An Eerdmans Century, 1911-2011

Engaging saga of an American independent religious publisher's first 100 years Written by Larry ten Harmsel with Reinder Van Til 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...

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Engaging saga of an American independent religious publisher's first 100 years

Written by Larry ten Harmsel with Reinder Van Til

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 Drawing from first-person interviews, historical documents, and newly unearthed information, Ten Harmsel relates how Wm.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.

The book is also a must-read for anyone wishing to learn more about the impact of this immigrant family on the Christian book publishing industry in North America, which includes the Grand Rapids, MI-area publishing houses of Baker, Kregel and Zondervan which share Eerdmans’ origins.

Hardcover with jacket, 214 pages, illustrated, 

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