Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Reasonable Radical?
Reading the Writings of Martyn Percy
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
One of the most interesting voices in the Academy and the Church today is Martyn Percy. Percy, the Dean of Christ Church Oxford and a leading voice in the Anglican Communion, is both theologically orthodox, yet deeply unconventional. While remaining engaged in the scholarly community, Percy writes...
The Penumbra of Ethics
The Gifford Lectures of V. A. Demant with Critical Commentary and Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Rev. Vigo Auguste Demant (1893-1983) was a significant theologian and social commentator of the first half of the twentieth century. This book contains his up-until-now unpublished Gifford Lectures, in which Demant provides cultural analysis as he attempts to address why humanity struggles so much...
The Church Has Left the Building
Faith, Parish, and Ministry in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The origin of the phrase "the church has left the building" lies with Elvis. In order to clear halls of his riotous fans after concerts, it was announced that "Elvis has left the building." Here, the expression highlights intense change within the church. Not only does the church...
Three Skeptics and the Bible
La Peyrère, Hobbes, Spinoza, and the Reception of Modern Biblical Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Biblical scholars by and large remain unaware of the history of their own discipline. This present volume seeks to remedy that situation by exploring the early history of modern biblical criticism in the seventeenth century prior to the time of the Enlightenment when the birth of modern biblical criticism...
Pretensions of Objectivity
Toward a Criticism of Biblical Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Modern historical biblical criticism, while having many strengths, often operates under the pretensions of objectivity, as if such scholarship were neutral and disinterested. Examining the history and roots of modern biblical scholarship shows that such objectivity is elusive, and was never intended...
Theology, Politics, and Exegesis
Essays on the History of Modern Biblical Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Modern biblical scholars often view the methods they employ as objective and neutral, tracing the history of modern biblical scholarship to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In this volume, Jeffrey Morrow examines some earlier, lesser known roots of modern biblical scholarship. He explores...
The Sacred Art of Marriage
52 Creative Ways to Grow Your Married Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
The Sacred Art of Marriage explores married life as an art studio with fifty-two tools to creatively craft your spiritual life together. Drawing upon the fourth chapter of The Rule of St. Benedict, this book offers married couples fifty-two weeks of spiritual practices and ancient wisdom to deepen...
Soul Mentoring
Discover the Ancient Art of Caring for Others
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Soul Mentoring draws upon the wisdom of Gregory the Great (540-604) from his Pastoral Care, one of the most widely read books on mentoring from the ancient world. Those who walk in Gregory's steps will discover practical guidance for the journey into mentoring, including the formation of a mentor's...
by Abigail Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Habitation of Wonder is an offering of poems that travels the intersection of the natural landscape and the landscape of spirit. Here, the moon is a "white comma / in the breath of space." Crocuses are "ephemeral prophets, first of the sun's spring projects." The ocean is "a...
Heaven All Around Us
Discovering God in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
If living with a deep awareness of God in our lives is important, how do we do it without moving to a monastery? How do we discern and respond to God amidst the places, routines, and relationships of our everyday lives? In this book, we go in search of God's presence in homes and neighborhoods, supermarkets...
Answering the Call
How God Transformed the Lives of Nineteen Catholic Deacons
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Answering the Call is the story of nineteen Catholic permanent deacons from the Diocese of Savannah (Georgia) whose lives underwent profound transformations as they embarked upon a journey of self-discovery which revealed to them both the awesome power of God and the holiness of everyday life. When...
by Anoop Gupta
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Is it possible to found a Heideggerian ethic around the notion of a relationship to being (Bezug zum Seyn)? Going against much of the Western tradition, Gupta considers if the being-relationship could result in a feeling or mystical experience that is the basis of ethics. Along the way, such an affective...
Shining Glory
Theological Reflections on Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Terrence Malick's stunning film The Tree of Life is a modern Job story, an exploration of suffering and glory, an honest look at strife within a Texas family in the 1950s. In Shining Glory, Peter J. Leithart examines the biblical and theological motifs of the film and illuminates how Malick exploited...
The Glory of Kings
A Festschrift in Honor of James B. Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Over the past several decades, Reformed theologian and biblical scholar James B. Jordan has produced a unique body of work. His electrifying commentaries and essays on Scripture, along with his penetrating writings on Trinitarian theology, liturgics, music, and culture have inspired a growing number...