Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
What Christianity Is Not
An Exercise in “Negative” Theology
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
What really is Christianity? If all the religious packaging in which it is wrapped were removed, what would remain? These were Bonhoeffer's questions, and they must be ours today--even more urgently! For in many quarters Christianity is being so narrowly identified with some of its parts, cultural...
Enflamed by the Sacramental Word
Preaching and the Imagination of the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Christian proclamation, says Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is the living Christ walking among the people. Preachers know that Jesus is the living Word, and that the Spirit of Jesus animates the preaching event. Preaching is an epiclesis, an invocation of the Holy Spirit over God's holy people. As such, it...
Seeking the Lord of Middle Earth
Theological Essays on J. R. R. Tolkien
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
J. R. R. Tolkien, the beloved author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, brings to his work a great treasure--his Christian faith. Tolkien's literary works are so popular in part because, in some sense, they pertain to the real world. This present volume is an attempt to understand better the...
The Nature Miracles of Jesus
Problems, Perspectives, and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
The nature miracle stories of Jesus--walking on the water or feeding thousands with a small amount of food, for example--are so spectacular that many find them a problem, whether historical, philosophical, or even theological. This is the first book to tackle this problem head on. Do the stories reflect...
New Testament Foundations
An Introduction for Students
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
Drawing upon over fifty years of scholarly experience of one of the most industrious contemporary scholars, this work, which was first published in 1975, has been revised, updated, and expanded to offer a fresh, in-depth introduction to the New Testament for today's students. Students will be immersed...
Chasing the Shadow—the World and Its Times
An Introduction to Christian Natural Theology, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Christian natural theology is founded on the proper coordination of Scripture and the created world, what was once called "The Two Books" of God. Carrying forward the work he began in The World in the Shadow of God, Radner here reflects on the way that Scripture's creative relationship with...
by Ephraim Radner
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This is an introduction to thinking theologically about the Christian church--what is known as ecclesiology. The book covers background questions of conception, history, differences among separated Christian churches, and several modern approaches to the study of the church. It also introduces readers...
Is the Atheist My Neighbor?
Rethinking Christian Attitudes toward Atheism
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Do atheists hate God? Many Christians seem to think so. For the last three centuries Christians have widely assumed that atheism is always a result of a rebellious, sinful rejection of God. According to this view, at some level atheists really do know there is a God, but they sinfully suppress this...
by Craig S. Keener
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
A helpfully concise commentary on Paul's letter to the early Christians in Rome, which the Apostle wrote just a few years before the outbreak of Nero's persecution. Keener examines each paragraph for its function in the letter as a whole, helping the reader follow Paul's argument. Where relevant,...
Construing the Cross
Type, Sign, Symbol, Word, Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
This book reconsiders ways in which the cross of Christ was construed before "atonement theories" narrowed the categories. The "typology" of Passover is explored as probably the very first way in which Christians came to understand the passion. The use of sacrificial imagery is re-examined. The significance...
Into Your Hand
Confronting Good Friday
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
This set of seven sermons follows the traditional church sequence of "The Seven Last Words of the Cross," utterances that the gospel narratives place on the lips of Jesus. These utterances are drawn from the several gospel narratives. In the liturgical life of the church, however, the sequence...
by Walter Brueggemann
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Contents 1 The Practice of Homefulness 2 A Myriad of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions 3 Bragging about the Right Stuff 4 A Culture of Life and the Politics of Death 5 Elisha as the Original Pentecost Guy 6 The Stunning Outcome of a One-Person Search Committee 7 The Non-negotiable Price of Sanity 8 The Family as World-Maker
Divine Presence amid Violence
Contextualizing the Book of Joshua
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2009
To pursue the matter of revelation in context, I will address an exceedingly difficult text in the Old Testament, Joshua 11. The reason for taking up this text is to deal with the often asked and troublesome question: What shall we do with all the violence and bloody war that is done in the Old Testament...
Becoming Divine
An Introduction to Deification in Western Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Some have called it the essence of sin, others the depth of salvation. Regardless of one's evaluation of it, however, deification throughout Western history has been a part of human aspiration. From the ancient pharaohs to modern transhumanists, people have envisioned their own divinity. These visionaries...