Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Benedictions
26 Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Benedictions is about the presence of the sacred in ordinary things: the ground beneath our feet, the ways we bless each other, loss and grief, the making of our homes, even doubt and darkness. In the everyday experiences described here, God's presence is palpable and real. "Cleave the wood and...
by Stuart Dauermann
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
In Christians and Jews Together, Stuart Dauermann challenges Christians and Jews to discover new ways to partner together in serving what God is up to in the world. He imaginatively connects the thinking of Paul the Apostle with the Prophet Ezekiel, forming a previously unexplored bridge between...
The Great Betrayal
Christians and Jews in the First Four Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
In the view of many contemporary scholars, both Jesus and Judaism have been misrepresented by the church for the past two thousand years. Their main point is that Judaism was not a superficial, rigid, and outdated religion, and Jesus did not reject it. In fact, along with his disciples, he remained...
I Am Who I Am
Unraveling the Mystery of God
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
The mystery of God has fascinated people of all generations. Based on what has been revealed, people have tried to define, describe, and depict him in the way they deemed fit. But he has proved himself to be bigger than all human classifications. He continues to reveal himself to us in ways that we...
Strangers to Spouses
A Study of the Relationship Quality in Arranged Marriages in India
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Approximately 90 percent of the marriages in India today are reported to be arranged marriages. Parents and families make partner choices and marital decisions for their children, sometimes needing the children only to consent to the decisions of the elders. Given this reality, most men and women...
Movements of Grace
The Dynamic Christo-realism of Barth, Bonhoeffer, and the Torrances
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
To Barth, Bonhoeffer, and the Torrances, grace is not an abstract truth; it is reality itself. By God's revelation in Jesus Christ we are given the blessed assurance to know that all human beings are included in the humanity of the Savior. And in Christ we discover the movements of grace, a double...
To Submit or to Rebel against the State?
Seven Biblical Principles to Guide Christians Everywhere During an Age of Revolution and in the Struggle for Religious Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's. With these words Jesus has impacted world history, the First Amendment of the US Constitution, and a Christian's submission to the rule of a state. But what should a Christian do when there is widespread rebellion against...
Sermons from Mind and Heart
Struggling to Preach Theologically
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Sermons from Mind and Heart attempts to show the week-by-week theological work that a pastor does. The combining of the intellectual with the emotional is rooted in the categories of logos and pathos from Aristotle's Rhetoric. Some of the sermons have substantive theological reflections with multiple...
Paul on Baptism
Theology, Mission and Ministry in Context
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Drawing on recent scholarship on the Pauline tradition within early Christianity, this book examines Paul's theology of baptism and highlights its practical application in ministry today. It considers what the rite represented and effected, in the light of the social and cultural milieu in which his...
Take and Read
Reflecting Theologically on Books
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Take and Read is a collection of essays first presented as oral theological reflections on books, written to stimulate conversations among diverse groups of readers, which included farmers, physicians, teachers, poets, novelists, scientists, people involved in business, finance, relief work, and many...
Jesus Goes to McDonald's
Theology and Consumer Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
This book demonstrates that Latin American liberation theology continues to produce substantial biblical exegesis, absorbing theological reflection, and a sharp social critique that enhances the worldwide church. In Jesus Goes to McDonald's, Rossi asserts that the book of Job protests against the...
Community, State, and Church
Three Essays by Karl Barth With a New Introduction by David Haddorff
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
Karl Barth was the master theologian of our age. Whenever men in the past generation have reflected deeply on the ultimate problems of life and faith, they have done so in a way that bears the mark of the intellectual revolution let loose by this Swiss thinker. But his life was not simply one of quiet...
Stewards of Grace
A Reflective, Mission Biography of Eugene and Phyllis Grams in South Africa, 1951–1962
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Stewards of Grace tells several stories in one. It is a story of two faithful stewards of God's grace called to serve the poor, despised, and marginalized in apartheid South Africa. It is a story that captures how cross-cultural missions from the west at the end of the colonial era led to a thriving...
Embraced and Engaged
Grace and Ethics in American Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
What do Joseph, Joab, Jeremiah, and the Beatitudes have to do with a Christian young person in American foreign policy? Can a Christian be a diplomat, a spy, a defense industry scientist? Can a Christian impact foreign affairs as a member of Congress? Amid counsels for Christians to withdraw from...