IVP Academic Catalog | Volume 75 | Winter 2015
Contents
IVP Academic Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
New IVP Academic Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Recent Releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Commentaries & Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
General Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
IVP Sales Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
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IVP Academic Staff
Bob Fryling
Jeff Crosby
Publisher, InterVarsity Press (MA, Wheaton College
Graduate School)
Associate Publisher, Sales & Marketing, InterVarsity
Press (MLD, North Central College)
BOB FRYLING, publisher of InterVarsity Press and
vice president of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship,
has had a long-term calling to the academic world.
He speaks often in areas of spiritual formation and
culture and has coauthored three books with his
wife, Alice.
Jeff Crosby has overseen the sales and marketing department for seventeen years. Prior to joining InterVarsity Press, he owned and managed a
Logos Bookstore.
Andy Le Peau
Associate Publisher, Editorial, InterVarsity Press
andy le peau has directed InterVarsity Press’s
editorial efforts since the mid-1980s, often traveling to Europe to keep in touch with our inter­
national partners. He is coauthor of Heart. Soul.
Mind. Strength. and writes the blog Andy Unedited on
the world of publishing.
Dan Reid
Senior Acquisitions Editor, IVP Academic (PhD, Fuller
Theological Seminary)
dan reid is senior acquisitions editor for reference and academic books. For many years he
was the developmental editor for IVP Academic’s
award-winning New Testament dictionaries.
David Congdon
Associate Editor, IVP Academic (PhD, Princeton
Theological Seminary)
DAVID congdon is associate editor for academic
books. He oversees manuscripts in theology, philosophy, psychology and ethics.
David W. McNutt
Associate Editor, IVP Academic (PhD, University of
Cambridge)
David McNutt is associate editor for academic
and reference books, and project editor for the
Reformation Commentary on Scripture.
Ethan McCarthy
Editorial Assistant, IVP Academic (MDiv, Trinity
Evangelical Divinity School)
Ethan mccarthy is editorial assistant for IVP
Academic. He works with editors in preparing academic and reference books for publication.
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Liz Klassen
Sales & Marketing Manager, IVP Academic (MA,
Wheaton College Graduate School)
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academic bookstores and libraries, and coordinates
sales for our titles at numerous professional conferences throughout North America.
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adrianna wright promotes IVP Academic
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Print Publicist
alisse wissman manages print publicity for IVP
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Luke Miller
Academic Sales & Marketing Coordinator
luke miller coordinates print and online
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Historical Theology
Mark Sheridan
Wrestling with Biblical Anthropomorphism
Mark Sheridan is a Benedictine monk of Dormition
Abbey in Jerusalem and professor emeritus in the Faculty of
Theology of the Pontificio Ateneo S. Anselmo, Rome, where
he served as dean of the Faculty of Theology (1998–2005)
and Rector Magnificus (2005–2009) of the Athenaeum.
Among his publications are Genesis 12–50 in the Ancient
Christian Commentary on Scripture series, Rufus of Shotep:
Homilies on the Gospels of Matthew and Luke and From the Nile to
the Rhone and Beyond: Studies in Early Monastic Literature and
Scriptural Interpretation. He is a specialist in Coptic language
and literature.
Contents Abbreviations • Introduction (1) God Is Not
Like Humans (2) The Philosophers’ Critique (3) The
Hellenistic Jewish Interpretation (4) The New Testament
(5) Early Christian Writers (6) Three Specific Cases (7) The
Special Case of the Psalms (8) A Comparison of Ancient
and Modern Interpretations • Appendix: Ancient Christian
Hermeneutics: The Presuppositions, the Criteria and the
Rules Employed • Author Index • Subject Index • Scripture
Index
Language for God in Patristic Tradition
Criticism of myth in the Bible is not a modern problem.
Its roots go back to the earliest Christian theologians, and
before them, to ancient Greek and Jewish thinkers. The
dilemma posed by texts that ascribe human characteristics
and emotions to the divine is a perennial problem, and we
have much to learn from the ancient attempts to address it.
Mark Sheridan provides a theological and historical
analysis of the patristic interpretation of Scripture’s
anthropomorphic and anthropopathic language for God.
Rather than reject the Bible as mere stories, ancient Jewish
and Christian theologians read these texts allegorically or
theologically in order to discover the truth contained within
them. They recognized that an edifying and appropriate
interpretation of these stories required that one start from
the understanding that “God is not a human being” (Num
23:19). Sheridan brings the patristic tradition into conversation with modern interpreters to show the abiding significance of its theological interpretation for today.
This work is a landmark resource for students of ancient
Christian theology. Wide-ranging in scope and accessible in
its analysis, it demonstrates that those engaged in theological interpretation of Scripture have much to gain from
studying their forebears in the faith.
Sheridan
Language for God in Patristic Tradition
Mark Sheridan
Foreword by Thomas
C. Oden
Language for God
in Patristic Tradition
Y•Z
Wr e s t l i n g w i t h B i b l i c a l
Anthropomorphism
January 2015
256 pages, paperback, 978-0-8308-4064-9,
$26.00
Related Titles
Genesis 12–50,
Edited by Mark
Sheridan,
978-0-8308-1472-5,
$50.00
Reading Scripture
with the Church
Fathers,
Christopher A.
Hall,
978-0-8308-1500-5,
$18.00
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Biblical Studies
Kenneth E. Bailey
The
Good
Shepherd
a thou s a n d- y e a r jou rn ey f rom
p s a lm 2 3 to th e n ew te sta men t
The Good Shepherd
A Thousand-Year Journey from Psalm 23 to the
New Testament
“Using his impressive knowledge of Scripture and his
experience living for many years in the Middle East,
Bailey deepens and enriches our understanding of
what it means to be members of God´s flock.”
Tremper Longman, Westmont College
bailey
“Ken Bailey is the consummate expert on the cultural
context of first-century life. . . . Always insightful,
always fresh, consistently surprising.”
Gary Burge, Wheaton College
kenneth e. bailey
December 2014
288 pages, paperback, 978-0-8308-4063-2,
$24.00
Related Titles
Jesus Through Middle
Eastern Eyes,
Kenneth E. Bailey,
978-0-8308-2568-4,
$30.00
Jacob & the Prodigal,
Kenneth E. Bailey,
978-0-8308-2727-5,
$20.00
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“The Lord is my shepherd.” Thus begins the most beloved of all
Psalms—and thus begins a thousand-year journey through
the Bible. Prophets, apostles and Jesus himself took up this
image from David, reshaping it, developing it and applying
it to their own situations and needs. Kenneth Bailey uses his
celebrated insights into Middle Eastern culture—especially
shepherding customs—to bring new light and life to our
understanding of nine Old and New Testament passages
that use this central image of the Christian faith, revealing
the literary artistry of the biblical writers and summarizing
their key theological features.
