Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Christ at the Checkpoint
Theology in the Service of Justice and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
What does the evangelical church in Palestine think about the land, the end times, the Holocaust, peace in the Middle East, loving enemies, Christian Zionism, the State of Israel, and the possibilities of a Palestinian state? For the first time ever, Palestinian evangelicals along with evangelicals...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Contrary to what many philosophers believe, Calvinism neither makes the problem of evil worse nor is it obviously refuted by the presence of evil and suffering in our world. Or so most of the authors in this book claim. While Calvinism has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years amongst theologians and...
A Glimpse of the Kingdom in Academia
Academic Formation as Radical Discipleship
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
University is a major way that our society prepares professionals and leaders in education, health, government, business, arts, church--all components of our communal lives. Although the beginnings of the first universities were Christian, academia has become more and more adrift from these foundations....
Philip's Daughters
Women in Pentecostal-Charismatic Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
This volume brings together twelve scholars from a variety of scholarly fields including biblical studies, history, theology, sociology, anthropology, and missiology in a multi-disciplinary exploration of themes related to women's leadership within the three branches of the renewal movement: Holiness,...
Of Martyrs, Monks, and Mystics
A Yearly Meditational Reader of Ancient Spiritual Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Everywhere there are voices calling for a new Reformation, marked by a return to the older sources of Christian wisdom, and for drinking anew the inspiration of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, the church fathers, those from the monastic tradition and the medieval Christian mystics. This anthology...
Awakening Desire
Encountering the Divine Feminine in the Masculine Christian Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
The hope of this book is that it awakens desire to know more intimately the God who breaks through our compartmentalization and naming. While most in the West have heard God's name as almost exclusively masculine, a child growing up in Israel would have experienced the Spirit of God, and Lady Wisdom,...
The Dictionary of Pan-African Pentecostalism, Volume One
North America
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
This volume is the first in a series of volumes surveying the important names, movements, and institutions that have been significant in forging black renewal movements in various contexts worldwide. In this volume the entries cover the more than 150 identifiable Holiness, Pentecostal, Charismatic,...
Preaching Master Class
Lessons from Will Willimon’s Five-Minute Preaching Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2010
Preachers around the globe have come to rely on Will Willimon for insight and advice on the craft of preaching. For over a decade, Willimon has published his reflections in the Five-Minute Preaching Workshop, a quarterly column he writes as editor of Pulpit Resource. Here the best selections from...
Contextualization of Sufi Spirituality in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century China
The Role of Liu Zhi (c.1662–c.1730)
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Liu Zhi (c.1662-c.1730), a well-known Muslim scholar in China, published in Chinese outstanding theological works, short treatises, and easy-to-memorize short poems on Islam. He encountered various challenges in his interpretation and transmission of Islamic texts. First, traditional Arabic and Persian...
Baptists and War
Essays on Baptists and Military Conflict, 1640s–1990s
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
While Baptists through the years have been certain that "war is hell," they have not always been able to agree on how to respond to it. This book traces much of this troubled relationship from the days of Baptist origins with close ties to pacifist Anabaptists to the responses of Baptists...
Waiting on the Spirit of Promise
The Life and Theology of Suffering of Abraham Cheare
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Waiting on the Spirit of Promise is a study of the life and ministry of Abraham Cheare (1626-1668), containing selections from Cheare's works, and rescuing an important seventeenth-century Baptist from obscurity. Cheare has been overshadowed by other more celebrated Baptist contemporaries, but as...
by Mark Beaumont
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Jesus is a revered messenger of God for Muslims and Lord and Savior for Christians. How can Muslims and Christians relate to each other when this figure from the past attracts them yet drives them apart? Jesus is the very center of the Christian faith, but for Muslims he is a faithful witness to God,...
by Matt Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
There are unexpected, beatific moments when Rev. Elijah Lovejoy Parish is swept up by the divine intrusion into the ordinary. Yet, he knows he cannot tarry there, for his calling also compels him to resume his shift as the traffic cop down at the intersection of Pathological and Whine. Told from the...
Learning in a Musical Key
Insight for Theology in Performative Mode
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Learning in a Musical Key examines the multidimensional problem of the relationship between music and theological education. Lisa Hess argues that, in a delightful and baffling way, musical learning has the potential to significantly alter and inform our conception of the nature and process of theological...