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I’m Kent Hendricks, and I work in the marketing department here at Logos, where I’m responsible for marketing Pre-Pubs. I spend most of my days in the office researching books and authors, writing and editing copy, and corresponding with bloggers, Logos users, authors, and just about anyone I can find to help us promote the books we sell. In fact, many of you have probably already heard from me in the form of Last Chance NewsWires announcing soon-to-be-shipping Pre-Pubs. Now, I’ll be contributing regularly to the blog as well, so I hope you look forward to hearing more from me. :)

My wife, Shelly, and I moved back to northwest Washington two years ago after spending six years in Grand Rapids, Michigan at Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary, where I got an undergraduate degree in Religion and English, took lots of Greek and linguistics classes, and almost finished an M.Div. (I’m still working on that last one.)

Since I can’t resist a little name dropping, some major works by a couple of my former professors are currently on Pre-Pub—Richard Muller’s Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics and Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics. True, Herman Bavinck isn’t a professor at Calvin Seminary, but John Bolt is, and he’s the editor of the new English translation of RD. There are also some other great books in the works that I can’t tell you about yet, but keep checking the Pre-Pub page to find out when they’re available!

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Commentaries and theology books are two of our top selling categories of resources. That’s to be expected, because they are two of the best kinds of tools for helping Christians grow in their understanding of the Bible, and understanding the Bible is at the heart of Christianity.

Commentaries analyze the Bible sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, book by book and help you understand it in its original context. Most commentaries also point you in the direction of application to life in the 21st century. Commentaries answer the question, “What does this passage of Scripture mean?”

Systematic theology books help you understand the Bible topically. They synthesize its teaching and organize it by its major themes: God, the Bible, man, sin, Christ’s person and work, the Spirit’s person and work, salvation, the church, the future, etc. Systematic theology books answer the question, “What does the Bible teach on this subject?”

Both are important tools to have in your digital library, and we just added two wonderful sets to these two categories last night.

Tyndale Commentaries

The Tyndale Old Testament Commentary (TOTC) and the Tyndale New Testament Commentary (TNTC) together form one of the best series of commentaries covering every book of the Bible. These volumes are known for their concise, to-the-point explanations of Scripture and are useful for scholars, pastors, and lay Bible students alike.

These 49 volumes cover more than 12,000 pages and would cost you almost $600 in print, but we’re offering the set for only $164.95. That’s less than $3.50 per volume.

Pre-order this set today. See more commentaries in our Commentaries Product Guide.

Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics

Among the ranks of Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, Turretin’s Institutes of Elenctic Theology, Hodge’s Systematic Theology, and Berkhof’s Systematic Theology, Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics is one of the most significant expositions of the Reformed faith ever written. According to Richard Gaffin, it may be “the most important systematic theology ever produced in the Reformed tradition.”

This 4-volume, 3,008-page set has for the first time been translated into English from its original Dutch, bringing the best of Dutch Reformed theology to the English-speaking world.

Pre-order this set today.

What commentaries and theology books would you like to see next?

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We added some new titles from IVP to the Pre-Pub page last week. IVP publishes a lot of quality books, many of which are available for Libronix. We're excited to be able to expand our offerings with these 17 new volumes.

IVP Biblical Theology Collection (4 Vols.)

• A Concise New Testament Theology, I. Howard Marshall
• Old Testament Theology, Paul R. House
• Old Testament Theology, Vol. 1: Israel's Gospel, John Goldingay
• Old Testament Theology, Vol. 2: Israel's Faith, John Goldingay

This set will provide you with some key biblical theology texts for exploring the the message of Scripture as it is progressively unfolded in each of the books of the Bible.

IVP Evangelical Theology Collection (11 Vols.)

• Ancient Faith for the Church's Future, ed. Mark Husbands and Jeffrey P. Greenman
• Biblical Theology: Retrospect and Prospect, ed. Scott J. Hafemann
• Care for the Soul: Exploring the Intersection of Psychology & Theology, ed. Mark R. McMinn and Timothy R. Phillips
• Christian Apologetics in the Postmodern World, ed. Timothy R. Phillips and Dennis L. Okholm
• Evangelicals & Scripture: Tradition, Authority and Hermeneutics, ed. Vincent E. Bacote, Laura C. Miguelez, and Dennis L. Okholm
• Justification: What's at Stake in the Current Debates, ed. Mark Husbands and Daniel Treier
• The Beauty of God: Theology and the Arts, ed. Daniel Treier, Mark Husbands and Roger Lundin
• The Community of the Word: Toward an Evangelical Ecclesiology, ed. Mark Husbands and Daniel Treier
• The Gospel in Black and White, ed. Dennis L. Okholm
• The Nature of Confession, ed. Timothy R. Phillips and Dennis L. Okholm
• Women, Ministry and the Gospel, ed. Mark Husbands and Timothy Larsen

Each of these books is the fruit of one of the annual Wheaton Theology Conferences. These volumes contain essays from some of the top evangelical scholars in the world and explore issues that are of special importance for the church today.

Two titles didn't fit into a collection and are available as individual volumes:

• The Lord's Supper: Five Views, ed. Gordon T. Smith
• The Shape of Practical Theology: Empowering Ministry with Theological Praxis, Ray S. Anderson

Thanks to IVP for making all of these available!

If you've been keeping tabs on the Pre-Pub page over the last couple of weeks, you've probably noticed the scores of titles published by Baker. We just announced 9 new collections containing a total of 67 books from Baker covering topics like hermeneutics, Old Testament studies, New Testament studies, theology, preaching, counseling, and more.

Here's the complete list of collections:

• Robert Webber Ancient-Future Collection (4 Vols.)
• Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics (4 Vols.)
• Baker New Testament Studies Collection (14 Vols.)
• Baker Encountering the Bible Collection (3 Vols.)
• Baker Preaching Collection (8 Vols.)
• Baker Theology Collection (11 Vols.)
• Baker Old Testament Studies Collection (6 Vols.)
• Baker Hermeneutics Collection (14 Vols.)
• Baker Counseling Collection (3 Vols.)

I'm really excited about many of the titles included in these collections. Several that make the top of my list:

• Muller's Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics
• Schreiner's New Testament Theology
• Carson and Beale's Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
• Vanhoozer's Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible
• Elwell's Evangelical Dictionary of Theology
• Piper's The Justification of God and The Supremacy of God in Preaching
• Chapell's Christ-Centered Preaching
• Silva's Interpreting Galatians

Which collections or individual books are you looking forward to most?

By the way, this is still only part of what I had in mind in my post about lots of great books coming down the pike. Still more to come.