Kenneth E. Bailey (ThD, Concordia Theological
Seminary) is an author and lecturer in Middle Eastern New
Testament studies. An ordained Presbyterian minister, he
also serves as Canon Theologian of the Anglican Diocese
of Pittsburgh. He has written extensively in English and in
Arabic, including Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes, The Cross
and the Prodigal and Finding the Lost: Cultural Keys to Luke 15.
Contents Preface • Introduction • Part I: Major Accounts
of the Shepherd and the Sheep in the Old Testament (1)
The Good Shepherd in Psalm 23 (2) The Good Shepherd
and Jeremiah 23:1-8 (3) The Good Shepherd and Ezekiel
34:1-31 (4) The Good Shepherd and Zechariah 10:2-12 •
Part II: Major Accounts of the Shepherd and the Sheep in
the New Testament (5) The Good Shepherd in Mark 6:7-52
(6) Jesus the Good Shepherd and the Good Woman in Luke
15:1-10 (7) The Disciples as Good Shepherds in Matthew
18:10-14 (8) The Good Shepherd amid Thieves and Wolves
in John 10:1-18 (9) The Good Shepherd and 1 Peter 5:1-4 •
Postscript • Bibliography
Biblical Studies
G. K. Beale and Benjamin L. Gladd
Hidden But Now Revealed
When reading through the Bible, it is impossible to ignore
the troubling fact that Israel and its leaders—and even Jesus’
own disciples—seem unable to fully grasp the messianic
identity and climactic mission of Jesus. If his true deity,
death, resurrection and role in the establishment of God’s
eternal kingdom were predicted in the Old Testament and
in his own teachings, how could the leading biblical scholars
of their time miss it?
This book explores the biblical conception of mystery as
an initial, partially hidden revelation that is subsequently
more fully revealed. Exploring all the occurrences of the
term mystery in the New Testament and the topics found
in conjunction with them, this work sharpens our understanding of how the Old Testament relates to the New and
explores topics such as kingdom, crucifixion, the relationship between Jews and Gentiles, and more.
G. K. Beale (PhD, University of Cambridge) holds the
J. Gresham Machen Chair of New Testament at Westminster
Theological Seminary. His books include The Book of Revelation (New International Greek Testament Commentary), 1-2
Thessalonians (The IVP New Testament Commentary Series),
John’s Use of the Old Testament in Revelation, The Temple and the
Church’s Mission and We Become What We Worship.
Benjamin L. Gladd (PhD, Wheaton College) serves as
assistant professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi. He is the author
of Revealing the Mysterion and previously served as adjunct
professor at Wheaton College, teaching New Testament
exegesis and interpretation, Greek, and introductory
courses on the Old and New Testaments.
Contents Preface • Abbreviations • Introduction (1) The
Use of Mystery in Daniel (2) The Use of Mystery in Early
Judaism (3) The Use of Mystery in Matthew (4) The Use of
Mystery in Romans (5) The Use of Mystery in 1 Corinthians
(6) The Use of Mystery in Ephesians (7) The Use of Mystery
in Colossians (8) The Use of Mystery in 2 Thessalonians (9)
The Use of Mystery in 1 Timothy (10) The Use of Mystery in
Revelation (11) Mystery Without Mystery in the New Testament (12) The Christian Mystery and the Pagan Mystery
Religions (13) Conclusion • Appendix: The Cognitive
Peripheral Vision of Biblical Authors • Bibliography • Author
Index • Subject Index
Hidden But Now Revealed
A Biblical Theology of Mystery
A Biblical Theology of Mystery
Beale
Gladd
G. K. Beale and
Benjamin l. Gladd
November 2014
384 pages, paperback, 978-0-8308-2718-3,
$27.00
Related Titles
We Become What
We Worship,
G. K. Beale,
978-0-8308-2877-7,
$28.00
The Temple and the
Church’s Mission,
G. K. Beale,
978-0-8308-2618-6,
$30.00
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Biography
Thomas C. Oden
Thomas C. Oden
A Change of Heart
A Personal and Theological Memoir
“Tom Oden is one of the most remarkable Christians
of our time. This is the story of how he has lived
through, contributed to and helped to overthrow
several revolutions during his long and fruitful life. . . .
Those of us who know and love this great theologian
will be delighted to read the story of his pilgrimage.”
Timothy George, Beeson Divinity
A Change of Heart
A
PersonAl
TheologicAl
And
MeMoir
December 2014
450 pages, paperback, 978-0-8308-4035-9,
$40.00
Related Titles
Mark,
Edited by Thomas
C. Oden and
Christopher A.
Hall,
978-0-8308-1418-3,
$50.00
How Africa Shaped
the Christian Mind,
Thomas C. Oden,
978-0-8308-3705-2,
$18.00
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School of Samford University
How did one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated
liberals have such a dramatic change of heart? After growing
up in the heart of rural Methodism in Oklahoma, Thomas
Oden found Marx, Nietzsche and Freud storming into his
imagination. He joined the post–World War II pacifist movement and became enamored with the ecumenical Student
Christian Movement. For Oden, every turn was a left turn.
At Yale he met with some of the most formidable minds of
the era—Gadamer, Bultmann, Pannenberg and Barth. Then
he attended Vatican II as an observer and got his first taste
of ancient Christianity. Slowly, he stopped making left turns,
eventually making his most dramatic shift—back to the great
minds of ancient Christianity. This fascinating memoir walks
us through not only his personal history but some of the most
memorable chapters in twentieth-century theology.
Thomas C. Oden (PhD, Yale University) is the general
editor of the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture
and the Ancient Christian Doctrine Series as well as the
author of Classic Christianity. He is the director of the Center
for Early African Christianity at Eastern University in Pennsylvania and he formerly served at the Theological School of
Drew University.
Contents Preface • Part I: Early Years (1) The 1930s:
Prairie Dawn (2) The 1940s: A World at War (3) The
1950s: Love and Learning (4) The 1960s: The Church
of What’s Happening Now • Part II: Change of Heart
(5) The 1970s: The U-Turn (6) The 1980s: Charting the
Course • Part III: Homeward Bound (7) The 1990s: The
Outpouring of Grace (8) The 2000s: A Time of Harvest
(9) The 2010s: After Eight Decades • Acknowledgments •
Notes • Name Index • Subject Index
Evangelicalism
Amos Yong
Soundings from the Asian American Diaspora
theology, Yong fills a significant gap in evangelical
scholarship. . . . This book exemplifies the best of the
next evangelicalism.”
