Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
O God Our Help in Ages Past
A Theology of History for a Church in a Troubled World
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Today's headlines daily confront us with the spectacle of a troubled world. Natural disasters, war, economic uncertainty, and many other issues have become part and parcel of our daily experience. Many, including those who bear the name of Christ, have lost hope in this climate. What are believers...
Defending Hope
Semiotics and Intertextuality in 1 Peter
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Most of the current scholarly literature on biblical intertextuality--or the use of the Old Testament in the New Testament--exhibits a high degree of variance regarding methodological approach. The variety of methods employed naturally yields a variety of results. Semiotics, or the study of signs...
The Resurrection of History
History, Theology, and the Resurrection of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Did Jesus really rise from the dead? And does it really matter? In The Resurrection of History, David Bruce explores what historians, theologians, and New Testament scholars have said about the resurrection of Jesus from a historical point of view. Bruce argues that scholars don't have to dismiss...
Reflections from the Marriage Table
Our Experiences of Love in Marriage, Family, and Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In the midst of hectic and fast paced families, one stable element that can bring grace, love, and joy is the table. Biblically, the table was a place of mercy, unity, and hospitality. Marriage also is a uniting of male and female, to complement and partner, to create a new family, ministry, and community....
The Gospel as Conversation
Texts, Sermons, and Questions for Reflection: A Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
How are we to read the Gospels and bring them into our lives? The idea of this book is that the Gospels are not merely rules for life, or stories illustrating moral lessons, or statements of theological doctrine, but invitations to thought and conversation. The Gospels are full of problems, uncertainties,...
Connecting to the Gospel
Texts, Sermons, Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
How can we connect the Gospels--the fundamental texts of Christian faith--to our own experience of inner and outer life? This is the question that animates Connecting to the Gospel. In it James Boyd White presents a series of Gospel passages, together with the sermons he gave on these passages as...
Something Seems Strange
Critical Essays on Christianity, Public Policy, and Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Life happens at the intersection of faith and culture. Whether we are Christians or not, we all have some narrative about the way the world ought to be that shapes how we view the world and live our lives. In this book, Anthony Bradley explores those intersections in ways that analyze and direct our...
The Cat and the Toaster
Living System Ministry in a Technological Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Living system ministry is an approach to Christian ministry in the Western world that recognizes the differences between cats, the world God created, and toasters, the world we create using our technology and our capacities, limited as they are. The church is the Body of Christ, a living system. Neighborhoods,...
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
Music and Worship
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob brings readers on a surprising journey from the dawn of divine-human communion to the present, showing how this mysterious, ongoing relationship holds the keys to true worship. Laying a new foundation for understanding worship, the book makes a compelling case...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
The inerrancy of God's Word has been attacked throughout church history. Today's assaults are unique since neo-evangelicals now surrender to post-modernistic ideas of history and historical-critical ideologies that assault this vital doctrine. They seek to redefine the orthodox meaning of inerrancy....
Born of Water and the Spirit
Essays on the Sacraments and Christian Formation
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Born of Water and the Spirit presents essays on the sacraments by the three major representatives of "Mercersburg Theology," John Nevin, Philip Schaff, and Emanuel Gerhart. It focuses on Mercersburg's doctrine of baptism and Christian nurture, attempts to correct putative deficiencies of...
The Incarnate Word
Selected Writings on Christology
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
The Incarnate Word contains a selection of the key writings on the doctrines of Christology produced by the theologians of Mercersburg Seminary during the middle of the nineteenth century. Despite the seminary's small stature and marginal position within American religious life, these texts represent...
Coena Mystica
Debating Reformed Eucharistic Theology
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Coena Mystica contains the never-before-reprinted text of John Williamson Nevin's response to Charles Hodge's devastating critiques of his 1846 magnum opus, The Mystical Presence. Initially appearing in twelve issues of the little-known Weekly Messenger of the German Reformed Church and almost entirely...
Babylon and the Brethren
The Use and Influence of the Whore of Babylon Motif in the Christian Brethren Movement, 1829–1900
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book is a history of the Whore of Babylon image found in the book of Revelation, with an emphasis upon the use and influence of the text on the Brethren of the nineteenth century. The Brethren developed a multi-layered exegesis of the text, using Babylon as a form of vituperative rhetoric through...