Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Reflections on My Life
in the Kingdom and the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Thomas H. Olbricht grew up in Churches of Christ, has taught in several of their universities, and has given religious lectures on six continents and in most states in the United States. He has met most leaders in Churches of Christ globally. He has been active in several religious and rhetoric societies...
The Samson Story
Love, Seduction, Betrayal, Violence, Riddles, Myth
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Love, seduction, betrayal, violence, riddles, and myth all find their place in the biblical story of Samson. Samson is the last of the judges, with 20 percent of the book devoted to him--more than any other judge. From the beginning, Samson is unlike any other judge, which the author suggests when...
Listening Well
The Art of Empathic Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Are you a good listener? How well do you really know the people around you? A capacity for empathic understanding is hard-wired in our brains, but its full expression involves particular listening skills that are seldom learned through ordinary experience. Through clear explanation, specific examples,...
Aging Successfully
How to Enjoy, Not Just Endure, the Second Half of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Aging Successfully offers suggestions for greater satisfaction and happiness for people over age fifty. It raises spiritual and emotional issues such as how to deal with depression and gives specific action steps. This book is packed full of practical help; it is a road map for aging, especially during...
Insanity
God and the Theory of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Have you seen such men--peculiar, raving, foam-mouthed, and straitjacketed--throwing themselves mercilessly at white padded walls . . . ? Such men are said to be insane. But there is more to insanity than the images depicted in film and planted in our minds by popular media. Insanity is a condition...
Leaving Dirt Place
Love as an Apologetic for Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Accosted by hatred and living out a dismal existence in Dirt Place, we humans have tried and failed to find the source of love. Many philosophies of love have proved powerless in satisfying our need for this pure and true thing. One after another, the world's religions fail to illuminate its reality...
The Roots that Clutch
Letters on the Origins of Things
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Would Eve object to the presentation of her original sin in Genesis 3? Could Alexander Graham Bell possibly have foreseen the enslaving power of his great invention, the phone, over human beings today? In The Roots that Clutch, Thomas Esposito poses such questions directly by means of letters addressed...
by Dennis Ngien
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
The materials presented here are reflections on a variety of topics: a belief in God's suffering and the pastoral implications of this; Luther's theology of preaching; practical approaches to evangelistic preaching; pastoral advice on death and dying; apologetic preaching in a post-Christian culture...
Interpretation of Love
God’s Love and Ours
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
The ministry is more than preaching, but preaching is its priority. This conviction is one Dr. Ngien has lived and worked with. As a sequel to A Faith Worth Believing, Commending and Living, and Giving Wings to the Soul, Interpretation of Love: God's Love and Ours is a third collection of sermons...
by Dennis Ngien
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
A sequel to A Faith Worth Believing, Living and Commendation, Giving Wings to the Soul is the compilation of Dr. Ngien's sermons or speeches, devotional and theological reflections. The materials continue to provide Bible-based, thought-provoking theological, spiritual, and pastoral insights to issues...
Faith-Based Education That Constructs
A Creative Dialogue between Contructivism and Faith-Based Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
Constructivism is everywhere. It is a hot issue at this time in the field of philosophy, education, technology, and religion. However, can constructivism be an alternative approach in faith-based education? While some conclude that Jesus knew learning was an active knowledge-creating process, and...
Multiculturalism
A Shalom Motif for the Christian Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Multiculturalism: A Shalom Motif for the Christian Community is an attempt to engage the Christian community on the ongoing discussion of cultural diversity and its implications for the church and the entire Christian community of the twenty-first century. Written for Christian schools and churches,...
Journey Into an Interfaith World
Jews, Christians, and Muslims in a World Come of Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
In this comprehensive volume, Dr. Kenneth L. Vaux explores the shared theological ground of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-the common God, the common good, the common word, and the common work. Based on the premise that the three Abrahamic faiths are given by God for some purpose in God's universal...
Ethics and the Wars of Insurgency
Somalia to Syria
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Ethics of Wars of Insurgency is my fifth study on the ethics of war and peace. It spans a twenty-year period of perplexing war and peace history focusing on the theological and ethical aspects of American foreign policy analysis from Somalia to Rwanda to Bosnia, concluding with present activities...