Soong-Chan Rah, North Park Theological Seminary
Drawing on the day of Pentecost narrative, Amos Yong
puts forward a bold proposal for a pentecostal-evangelical
theology informed by the particular experiences and
perspectives of Asian Americans. The outpouring of Christ’s
Spirit upon all flesh means that the evangelical church has
to attend to the multiplicity of voices and contexts that shape
the global theological conversation. This programmatic
vision for theology pays attention to gender, race, migration,
economics, justice and politics, uncovering a theology situated within a Pentecostal Asian American context that bears
on the future of the whole church.
Amos Yong (PhD, Boston University) is professor of
theology and mission and director of the Center for Missiological Research at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is a
licensed minister with the General Council of the Assemblies of God and is the author or editor of over two dozen
books, including Afro-Pentecostalism, Science and the Spirit and
The Spirit Poured Out on All Flesh.
Contents Preface • Acknowledgments • Prologue: Autobiographical Reflections and Anticipations of an Asian
American Pent-evangelical Sojourner (1) Evangelicalism and
Global Theology: Emerging Asian and Contextual Voices (2)
Asian American Christianity: Wider Trends and Trajectories
(3) The Legacy of Evangelical Theology: Asian American
Reception and Interrogations (4) Pentecostal Voices: Notes
Toward an Asian American Evangelical Theology (5) The
Im/migrant Spirit: Toward an Evangelical Theology of
Migration (6) The Spirit of Jubilee: An Asian American
Immigrant Consideration (7) Toward a Global Evangelical
Theology: Asian American Intonations • Epilogue: Evangelical Theology in the Twenty-First Century: Hybrid Soundings from the Asian American Pent-evangelical Diaspora •
Subject Index • Author Index
evAngelicAl theology
burgeoning yet essential field of Asian American
the future of
“By providing a thorough examination of the
Yo n g
The Future of Evangelical Theology
A m o s Yo n g
the f ut ure o f
e v A nge lic A l th e ology
SoundingS
from the
ASiAn AmericAn
diASporA
November 2014
285 pages, paperback, 978-0-8308-4060-1,
$25.00
Related Titles
Grassroots Asian
Theology,
Simon Chan,
978-0-8308-4048-9,
$22.00
The New Shape of
World Christianity,
Mark A. Noll,
978-0-8308-3993-3,
$20.00
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Systematic Theology
Kimlyn J. Bender
Confessing Christ for Church and World
Confessing Christ for Church and World
Confessing Christ
for Church and World
Studies in Modern Theology
Studies in Modern Theology
“This book represents the best of contemporary
Protestant theology, and it challenges us to see Christ
once again with new and more discerning eyes.”
Keith L. Johnson, Wheaton College
Bender
Kimlyn J. Bender
December 2014
432 pages, paperback, 978-0-8308-4059-5,
$40.00
Related Titles
The Trinitarian
Theology for
the Church,
Edited by
Daniel J. Treier
and David Lauber,
978-0-8308-2895-1,
$26.00
Retrieving Doctrine,
Oliver D. Crisp,
978-0-8308-3928-5,
$22.00
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With one foot in the world of Scripture and another in the
contemporary world, Karl Barth was both a modern and a
confessional theologian. The intersection of these two worlds
makes him a fruitful dialogue partner for thinking creatively
about what it means to be faithful to Jesus Christ today.
In this collection of essays both old and new, Kimlyn
Bender explores Barth’s understanding of Christ, church
and world in conversation with American evangelicalism,
Roman Catholicism, Reinhard Hütter, Adolf von Harnack,
Bart Ehrman and Baptists, among others. Along the way
he also engages the theology of Friedrich Schleiermacher.
Bender’s penetrating analysis of modern theology sheds light
on both the task of theology and the witness of the church.
Kimlyn J. Bender (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is associate professor of theology at Truett Seminary,
Baylor University. He is the author of Karl Barth’s Christological Ecclesiology and is coeditor with Bruce McCormack of The
Significance of Dialogue in Historical and Contemporary Theology.
Contents Introduction • Part I: Church and Conversation
(1) Karl Barth’s Doctrine of the Church in Conversation with
American Theology Today (2) Karl Barth’s Doctrine of the
Church in Conversation with American Evangelicalism (3)
An Old Debate Revisited: Karl Barth and Catholic Substance
(4) The End of the Reformation? • Part II: Canon and
Confession (5) Scripture and Canon in Karl Barth’s Early
Theology (6) Christ and Canon, Theology and History: The
Barth-Harnack Dialogue Revisited (7) The Canon as Theological Category: Bart Ehrman’s Questions to Scripture (8)
Barth and Baptists: A Fellowship of Kindred Minds (9) Karl
Barth and the Question of Atheism • Part III: Christ and
Creation (10) Christ, Creation and the Drama of Redemption: ‘The Play’s the Thing . . . ’ (11) Standing Out in the
Gifford Lectures: Barth’s Non-natural Lectures on Natural
Theology (12) A Concluding Postscript to Schleiermacher’s
Christology • Author Index • Subject Index
Systematic Theology
Edited by Kelly M. Kapic
W i t h
“This book draws wisely from the tradition, engages
patiently with the scriptural testimony, and tries to
think clearly and compellingly for the church today.”
Michael Allen, Knox Theological Seminary
Kelly M. Kapic (PhD, King’s College, University of
London) is professor of theological studies at Covenant
College. He is the author or editor of books such as A Little
Book for New Theologians, God So Loved He Gave, Communion
with God and Mapping Modern Theology.
Contents Preface • Abbreviations • Contributors • Prelude:
An Opening Homily (1) Holiness: Restoring God’s Image: A
Homily on Colossians 3:5-17 Derek Tidball • Part I: Sanctified by Grace Through Faith in Union with Christ (2) Living
by Faith—Alone? Reformed Responses to Antinomianism
Richard Lints (3) Sanctification by Faith? Henri Blocher (4)
Covenantal Union and Communion: Union with Christ as
the Covenant of Grace Brannon Ellis (5) Sanctification After
Metaphysics: Karl Barth in Conversation with John Wesley’s
Conception of “Christian Perfection” Bruce L. McCormack •
Part II: Human Agency and Sanctification’s Relationship
to Ethics (6) “Let the Earth Bring Forth . . .”: The Spirit
and Human Agency in Sanctification Michael Horton (7)
Sanctification and Ethics Oliver O’Donovan (8) On Bavinck’s
Theology of Sanctification-as-Ethics James Eglinton • Part
III: Theological and Pastoral Meditations on Sanctification (9) Gospel Holiness: Some Dogmatic Reflections
Ivor J. Davidson (10) Faith, Hope and Love: A Theological
Meditation on Suffering and Sanctification Kelly M. Kapic
(11) Sonship, Identity and Transformation Julie Canlis (12)
Sanctification Through Preaching: How John Chrysostom
Preached for Personal Transformation Peter Moore
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s a n C t i f i C at i o n
e x p l o r at i o n s i n t h e o l o g y a n D p r a C t i C e
kapiC
With so much recent interest in concepts of election and
justification, the question of holiness can often seem to
be of secondary importance. The essays in this volume,
which come out of the 2011 Edinburgh Dogmatics Conference, address this dilemma through biblical, historical and
pastoral explorations of sanctification. The contributors sink
their teeth into positions like the “works” mentality or “ justification by faith alone” and posit stronger biblical views of
grace and holiness, considering key topics such as the image
of God, perfection, union with Christ, Christian ethics and
suffering. This is a resource for both church and academy.
