Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Theory to Practice in Vulnerable Mission
An Academic Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Missionaries from the West like to hit the ground running to solve as many of other people's problems as possible in the increasingly short term they have available for service. Hang on, says Jim Harries! After twenty-four years in Africa, observing how poverty, traditional practices, dependency,...
by Charles H. Kraft
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The church is in the world to continue Jesus' ministry. But it has forgotten an important part--dealing with enemy spirits. And Satan runs freely in our world with few Christian leaders knowing how to stop him. Dealing With Demons presents Kraft's way of dealing with Satan's army, whose aim is to...
The Living Legacy
The Soul in Paraphrase, the Heart in Pilgrimage
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The Living Legacy is a resource for spiritual formation that involves original Christian poetry, theological analysis, and spiritual formation exercises following the lectio divina. Following the seasons of the Church Year, Witherington and Hare provide a guide to help those of us on spiritual journeys as we seek to explore 'the living legacy,' which is our faith in the biblical God.
The Only Alternative
Christian Nonviolent Peacemakers in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
The radical message of Jesus is that there is only one alternative to the common method of confronting violence with more violence. The Only Alternative: Christian Nonviolent Peacemakers in America explores the spiritually active practice of compassionate nonviolence. Here is a journey through the...
The Divided Soul
A Kierkegaardian Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2009
SOren Kierkegaard's Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing is an astute analysis of inner dividedness. In this striking little book, Kierkegaard gently yet incisively specifies the precise forms it takes. Like many of SOren Kierkegaard's books, however, Purity of Heart contains a good deal of formidable...
The Wisdom of Kierkegaard
A Collection of Quotations on Faith and Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Tucked away in the complicated prose that fills many of Soren Kierkegaard's books are numerous insightful declarations. They arrest the reader with their depth of understanding. They often are expressed in a lilting and lyrical manner. Encountering them makes working through the intricate prose eminently...
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...
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...
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....