Wipf And Stock imprint: 424 books
It Is Well with My Soul
Messages of Hope for the Bereaved
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
Preachers at funerals differ in approach. Some see the purpose of the sermon to be eulogy, to heap so much praise that the deceased becomes unrecognizable to the mourners. Others regard praise of the departed as inappropriate, as it may detract from the praise of Almighty God, which they believe to...
A Lot of the Way Trees Were Walking
Poems from the Gospel of Mark
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
This cycle of poems travels the path of the Gospel of Mark, rereading and retelling the story, flashing back and anticipating, reading from unusual vantage points, flowing with the author's perspective and rowing against it. Crossing the genres of poetry and biblical interpretation, the poems themselves become a way to experience the Gospel of Mark.
The Whole Christ for the Whole World
A Wesleyan Perspective on the Work of Christ
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
This study explores the theological presuppositions that have informed the major explanations of the work of Christ from the perspective of Wesleyan theology's commitment to the universality of the atonement and its provision for both justification and sanctification. The Whole Christ for the Whole...
The Annunciation
A New Evangelization and Apologetic for Mainline Protestants and Progressive Catholics in Postmodern North America
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
The Annunciation is an in-depth look at how the Christian message can be communicated in a way that is comprehensible to the postmodern world and yet remain within the classical faith.
Divine Presence
Elements of Biblical Theophanies
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
"The glory of the LORD," a phrase used over one hundred times in the Bible, describes God's greatness and transcendence. This complex theological concept exhibits several natural elements which describe a theophany, a personification of God in the forces of nature. Thus, a theophany--the...
Rosary Primer
The Prayers, The Mysteries, and The New Testament
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
This book, a primer, serves as an introduction to a devotional practice known as the Rosary: Rosary means garden of flowers or necklace of beads. The word bead comes from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning prayer. Thus, the rosary is a garden of prayer or a necklace of prayer. After explaining how one prays...
Taking Leave of Your Home
Moving in the Peace of Christ
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
We are pilgrims on a journey; that means we will leave our home and move to another one at least once during our lifetime. This book is a resource for taking leave of a home, focusing primarily on the psychological and spiritual tasks of moving.
by Mark G. Boyer, Corbin S. Cole
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
In Greek, the language of the New Testament, there are four words for love--agape, philia, storge, and eros--but no matter what the Greek word is, the English equivalent is always love. The most used Greek word for love in the NT is agape, the noblest word for self-sacrificial love. The second-most...
Weekday Saints
Reflections on Their Scriptures
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The Roman Catholic Church issued its first, modern, one-volume Lectionary--a book of biblical texts assigned for every day of the year--in 1970 in response to the Second Vatican Council's call for a greater fare of Scripture during Mass. By the time the Lectionary was revised and published between...
Human Wholeness
A Spirituality of Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Imagine a rope braided out of seven strands of twine, forming a circle so that even the ends of the rope are woven together. That is an image of human wholeness. This book proposes seven aspects to human wholeness: intellectual, psychological, emotional, physical, sexual, spiritual, and aesthetic....
The Doctrine of Atonement
From Luther to Forde
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Post-Enlightenment theology has frequently rejected the historic Christian doctrine of substitutionary atonement. For theologians standing in the tradition of the Lutheran Confessions, rejection of substitutionary atonement is particularly problematic because it endangers the unconditional nature...
Stalking the Spirit
In a Do-It-Yourself Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
What happens when a church chooses to subdivide instead of getting bigger? In 1976, the Church of the Saviour in Washington, DC, did just that. Stalking the Spirit is the story of Seekers Church, a second-generation Church of the Saviour community known for its creative worship, open pulpit, shared...
Redacted Dominionism
A Biblical Approach to Grounding Environmental Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Critiques of the environmental ramifications of the early Genesis narrative by environmental thinkers such as Aldo Leopold, Ian McHarg, and Lynn White underscore a long-standing tension between the environmental movement and Western Christianity. The evangelical community, especially, has been at...
God's Fingerprints, Second Edition
Evidence for the Christian God Is All Around All of Us All of the Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
God's Fingerprints seeks to show why Christianity is the only rational faith system appropriate to the universe we inhabit. The super-person of God the Holy Trinity alone will suffice. Starting from scientific tools that we all may use, and constraints to which we all are subject, God's Fingerprints...