s a n C t i f i C at i o n
Explorations in Theology and Practice
C o n t r i b u t i o n s
henri bloCher • Julie Canlis • MiChael horton
b r u C e M c C o r M a C k • o l i v e r o ’ D o n o va n
Sanctification
e D i t e D
b y
k e l ly M . k a p i C
December 2014
300 pages, paperback, 978-0-8308-4062-5,
$28.00
Related Titles
A Little Book for New
Theologians,
Kelly M. Kapic,
978-0-8308-3975-9,
$8.00
Called to Be Saints,
Gordon T. Smith,
978-0-8308-4030-4,
$26.00
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Philosophical Theology
s t r At eg ic i n i t i At i v e s i n e vA nge l icA l t h eol ogy
Kevin Diller
Theology’s Epistemological Dilemma
How Karl Barth and Alvin Plantinga Provide a
Unified Response
theology’s
ePistemologicAl
DilemmA
h ow K A r l b A rt h A n D
A lv i n P l A n t i n g A P r ov i D e
A UnifieD resPonse
Kevin Diller
f o r e wo r D b y A lv i n P l A n t i n g A
SIET
December 2014
352 pages, paperback, 978-0-8308-3906-3,
$30.00
Related Titles
Prelude to Philosophy,
Mark W. Foreman,
978-0-8308-3960-5,
$20.00
The problem of faith and reason is as old as Christianity
itself. Today’s philosophical, scientific and historical
challenges make the epistemic problem inescapable for
believers. Can faith justify its claims? Does faith give us
confidence in the truth? Is believing with certainty a virtue
or a vice?
Kevin Diller addresses this problem by drawing on two of
the most significant responses in recent Christian thought:
Karl Barth’s theology of revelation and Alvin Plantinga’s
epistemology of Christian belief. This will strike many as
unlikely, given the common stereotypes of both thinkers.
Contrary to widespread misunderstanding, Diller offers
a reading of both as complementary to each other: Barth
provides what Plantinga lacks in theological depth, while
Plantinga provides what Barth lacks in philosophical clarity.
Diller presents a unified Barth/Plantinga proposal for theological epistemology capable of responding without anxiety
to the questions that face believers today.
Kevin Diller (PhD, University of St. Andrews), is associate
professor of philosophy and religion at Taylor University in
Upland, Indiana. He holds graduate degrees from Princeton
Theological Seminary and Calvin Theological Seminary, and
completed postdoctoral work at the University of Notre Dame.
Contents Foreword by Alvin Plantinga • Acknowledgments
Part I: Prospects for a
Combined Barth/Plantinga Approach to Christian Theological Epistemology (1) What Is the Epistemic Problem? (2)
Barth’s Theology of Revelation: For Us and for Our Salvation
(3) Barth’s Engagement with Philosophy: A Theo-foundational
Epistemology (4) Plantinga’s Christian Philosophizing and
Warrant (5) Plantinga’s Epistemology of Christian Belief:
The Warrant of Revelation (6) Summarizing Interlude: The
Unified Barth/Plantinga Approach to Christian Theological
Epistemology • Part II: A Unified Barth/Plantinga Response
to Theology’s Contemporary Epistemological Issues (7)
Theology and Reason: Natural Theology and the Reformed
Objection (8) Faith and Revelation: What Constitutes a Genuine
Human Knowledge of God? (9) Scripture and Theology:
Warrant and the Normativity of Scripture? • Concluding Post• Abbreviations • Introduction •
Epistemology,
W. Jay Wood,
978-0-87784-522-5,
$17.00
script: Fallibility and Assurance • Bibliography • Author Index
Subject Index
•
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Church & Mission
Lee Beach
Living in Hope After Christendom
Lee Beach (PhD, McMaster Divinity College) is assistant
professor of Christian ministry, director of ministry formation and Garbutt F. Smith Chair of Ministry Formation at
McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, where he
teaches courses on pastoral ministry, mission, the church
in culture and spirituality. Lee has pastored for over twenty
years with the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada
and has written articles for publications such as Evangelical
Missions Quarterly, Religions and Cultural Encounters: A Journal
for the Theology of Culture.
Contents Foreword • Acknowledgments • Introduction:
Exile and Life in a Post-Christian World • Part I: A Theology
of Exile (1) Exile as a Motif for the Church (2) Exile in the
Old Testament (3) Esther as Advice for Exiles (4) Daniel as
Advice for Exiles (5) Jonah as Advice for Exiles? (6) Jesus and
Exile in the Early Church (7) The Exilic Wisdom of 1 Peter
• Part II: The Practices of Exile (8) Leading the Church in
Exile: Generating Hope (9) Thinking Like Exiles: A Responsive Theology (10) Holiness: An Exilic Identity (11) Exilic
Mission: Engaging the Culture as Exiles (12) Restoration: A
New Home for Exiles • Conclusion: Converting the Church •
Bibliography • Author Index • Subject Index • Scripture Index
The Church in Exile
BEACH
The people of God throughout history have been a people
of exile and diaspora. Whether under the Assyrians,
Babylonians, Greeks or Romans, the people chosen by God
have had to learn how to be a holy people in alien lands and
under foreign rule.
For much of its history, however, the Christian church
lived with the sense of being at home in the world, with
considerable influence and power. That age of Christendom
is now over, and as Lee Beach demonstrates, this is something for which the church should be grateful. The “peace”
of Christendom was a false one, and there is no comfortable
normalcy to which we can or should return.
Drawing on a close engagement with Old Testament and
New Testament texts, The Church in Exile offers a biblical and
practical theology for the church in a post-Christian age.
