Wm B Eerdmans Publishing Co : 425 books
The Courage to Be Protestant
Reformation Faith in Today's World
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
At its heart, the Protestant Reformation was about a deep, doctrinally shaped faith centered on God and his Word. But that historic, substantive faith is not faring so well in our contemporary Western context.
In his 2008 book The Courage to Be Protestant, David Wells issued a summons to...
Commonwealth and Covenant
Economics, Politics, and Theologies of Relationality
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
* *In Commonwealth and Covenant Marcia Pally argues that in order to address current socioeconomic problems, we need not more economic formulas but rather a better understanding of how the world is set up — an ontology of how we and the world work. Without this, good proposals that arise lack political...
Neuroscience and the Soul
The Human Person in Philosophy, Science, and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016
An interdisciplinary look at arguments both for and against traditional belief in the soul
It is a widely held belief that human beings are both body and soul, that our immaterial soul is distinct from our material body. But that traditional idea has been seriously questioned by much recent...
by Pavel Florensky
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Profound writings by one of the twentieth century's greatest polymaths
"Perhaps the most remarkable person devoured by the Gulag" is how Alexandr Solzhenitsyn described Pavel Florensky, a Russian Orthodox mathematician, scientist, linguist, art historian, philosopher, theologian,...
Jesus as Healer
A Gospel for the Body
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Healings and miracles play a prominent role in the New Testament accounts of Jesus’ life and ministry. In the Western Christian tradition, however, Jesus’ works of healing tend to be downplayed and understood as little more than a demonstration of his divine power.
In this book Jan-Olav...
Torn Asunder
Children, the Myth of the Good Divorce, and the Recovery of Origins
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
A timely unsettling of old "settled" questions surrounding divorce
Amid the current nationwide debate over what "marriage" is, this book examines anew the nature and meaning of marriage from the standpoint of what adult children of divorce have actually experienced.
Upholding...
For Freedom or Bondage?
A Critique of African Pastoral Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
In Ghana today, many people who suffer from a variety of human ills wander from one pastor to another in search of a spiritual cure. Because of the way cultural beliefs about the spiritual world have interwoven with their Christian faith, many Ghanaian Christians live in bondage to their fears of...
Consider the Women
A Provocative Guide to Three Matriarchs of the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
*A timely and compelling new look at three key women in the biblical narrative *
Among the mostly male-dominated narratives in Scripture, the stories of women can be game-changing. In this book Debbie Blue looks closely at Hagar (mother of Islam), Esther (Jewish heroine), and Mary (Christian...
Calling All Years Good
Christian Vocation throughout Life's Seasons
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
A uniquely comprehensive discussion of vocation from infancy to old age
Do infants have a vocation? Do Alzheimer's patients? In popular culture, vocation is often reduced to adult work or church ministry. Rarely do we consider childhood or old age as crucial times for commencing or culminating...
by Gordon J. Wenham
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 1979
Leviticus used to be the first book that Jewish children studied in the synagogue. In the modern church it tends to be the last part of the Bible that anyone looks at seriously. Because Leviticus is largely concerned with subjects that seem incomprehensible and irrelevant today — rituals for sacrifice...
by John Christopher Thomas, Frank D. Macchia
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
The book of Revelation is perhaps the most theologically complex and literarily sophisticated — and also the most sensual — document in the New Testament. In this commentary John Christopher Thomas’s literary and exegetical analysis makes the challenging text of Revelation more accessible and...
Migrants and Citizens
Justice and Responsibility in the Ethics of Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
In all the noisy rhetoric currently surrounding immigration, one important question is rarely asked: What ethical responsibilities do immigrants and citizens have to each other? In this book Tisha Rajendra reframes the confused and often heated debate over immigration around the world, proposes a...
by Daniel I. Block
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 1998
This work completes Daniel Block's two-volume commentary on the book of Ezekiel. The result of twelve years of studying this difficult section of Scripture, this volume, like the one on chapters 1-24, provides an excellent discussion of the background of Ezekiel and offers a verse-by-verse exposition...
by Marten Woudstra
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 1981
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 1981
Woudstra's work on the Book of Joshua is a contribution to The New International Commentary on the Old Testament. Like its companion series on the New Testament, this commentary devotes considerable care to achieving a balance between technical information and homiletic-devotional interpretation.