InterVarsity Press announced Thursday the publication of three new series in its IVP Academic line. The series—"Missiological Engagements" (ME), "New Explorations in Theology" (NET) and "Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture" (SCDS)—expand IVP Academic’s reach into a broad range of scholarship.

Published in October, the first book of the three series is The Gospel and Pluralism Today, edited by Scott W. Sunquist and Amos Yong.

Professor and IVP author Graham Hill commented on the book’s importance.

“In The Gospel and Pluralism Today, Scott W. Sunquist and Amos Yong bring together a remarkable collection of papers that reveal the ongoing value and contribution of Newbigin’s work,” Hill said. “But Sunquist and Yong’s book doesn’t stop at Newbigin’s contribution. It builds on Newbigin’s thought, and it explores critical cultural and missionary issues that have emerged in the 21st century. In brief, this book is an invaluable addition to missiology and to the study of Newbigin’s pastoral-missionary paradigm.”

Both Theology and the Mirror of Scripture (SCDS) and The Reality of God and Historical Method (NET) launched in November. These two series focus on introducing new scholars to the field of theology in the form of monograph level approaches to their various subjects. Forthcoming SCDS volumes will tackle the doctrines of the church, creation and hell, while the second NET volume—Karl Barth’s Infralapsarian Theology: Origins and Development, 1920–1953 by Shao Kai Tseng—is scheduled to release in March 2016.

David Congdon, associate editor for IVP Academic and project editor for all three series, commented on the potential of the new series.

“A monograph and dissertation line is the bread and butter of an academic publisher,” Congdon said. “As the IVP Academic line matures, it is essential to have a place to publish and nurture the work of young, new scholars. We look forward to publishing creative, constructive works in the disciplines of systematic, historical, philosophical and practical theology.”

All three of these new series' titles will be available at the upcoming annual gatherings of The Evangelical Theological Society, the Society for Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion.

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