Beach helps the people of God today to develop a hopeful
and prophetic imagination, a theology responsive to its
context, and an exilic identity marked by faithfulness to
God’s mission in the world.
The Church in Exile
The Church in Exile
Living in Hope After Christendom
LEE BEACH
February 2015
256 pages, paperback, 978-0-8308-4066-3,
$25.00
Related Titles
The Mission of God,
Christopher J. H.
Wright,
978-0-8308-2571-4,
$45.00
A Missional
Orthodoxy,
Gary Tyra,
978-0-8308-2821-0,
$30.00
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24th annual wheaton theology conference
T
he conference begins with the
conviction that the Christian
doctrine of the image of God offers truth
and health in a culture inundated with
distorted images. The conference will
explore our understanding of the imago
as informed by Scripture, tradition, and
doctrine. How, in our time and place,
might our understanding of what it means
to be created in the divine image be
challenged or distorted? In dealing with
this situation, what are the corrective
and constructive resources available
in the Christian faith? How can the
Christian doctrine of the imago inform
and strengthen our witness in this image
driven age?
CONFERENCE SPEAKERS:
THE IMAGE OF GOD
in an image driven age
April 9 – 10, 2015
Philip Jenkins, Baylor University
Cathy McDowell, Gordon-Conwell
Janet Soskice, Cambridge
William Dyrness, Fuller
Christina Bieber Lake, Wheaton
Willie Jennings, Duke
Matt Milliner, Wheaton
Soong-Chan Rah, North Park
Tim and Shawna Songer Gaines, pastors
Beth Felker Jones, Wheaton
Early bird and group rates are available. Please
register early; tickets are limited.
For registration information visit:
wheaton.edu/theology/theo_conf
(Sculpture by David Hooker, Corpus)
Education
Edited by Christopher Gehrz
The Pietist Vision of Christian
Higher Education
Forming Whole and Holy Persons
Christopher Gehrz (PhD, Yale University) is professor
of history and chair of the history department at Bethel
University in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he coordinates the
Christianity and Western Culture program. He is also the
coeditor of The Pietist Impulse in Christianity.
Contents Preface Janel M. Curry • Acknowledgments
Christopher Gehrz • Introduction Christopher Gehrz • Part I:
Teaching, Scholarship and Community in the Pietist University (1) Pietism and Faith-Learning Integration in the Evangelical University David C. Williams (2) Calling for Pietistic
Community Katherine J. Nevins (3) Love and Learning Jenell
Paris (4) The Quest for an Evangelical University Phyllis E.
Alsdurf (5) Reconceiving the Christ-Centered College Roger
E. Olson • Part II: Changed People Changing the World:
Pietists and Their Neighbors’ Good (6) The Common Priesthood Seeking the Common Good Dale G. Durie (7) Pietism
and the Practice of Civil Discourse Christian T. Collins Winn
(8) Love My (Religious) Neighbor Marion H. Larson and
Sara L. H. Shady • Part III: Responses: Views from the
Natural and Health Sciences (9) Pietistic Values in Science
and Science Education Richard W. Peterson (10) A Pietist
Approach to Nursing Education in a Christian University
Nancy L. Olen • Part IV: Problems and Proposals: Putting
the Pietist Vision into Practice (11) Intellectual Virtue and
the Adventurous Christ Follower Raymond J. VanArragon (12)
The Pietist Ethos and Organizational Coherency Joel S. Ward
(13) Curating the Usable Past for a Vital Future Kent T. K.
Gerber (14) Neoliberal Challenges to the Pietist Vision of
Christian Higher Education Samuel Zalanga • Conclusion:
The PieTisT Vision
of ChrisTian
higher eduCaTion
Forming Whole and holy Persons
Gehrz
Pietism has long been sidelined in evangelical scholarship.
This is especially the case in the field of Christian higher
education, which is dominated by thinkers in the Reformed
tradition and complicated by the association of Pietism
with anti-intellectualism, even though from the beginning Pietism “was intimately bound up with education,”
according to Diarmaid MacCulloch. In this groundbreaking
volume, scholars associated with the Pietist tradition break
the silence and reflect on the distinctively Pietist approach
to education.
edited by
Christopher Gehrz
January 2015
230 pages, paperback, 978-0-8308-4071-7,
$26.00
Related Titles
Education for Human
Flourishing,
Paul D. Spears and
Steven R. Loomis,
978-0-8308-2812-8,
$22.00
Engaging the Culture,
Changing the World,
Philip W. Eaton,
978-0-8308-3929-2,
$18.00
“Their Mission Is Innovation” Christopher Gehrz • List of
Contributors • Author Index • Subject Index
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New Testament Studies
J. B. Lightfoot
The Acts of the Apostles
J. B. Lightfoot
Edited by Ben Witherington III and Todd D. Still
The Acts of the Apostles
The Acts of the Apostles
A Newly Discovered Commentary
T he Li g h T f o o T Leg acy S e T

Vol um e 1
A Newly Discovered Commentary
“The discovery of hitherto unknown exegetical
works by J. B. Lightfoot is a rare gift, full of potential
for fresh insight both about the man himself . . . and,
as he would have wished, about texts which he knew
so well and which themselves express the heart of
Lightfoot
the gospel.”
N. T. Wright, former bishop of Durham
Edited by
Ben WiTheringTon iii
and Todd d. STiLL
November 2014
400 pages, hardcover, 978-0-8308-2944-6
$40.00
Projected Volumes
• Volume 2: John
• Volume 3: 1 Corinthians & 1 Peter
Related Titles
Early Christian
Mission,
Eckhard J.
Schnabel,
978-0-8308-2790-9,
$100.00
The Paul Quest,
Ben Witherington
III,
978-0-8308-2660-5,
$30.00
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In the spring of 2013, Ben Witherington III discovered
hundreds of pages of biblical commentary by acclaimed
scholar J. B. Lightfoot in the Durham Cathedral Library.
Among the many pages of this historical and theological
gold mine were two sets of lecture notes on the Acts of the
Apostles. Together they amount to a richly detailed, albeit
unfinished, commentary on Acts 1–21. Previously unpublished, these commentary notes reveal a relevant and significant resource for the church today from a scholar well ahead
of his time, one of the great minds of his or any generation.
J. B. Lightfoot (1828–1889) was an English theologian,
canon of St Paul’s Cathedral and bishop of Durham.
Ben Witherington III (PhD, University of Durham) is
Professor of New Testament for Doctoral Studies at Asbury
Theological Seminary.
Todd D. Still (PhD, University of Glasgow) is William M.
Hinson Professor of Christian Scriptures in the George W.
Truett Theological Seminary of Baylor University.
