Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Queer Theology
Beyond Apologetics
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
What do Christianity and queerness have to do with each other? Can Christianity be queered? Queer Theology offers a readable introduction to a difficult debate. Summarizing the various apologetic arguments for the inclusion of queer people in Christianity, Tonstad moves beyond inclusion to argue for...
Puzzling Passages in Paul
Forty Conundrums Calmly Considered
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Few Christian writings have had the world-changing impact of St Paul's epistles to the churches, and yet from the very beginning these works proved themselves to be tricky texts. The Second Letter of Peter, commenting about them, says: "There are some things in them that are hard to understand"...
by Anthony C. Thiselton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
"These recollections of a life-time in the Church and in different universities give rise to a diverse series of anecdotes, which provide, first, some entertaining humor, second, a glimpse into both academic and church life, and third my attempted contributions to Christian theology. Teaching...
CALVIN@500
Theology, History, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Calvin@500 is an exercise in appreciative criticism and appropriation of the Reformer's work for church and society. The collection serves as an introduction to the life and thought of this sixteenth-century Reformer in his context. The book also traces Calvin's continuing legacy for political, economic,...
Braided Selves
Collected Essays on Multiplicity, God, and Persons
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
What if we are more multiple as persons than traditional psychology has taught us to believe? And what if our multiplicity is a part of how we are made in the very image of a loving, relational, multiple God? How have modern, Western notions of Oneness caused harm--to both individuals and society?...
Reexamining Love of Wisdom
Philosophical Desire from Socrates to Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
What is philosophy? Why does it matter? How have philosophy and its relation to religion and science changed from the ancient to the medieval and modern periods and beyond? What are the central philosophical ideas, from Socrates to Nietzsche? Reexamining Love of Wisdom addresses these questions. It...
Jesus the Everlasting Hope of Humankind
Biblical Theology Prompted by Visions and Dreams from the Holy Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Jesus the Everlasting Hope of Humankind: Biblical Theology Prompted by Visions and Dreams from the Holy Spirit begins with a vision that came to Don Eckhart of two persons: one a Spirit-filled Christian and the other in the lake of fire. The vision depicts Jesus saving the desperate one crying out...
Revivalism and Social Christianity
The Prophetic Faith of Henri Nick and André Trocmé
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
How does one become a Righteous among the Nations? In the case of Henri Nick (1868-1954) and Andre Trocme (1901-1971), two French Protestant pastors on whom that title was conferred by Yad Vashem (Jerusalem) for their acts of solidarity toward persecuted Jews, the answer seems to be: by being immersed,...
Monastic Prisons and Torture Chambers
Crime and Punishment in Central European Monasteries, 1600–1800
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Following the Council of Trent (1545-1563), Catholic religious orders underwent substantial reform. Nevertheless, on occasion monks and nuns had to be disciplined and--if they had committed a crime--punished. Consequently, many religious orders relied on sophisticated criminal law traditions that...
The Borders of Baptism
Identities, Allegiances, and the Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
It's a simple claim, really - that for Christians, being a Christian should be their primary allegiance and identity. For those who proclaim Jesus as Lord, this identity should supersede all others, and this loyalty should trump all lesser ones. It may be a simple claim, but it is a controversial...
Do We Not Bleed?
A Jon Mote Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
A young woman is dead. A man with diminished capacity is accused. His friends, also wounded, try to help him. In the process, they teach Jon Mote a thing or two he desperately needs to learn. Jon no longer hears voices, but he's not convinced a silent universe is much better than a haunted one. He's...
Inaugurations
Inaugural Lectures Delivered at McMaster Divinity College
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
The inaugural lecture is a tradition that has been practiced in western universities for centuries. These lectures originated in the great universities of continental Europe, spread to Great Britain, and then to North America. The tradition has now been appropriated further by universities around...
Christian Mission
Old Testament Foundations and New Testament Developments
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
How did a first-generation Jewish messianic movement develop the momentum to become a dominant religious force in the Western world? The essays here first investigate the roots of God's mission and the mission of his people in the Old Testament and Second Temple Judaism, specifically in the Psalms,...
Christian Worldview and the Academic Disciplines
Crossing the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
This book--an edited compilation of twenty-nine essays--focuses on the difference(s) that a Christian worldview makes for the disciplines or subject areas normally taught in liberal arts colleges and universities. Three initial chapters of introductory material are followed by twenty-six essays, each...