Eerdmans All Over: A Weekly Roundup of News from Eerdmans and Elsewhere

Taking Jesus at His Word
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Welcome once again to Eerdmans All Over, a Friday roundup of all the Eerdmans-related news, reviews, interviews, and other interesting online content we can find in a given week.

New releases:

Taking Jesus at His Word: What Jesus Really Said in the Sermon on the Mount
Addison Hodges Hart

News from Eerdmans . . .

• Sales director Franklin Goldberg and the three other members of the Eerdmans sales team who attended the International Christian Retail Show in Orlando, FL, this week had a wonderful time — and it seems they’re not the only ones. Check out a photo album of a few of their favorite moments on Facebook.

. . . and elsewhere.

• James Rudin (Cushing, Spellman, O’Connor: The Surprising Story of How Three American Cardinals Transformed Catholic-Jewish Relations) wrote about a new demographic survey of the New York Jewish community for The Washington Post in “New survey brings good and bad news for Jewish community.” In this week’s issue of his Sightings newsletter, Martin Marty (Building Cultures of Trust) commented on the story.
• Peggy Fletcher Stack interviewed Richard Mouw (Talking with Mormons) for Christianity Today, sharing their conversation in a piece titled “Rich Mouw on Why Evangelicals Need to Be Quick to Listen to Mormons.”
• Thomas Bergler was interviewed about The Juvenilization of American Christianity on Moody Radio’s Chris Fabry Live this Tuesday.
• School librarian Cathy Potter reviewed Cynthia Grady and Michele Wood’s I Lay My Stitches Down for The Nonfiction Detectives, opening her review with the words, “Breaking news… I have found my favorite book of the year (so far). I Lay My Stitches Down is the perfect marriage of poetry, history, and illustrations.”
• On Fors Clavigera, James K. A. Smith thanked the reviewers at Books and Culture for their “substantive engagement” with his new book Teaching and Christian Practices.
• Peter Enns continued his Rethinking Biblical Christianity blog series on Kenton Sparks’s Sacred Word, Broken Word, discussing “Kent Sparks on ‘The Problem of Sacred Scripture‘.”
• David K. Naugle marked the 10th anniversary of the release of his award-winning book Worldview:  The History of a Concept with a celebratory tweet.
• The Logos bookstore chain named D. A. Carson’s The Intolerance of Tolerance its Best Book of 2012 in the Christianity/Culture category, presenting a certificate to the Eerdmans representatives at ICRS.

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