Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
by Christian Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
American evangelicalism has recently experienced a new openness to Roman Catholicism, and many evangelicals, both famous and ordinary, have joined the Catholic Church or are considering the possibility. This book helps evangelicals who are exploring Catholicism to sort out the kind of concerns that...
Building Catholic Higher Education
Unofficial Reflections from the University of Notre Dame
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
American Catholic universities and colleges are wrestling today with how to develop in ways that faithfully serve their mission in Catholic higher education without either secularizing or becoming sectarian. Major challenges are faced when trying to simultaneously build and sustain excellence in undergraduate...
I Am Put Here for the Defense of the Gospel
Dr. Norman L. Geisler: A Festschrift in His Honor
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Dr. Norman L. Geisler has been called the "father of evangelical Christian philosophy." He has written more than one hundred books and taught at universities and top seminaries for some fifty-six years. He was the first president of the Evangelical Philosophical Society and the founder and...
The Evangelical Universalist
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
• Can an orthodox Christian, committed to the historic faith of the church and the authority of the Bible, be a universalist? • Is it possible to believe that salvation is found only by grace, through faith in Christ, and yet to maintain that in the end all people will be saved? • Can one believe...
With My Eyes On Jesus
Lenten Meditations on the Dying Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
Jesus invited his disciples to be with him in Gethsemane as he struggled with his own hour of death. These Lenten devotions are intended to help us do just that: to be with Jesus in his hour(s) facing dying--not just as observers, but as fellow mortals, with all of our own fears and anxieties. The...
Look—I Am With You
Daily Devotions for the College Year
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
You are writing a new chapter in the story of your life. It's called the "college experience." There is so much that will go into your chapter--new friends, new experiences, new ideas, leaving the past, planning for the future, encountering wonderful surprises, and dealing with possible...
Subterranean
Why the Future of the Church is Rootedness
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
The landscape of Christian spirituality in the West is no longer lush with green grass and wild flowers blooming. Instead, across the country we find dry terrain where churches no longer can expect interested seekers--yet most of our solutions for addressing this predicament link to anxiety around...
As It Was in the Beginning
An Intertextual Analysis of New Creation in Galatians, 2 Corinthians, and Ephesians
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Paul's comments regarding the new creation in 2 Cor 5:17 and Gal 6:15 have tended to be understood somewhat myopically. Some argue the phrase "new creation" solely refers to the inward transformation believers have experienced through faith in Jesus Christ. Others argue this phrase should be understood...
Encountering ETI
Aliens in Avatar and the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Encountering ETI weaves together scientific knowledge and spiritual faith in a cosmic context. It explores consequences of Contact between terrestrial intelligent life (TI) and extraterrestrial intelligent life (ETI). Humans will face cosmic displacement if there are other complex, technologically...
Benedict’s Daughter
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
These poems offer a spiritual biography of a remarkable woman of faith, a Benedictine Oblate and spiritual adviser who lived her life according to St. Benedict's Holy Rule ("ora and labora"--pray and work). Juxtaposed with poems on her life, others reflect on Benedictine traditions such...
Reaching Forever
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Reaching Forever is Philip C. Kolin's ninth collection of poems, the sixth to focus entirely on spiritual poetry. Like the poet's most recent book, Benedict's Daughter: Poems (2017), the poems in this new collection are anchored in Scripture. Organized according to major Christian topics--sheep,...
Explaining the Holocaust
How and Why It Happened
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Seventy years after it took place, the Holocaust committed against the Jews of Europe during World War II continues to cast a giant shadow over humankind. Man's inhumanity to man is not a thing of the past. Genocidal action is still commonplace around the globe. Has humankind learned the lessons of...
The Form and Function of Mark 1:1–15
A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to the Markan Prologue
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Identifying the "scenes" of written texts is a critical skill for following the course set by an author. Even a small variation in course heading can result in compounding an error over time with regard to one's intended destination. Perhaps nowhere is this more important than in the opening...
Sermons to Self
Touching God
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
The Christian faith is difficult--intellectually, morally, and spiritually. People struggle to make sense of it, and to live it. Many give up. Sitting in the pew (an increasing rarity), with a Christian upbringing and education behind him, Christopher Ward finds the practice and the preaching of the...