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Spring 2019 Academic Catalog IVP ACADEMIC CATALOG SPRING 2019 AVAILABLE MARCH 2019 AVAILABLE APRIL 2019 These two new titles are a part of the joint publishing venture between IVP Academic and the Christian Association for Psychological Studies that aims to promote the understanding of the relationship between Christianity and the behavioral sciences. SEE PAGES 25 AND 26 FOR MORE INFORMATION. MEET IVP ACADEMIC G E T Y O U R IVP Academic publishes books that facilitate meaningful conversations across the academy 40% PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT and the church. We partner with leaders at colleges and universities to provide thoughtful resources for engaging with the Christian faith and its world-changing implications. OUR HISTORY IVP Academic is the academic imprint of InterVarsity Press, the publishing branch of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. As an affiliate of this campus ministry, we have been publishing for students, professors, scholars, and church leaders for over seventy years. Although our breadth of authors and offerings has expanded, we maintain the same evangelical commitment to education and transformation. We publish across a wide range of disciplines beyond theology and biblical studies, including strong programs in psychology, philosophy, and missiology, with additional resources in history, business, economics, science, and apologetics. + WHO WE ARE At IVP Academic we want to partner with leaders in the academy to provide quality resources for current scholarship and for training the next generation of scholars. JEFF JON CINDY DAVID CROSBY BOYD BUNCH M C NUTT Professors receive 40% off every new title. JeffPublisher Crosby Editorial Director, Associate Publisher, Associate Editor, IVP Academic Editorial IVP Academic Employee Photoboard, Employees.indd 52 4/18/18 2:40 PM ANNA MOSELEY JUSTIN PAUL JEF F ALI GISSING LAWRENCE GISSING GALBRAITH USE THE ONLINE FORM TO ORDER Associate Editor, Director of Sales Marketing Manager, Academic Sales NEW TITLES FROM THIS CATALOG AT IVP Academic IVP Academic Manager ivpacademic.com/examcopy LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Dear Reader, I recently heard a talk on education that deployed key concepts from psychology’s self-determination theory— namely, that people, especially learners, need to have or develop three things: autonomy, mastery, and relatedness. When I heard this I couldn’t help thinking of the IVP Academic catalog. So if you’ll pardon some oversimplifica- tion (psychologists, I look forward to your emails). “Autonomy” sparked thoughts about how creative, how innovative, and how thoroughly independent our authors are. We at InterVarsity Press relish the openness of the conversations our books participate in, even to the point that one book or its author might not always sit too easily next to another. (I’ll refrain from mentioning titles.) Or to put it another way, in these pages you’ll find no fewer thanthree unrelated historical novels about New Testament times, and they all take their own tack on the biblical data and its imaginative possibilities. The life of the mind has a life of its own, and we trust under the superintendence of the Lord that it’s worth following down many paths. “Mastery” is almost too obvious to comment on—and the profound competence of these books’ authors is inspiring. You’ll see veterans here who have cemented a reputation over decades of scholarship and teaching, like John Goldingay and Samuel Escobar, as well as younger scholars building on fresher foundations of exper- tise, like Bethany Fox and Jacob Shatzer. Whether it’s in counseling (Steve Greggo), history (Tracy McKenzie), rhetoric (Jim Beitler), or biblical studies and theology (too many to name!), these are experts worth attending to. “Relatedness” made me think of several dimensions of this catalog. We’re delighted to welcome to these pages a number of scholars well established in their writing careers but who are new to the IVP family, like Gwenfair Adams, Leo Sánchez, and Marilynne Robinson. But also, so many of these books make insightful moves to shine light from one domain of thought into another and in the process create new connections and conversa- tions between thinkers—and of course readers. Two new books in our CAPS series do this for psychology and spiritual formation, as does Jackson Wu with cultural and biblical studies, among others. Giving you the chance to encounter new thinkers and engage new ideas is what this is all about. May you find much intrinsic motivation here to go deeper and broader in your own thinking and doing. Yours, Jon Boyd Editorial Director, IVP Academic LETTER FROM THE EDITOR SPRING 2019 IVP Academic editorial director Jon Boyd previews this season’s featured titles and highlights special content in this catalog. 