Contents Abbreviations • Foreword • Editors’ Introduction: J. B. Lightfoot as Biblical Commentator • Part I:
Introduction to Commentating in General • Part II:
Introduction to Acts • Preliminary Matters • Part III: The
Commentary on Acts • Appendix A: Lightfoot’s Article on
Acts for Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible • Appendix B: ‘Discoveries Illustrating the Acts of the Apostles’ • Appendix C: St.
Paul’s History After the Close of Acts • Appendix D: The
Obituary/Hommage to Lightfoot Which Appeared in the
Contemporary Review in 1893, and Was Reprinted (in 1894)
with a New Preface By B. F. Wescott and with Some Emendations from Others • Author Index • Scripture Index
Biblical Theology
James M. Hamilton Jr.
With the Clouds of Heaven
The book of Daniel in biblical theology
Perceiving a hole in evangelical biblical theology that should
be filled with a robust treatment of the book of Daniel,
James Hamilton takes this chance to delve into the book’s
rich contribution to the Bible’s unfolding redemptivehistorical storyline. By setting Daniel in the broader context
of biblical theology, this New Studies in Biblical Theology
volume helps move us toward a clearer understanding of
how we should live today in response to its message.
James M. Hamilton Jr. is associate professor of biblical
theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary,
Louisville, Kentucky, and preaching pastor at Kenwood
Baptist Church. He is author of God’s Glory in Salvation
Through Judgment, What Is Biblical Theology? and the Revelation
volume in the Preaching the Word commentary series.
New StudieS
iN
B iBlical t heology
With the
Clouds
of Heaven
The book of Daniel
in biblical theology
James M. Hamilton Jr.
Series Editor:
D. A. Carson
November 2014
272 pages, paperback, 978-0-8308-2633-9, $25.00
Biblical Theology
Bradley G. Green
New StudieS
iN
B iBlical t heology
Covenant and Commandment
Works, obedience and faithfulness in the Christian life
From a close study of key Old and New Testament texts and
interaction with historical and contemporary theologians,
Bradley Green shows how different aspects of the Christian
life are each God-elicited, real and necessary. Reaffirming
the best Reformed voices, Green provides a biblical theology
of the nature, role and place of works, obedience and faithfulness in the new covenant.
Bradley G. Green (PhD, Baylor University) is associate
professor of Christian studies at Union University. He is the
author of The Gospel and the Mind and a contributor to the
Reformation Commentary on Scripture series.
Covenant and
Commandment
Works, obedience and faithfulness
in the Christian life
Bradley G. Green
Series Editor:
D. A. Carson
December 2014
208 pages, paperback, 978-0-8308-2634-6, $22.00
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Biblical Commentaries
Edited by Beth Kreitzer
Luke
New Testament (Volume III)
“This effort brings flesh and blood to ‘the communion
of saints’ by letting believers of our day look over the
shoulders of giants from the past. By connecting the
past with the present, and by doing so with the Bible
at the center, the editors of this series perform a great
service for the church.”
Mark A. Noll, University of Notre Dame
January 2015
400 pages, hardcover, 978-0-8308-2966-8,
$50.00
Related Titles
Acts,
Edited by Esther
Chung-Kim and
Todd R. Hains,
978-0-8308-2969-9,
$50.00
John 1-12,
Edited by Craig S.
Farmer,
978-0-8308-2967-5,
$50.00
16 IVP ACADEMIC Winter 2015
In this Reformation Commentary on Scripture (RCS)
volume on Luke a sparkling variety of reformational voices
enliven the pages, adding layers of interpretive luster to
the Gospel text. We find comment from Johann Spangenberg and Richard Taverner, Peter Walpot and Johannes
Brenz, Dirk Philips and François Lambert and many others.
German Lutherans, Dutch Anabaptists, French and Swiss
Reformed, Moravian radicals, English Puritans and more
enrich the interpretive matrix, many of them difficult to
access and appearing here in English for the first time.
Much of the commentary is drawn from published
sermons and reflects pastoral concerns. It is an invitation to
participate in the church’s renewed understanding of and
insights into the Gospel of Luke.
Beth Kreitzer (PhD, Duke University) is coordinator of
liberal studies at Belmont Abbey College. She is the author
of Reforming Mary: Changing Images of the Virgin Mary in
Lutheran Sermons of the Sixteenth Century and several professional articles on religious subjects.
About the Series The Reformation Commentary on
Scripture follows an ancient practice of biblical commentary, in which the scriptural texts are elucidated by chains
of passages collected from the authoritative insights of the
church’s great exegetes. In each volume you will find the
biblical text in English alongside the insights of the leaders
of the Reformation, with commentary from Lutheran,
Reformed, Anglican, Anabaptist and even reform-minded
Catholic thinkers, who all shared a commitment to the
faithful exposition of Scripture.
Biblical Commentaries
Tremper Longman III
Psalms
Volumes XV and XVI Combined
Tyndale Old Testament
Commentaries
TOTC
“The Tyndale volumes have long been the premier
shorter-length commentary series on both Testaments
throughout the English-speaking world.”
Craig Blomberg, Denver Seminary
Psalms
“There simply is no series of medium-length commentaries that approaches the excellence of the Tyndale
commentaries.”
Donald A. Hagner, Fuller Theological Seminary
The book of Psalms informs our intellect, stimulates our
imagination, arouses our emotions and stirs us to holy
thoughts and actions. It is also a pivotal witness to, and
anticipation of, Jesus Christ.
Tremper Longman’s commentary on Psalms is the
mature fruit of scholarship and sensibilities developed over
a career of exploring Old Testament poetry and wisdom.
The commentary interprets each psalm in its Old Testament setting, summarizes its message and reflects on its
significance from a New Testament perspective, providing a
christological reading.
Tremper Longman III (PhD, Yale University) is Robert H.
Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies at Westmont College in
Santa Barbara, California. He is the author or coauthor of
over twenty books, including How to Read the Psalms, Literary
Approaches to Biblical Interpretation and Old Testament Essentials,
and coeditor of Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry
& Writings.
About the Series The Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries have long been a trusted resource for Bible study.
Written by some of the world’s most distinguished evangelical scholars, these twenty-eight volumes offer clear, reliable
and relevant explanations of every book in the Old Testament. The introduction to each volume gives a concise but
thorough description of the authorship, date and historical
background of the biblical book under consideration. The
commentary itself examines the text section by section,
drawing out its main themes. It also comments on individual
verses and deals with problems of interpretation to uncover
the true meaning of the Bible and to make its message plain
to readers today.
