caritas in Veritate (“Charity in Truth”), the essays in this substantial volume explore how an encounter with the person of Jesus Christ is the true basis for economic and social progress. The authors are experts in a wide range of...
Women of War, Women of Woe
Joshua and Judges through the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century Female Biblical Interpreters
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The stories of such women as Rahab, Deborah, Jael, Delilah, Jephthah's daughter, and the Levite's concubine raised thorny questions for nineteenth-century female biblical interpreters. Could a Victorian woman use her intelligence to negotiate like Rahab? Was the seemingly well-educated Deborah an...
The Book of Isaiah
Enduring Questions Answered Anew
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
A fresh window on Isaiah studies today
Representing the highest echelon of Isaiah studies, this volume explores distinct issues that arise from the critical study of the text of Isaiah. The contributors acknowledge and comment on the exegetical contributions of distinguished biblical scholar...
A Shorter Guide to the Holy Spirit
Bible, Doctrine, Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
Anthony Thiselton’s scholarly book The Holy Spirit — In Biblical Teaching, through the Centuries, and Today was published to wide acclaim in 2013 and received a 2014 Christianity Today Book Award. This shorter volume makes Thiselton’s vast biblical-theological knowledge and brilliant insight more accessible to more readers.
The Depth of the Human Person
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
This volume brings together leading theologians, biblical scholars, scientists, philosophers, ethicists, and others to explore the multidimensionality and depth of the human person. Moving away from dualistic (mind-body, spirit-flesh, naturalmental) anthropologies, the book's contributors examine...
Confucius for Christians
What an Ancient Chinese Worldview Can Teach Us about Life in Christ
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Shows how wisdom from an Eastern tradition can enrich the lives of Jesus followers everywhere
This unique book explores ways of using resources from the Confucian wisdom tradition to inform Christian living. Neither highlighting nor diminishing the differences between Confucianism and Christianity,...
Pandora's Box Opened
An Examination and Defense of Historical-Critical Method and Its Master Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2014
For many, the historical-critical method has released a host of threats to Christian faith and confession. In Pandora's Box Opened, however, Roy Harrisville argues that despite the evils brought upon biblical interpretation by the historical-critical method, there is still hope for it as a discipline.
Harrisville...
Between the Beginning and the End
A Radical Kingdom Vision
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Radical, comprehensive vision of the kingdom of God in light of the new creation
Twentieth-century Dutch missiologist and prolific author J. H. Bavinck was committed to confronting the world with the saving message of Christ. In this first English translation of the Dutch work published in...
Searching for a Universal Ethic
Multidisciplinary, Ecumenical, and Interfaith Responses to the Catholic Natural Law Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
The best contemporary English-language resource on pursuing a universal ethics
In this volume twenty-three major scholars comment on and critically evaluate In Search of a Universal Ethic, the 2009 document written by the International Theological Commission (ITC) of the Catholic Church. That...
The Revelatory Body
Theology as Inductive Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015
Argues that theology can respond faithfully to the living God only by paying due attention to human bodily experience
Scripture points to the human body and lived experience as the preeminent arena of God's continuing revelation in the world, says Luke Timothy Johnson. Attentively discerning...