Product Description

Fifteen years after its original publication comes a thoroughly revised edition of the Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. Every article from the original edition has been revisited. With some articles being removed, others revised, and many new articles added, the result is a completely new dictionary covering systematic, historical, and philosophical theology as well as theological ethics.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22711 in Books
• Published on: 2001-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1312 pages

From the Back Cover
A PROVEN REFERENCE TOOL

Theologians, pastors, lay readers, and students have relied on the Evangelical Dictionary of Theology as a valued resource for over fifteen years. Now, thoroughly updated, this leading reference work continues to provide comprehensive, useful, and accurate information in systematic, historical, and philosophical theology as well as theological ethics.

Reviews of the first edition:

"Provides for the first time a full and balanced overview of evangelical theology." -Library Journal

"EDT is a work of responsible evangelical scholarship, judicious, and generally fair to all sides. It has no ax to grind, though it does have a position to present. And happily, this it does with an acceptable confidence." -Christianity Today

"A first-class piece of evangelical scholarship . . . [it] deserves a place in the library of every evangelical pastor, scholar, and local church." - Trinity Journal

"The definitive theological dictionary from an evangelical standpoint. . . . Here is a reference tool that ought without question to be on the shelf of every university student, seminarian, and Christian worker." -Themelios

"This is a book that all who are concerned about Christian ministry, whether on a professional or a lay level, would do well to have." -Robert H. Culpepper, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

"A prodigious and significant work." -Review and Expositor

Walter A. Elwell (Ph.D., University of Edinburgh) is professor of Bible and theology at Wheaton College Graduate School. He is the editor of numerous reference works and the coauthor of Encountering the New Testament.

About the Author
Walter A. Elwell (Ph.D., University of Edinburgh) is professor of Bible and theology at Wheaton College Graduate School. He is the editor of numerous reference works and the coauthor of Encountering the New Testament.

Customer Reviews

Don't Be Without This Reference Work
This is by far one of the best theological dictionaries that I have used in my 10 years of research. The contributors of this volume are worth the price of this work two times over. The articles on each topic are detailed and very easy to comprehend. There are bibliographical references at the end of each entry which guide the reader to further research material. Some of the contributors include Gleason Archer, Craig Blaising, F.F. Bruce, D.A. Carson, Gordon Clark, Winfried Corduan, Bruce Demarest, Millard Erickson, Charles Feinberg, John Feinberg, John Frame, Norman Geisler, John Gerstner, Wayne Grudem, Donald Guthrie, R.K. Harrison, Douglas Kelly, William LaSor, George Ladd, Robert Lightner, and the list goes on and on. The book, of course, is exactly what it says it is; a dictionary. Therefore the entries are listed in alphabetical order and the topics range from Abaddon to Zwingli (and everything imaginable in between). This is an indispensable reference work that every student of the Bible or theology should have in their library. Naturally, it is a standard reference text in theological libraries and seminaries. I highly recommend this work!

A Monumental Work!
Here is a book that should be found in the library of every evangelical theologian, theology student, and pastor today. Without question, this is one of the most thorough and complete one-volume dictionaries of theology presently available--all of this from an evangelical perspective!! The international cast of contributors (predominantly from North America, Australia, and the UK), under the editorial supervision of Dr. Elwell of Wheaton College, have assembled a remarkable wealth of information. The theologically-inquisitive will find within this volume a fairly substantial summary of almost any theological issue that one might wish to investigate (and several that one might never even think to investigate). Multitudinous articles, appearing in alphabetical order, provide summaries of events, movements, issues and concepts, personalities, terminology, etc. that have in some way contributed to the shape of Christian theology. Even the "insignificant" things are included. In addition, the brief bibliographies that appear at the end of each article provide the reader with some idea of where to turn for further inquiry. One of the greatest strengths of this volume is that, while decidedly evangelical in perspective, its content is not narrowly dogmatic in orientation. Its contributors reflect a diversity of theological persuasions and convictions. However, in this day in which "globalization" has become a very real and important influence on the scope of evangelical theology, one criticism of this text is that it is largely Western in its orientation. There are few contributors from non-Western nations. While this is not a surprising feature in a book published in 1984, a time when the theological voices of evangelicals in Africa, Asia, and Latin America had yet to be heard as valid and equal, a revision of this text would certainly be strengthened if it were to be more balanced in its cultural orientation. Perhaps this dictionary's greatest attribute is the roster of renowned contemporary scholars who are numbered among its contributors. There are few places where men such as Donald Bloesch, Colin Brown, Geoffrey Bromiley, F.F. Bruce, D. A. Carson, Millard Erickson, Carl F.H. Henry, George Ladd, Mark Noll, J.I. Packer, Charles Ryrie, and Peter Toon gather together to provide theological instruction. Between the hard-back covers of this dictionary is found one such place. The Evangelical Dictionary of Theology--A Uniuqie Experience, A Monumental Work!

From Abaddon to Zwingli
I love having these kind of books on my shelf as they prove to be a valuable resource in so many ways. This book contains short articles covering a variety of issues and people, all related to Christian theology. I would not say that this would be the final authority for any individual topic, but it's a good place to start when you are doing research. The bibliographies listed in each of the articles give additional guidance for further research. Walter Elwell does a super job in his editing of these "Baker Reference Library" books. You ought to have this as well as the apologetics and biblical theology books on your shelf to pull down whenever you want to know more.