Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Sourcebook of the Structures and Styles in John 1-10
The Johannine Parallelisms and Chiasms
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
No other book in the New Testament compares to John in its complexity of style and structure. So many factors confuse Johannine scholars, including the complexity of styles, repetition, duplication, and seemingly distracted structures that are difficult to discern. Sourcebook of the Structures and...
Ministry on the Edge
Reflections of an Interfaith Pioneer, Civil Rights Advocate, and the First Bioethicist
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Ministry on the Edge tells the story of Dr. Kenneth Vaux's long-standing career as theologian and minister--the first bio-ethicist, a civil rights advocate, and interfaith pioneer. Through a collection of essays, articles, and sermons, Vaux traces his prophetic assessment of important ethical issues...
Food and God
A Theological Approach to Eating, Diet, and Weight Control
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2009
The central thesis of this book is that Western culture, and American culture in particular, needs an immediate change with regard to food and eating. Western over-indulgence is exacerbated by hunger and deprivation in the world. Learning to think theologically, and not just medically or psychologically,...
Making Sense of Motherhood
Biblical and Theological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Motherhood provides a crucial place for exploring human life and its meaning. Within motherhood lies a deep tension between the pain, crisis, and association with death in motherhood and the joy, transformation, and life in motherhood. Few metaphors in Scripture (or in life) stand so firmly between...
Searching Her Own Mystery
Nostra Aetate, the Jewish People, and the Identity of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Vatican II's Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions (Nostra Aetate) transformed the Catholic view of the Jewish people and the Jewish religious tradition. Asserting that the Church discovers her link to the "stock of Abraham" when "searching her own mystery,"...
Embracing Our Inheritance
Jubilee Reflections on Korean American Catholics (1966–2016)
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Korean American Catholics are celebrating their jubilee after having been officially recognized by the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1966. This occasion affords the flourishing Korean American Catholic community to take stock of their identity, celebrate this milestone, and prepare for the future....
The Preaching Church
The Poor as Sacra Praedicatio
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
This book proposes a theology of preaching from the perspective of the poor. Traditional homiletic methodology concentrates on the "how" of preaching. Pastro maintains that the real question for a renewal of preaching is theological, the "who" of the preaching. The center of the "who" is the Triune God living in the poor community.
The Wedding of the Lamb
A Historical Approach to the Book of Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The Wedding of the Lamb does not fit into any of the traditional categories of interpretation for the book of Revelation. The author uses historical sources to combine New Testament interpretation with the history of the Roman/early Christian period to present an interpretation that is meant to approximate...
Fatal Choice
A Pilgrim’s Guide to Hell
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Using Socratic dialogue to argue the evidence, Fatal Choice makes its case for an orthodox view of hell. But more than that, the narrator finds himself on an actual tour of hell with none other than Hieronymus Bosch, the master of paintings on hell, as his mentor.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
CONTRIBUTORS: Mustafa Abu-Sway, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem Asma Afsaruddin, Indiana University Reinhold Bernhardt, Basel Univeristy David Burrell, CSC, University of Notre Dame Catherine Cornille, Boston College Gavin D'Costa, University of Bristol David M. Elcott, New York University Joseph Lumbard,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Catherine Cornille, Boston College David Tracy, University of Chicago Divinity School Werner Jeanrond, University of Glasgow Marianne Moyaert, University of Leuven John Maraldo, University of North Florida Reza Shah-Kazemi, Institute of Ismaili Studies Malcolm David Eckel, Boston University Joseph...
The Violence of Being
Prophetic Writings, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In the midst of the violence of being, Jeff Hood survived 2016. This is a collection of writings to illustrate how.
Jesus’s Truth
Life in Parables
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Parables of Jesus are stories about everyday life, ranging from a person's worldview to economic justice in society. This book examines most parables of Jesus from a critical literary perspective. Twenty-three narrative parables in the Synoptic Gospels are rearranged by their source: Markan parables,...
The Gift of Ethics
A Story for Discovering Lasting Significance in Your Daily Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Structured on the Beatitudes, The Gift of Ethics is a short, readable introduction to the major ideas in Christian ethics. Bechtel engages the reader through stories to draw out reflection on the good life.