Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
A New Edition of William Harvey’s Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
William Harvey's On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals is a classic work of the scientific revolution and of modern medicine, for in it he famously argued, with extensive evidence based on dissections and vivisections, for the circulation of the blood. It also overturned the longstanding...
Procreative Ethics
Philosophical and Christian Approaches to Questions at the Beginning of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Procreative Ethics addresses questions at the beginning of life from a point of view that is alternatively philosophical and Christian. The author seeks to defend philosophically some positions taken partly on Christian grounds while also trying to make the implications of Christian convictions intelligible...
The Muslim Midwest in Modern China
The Tale of the Hui Communities in Gansu (Lanzhou, Linxia, and Lintan) and in Yunnan (Kunming and Dali)
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
For several centuries now the Muslim Midwest, notably the Northwest and the Southwest, had been the "Muslim country" of China. Although Muslims only sporadically constituted local majorities in some towns, villages, counties, and neighborhoods, they remained overall a minority in the overwhelming...
God the Spirit
Introducing Pneumatology in Wesleyan and Ecumenical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Who is the mysterious Holy Spirit, and why does it matter for the Christian life? How do we know when the Spirit is working? This book introduces the doctrine of the Holy Spirit in the Wesleyan theological tradition and within the greater church. It covers key biblical bases for thinking about the Spirit, and it seeks to inspire confidence in the Spirit's power.
by George Pattison, Helle Møller Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Kierkegaard's Pastoral Dialogues takes a selection of Kierkegaard's most insightful spiritual writings and transforms them into a series of dialogues between two friends, a believer and a nonbeliever. In this way, some of Kierkegaard's complex religious thought is made accessible to a wider readership,...
Christmas Eve Celebration
A Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
This book is about the meanings of Christmas. It makes for a fine Christmas present--written in popular, poetic style--and is a literary classic. This little dialogue shared by women, men and children on Christmas Eve is the jewel in the crown of Schleiermacher's theological writings. It features...
C. S. Lewis and a Problem of Evil
An Investigation of a Pervasive Theme
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
C. S. Lewis was concerned about an aspect of the problem of evil he called subjectivism: the tendency of one's perspective to move towards self-referentialism and utilitarianism. In C. S. Lewis and a Problem of Evil, Jerry Root provides a holistic reading of Lewis by walking the reader through all...
Aquinas on Israel and the Church
The Question of Supersessionism in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
The question of whether or not Thomas Aquinas's theology is supersessionist has elicited deep disagreement among scholars. Some maintain that Aquinas is the standard-bearer of a supersessionist church that undermines Judaism, while others hold that Aquinas avoids supersessionism altogether. Yet the...
Parting Knowledge
Essays after Augustine
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
There are forms of knowing that seem either to come from a parting or to require one. Paradigmatically in Genesis, Adam parts from God in order to join in knowledge with his partner, the flesh of his flesh, and the result is a bereft but not unpromising knowledge, looking like a labor of love. Saint...
Doing Theology in the Age of Trump
A Critical Report on Christian Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
This book is a work of theological resistance. It is not so much about the presidency of Donald Trump as it is about what his popularity and rise to power reveal about the state of Christianity and the moral character of the evangelical Right in the United States today. More specifically, it is about...
The Future of Love
Essays in Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
With a newly written preface relating his theology to the current global situation, The Future of Love contains revised versions of eighteen of John Milbank's essays on theology, politics, religion, and culture--ranging from the onset of neoliberalism to its current crisis, and from the British to...
The Theologically Formed Heart
Essays in Honor of David J. Gouwens
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
The Theologically Formed Heart invites the reader to consider the role of theology in the formation of virtues and passions, and, conversely, the role of virtues and passions in understanding Scripture, theology, and living a Christian life. The essays in this volume are offered in appreciation of...
Methexiology
Philosophical Theology and Theological Philosophy for the Deification of Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Methexiology is not a particular theory, but rather a general philosophical orientation. Therefore, in Methexiology: Philosophical Theology and Theological Philosophy for the Deification of Man, Nicolas Laos elucidates the significance of methexiology for the study of ontology, epistemology, ethics,...
Catholics and Evangelicals for the Common Good
A Dialogue in an Historic Convergence
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
For centuries, evangelical Protestants and Catholics have hurled harsh epithets at each other. But that has changed dramatically in the last forty years. In 1960, many prominent evangelicals opposed John Kennedy for president because he was a Catholic. Today, Catholics and evangelicals work together...