Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Behold, Your House Is Left to You
The Theological and Narrative Place of the Jerusalem Temple in Luke’s Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This book explores the place of Jerusalem and its Temple in Luke's Gospel, paying attention both to the Third Gospel's narrative and theological dynamics and to the historical and rhetorical milieu in which Luke composed his narrative. It argues for a portrait of the Jerusalem Temple in Luke's Gospel...
Jonathan’s Loves, David’s Laments
Gay Theology, Musical Desires, and Historical Difference
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Jonathan's Loves, David's Laments uses early modern musical interpretations of David's Lament over Saul and Jonathan to deepen the historicist foundations of contemporary feminist and gay relational theologies. After laying out how gay theologian Gary David Comstock connects the story of David and...
The Meeting of Opposites?
Hindus and Christians in the West
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Can there be a spiritually rich engagement between Hindus and Christians? In India there is a long history of interaction between them. In this helpful book, Andrew Wingate shares something of that from his direct experience of living in Tamil Nadu. But the growing economic power of India and of the...
The Mystery and the World
Passion for God in Times of Unbelief
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
During the past century, an enormous effervescence of events changed the sociopolitical configuration of the world. The interpretation of these facts helped further deepen the crisis in which modern thought already found itself--and it generated the uncertain and unstable environment in which we live...
Apologetics without Apology
Speaking of God in a World Troubled by Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Against many expectations, religion has not vanished from Western culture. People are troubled and fascinated in equal measure by this new visibility and are unsure whether it is right to (re)incorporate the vocabulary of faith into our common life. This unprecedented co-existence of religion and...
Inhabiting the Land
Thinking Theologically about the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
What does it mean to inhabit the land of Palestine and Israel justly? How should Christians understand the Palestinian-Israeli conflict? Alain Epp Weaver examines answers to these questions, paying particular attention to the theologies of sumud, or steadfastness, advanced by Palestinian Christian...
The Biblical Cosmos
A Pilgrim's Guide to the Weird and Wonderful World of the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of the Bible. When we read Scripture we often imagine that the world inhabited by the Bible's characters was much the same as our own. We would be wrong. The biblical world is an ancient world with a flat earth that stands at the center of the cosmos, and with...
Worshipping Trinity, Second Edition
Coming Back to the Heart of Worship
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
If worship is God centered, and God is the Trinity, then worship should be Trinity centered. Worshipping Trinity explores the meaning and implications of that simple claim. Written for church leaders, worship leaders, and songwriters, as well as for those interested in theology, this volume explains...
by Steve Moyise
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Each Christmas, the birth of Jesus is celebrated through carols, Bible readings, and nativity plays. The angelic announcements to Mary and Elizabeth, Jesus' birth in a manger, and the gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh are some of the best-known stories in the Bible. But did they really happen?...
Jesus and Paul before Christianity
Their World and Work in Retrospect
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Who was the real founder of Christianity as it is known today--Jesus or Paul? What, if any, was the connection between them? These and other questions about the two historical figures have occupied biblical scholars and the Christian church for many years up to the present time. This book proposes...
Women in Ministry
Questions and Answers in the Exploration of a Calling
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Does Scripture exclude women from full participation in all forms of Christian ministry simply on the basis of gender? What insights can the church's "rule of faith," theology, Scripture, Christian history, and testimonies give women and men exploring this important issue today? In many...
The Priesthood of All Believers and the Missio Dei
A Canonical, Catholic, and Contextual Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The priesthood of all believers is a pillar undergirding Protestant ecclesiology. Yet the doctrine has often been used to serve diverse agendas. This book examines the doctrine's canonical, catholic, and contextual dimensions. It first identifies the priesthood of all believers as a canonical doctrine...
by Philip Hefner, Ann Milliken Pederson
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Our Bodies Are Selves is a look at what it means to be human in a world where medical technology and emerging ethical insight force us to rethink the boundaries of humanity/spirit and man/machine. This book gives us a fresh look at how our expanding biological views of ourselves and our shared evolutionary...
by Kevin S. Seybold
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
What does it means to be human? What is the origin of religious beliefs? Why are we moral creatures? Are religious experiences different from our everyday experiences? Is my brain involved in my experiencing God? What is a soul and do I have one? Is religion a result of evolutionary processes? How...