Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Telling the Whole Story
Reading and Preaching Old Testament Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Telling the Whole Story is both a book about preaching and reading the narratives of the Hebrew Bible. John C. Holbert (PhD in Hebrew Bible) was a longtime teacher of preaching and Hebrew Bible at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, having retired in 2012 after thirty-three...
Preaching Creation
The Environment and the Pulpit
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The human race, along with the animals and plants that make up the creation of God, face a difficult future due to the multiple ways that the ecosystem on which they all depend is currently under stress. Temperatures are rising along with the oceans. Rain forests are falling along with the polar ice...
Honest Rituals, Honest Sacraments
Letting Go of Doctrines and Celebrating What’s Real
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Honest rituals are ceremonial actions that celebrate what is actually happening in people's lives. Religious rituals, however, often celebrate beliefs and doctrines (e.g., the birth of Christ, God's forgiveness of sins, or the gifts of the Holy Spirit) that have little to do with people's experience....
by Joseph Martos
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Catholic sacramental doctrine has lost much of its credibility. Baptized people leave the church, adolescents stop attending shortly after they are confirmed, supposedly indissoluble marriages regularly dissolve, few go to confession, and many do not believe in transubstantiation. Drawing upon his...
Rome
A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Eternal City
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Rome: A Pilgrim's Guide to the Eternal City is not a travel book; it is a pilgrim's guide to the city of Rome and its most ancient churches. In addition to helpful descriptions of the primary monuments and churches of Rome, this book will give the reader just enough historical background to enhance...
by James L. Papandrea
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Novatian of Rome and the Culmination of Pre-Nicene Orthodoxy is an overview of the development of Christology and Trinitarian doctrine, which reached a plateau with Novatian, the third-century priest of Rome. Here James Papandrea offers an enlightening and thorough treatment of the thought, historical...
Christian Ritualizing and the Baptismal Process
Liturgical Explorations toward a Realized Baptismal Ecclesiology
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Most people, even non-Christians, know that Christians gather for worship once a week, and that they are right there to support each other when there is a baptism or a wedding or a funeral. But what about other poignant, vulnerable, or life-changing times? How does the church help people handle changes...
Change and Transformation
Essays in Anglican History
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
The integrative theme of this collection of essays is change and transformation explored in the context of diverse expressions within the context of Anglican Church history. It addresses some central themes--notably the sacraments, liturgy, biblical interpretation, theological education, the relationship...
A Flight of Parsons
The Divinity Diaspora of Trinity College Dublin
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Irish Anglican clergymen played an important role in the creation of a nineteenth-century "Greater Ireland," a term denoting a diasporic movement in which the Irish transformed into a global people, actively participating in British imperial expansion and colonial nation building. These...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Thoughtful Christians are legitimately perplexed by a number of issues relating to the church's belief and practice. They are perplexed partly because they recognize that the issues themselves are thorny, and partly because they are not sure how to test the mutually inconsistent theories and explanations...
by Jerry M. Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
How do evangelism and social concern relate to one another in the mission of the church? How should the Old Testament's emphasis on social justice inform the praxis of modern believers? Does the Bible emphasize individual salvation, or does it teach a broader, more inclusive concept? Theologians,...
by Gordon D. Fee
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Revelation is a book that many Christians find confusing due to the foreign nature of its apocalyptic imagery. It is a book that has prompted endless discussions about the end times with theological divisions forming around epicenters such as the rapture and the millennium. In this book, award winning...
by J. Robert Ewbank
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, is one of the world's greatest religious figures. A practical rather than systematic theologian, he wrote and preached for the common man. He is well known as a man of one book (the Bible) but he read like no other during his time. We are left with fourteen...
Melodies of a New Monasticism
Bonhoeffer’s Vision, Iona’s Witness
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
The New Monastic Movement is a vibrant source of renewal for the church's life and mission. Many involved in this movement have quoted Dietrich Bonhoeffer's conviction that the church must recover ancient spiritual disciplines if it is to effectively engage "the powers that be." Melodies...