Wipf And Stock imprint: 424 books
Ready to Lead
Harnessing the Energy in You and around You
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
What makes the difference between those who aspire to lead and those who actually do it? What does anyone need to know about themselves and others, in order to be ready to lead? How might society benefit from persons who give time and energy to learn the skills of leadership readiness? This book offers...
Joseph Smith’s Tritheism
The Prophet’s Theology in Historical Context, Critiqued from a Nicene Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
I have always declared God to be a distinct personage, Jesus Christ a separate and distinct personage from God the Father, and that the Holy Ghost was a distinct personage and a Spirit: and these three constitute three distinct personages and three Gods. --Joseph Smith Few figures in North American...
The Passion of the Servant
A Journey to the Cross
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
The New Testament opens with four Gospel accounts that introduce the reader to Jesus Christ. From the very beginning, the redemptive drama moves toward the cross. The final week of Jesus's life, Passion Week, takes up nearly 40 percent of the entire narrative. The canonical Gospels provide four different...
by E. L. Risden
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2009
A Living Light explores some of the major events in the life of Hildegard of Bingen: mystic, physician, composer, and one of the foremost intellectuals of the Middle Ages. In the form of a dramatic novella, it telescopes to such life-changing events as the courageous recording of her visions, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
The Year's Work in Medievalism includes vetted essays from the Studies in Medievalism--now International Society for the Study of Medievalism--annual conference and from submissions to the editor throughout the year. The current volume includes a range of topics from medievalism in literature and...
Practical Knowledge of the Soul
With a New Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
"When Thomas Paine exclaimed: 'These are the times that try men's souls,'" Rosenstock-Huessy noted, Paine "did not mean men's bodies or men's minds. And we know it." In this book devoted to knowledge of that mysterious entity, "soul," which neither philosophers nor psychologists...
Results May Vary
Christian Women Reflect on Post-College Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Results May Vary addresses the unspoken assumptions and unquestioned expectations about what it means to be a Christian woman in a complex world. Far from offering a simple checklist or selling advice, this collection of essays weaves together a rich variety of voices--from women of different ages,...
Sharing Wisdom
Benefits and Boundaries of Interreligious Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018
The essays collected here, prepared by a think tank of the Elijah Interfaith Academy, explore the challenges associated with sharing wisdom--learning, teachings, messages for good living. How should religions go about sharing their wisdom? These chapters, representing six faith tradition (Jewish,...
by Bradley Truman Noel
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
"If only we were a Christian country again!" Christians, particularly those in the West, often lament their loss of influence in modern politics and culture. It seems that everywhere one turns, Christendom in the West is dealt another blow, with Christian reactions ranging from withdrawal...
Pentecostal and Postmodern Hermeneutics
Comparisons and Contemporary Impact
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2010
Pentecostal and Postmodern Hermeneutics seeks to explore the relationship between Pentecostal hermeneutics and Pentecostalism's ability to connect with and evangelize North American youth. As a Postmodern ethos makes its presence increasingly felt in the Western world, no Christian movement should...
Life Sentences
Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Whether from established authors or by writers new to fiction, the short stories in this volume explore life as change, using Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 as the lens. The writers come from different backgrounds, perspectives, and levels of familiarity with the short story, but what ties them together is a...
With God on Our Side
Towards a Transformational Theology of Rock and Roll
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Rock and roll is more than just music. Rock is a culture and an ideology, which carries its own ethos. It is forcefully countercultural and exists as a bane in the sight of dominant Western culture. As rock engages and critiques culture, it invariably encounters issues of meaning that are existential...
The Forest and the Trees
Helping Teachers Integrate a Biblical Worldview Across the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Why do we have to learn this? For as long as there have been students, teachers have been answering this question, but we haven't always answered it very well--for our students or for ourselves. We sometimes forget that everything we teach, whether sacred or secular, has value because it is part of...
by Pierce Taylor Hibbs
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
We tend to look for God in the grand and spectacular, but most of our lives are filled with ordinary moments and routines: drinking coffee, reading a book, driving to work. Can we find God in the banalities of everyday life? In Finding God in the Ordinary, the author shows that we can, and that we...