Tremper Longman III
November 2014
464 pages, paperback, 978-0-8308-4285-8,
$18.00
Related Title
Leviticus,
Jay Sklar,
978-0-8308-4284-1,
$16.00
Jeremiah and
Lamentations,
Hetty Lalleman,
978-0-8308-4283-4,
$18.00
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Biblical Commentaries
Derek Kidner
Psalms 1-72, Psalms 73-150
Kidner
ClassiC Commen ta ries
=
P sa l ms
1-72
D erek Ki dner
Kidner
C l a s s i C C o mmentar i es
=
P salms 7 3 - 1 5 0
P s a lms
73 -1 5 0
De r e k Kidner
Kidner Classic Commentaries
“The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.” “Thy word is a
lamp to my feet.” “Search me, O God, and know my heart!”
Such phrases leap to mind whenever Christians lift their
hearts to God. For many, in fact, the Psalms are the richest
part of the Old Testament. Derek Kidner provides these
fresh and penetrating guides to the book of Psalms.
He analyzes each psalm in depth, comments on interpretative questions and brings out the universal relevance of
the texts. He also gives special help on the psalmists’ cries
for vengeance. Formerly part of the Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries series, Psalms 1–72, together with its
companion volume, Psalms 73–150, will inspire and deepen
personal worship.
Derek Kidner (1913–2008, MA, Christ’s College, University
of Cambridge) was both professor and pastor with his even­
handed scholarship as well as his devotional insight. These
qualities have made his commentaries in the Tyndale Old
Testament Commentary series and The Bible Speaks Today
series some of the most beloved and popular of recent decades.
Kidner had a long career in both the church and the
academy in England. He studied at Cambridge University and then served in ministry for several years before
becoming a senior tutor at Oak Hill Theological College.
Kidner began his writing career while serving as warden of
Tyndale House in Cambridge from 1964 to 1978, publishing
his ninth and final book, The Message of Jeremiah, in 1987.
About the Series Kidner Classic Commentaries contain
Derek Kidner’s beloved Old Testament commentaries from
the Tyndale Old Testament Commentary series and The
Bible Speaks Today series. Now offered together for future
generations to read, absorb and appreciate, these titles have
been the standard for a generation, modeling conciseness,
clarity and insight.
October 2014
Psalms 1-72
196 pages, paperback, 978-0-8308-2937-8, $18.00
Psalms 73-150
242 pages, paperback, 978-0-8308-2938-5, $18.00
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Apologetics
James W. Sire
Worldview as a Concept
For more than thirty years, James W. Sire has grappled with
the issue of worldviews. In his widely used textbook The
Universe Next Door, Sire defines and catalogues in summary
fashion seven basic worldview alternatives. Students, critics,
new literature and continued reflection have led him to
reexamine and refine his definition of a worldview. This
companion volume is the fruit of that effort, offering
readers his most mature thought on worldviews.
Naming the Elephant
Naming the Elephant (Second Edition)
J a m e s W. s i r e
Author of The Universe Next Door
N a m i N g
the
E l E p h a N t
Wo r l d v i e w a s a C o n c e p t
2Nd EditioN
James W. Sire (PhD, University of Missouri), former
senior editor at InterVarsity Press, is a speaker and writer
across the country. His books and Bible studies include The
Universe Next Door, Discipleship of the Mind, Why Good Arguments Often Fail and A Little Primer on Humble Apologetics.
February 2015
174 pages, paperback, 978-0-8308-4073-1, $20.00
Old Testament Studies
Christopher J. H. Wright
Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament
(Second Edition)
Has the Bible bound Christians to a narrow and mistaken
notion of Jesus? Should we listen to other gospels of Jesus
that enlarge and correct a mistaken story? Is the real Jesus
entangled in a web of the church’s Scripture, awaiting liberation? To answer these questions we need to know what story
Jesus claimed for himself. Wright traces the life of Christ
as it is illuminated by the Old Testament, while describing
God’s design for Israel as it is fulfilled in the story of Jesus.
Christopher J. H. Wright (PhD, University of
Cambridge) taught Old Testament in India (1983–1988) at
Union Biblical Seminary and then at All Nations Christian
College, a missionary training school in England, where he
was principal from 1993–2001. Wright now serves as the international director of Langham Partnership International.
Knowing Jesus
through the
ol d T esTa m enT
S ec on d e di tion
C h r i s To p h e r J . h . w r i g h T
November 2014
304 pages, paperback, 978-0-8308-2359-8, $18.00
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Systematic Theology
AVAILABLE NOW in Paperback
Thomas F. Torrance
Edited by Robert T. Walker
Thomas F.
Torr ance
author of Incarnation
atonement
The Person and Work of christ
Atonement
The Person and Work of Christ
This companion volume to Incarnation: The Person and Life of
Christ presents the material on the work of Christ, centered
in the atonement, given originally in Torrance’s lectures
delivered to his students in Christian Dogmatics on Christology at New College, Edinburgh, from 1952 to 1978.
Thomas F. Torrance (1913–2007) occupied the chair
of Christian dogmatics at the University of Edinburgh for
twenty-seven years. He was the recipient of the Templeton
Foundation Prize for Progress in Religion in 1978, and he
served as moderator of the Church of Scotland and coeditor
of the Scottish Journal of Theology. He wrote extensively,
contributing more than twenty major works of theology and
hundreds of articles in a variety of languages.
edited by
r o b e r t t. wa l k e r
October 2014
489 pages, paperback, 978-0-8308-2458-8, $35.00
Apologetics
AVAILABLE NOW in Paperback
Edited by Francis J. Beckwith, William Lane Craig
e d i t e d
B y
Francis J. Beckwith,
William Lane Craig
and J. P. Moreland
To Everyone
an Answer
A
CAse
for
the
ChristiAn
WorldvieW
With ContriButions By
Ravi Zacharias
William A. Dembski
Douglas Groothuis
Gary R. Habermas
Josh M c Dowell
Ronald H. Nash
Ben Witherington III
and J. P. Moreland
To Everyone an Answer
A Case for the Christian Worldview
In a society fascinated by spirituality but committed to
religious pluralism, the Christian worldview faces sophisticated and aggressive opposition. A prior commitment to
diversity, with its requisite openness and relativistic outlook,
has meant for skeptics, critics and even many Christians
that whatever Christianity is, it cannot be exclusively true or
salvific.
What is needed in this syncretistic era is an authoritative,
comprehensive Christian response. Point by point, argument by argument, the Christian faith must be effectively
presented and defended. To Everyone an Answer: A Case for the
Christian Worldview offers such a response.
