An Eerdmans Century - Hardcover
From ten-cent specials for Dutch farmers in the early 1900s to a wide assortment of well over 1,000 titles today, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has built a solid reputation for producing "the finest in religious literature." Throughout the past century Eerdmans has published an ecumenical blend of thoughtful books by such authors as C. S. Lewis, Karl Barth, John Howard Yoder, Joan Chittister, N. T. Wright, Rowan Williams, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Martin Marty, Eugene Peterson, Pope Benedict XVI ― and the list goes on.
Occasioned by the Eerdmans centennial celebration, this book by Larry ten Harmsel engagingly tells the company’s story. Drawing from first-person interviews, historical documents, and newly unearthed information, ten Harmsel relates how Wm. B. Eerdmans Sr. started and built the American publishing company that bears his name ― and how Wm. B. Eerdmans Jr. has carried on the family tradition of independent, eclectic religious publishing into the company’s 100th year.
Occasioned by the Eerdmans centennial celebration, this book by Larry ten Harmsel engagingly tells the company’s story. Drawing from first-person interviews, historical documents, and newly unearthed information, ten Harmsel relates how Wm. B. Eerdmans Sr. started and built the American publishing company that bears his name ― and how Wm. B. Eerdmans Jr. has carried on the family tradition of independent, eclectic religious publishing into the company’s 100th year.
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Larry ten Harmsel is historian for the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park and former dean of the Lee Honors College at Western Michigan University.
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If one were to name the writers who have honored the Eerdmans imprint, and who have been honored by the Eerdmans imprint, it would pretty much constitute the canon of serious religious thought over the past half century and more.
― Richard John Neuhaus
"I have heartfelt appreciation for Bill Eerdmans’s long, devoted, and distinguished service to the publishing of theology. His personal interest in the writers he encourages, his keen eye for issues needing to be addressed, and his shrewd judgment of quality have been a huge gift, for which the entire Christian world should be grateful."
― Rowan Williams
"Eerdmans began as a publishing house located solidly in the parochial community of recent Dutch émigrés in North America. Now I keep hearing from friends in many different quarters that they regard it as the most ecumenical of all publishers of religious books in the Christian tradition. My friends are right; Catholics, Orthodox, Lutherans, Reformed, Evangelicals ― all find their home at Eerdmans."
― Nicholas Wolterstorff
"In a culture plagued with cheap spirituality of every kind, Eerdmans has continued to publish at the very highest level. Once, after delivering a speech pleading for a more discerning selection of Christian books, I was asked by a perplexed church-bookstore owner what she should put on her shelves. I said, ‘Anything from Eerdmans.’ "
― Fleming Rutledge
― Richard John Neuhaus
"I have heartfelt appreciation for Bill Eerdmans’s long, devoted, and distinguished service to the publishing of theology. His personal interest in the writers he encourages, his keen eye for issues needing to be addressed, and his shrewd judgment of quality have been a huge gift, for which the entire Christian world should be grateful."
― Rowan Williams
"Eerdmans began as a publishing house located solidly in the parochial community of recent Dutch émigrés in North America. Now I keep hearing from friends in many different quarters that they regard it as the most ecumenical of all publishers of religious books in the Christian tradition. My friends are right; Catholics, Orthodox, Lutherans, Reformed, Evangelicals ― all find their home at Eerdmans."
― Nicholas Wolterstorff
"In a culture plagued with cheap spirituality of every kind, Eerdmans has continued to publish at the very highest level. Once, after delivering a speech pleading for a more discerning selection of Christian books, I was asked by a perplexed church-bookstore owner what she should put on her shelves. I said, ‘Anything from Eerdmans.’ "
― Fleming Rutledge
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- PublisherEerdmans
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0802866581
- ISBN 13 9780802866585
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages214
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