Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
The Demise of Virtue in Virtual America
The Moral Origins of the Great Recession
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Although the financial disaster of 2008 proved devastatingly quick, the evolution of the bad faith that drove the collapse is a more gradual story, and one that David Bosworth powerfully narrates in The Demise of Virtue in Virtual America: The Moral Origins of the Great Recession, his sweeping history...
Seizing the Nonviolent Moments
Reflections on the Spirituality of Nonviolence Through the Lens of Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Life is filled with opportunities to practice nonviolence. If we kept track, we'd be surprised at how often we get to choose a violent or nonviolent response to a given situation. Seizing these moments is a spiritual practice that shapes a nonviolent heart. Many people doing this together shapes the...
In Need of Your Prayers and Patience
The Life and Ministry of Hiram F. Reynolds and the Founding of the Church of the Nazarene
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
The Church of the Nazarene embraces American attachments to democratic rule, individual initiative, efficiency, and a strong sense of responsibility as "a city on a hill." It is also present in more than 150 world areas. These attributes are reflected in the astounding story of one of the founders...
Virtues
For Another Possible World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Virtues are values underlying human practices. We are at the dawn of a new era, an era of global ethics requiring some core virtues. These core virtues are hospitality, co-living, respect, tolerance, and communality. Book 1 treats the virtue of hospitality that is a right and a duty of all, and which...
Exodus
Let My People Go
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
The prophets exhort us to defend the poor; but we lionize the rich. They assure us that chariots and missiles cannot save us; yet we seek refuge under their cold shadow. They urge us to forgo idolatry; but we compulsively fetishize the work of our hands. Above all, the prophetic Word warns us that...
Grace for the Injured Self
The Healing Approach of Heinz Kohut
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Even under the best circumstances in life, we all suffer psychological injuries to our self. These injuries from others can range from passive hurtful comments to intentional abusive assaults. The end result is that our sense of being a cohesive and secure self is threatened. We may begin to experience...
Screwtape’s Master Plan
A Satirical Take on Christianity and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
He's baaack! That infernal demon, Screwtape, from C. S. Lewis's classic book, The Screwtape Letters, has returned. Screwtape is armed with a Master Plan designed to acidify and ultimately destroy the cultural tapestries of a critical region of the world and the humans therein. In a series of lectures...
Taking the Adventure
Faith and Our Kinship with Animals
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
What is the relationship between faith, especially Christian faith, and a lifestyle that respects animals as our neighbors and kin? Why should faith entail a commitment to vegetarianism? Are animals meant to be heirs of the kingdom of God as well as human beings? Taking the Adventure offers answers...
Religious Diversity—What’s the Problem?
Buddhist Advice for Flourishing with Religious Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Once upon a time, on grounds of both religion and common sense, people assumed that the earth was flat and that the sun literally rose and set each day. When newly developing knowledge made those beliefs untenable, giving them up was difficult. Today the belief that only one of the world's various...
Sense and Spirituality
The Arts and Spiritual Formation
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
There is growing interest in the relationship between the arts and Christian faith. Much has been written about the arts and theology and the place of the arts in church life. Not as much has been written, however, about how the arts might actually advance spiritual formation in terms of the cumulative...
Stewards of God’s Delight
Becoming Priests of the New Creation
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
"The world is our parish and all her creatures our congregation." Based on talks given to ordinands in Wales, this book presents the ministry as responding to God's call to be priestly stewards of creation and to participate in the blossoming of the new creation. Clavier engages with Scripture...
Free to Leave, Free to Stay
Fruits of the Spirit and Church Choice
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Our known world, the world of twenty-first century Americans, is shaped and defined by consumer choice. The premise of consumer choice is that somewhere the perfect fit between product and purchaser exists. In the books on changing traditions the consumerist tone prevails--fundamentalists looking...
Diversity and Dominion
Dialogues in Ecology, Ethics, and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
This book records a set of dialogues between scientists, theologians, and philosophers on what can be done to prevent a global slide into ecological collapse. It is a uniquely multidisciplinary book that exemplifies the kinds of cultural and scholarly dialogue urgently needed to address the threat...
by Jeffrey P. Greenman, Read Mercer Schuchardt
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) was one of the world's last great polymaths and one of the most important Christian thinkers of his time, engaging the world with a simplicity, sincerity, courage, and passion that few have matched. However, Ellul is an often misunderstood thinker. As more than fifty books...