— Letter from the Editor —
Dear Reader, Learning is something we thrive on most avidly here at IVP Academic. The six of us on the editorial team recently took the Gallup CliftonStrengths assessment (formerly known as StrengthsFinder) and combed through our results together. Each one of us learned a lot about ourselves, but just as importantly we collectively upped our team awareness. That’s particularly fitting because it turns out all six of us without exception have the “Learner” attribute in our top five strengths and we overlapped frequently in related qualities like intellection, ideation, and input, too. Big surprise that such eggheads would gravitate to work in academic book publishing, right? Hardly—but we were gratified to see our cohesion confirmed and were further enlightened to have it unpacked so helpfully in our profiles. My guess is that, if you’re reading a catalog of scholarly books (and especially a wordy edi- tor’s cover letter in it), you most likely fall into that same subset of people who “constantly strive to learn and improve,” for whom “the steady and deliberate journey from ignorance to competence energizes,” as Gallup puts it. You’re our kind of people. Since some of our team’s other strengths include empathy, relating, and developing, we keenly hope that you’ll find plenty in this catalog to stretch your muscles and rock some brainwaves. That’s what we’re always going for. We busily seek out authors with intelligent and faithful contributions to make to the most important conversations of our times, whether those are in biblical or theological studies, the human or physical sciences, the lit- erary or fine arts, or the professions. Even in these days of aggressive anti-intellectualism, we’re not afraid to keep learning, because we trust you won’t be either. Happy reading,
Jon Boyd Associate Publisher & Academic Editorial Director
IVP ACADEMIC CATALOG
SUMMER & FALL 2025
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