And others
October 2014
396 pages, paperback, 978-0-8308-4074-8, $28.00
20 IVP ACADEMIC Winter 2015
Spiritual Formation
Edited by Gary W. Moon
Reflections on
Eternal Living
Faith & Formation
After Dallas Willard’s unexpected passing in 2013, his wide
breadth of impact inspired those who knew him to gather
their reflections on this celebrated yet humble theologian
and philosopher. Curated by Willard’s long-time colleague
and friend Gary Moon, this medley of images, snapshots
and “Dallas-isms” seeks to bring refreshing insight into not
only his ideas and what shaped him but also his contagious
theology of grace and joy.
& Formation
EtErnal
living
edited by
G a r y W. M o o n
Moon
Gary W. Moon (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is
director of the Dallas Willard Center for Spiritual Formation
at Westmont College. He is the editor in chief of Conversations and he is the director of the Renovaré International
Institute for Christian Spiritual Formation.
EtErnal living
Reflections on Dallas Willard’s Teaching on
Dallas Willard’s
Teaching on Faith
wit h c ont ribut ions by
John Ort berg, Jane Willard,
Richard J. Fost er,
Jam e s Bryan Sm it h,
J. P Moreland and ot hers
January 2015
240 pages, hardcover, 978-0-8308-3595-9, $22.00
Youth Ministry
Mark DeVries and Nate Stratman
Building Your Volunteer Team
A 30-Day Change Project for Youth Ministry
Do you find yourself wondering what it would take to get
some new volunteers on board for your ministry? Faithful
ministry is not a do-it-yourself project. That’s why youth
leaders Mark DeVries and Nate Stratman have developed
this thirty-day change approach, with the step-by-step
support you need to actually make changes in your ministry.
Mark DeVries (MDiv, Princeton Theological Seminary)
is the founder of Youth Ministry Architects and associate
pastor for youth and their families at First Presbyterian
Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
Nate Stratman (MDiv, Fuller Theological Seminary)
serves as director of family ministries at First Presbyterian
Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
January 2015
176 pages, paperback, 978-0-8308-4121-9, $16.00
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Apologetics
David Skeel
DaviD Skeel
True Paradox
How Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex World
How CHristianity
Makes sense of our
Complex WorlD
The complexity of the contemporary world is sometimes
seen as an embarrassment for Christianity. But law professor
David Skeel makes a fresh case for the explanatory power of
Christianity for puzzles such as our capacity for idea making,
our experience of beauty and suffering, and our inability to
create a just social order. We need not deny the complexities of life, but the paradoxes of our existence can lead us to
believe that the existence of God could make sense of it all.
David Skeel (JD, University of Virginia) is the S. Samuel
Arsht Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the author of The New Financial
Deal, Icarus in the Boardroom and Debt’s Dominion, and has
written for such publications as the New York Times, Wall
Street Journal, Books & Culture and The Weekly Standard.
October 2014
176 pages, paperback, 978-0-8308-3676-5, $15.00
Missiology
G. K. Beale and Mitchell Kim
G . K . B e a l e and
M i tc h e l l K i M
God
E xpa nd i ng E d e n to the Ends of the Earth
us
God Dwells Among Us
Expanding Eden to the Ends of the Earth
From Eden to the new Jerusalem, we are God’s temple on
earth. God has always desired to dwell among us, first in the
Garden of Eden, then in the ark of the covenant and the
tabernacle, then in the temple. Now the church must follow
its missional call to extend the borders of God’s kingdom
and take his presence to the ends of the earth.
G. K. Beale (PhD, University of Cambridge) holds the
J. Gresham Machen Chair of New Testament at Westminster
Theological Seminary and is the author of The Temple and the
Church’s Mission and We Become What We Worship.
Mitchell Kim (PhD, Wheaton College) is English ministry
pastor of West Alliance Church in Warrenville, Illinois. He is
a founding member of Joshua Generation, an organization
which networks and equips Asian American ministries.
December 2014
208 pages, paperback, 978-0-8308-4414-2, $17.00
22 IVP ACADEMIC Winter 2015
Apologetics
Christina M. H. Powell
A Harvard PhD Explores Challenges to Faith
You are not alone with your doubts. Scientist and cancer
researcher Christina Powell uses her own story to help us
grapple with our doubts about God, allowing us to move
beyond skepticism, disillusionment or painful life circumstances. We can ultimately work through challenges to faith
and find a renewed confidence in our beliefs when we dig
deeper into our questions.
Powell
Christina M. H. Powell (PhD, Harvard University) is a
biomedical research scientist who conducted research at the
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School.
She has been a research fellow at Massachusetts General
Hospital and a research associate at Boston University. She is
also an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God.
Que s t ion ing Your D ou bt s
Questioning Your Doubts
Questioning
Your
Doubts
A Harvard PhD Explores Challenges to Faith
Christina M. H. Powell
November 2014
208 pages, paperback, 978-0-8308-3678-9, $16.00
Missiology
Scott A. Bessenecker
Freeing Missions from the Christian-Industrial Complex
Scott A. Bessenecker is associate director for missions
for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and author of several
books, including The New Friars: The Emerging Movement
Serving the World’s Poor. He sends thousands of students each
year on short-term mission experiences around the world.
Overturning
Ta b l e s
Freei ng M i ssi ons FroM the
Chri st i an-indust ri al CoMpl ex
bessenecker
Much of Christian ministry has been shaped to operate not
according to the witness of the Scriptures but according to
the values of the free market. The mission of the church
is being held back by the business container into which we
have placed the gospel. Here Bessenecker shows, through
stories and analysis, that the mission of God reaches well
beyond the grasp of the free market, and if we are willing
to reach as well, we will see God do amazing things as the
world sees the gospel in its fullest sense.
Overturning Ta b l e s
Overturning Tables
scott a. bessenecker
November 2014
180 pages, paperback, 978-0-8308-3680-2, $16.00
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T h e N e w S ta n d a r d
“If students of early Christianity were to have a new ‘bible’ it would undoubtedly
be the Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity. . . . The newly revised and
expanded EAC, providing a most welcome English version of the latest Italian edition plus thirty
completely new entries, is already my constant new scholarly companion.”
—William Tabbernee, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity,
Phillips Theological Seminary, and past president, North American Patristics Society
Now
Available
3057 pages,
hardcover,
978-0-8308-2943-9,
$450.00
articles e xclusive to this ne w English-language edition
apostolic see
doorkeeper (porter)
libelli miraculorum
Theosebia
China
eternity
love
Tychon
death
freedom/free will
Mara bar Serapion (letter of)
unity
diakonia/diaconate
good
oikeiÓsis
Virgo Parens
Dialogi de sancta
Trinitate IV-V
Hierotheus
presanctified
and more