1 IVP THEOLOGY & HISTORY FEATURED SET | Ancient Christian Commentary ACADEMIC on Scripture, edited by Thomas C. Oden 4 FEATURED TITLE | Balm in Gilead, edited by Timothy Larsen and Keith L. Johnson, plus an excerpt from contributor Marilynne Robinson 6 CATALOG Foundations of the Christian Faith, Revised & Expanded by James Montgomery Boice 8 6 The Reformation and the Irrepressible Word of God VOLUME 86 edited by Scott M. Manetsch 9 A Little Book for New Historians by Robert Tracy McKenzie 10 Sculptor Spirit by Leopoldo A. Sánchez M. 11 BIBLICAL STUDIES FEATURED TITLE | Phoebe, plus an interview with author Paula Gooder 12 A Week in the Life of Rome by James L. Papandrea 14 Priscilla by Ben Witherington III 15 Reading Romans with Eastern Eyes by Jackson Wu 16 Ministering in Patronage Cultures by Jayson Georges 17 12 The Lost World of the Torah by John H. Walton and J. Harvey Walton 18 The Old Testament in Seven Sentences by Christopher J. H. Wright 20 Knowing God Through the Old Testament by Christopher J. H. Wright 21 Old Testament Ethics: A Guided Tour by John Goldingay 22 But What About God’s Wrath? by Kevin Kinghorn with Stephen Travis 23 POLITICAL SCIENCE Political Visions & Illusions, Second Edition by David Koyzis 24 INSTRUCTOR Take the guesswork out of choosing your next text with the IVP Textbook Selector. RESOURCES We provide Instructor Textbook Selector Resources for select texts in order to make your course prep easier and to maximize the benefits of using our textbooks. REQUEST EXAM COPIES AT IVPACADEMIC.COM CONTENTS PSYCHOLOGY & COUNSELING Assessment for Counseling in Christian Perspective by Stephen P. Greggo 25 FEATURED TITLE | Contemplation and Counseling by P. Gregg Blanton 26 SIGN UP FOR Psychology and Spiritual Formation in Dialogue edited by Thomas M. Crisp, Steven L. Porter, EXCURSUS and Gregg A. Ten Elshof 28 from IVP Academic 26 CULTURE & CALLING A Pastoral Rule for Today by John P. Burgess, Jerry Andrews, and Joseph D. Small 29 Embracing Contemplation edited by John H. Coe and Kyle C. Strobel 30 Pursuing an Earthy Spirituality by Gary S. Selby 31 Campus Life, Expanded Edition edited by Drew Moser 34 and Todd C. Ream, with Ernest L. Boyer 32 Transhumanism and the Image of God by Jacob Shatzer 33 FEATURED TITLE | Disability and the Way of Jesus, plus an interview with author Bethany McKinney Fox 34 Seasoned Speech by James E. Beitler III 36 IVP Academic’s monthly Excursus newsletter features INTERCULTURAL THEOLOGY curated content about important conversations In Search of Christ in Latin America by Samuel Escobar 37 happening in the university Intercultural Theology, Volume Three by Henning Wrogemann 38 and the church, new academic books of interest, and more. REFERENCE & SERIES Sign up at ivpress.com/newsletters. Browse our reference works and complete collection of series. 40 RECENT RELEASES & GENERAL TITLES See last season’s titles and other featured titles from IVP. 59 SPCK & IVP-UK TITLES FOLLOW US Follow IVP Academic on Check out titles now being distributed by InterVarsity Press. 65 Twitter: @ivpacademic BUSINESS ITEMS Become a fan of IVP Academic on Facebook General policies 73 IVP Academic sales & marketing team 74 SELECTED NEW SERIES TITLES IVPRESS.COM 10 18 25 40 42 REQUEST EXAM COPIES AT IVPACADEMIC.COM REFERENCE | ACCS ANCIENT CHRISTIAN COMMENTARY ON SCRIPTURE COMPLETE PAPERBACK SET NOW AVAILABLE ACCS PAPERBACK EDITION INTERMEDIATE JUNE 2019 Now in paperback for the first time, this complete series from 30 volumes, paperback, 7 x 10 inches, general editor Thomas C. Oden includes an additional companion 978-0-8308-4335-0, $1500.00, W, Two Boxes per Complete Set volume featuring biographical sketches, a comprehensive timeline, master indexes of Scripture references and authors, and more. The Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) is a unique series HIGHLIGHTS encompassing all of Scripture and offering contemporary readers the opportu- nity to study for themselves the key writings of the early church fathers. • Now in paperback • Fully redesigned covers Arranged by the books of the Bible, each portion of commentary allows the • Complete twenty-nine volume set living voices of the church in its formative centuries to speak as they engage plus a commentary index and the sacred page of Scripture, rendered throughout the series in English in the resources volume ecumenically accepted Revised Standard Version of the Bible. Listen in as • Comes in two beautifully designed boxes leading pastoral theologians of six centuries gather around the text of Scripture and offer their best theological, spiritual, and pastoral insights. ACCS NOW IN PAPERBACK “The Ancient Christian Commentary project fills a long overdue need for scholars and students of the church fathers. Many thanks to Thomas Oden and the other editors for this unparalleled work that will be the standard for generations.” —H. WAYNE HOUSE Michigan Theological Seminary “We speak abstractly in scholarly “By calling attention to the circles of the need to transcend looking at rich Christian heritage preceding the Christianity through the spectrum of modern separations between East and West and presuppositions. This series, based on the between Protestant and Catholic, this series commentaries of early Christians, gives will perform a major service to the us a concrete way to do this.” cause of ecumenism.” —DON S.
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