Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Being the Church
An Eastern Orthodox Understanding of Church Growth
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
If the divine liturgy really is as beautiful as we claim, wouldn't more people attend? Wouldn't the church grow? Driven by our desire for growth, we count, we analyze, we make charts, and we strategize, but often with few discernible results. That is probably the result of focusing on secondary...
Theology as Revisionary Metaphysics
Essays on God and Creation
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Modern Protestant theology has tended to shun metaphysics. The philosophical underpinnings of our theological traditions have cracked under the weight of modern scrutiny. Robert Jenson is a theologian who has embraced the critique of inherited metaphysics, but who then finds contained within the gospel...
Keeping Faith
An Ecumenical Commentary on the Articles of Religion and Confession of Faith of the United Methodist Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Keeping Faith offers resources to help Christians reclaim the importance of doctrine and thereby know and love well God and God's creation. Although it gives particular attention to the Wesleyan and Methodist tradition, it is of necessity an ecumenical effort. Neither the Wesleyans nor the Methodists...
Misrecognitions
Gillian Rose and the Task of Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This collection brings together prominent thinkers from numerous disciplines to address the legacy of Gillian Rose for political theology today. Rose's work is notorious for its eclectic range, difficult style, and iconoclastic defiance of the conventions of postmodern critical theory. The theologians,...
by Bryan P. Stone
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
How do persons come to faith in our time? Are they active seekers or brought in by others? Is it a journey? Or is it a more sudden conversion? Are spouses, relatives, and friends most important to the process? Do clergy matter? What sorts of values, practices, and lifestyles tend to change for those...
The Church as Salt and Light
Path to an African Ecclesiology of Abundant Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
This book is an attempt at a critical, constructive, and creative theological praxis of social transformation in Africa. The authors apply a multi-disciplinary approach to examining how Christianity in Africa is engaging the problems of Africa's challenging social context. This is a prophetic work...
by Donovan Roebert
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2009
In this book Donovan Roebert provides a path for Christians and Buddhists who wish to better understand the essential, living tenets of their own faith while exploring how these two great religious paths can provide insights of real benefit to adherents of either. Without lapsing into syncretism or...
Saving the World and Healing the Soul
Heroism and Romance in Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Saving the World and Healing the Soul treats the heroic and redemptive trials of Jason Bourne, Bruce Wayne, Bella Swan, and Katniss Everdeen. The Bourne films, Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, the Twilight saga, and the Hunger Games series offer us stories to live into, to make connection between our personal loves and trials and a good order of the world.
Oikos: God’s Big Word for a Small Planet
A Theology of Economy, Ecology, and Ecumeny
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
How you spend your time and money controls what happens on this planet . . . Planet Earth and its people are in danger. We face ongoing economic and ecological crises. These will deepen unless all of God's people begin to act as one global community. Natural resources are diminishing and the economic...
How Not to Kill a Muslim
A Manifesto of Hope for Christianity and Islam in North America
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
The adherents of Islam and Christianity comprise half of the world's population, or 3.5 billion people. Tension between them exists throughout the world and is increasing here in North America. In How Not to Kill a Muslim, Dr. Joshua Graves provides a practical subversive theological framework for...
Jonathan Edwards on Worship
Public and Private Devotion to God
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The great American pastor-theologian Jonathan Edwards remains undeniably relevant today, more than 250 years after his death, as attested by the unending flurry of articles, books, and dissertations treating him. Despite this, virtually nothing has been written concerning Edwards's views on worship,...
The Grace of Playing
Pedagogies for Leaning into God’s New Creation
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Believers and teachers of faith regularly know the in-breaking of God's Spirit in their midst, when revelatory experiencing unexpectedly shifts habits of thinking, feeling, and doing toward more life-giving ways of being and becoming. When the moment is right, Spirit breathes new life into dry bones....
Brimming with God
Reflecting Theologically on Cases in Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
The yearning to be a theologian is widespread. Pastors, students, supervisors, and mentors all wish to think theologically about their ministries but often feel inadequately prepared. This book seeks to respond by showcasing a variety of approaches to theological reflection brought to bear upon actual...
Before Auschwitz
What Christian Theology Must Learn from the Rise of Nazism
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
What can Christian theology in North America learn from the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s? This book explores an explosion of scholarship in recent decades that has reopened questions once thought to be settled about the relationships between Nazism, Liberalism, and Christianity....