Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
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...
Following Rabbi Jesus
The Christian’s Forgotten Calling
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 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...
Abiding Mission
Missionary Spirituality and Disciple-Making Among the Muslim Peoples of Egypt and Northern Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Abiding Mission presents the discipline of abiding as the first priority of the Christian and the base methodology of mission. Based on an exegesis of John 15, Abiding Mission illustrates the definition of abiding by examining the abiding mission lives of seven key pioneers in mission to Muslims in...
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...
The Theology of Light and Sight
An Interfaith Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
And God said: Let there be light. And there was light. These words mark the first step in the creation of all life. The very genesis of light is tied to the nature and purpose of God--God as the author of light, as the pouring out of light, as light itself. Believers in the three Abrahamic faiths...
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...
The Gender Conversation
Evangelical Perspectives on Gender, Scripture, and the Christian Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Conversations about gender, both inside and outside the church, can frequently degenerate into stale and rancorous disputes in which predictable arguments are traded back and forth, or fade awkwardly away into the tense silences of mutual misunderstanding. But the issue is an important one, and calls...
The Recent Unpleasantness
Calvary Church’s Role in the Preservation of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Pittsburgh
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
In the wake of the 2003 General Convention approval of the consecration of Gene Robinson, an openly gay and partnered man, to be a bishop, the Convention of the Diocese of Pittsburgh took steps to secede from the Episcopal Church. When it became clear that by rewriting and reinterpreting the canons,...
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.
Christianity in America
Triumph and Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Was America founded as a Christian nation? What role has the Christian faith of many of its leaders played in the course of its history? How has Christianity affected American culture and society? This trenchant critique of the role of Christianity in American history highlights both the ways in which...