Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Confronting a Controlling God
Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Christianity has lost control of its brand. That matters even for nonbelievers because Christian symbolism permeates Western culture. It shapes the source code for how we think about ourselves and what we expect from one another. If God is all-controlling, then human control is divinely sanctioned....
Reasons for the Seasons
Meditations for Living Meaningfully the Christian Year
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Do you ever find yourself drowning in secularization and commercialization, being pulled under as Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas intermingle and fly by in a frantic blur? Have you ever wondered if there is any way to reclaim the true meaning of such seasons as Advent and Lent, and be helped...
Writing the Icon of the Heart
In Silence Beholding
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
The subtitle of Maggie Ross's new book captures its essence, for it is about silence and our need to behold God. Beholding is a notion that we are in danger of losing. It is often lost in translation, even by the NRSV and the Jerusalem Bible. Beholding needs to be recovered both in theology and practice....
Silence: A User’s Guide, Volume Two
Application
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
To learn to read a text for the portals of silence that are implicit in it is to gain a powerful tool for supporting and expanding one's silence, and to open the reader to the insight that ensues. The sort of reading proposed in this volume is both costly and rewarding. These pages invite readers...
Confronting Religious Judgmentalism
Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Come to church or go to hell. That's religious bullying. It's judgmentalism. And it's a theological distortion, a distortion insisting that shame and self-loathing are morally appropriate. In Christian humanist tradition, God is not some cosmic judge eager to smite all of us for our sinfulness. God...
Confronting Religious Denial of Gay Marriage
Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Writing in part for secular humanists, non-Christians, and ex-Christians, Wallace locates the beginning of religious vilification of LBGTQ Americans: these attacks recycle earlier, equally reactionary political opposition to racial desegregation and equal rights for women. Then, step by step, she...
Confronting Religious Denial of Science
Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Confronting Religious Denial of Science: Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination traces the cultural backstory of contemporary conflicts between biblical literalists who oppose evolution and "New Atheists" who insist that religion is so pernicious it should be outlawed, if not exterminated....
Echoes of Coinherence
Trinitarian Theology and Science Together
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This book re-imagines the universe (and the scientific study of it) through the lens of a triune Creator, three persons of irreducible identity in a perichoretic or coinherent communion. It modestly proposes that Trinitarian theology, and especially the coinherent natures of the Son in the incarnation,...
Blood Cries Out
Pentecostals, Ecology, and the Groans of Creation
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
John McConnell Jr. was the famed founder and visionary of Earth Day. McConnell's vision was one of creating a day of remembrance, solitude, and action to restore the broken human relationship to the land. Little acknowledged are McConnell's religious convictions or background. McConnell grew up in...
The Passion of the Infant Christ
Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Although forgotten until quite recently, Caryll Houselander, who died in 1954, was a sensitive and profound English Roman Catholic writer on Christian spirituality. In this critical edition of her 1949 book The Passion of the Infant Christ, Houselander argues that the physical world is an "inscaped"...
Contemplations from the Heart
Spiritual Reflections on Family, Community, and the Divine
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
How do we find God in a world where God often seems to be hidden? How do we love one another and seek social justice? This series of theological and spiritual reflections on family and community helps readers see spirituality in daily life, exploring current issues such as global warming, environment,...
Anarchy and Apocalypse
Essays on Faith, Violence, and Theodicy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In this wide-ranging collection of essays Ronald E. Osborn explores the politically subversive and nonviolent anarchist dimensions of Christian discipleship in response to dilemmas of power, suffering, and war. Essays engage texts and thinkers from Homer's Iliad, the Hebrew Bible, and the New Testament...
My God, My God
Is It Possible to Believe Anymore?
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Once upon a time, it was not so difficult to believe. Believing in God was like breathing. It was a second sense of which people were hardly aware. But in an age when our faith is mainly in science and technology, is it possible to believe anymore? Michael P. Jensen takes a searching look at what...
by Craig L. Nessan
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
The Vitality of Liberation Theology argues for the ongoing necessity of a liberating theology in a world of endemic poverty and economic globalization. Although some have declared liberation theology's demise, or even its death, Nessan articulates the imperative and logic of it for a new generation....