Wipf And Stock imprint: 424 books
The Speaking Trinity and His Worded World
Why Language Is at the Center of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
The Trinity is a speaking God: three divine persons who share the same essence and commune with each other in love and glory. How does this truth shape the way we view the world and our place in it? The Speaking Trinity and His Worded World explores these questions by presenting all of life through...
A Recipe for Disaster
Four Ways Churches and Parents Prepare Individuals to Lose Their Faith and How They Can Instill a Faith That Endures
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
The statistics speak for themselves; record numbers of individuals who at one time identified as Christians are deconverting from the faith and identifying as unbelievers. Why is this happening and what can be done to prevent it? A Recipe for Disaster seeks to answer those questions by focusing on...
Strengthening Families and Ending Abuse
Churches and Their Leaders Look to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Strengthening families of different varieties and ending abuse in the myriad of forms through which it surfaces is God's way of bringing peace and safety to Christian homes across the world. We challenge congregations, their leaders, and the men, women, and youth who faithfully support them to consider...
Released Outward
Liberating Congregations To Do Justice, Love Mercy, and Live Faithfully
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Drawing from the experience of a church on Chicago's south side, Released Outward addresses the situation of congregations that have turned inward and become isolated from the needs of the world around them. It addresses the question of how churches, addicted to their cultural and ecclesial traditions,...
Walking Together
A Congregational Reflection on Biblical Church Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Walking Together: A Congregational Reflection on Biblical Church Discipline is a study of the biblical concept of church discipline. It seeks to show that church discipline, rightly understood, is a ministry of mercy and grace that will bless churches that return to it. Walking Together reveals that...
Readings in Catholic Social Teaching
Selected Documents of the Universal Church, 1891–2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Readings in Catholic School Social Teaching: Selected Documents of the Universal Church, 1891-2011 is a curated collection of readings that form a short summary of the universal Catholic social teaching ranging between Pope Leo XIII's 1891 Rerum Novarum and Pope Benedicts XVI's 2011 pontificate. Organized...
by Christopher Dreisbach
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Your God is too somber if your posture before him lacks a spirit of joy and a commitment to rejoice as much as possible. While life has its sadness and tragedy, the good news of Jesus Christ is that God's kingdom has won; and the suffering we face for a time is shorter compared with the endless delight...
Children’s Ministry That Fits
Beyond One-Size-Fits-All Approaches to Nurturing Children’s Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
Children know God. They encounter God in diverse ways as they walk along the spiritual journey. Amidst this diversity, four distinct avenues for connecting with God emerge in the lives of children: word, emotion, symbol, and action. These are the four spiritual styles, broad approaches to spirituality...
The New Chosen People, Revised and Expanded Edition
A Corporate View of Election
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Controversy rages on about God's choosing people for salvation. Are only the few elect? Rather than typically beginning with the preconceptions of systematic theologies, Dr. William Klein takes up this question by searching for a biblical theology of election. He surveys the OT contexts of God's choosing...
Following Rabbi Jesus, Study Guide
A Guide to Reflection and Response for Christians and Other Seekers Who Want to Take the Jesus of the Gospels Seriously
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Following Rabbi Jesus is a surprising exposure of who the Jesus we find in the Gospels really is, what he teaches those who dare to follow him, and how he models what it means to live God's radical-kingdom way. The reader of the book will discover in this exploration a very different Jesus from the...
by C. FitzSimons Allison
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
God is in the dock. Shall we convict him or forgive him? Shall we replace the God of Scripture with another of our choosing, mock and deride him, or ignore him? Shall we replace revelation with the chaos of speculation? We perceive ourselves, rather than God, as the center of the world and this universal...
Her Gates Will Never Be Shut
Hope, Hell, and the New Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Everlasting hell and divine judgment, a lake of fire and brimstone--these mainstays of evangelical tradition have come under fire once again in recent decades. Would the God of love revealed by Jesus really consign the vast majority of humankind to a destiny of eternal, conscious torment? Is divine...
Christ and the New Creation
A Canonical Approach to the Theology of the New Testament
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
In Christ and the New Creation, Matthew Emerson takes a fresh approach to understanding New Testament theology by using a canonical methodology. Although typically confined to Old Testament theology, Emerson sees fruitfulness in applying this method to New Testament theology as well. Instead of a...
Eastern and Reformed
A Theological Enquiry into the Doctrine of Atonement and the Holy Spirit of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The book looks into the liturgy of the Mar Thoma Church. The Mar Thoma Church claims to be eastern and reformed. An enquiry is made into the liturgy of the passion week and the Eucharist to look into the theology of Atonement (work of Christ) and the nature of the Holy Spirit respectively. The measuring...