Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Reconsidering Gender
Evangelical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Questions related to the issue of gender remain insufficiently acknowledged and explored in contemporary theological literature. These issues form the basis of significant unresolved tensions among evangelicals, as evidenced in debates over the nature of the Trinity, Bible translation, church practice,...
The Anointed Son
A Trinitarian Spirit Christology
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Spirit Christology complements Logos Christology in the same way in which Christ and the Spirit are mutually constitutive. Or at least this should be the case. The history of Christian thought shows that Logos Christology has dominated, resulting in both an eclipse of Trinitarian doctrine and a diminution...
Rising
Poems for America
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
In Rising, poet Jane Beal goes in search of America. She sings the Cherokee Creation story, imagining dialogue between Sky-Woman and First Man. She remembers being a child and exchanging her blood with a Cherokee friend, and then, years later, the birth of that friend's son, Usquaniqdi, whose name...
C.S. Lewis and Christian Postmodernism
Word, Image, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Employing a postmodernist literary approach, this book identifies C. S. Lewis both as an antimodernist and as a Christian postmodernist who tells the story of the gospel to twentieth- and twenty-first-century readers. Lewis is popularly known as an able Christian apologetic writer, talented in explaining...
by Jason Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
This collection of brief essays and still briefer commentaries is a personal reflection on some topics that have been thematic in the development of my theoretical work. These essays are not meant to extend the theory into yet-uncharted territory, but rather to draw out some of its implications for...
by Jason Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
An account of perception is essential for an interpretation of memory, thought, and the mental state. The theory expounded in this book, developed from clinical studies of brain-damaged individuals, is a dynamic process account that departs from static computational models of the mind, with implications...
Reading Like a Serpent
What the Scarlet A Is About
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Many remember The Scarlet Letter as required reading for reluctant sixteen year olds. The unnamed, elusive narrator of Hawthorne's tale of human frailty and sorrow is--some readers might say maddeningly--indirect, ambiguous, and inconsistent. Readers who hope to arrive at satisfying judgments about...
by Aída Besançon Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
A thorough and insightful commentary on Paul's letter to his coworker Timothy, which the Apostle wrote before and during Nero's persecution. Spencer carefully examines each part of the letter and relates it to the overall flow of the argument and in light of the larger biblical, historical, social,...
Ezekiel in Context
Ezekiel’s Message Understood in Its Historical Setting of Covenant Curses and Ancient Near Eastern Mythological Motifs
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
One of the most perplexing and misunderstood books of the Bible, Ezekiel has left many scholars and exegetes scratching their heads regarding its message, coherency, and interpretation. Brian Peterson's look at the book of Ezekiel as a unified whole set within an exilic context helps explain some...
The Disciple
On Becoming Truly Human
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
In The Disciple, Lucy Peppiatt addresses the question of what it means to become like Jesus in the context of our everyday lives. Through the gifts of the Word and the Spirit, our communities, and our circumstances in life, God forms us into the likeness of his Son and leads us into a life of freedom,...
Unveiling Paul’s Women
Making Sense of 1 Corinthians 11:2–16
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Whether people realize it or not, the ideas in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 have had a huge impact on the role of Christian women in the church through the centuries. These fifteen verses have shaped worship practices, church structures, church leadership, marriages, and even relationships between men and...
Women and Worship at Corinth
Paul’s Rhetorical Arguments in 1 Corinthians
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Making sense of Paul's arguments in 1 Corinthians 11-14 regarding both the role of women in public worship and the value of tongues and prophecy for the unbeliever has long posed challenges for any lay reader or scholar. Despite numerous explanations offered over the years, these passages remain marked...
God is Green
An Eco-Spirituality of Incarnate Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
At this time of climate crisis, here is a practical Christian ecospirituality. It emerges from the pastoral and theological experience of Reverend Robert Shore-Goss, who worked with his congregation by making the earth a member of the church, by greening worship, and by helping the church building...
Abraham Joshua Heschel--Philosopher of Wonder
Our Thirty-Year Friendship and Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Most studies of Abraham Joshua Heschel approach him as a theologian, whereas this book peers behind the theologian and honors Heschel as the original philosopher that he was. So it unearths Heschel's epistemology, his aesthetic, and his social philosophy, all reinforced by the thirty years of friendship...