Wipf And Stock imprint: 424 books
Elders Lead a Healthy Family
Shared Leadership for a Vibrant Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Elders Lead a Healthy Family explores the biblical paradigm for shared leadership: elders as the spiritual "big brothers" and shepherds to the family of God. This book is a fresh biblical alternative to the standard fare of pragmatic church leadership. Delivered in a winsome and irenic style,...
by John Gatta
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The biblical story of Jesus' Transfiguration on a high mountain bristles with meanings germane to present-day concerns and spiritual longings. Together with its later artistic representations, this episode from the synoptic gospels seizes the imagination as an icon of mystical hope, beauty, and possibility....
A Stranger is Calling
Jews, Christians, and Muslims as Fellow Travelers
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Abraham, the father of all believers, plays host to three strangers, one of whom is God, and thus sets an example for others to follow. Jews, Christians, and Muslims often treat each other as strangers. Their Holy Books are not the cause of their conflicts and enmity but rather show the way to solve...
Van Gogh and the Art of Living
The Gospel According to Vincent van Gogh
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Vincent van Gogh believed that one had to learn to read, just as one had to learn to see and learn to live. Van Gogh conveyed a message in his work about the path that he himself followed that was more true to life, the path that human beings walk in their turbulent existence, the pilgrimage along...
Neither Necessary nor Inevitable
“History Needn’t Have Been Like That”
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Historic determinism is a convenient way to tie up the uncomfortable loose ends in the tragic lives of millions and to explain, at the same time, the exceptional opportunities of many of the rest of us. A belief in an inevitable chain of events or the will of God, or destiny, or historic necessity...
by A. J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Questions regarding the orthodoxy of Dale Moody and Ralph Elliott propelled the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) toward a re-evaluation of its doctrinal statement, the Baptist Faith and Message (BFM). The SBC adopted this document in 1925 under the leadership of E. Y. Mullins when faced by the challenge...
Shalom Yesterday, Today, and Forever
Embracing All Three Dimensions of Creation and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
When we hear the word shalom we think first of the common Jewish greeting. Then, perhaps, we consider the promise Jesus, the Prince of Peace, gave to his followers to grant them a peace the world cannot provide. In the Bible, the word shalom means much more than the absence of hostility--it means...
Old Historians, New Historians, No Historians
The Derailed Debate on the Genesis of Israel
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This polemical volume tackles the thorny and controversial issue of the vastly different narratives told (or manufactured) by the two parties of the conflict in the Middle East (the Arabs and Israel), focusing on 1948, where it all started. While all sides in this debate have vested interests, this...
Christianophobia
The Persecution of Christians under Islam
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
In the present upheaval in the Islamic world, as chaos, war, and vengeance are overtaking order, security, and civil rights, Muslim radicals have been venting their frustrations among their minorities, most of whom are Christian: from ancient Chaldeans in Iraq to Orthodox denominations in Turkey;...
Science and Religion: Fifty Years After Vatican II
A Time of Peace and Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
In the past one hundred years, two major realities have changed both science and religion. The world of science has been enriched by quantum physics, the computation of the age of the universe, archaeological data in the Middle East, and a scientific stress on historical writing. The world of religion...
Learning on Life’s Way
Remembering and Reflecting by a Teller of Tall Tales
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
Born into a pack of religiously divided siblings with a devout mother and an agnostic father, Sponheim finds the triad of faith/unfaith/many faiths central in telling the tall tale of God. Through his half-century of teaching and writing, the doctrine of creation becomes decisive for Sponheim, featuring...
Being at Home in the World
A New Christian Apologetic
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Being at Home in the World is a book of Christian Apologetics. But Mark McLeod-Harrison and Phil Smith don't defend Christian faith; instead, they invite readers into faith. In the course of making this invitation, the authors raise suspicions against modern naturalism, offer respectful criticisms...
Before Abraham Was
The Unity of Genesis 1–11
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Rebelling against a century of Old Testament scholarship, Isaac M. Kikawada and Arthur Quinn persuasively argue that the first eleven chapters of Genesis are not a literary patchwork by different editors as widely supposed, but are the work of one author of extraordinary subtlety and skill. Comparing...
Methods of Ethical Analysis
Between Theology, History, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
The book is about showing different ways of doing ethics, highlighting a kind of methodological pluralism. This book attempts to relate the difference in methodology and perspective to difference in identity, focal point of analysis, or projects of persuasion. Difference matters ultimately because...