Christian Theology/Apologetics Books

The theology of Dutch theologian Jacob Arminius has been misinterpreted and caricatured in both Reformed and Wesleyan circles. By revisiting Armini...

As one of the major British theologians and ethicists of the nineteenth century, F. D. Maurice is considered a forerunner of the contemporary ecume...

In Pastoral Care in the Classical Tradition, Andrew Purves argued that pastoral care and theology has long ignored Scripture and Christian doctrine...

How do we engage in public debate with those who do not share our faith commitments? And how do we reason effectively about ethical and political i...

Much of what passes as Reformed among our churches is not. As a class of churches that profess allegiance to Reformed theology, practice, and piety...

For the first-century Roman world the cross was first and foremost an instrument of shameful and violent execution. But early Christians, who had s...

By developing a philosophical reconstruction of the moral philosophy that underlies the Secunda Pars of the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, Jea...

John Owen was one of the great Puritans of the 17th Century whose writings and theology have gone through a welcome resurgence of interest in the l...

Redeeming Gender argues that the problems about sexuality which continue to sap the churches’ energies are really about gender. The dominant unders...

What does God have to do with mathematics? Everything. In this book, Vern Poythress argues that the harmony of abstract mathematical truths, the ph...

Why Is It Critical for Christians to Study the Past? How does knowledge of the past shape Christians’ view of God, Christ’s redemption, and humani...

Who am I? Why am I here? Where do I find meaning? Life is full of big questions. The study of philosophy seeks to answer such questions. In his lat...

Vern S. Poythress Explains the Laws of Human Reasoning and How to Apply Them in Light of the Gospel Humans use reasoning to understand and order th...

Many people think science is antagonistic to Christian belief. Science, it is said, shows that the universe is billions of years old, while the Bib...

How can the arts witness to the transcendence of the Christian God? It is widely believed that there is something transcendent about the arts, that...

We are formed by the images we view. From classical art to advertisements and from news photos to social media, the images we look at mold our idea...

For the Spirit, being somewhat forgotten is an occupational hazard. The Holy Spirit is so actively involved in our lives that we can take his prese...

Timothy A. Brookins unsettles scholarly assumptions about the Corinthian conflict in this innovative monograph?Brookins’s exegesis of 1 Corinthians...

Reflections and illustrations inspired by encountering God in nature In Reflected in Nature Claire Daniel offers 40 Bible-themed reflections inspir...

C.S. Lewis’ moving theological work in which he considers the most poetic portions from Scripture and what they tell us about God, the Bible, and f...

Experts in Reformation studies identify and elucidate areas of sixteenth century reforming activity in Martin Luther, John Calvin and other leading...

Reformation Thought, 4th edition offers an ideal introduction to the central ideas of the European reformations for students of theology and histor...

Many people dismiss the Reformation as a peculiar chapter of history with little relevance to contemporary life. But nothing could be further from ...

Reformed churches describe themselves as confessional - but what does that mean, and what does it matter? Blair Smith answers both questions in thi...

In one convenient, parallel arrangement, Drs. Beek and Ferguson have harmonized seven important Reformed confessions that have never before been pu...

Reformed Confessions of the Sixteenth Century makes available a number of confessional documents that are not easily accessible elsewhere. Arthur C...

One of the most convincing statements on predestination to have appeared in any language. It has been regarded as the authoritative work in this fi...

Herman Bavinck's four-volume  Reformed Dogmatics  is one of the most important theological works of the twentieth century. The recently completed E...

Geerhardus Vos's Reformed Dogmatics represents the early theological thought of one of the premier Reformed thinkers of the nineteenth and twentiet...

Jonathan Edwards and Karl Barth are widely considered to be the greatest North American and Swiss theologians, respectively. Though situated in vas...

In partnership with the Dutch Reformed Translation Society, Baker Academic is proud to offer in English for the very first time all four volumes of...

An important contribution to both philosophy of religion and Christian apologetics, defending Alvin Plantinga's central principle in Warranted Chri...

Herman Bavinck's four-volume Reformed Dogmatics is one of the most important theological works of the twentieth century. The English translation wa...

Herman Bavinck's Reformed Ethics is now complete with the publication of Reformed Ethics, vol. 3, and the supplementary volume Reformed Social Ethi...

Herman Bavinck's four-volume Reformed Dogmatics is one of the most important theological works of the twentieth century. The English translation wa...

Caught between Jewish legalism and pagan mystery religions—and evidently attracted to both—the young church in Colossae was struggling. The apostle...

Does God help those who help themselves? That may seem to be the message of Esther and Ruth. Yet a closer reading shows a gracious and sovereign Go...

The Reformed tradition in the twenty-first century is increasingly diverse, dynamic, and deeply engaged in a wide variety of global and public issu...

This volume demonstrates a central conviction of the Reformed tradition--that theology must honor the historic witness of the church as catholic wh...

This excellent resource presents short, meaningful selections from major Reformed theologians of Europe, the British Isles, and America during the ...

In the process of translating Herman Bavinck's Reformed Ethics, John Bolt and his editorial colleagues discovered that the social ethics portion wa...

Accessible, Four-Volume Set Covers the Entire Scope of Systematic Theology Theology is not just an academic subject—it is also a spiritual practice...

The aim of systematic theology is to engage not only the head, but also the heart and hands. Only recently has the church compartmentalized these a...

The aim of systematic theology is to engage not only the head but also the heart and hands. Only recently has the church compartmentalized these as...

Accessible Study of Ecclesiology and Eschatology from a Reformed Perspective Reformed Systematic Theology explores key Scripture topics from biblic...