Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Remembering the Future
A Collection of Essays, Interviews, and Poetry at the Intersection of Theology and Culture: The Other Journal 2004-2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Remembering the Future is a collection of poems, essays, and interviews that ask readers to see their world with double-vision-to imagine the redemptive consequences of engaging the world with a fastidious awareness of both the biblical tradition and the cultural moment. Remembering the Future is...
"God Is Dead" and I Don't Feel So Good Myself
Theological Engagements with the New Atheism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In this pertinent and engaging volume leading Christian philosophers, theologians, and writers from all over the denominational map explode the black-and-white binaries that characterize both sides of the New Atheism debate. They transcend the self-assured shouting matches of this latest expression...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Is faith a necessary virtue in the contemporary world? May it be, or must it be, detached from religious commitment? What do genealogies of the secular tell us about faith? Does religion need secular faith? Secular Faith brings together leading and emerging scholars to reflect on the apparent paradox...
As You See the Day Approaching
Reformed Perspectives on the Last Things
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
We are in the last days. Living well in such a time depends upon believing that Christ has conquered sin and death and is ruling today, alive at God's right hand. These essays on the end time will help Christians live like people who really have eternal life already--the life of the Spirit of Christ...
Rorty and the Religious
Christian Engagements with a Secular Philosopher
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Prior to his death in 2007, the self-described secular philosopher Richard Rorty began to modify his previous position concerning religion. Moving from atheism to anti-clericalism, Rorty challenges the metaphysical assumptions that lend justification to abuses of power in the name of religion. Instead...
Strength of Mind
Courage, Hope, Freedom, Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
Higher education in the twenty-first century should bring together freedom and knowledge with courage and hope. Why these four concepts? As Goodson argues in Strength of Mind, higher education in the twenty-first century offers preparation for ordinary life. Freedom and knowledge serve as the conditions...
Who’s Afraid of Modern Art?
Essays on Modern Art and Theology in Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Modern art can be confusing and intimidating--even ugly and blasphemous. And yet curator and art critic Daniel A. Siedell finds something else, something much deeper that resonates with the human experience. With over thirty essays on such diverse artists as Andy Warhol, Thomas Kinkade, Diego Velazquez,...
Fire in My Soul
Essays on Pauline Soteriology and the Gospels in Honor of Seyoon Kim
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Fire in My Soul pays tribute to the life and legacy of Dr. Seyoon Kim, who has taught as Professor of New Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary for almost two decades and is known internationally for his work on the origin of Paul's gospel. This collection of essays in his honor revisits classic...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Should women be priests? Should women submit to their husbands? Is premarital sex okay? Inflammatory questions such as these have splintered Christianity and polarized the church. In Sex, Gender, and Christianity, a cadre of seasoned college professors offers the modest proposal that honest, fruitful...
by Peter Iver Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
In Augustine's Leaders, Peter Iver Kaufman works from the premise that appropriations of Augustine endorsing contemporary liberal efforts to mix piety and politics are mistaken--that Augustine was skeptical about the prospects for involving Christianity in meaningful political change. His skepticism...
Love of Jesus
The Heart of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
If you would like to read many reasons for admiring and loving Jesus, then this is the book for you! If you admire and love Jesus but have difficulty identifying yourself as a Christian or have difficulty joining a church because of problems with this or that aspect of Christianity, then this is a...
Postmodern Theology
A Biopic
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Postmodern Theology consists in a sharp-edged retrospective and reflection on the forty-year history of the most important movement in contemporary religious thought that is only now passing from the scene. The author, Dr. Carl Raschke, is generally credited with having sparked the movement, even...
The Characteristic Theology of Herman Melville
Aesthetics, Politics, Duplicity
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
What becomes of theology when we think of it aesthetically? What becomes of aesthetics when we think of it theologically? These are the guiding questions that inform both the method and the conclusions of this volume's exploration into the literary world of Herman Melville's characteristic theology....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Probing the Frontiers of Biblical Studies is a seventeen-chapter anthology on biblical studies. It has been crafted as an extended and respectful thank you note to one of the most insightful scholars of biblical studies, David J. A. Clines of Sheffield University in England. He is credited with providing...