Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Critical Theory and the Messianic Light
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
Dialectic of Enlightenment is a thought-provoking introduction to the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno first identified the dialectic of enlightenment when fascism was on the rampage in Europe. They warned that enlightened reason and societal freedom threaten...
Anglican Evangelicalism in Sydney 1897 to 1953
Nathaniel Jones, D. J. Davies and T. C. Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
John McIntosh attempts to describe more accurately and completely the spectrum of Evangelicalism (Anglican) that three successive principals of Moore Theological College appropriated and taught in the period. Each was an outstanding graduate of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, respectively. The study...
Losing Our Religion?
Changing Patterns of Believing and Belonging in Secular Western Societies
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Church-going in most Western societies has declined significantly in the wake of the social and cultural changes that began in the 1960s. Does this mean that people in these societies are losing any religious dimension in their lives, or is it being expressed in other forms and places? This study...
In Quest of a Vital Protestant Center
An Ecumenical Evangelical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
In Quest of a Vital Protestant Center probes the relationship between Scripture and culture in twentieth-century US theology and biblical studies. It points to the necessity of turning to what Karl Barth has referred to as "the strange new world within the Bible" for any revitalization of...
The Historical Jesus and the Christ of Faith
Marcus Borg and N. T. Wright in Critical Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
The Historical Jesus and the Christ of Faith examines the conflicting views of Marcus Borg and N. T. Wright on the long-standing question of the relationship between the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth and the Christ of faith as depicted in the New Testament. Demetrion has created a study designed...
by Morris A. Inch
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Two rival analogies compete for our attention: the law of the jungle, and the sacred canopy. As for the former, life consists of the survival of the fittest. As for the latter, the divine mandates serve as a framework for social ethics. This is in keeping with the conviction that we live in God's...
Mobilizing a Great Commission Church for Harvest
Voices and Views from the Southern Baptist Professors of Evangelism Fellowship
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Mobilizing a Great Commission Church for Harvest addresses practical aspects of evangelism in the local church, with the voices and views of nineteen current Southern Baptist professors of evangelism. They address important topics to local church evangelism, such as Invitations with integrity and...
No Program but Time, No Book but the Bible
Reflections on Mentoring and Discipleship in Honor of Scott M. Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This book is a collection of short reflections on mentoring and discipleship in honor of Scott M. Gibson. Gibson says: "The missing ingredient in the Church today is discipleship." This book casts a vision for all believers for what mentoring and discipleship can look like in the local church,...
A History and Critique of Methodological Naturalism
The Philosophical Case for God’s Design of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Methodological naturalism is the thesis that only natural features can be factored into any legitimate explanation. Moreover, the thesis contends, any attempt to explain natural phenomena by appealing to supernatural features is unscientific and, therefore, illegitimate. This book argues that nothing...
Evil and Pain
A Critique of the Materialistic Account of Evil
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
A specific form of understanding of evil, in the problem of evil debate, gets assumed among a variety of materialistic naturalists. Owing to their physicalist and, in some cases, behaviorist philosophies, this understanding assumes a hedonistic view of pain that reduces valuation to pleasure and pain....
Rational Piety and Social Reform in Glasgow
The Life, Philosophy, and Political Economy of James Mylne (1757–1839)
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
James Mylne (1757-1839) taught moral philosophy and political economy in Glasgow from 1797 to the mid-1830s. Rational Piety and Social Reform in Glasgow offers readers Mylne's biography, a summary of his lectures on moral philosophy and political economy, several interpretative essays, and a collation...
The Book of Job
A Modern Translation and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
The book of Job is the most challenging--and most engaging--of all the books in the Hebrew Scriptures. It challenges one's faith in the essential goodness of God and humanity. In this volume, Rabbis Kravitz and Olitzky provide an original, modern translation and commentary while also inviting classic...
by Wayne Allen
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
In 1924, an Australian minister observed that while the world may be getting better off, the world is not getting better. Almost one hundred years have passed and little has changed. No doubt people today are healthier and wealthier than ever before. But people do not seem to be any more virtuous....
A Dangerous Mind
The Ideas and Influence of Delbert L. Wiens
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
A Dangerous Mind is a celebration of the ideas and influence of Delbert L. Wiens. It contains tributes to him, essays inspired by him, and some of his unpublished works. This effort has been brought together by his students, colleagues, and friends at the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of...