Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Theologies of the 21st Century
Trends in Contemporary Theology
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
What theologies are popular and formative of Christian thinking in the present day? How should they be assessed by those Christians who want to be "in the world" without being "of the world"? Theologies of the 21st Century begins with an overview of the historical roots from which...
by Paul Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Who wrote the first five books of the Bible? Does it really matter who did? The Books of Moses Revisited explores this question by comparing the covenants of Exodus/Leviticus and Deuteronomy with the inter-state treaties of the late second millennium BC. Some compelling similarities come to light,...
The Gospel and Israel
The Edersheim Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
The mission of the church to the Jews is a unique one. The biblical, theological and practical issues differ from those with other groups because Israel was, and is, the people to whom God gave his promises. However, the unbelief of many Jewish people and the persecution of Jewish people in the name...
A Physicist Examines Hope in the Resurrection
Examination of the Significance of the Work of John C. Polkinghorne for the Mission of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
John Polkinghorne, ordained member of the Royal Society, past President of Queen's College Cambridge, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 2002 Templeton Prize winner, theoretical physicist, and theologian writes in breathless style to unfold core Christian doctrine in dialogue with...
by Marjorie Maddox
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
We don't define home the same way anymore. School shootings and natural disasters populate the headlines. Tragedy and disease infiltrate our neighborhoods. We not only must survive in an unsafe world, but also persevere in it. By confronting fear and embracing family, Local News from Someplace Else rediscovers both grace and joy.
Divorce and Remarriage
A Middle Eastern Biblical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
From the birth of Christianity and with the Christian churches' separation from Judaism, a tragic misunderstanding of marriage and divorce has occurred. Not only have we lost the understanding of biblical marriage counsel and wisdom, we have also lost the process of marriage and its biblical allowances...
Reflected Love
Companioning in the Way of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
By bringing four contemporary companioning narratives into dialogue with gospel descriptions of Jesus' encounters with people, this book demonstrates how wonderfully diverse interpersonal ministry--pastoral care, counselling, chaplaincy, mentoring, spiritual companioning, and spiritual direction--is...
Trajectories in the Book of Acts
Essays in Honor of John Wesley Wyckoff
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010
The book of Acts has served as the foundational biblical text for the development of Pentecostal theology and biblical studies since the outpouring of the Spirit at the Azuza Street Revival in 1906. Now, over one hundred years have past since the Azuza Street Revival and the book of Acts is still...
Practicing the Presence of Jesus
Contemporary Meditation
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Many Christians long to know God more deeply but find themselves limited by old understandings and ways of knowing. Practicing the Presence of Jesus rediscovers the centuries old Ignatian tradition of placing oneself into the gospel story to experience the presence of Jesus in a vital and real way....
by Donald L. Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
The book represents a personal quest in what Anselm referred to as faith seeking understanding. The primary focus centers on proposing an interpretation of the nature and function of the human spirit and its relationship to the divine spirit and the living of a godly Christian life. Thus the book...
Stories of Transformation and Hope
Mary’s Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
What if the people I know were to be transformed by an encounter with the cosmos? The foreign woman who argues with the doctor, the homeless man on the street corner, the corrupt politician, the fisherman risking his life to make a living. What if I met up with them in a decade and found that each...
Good Faith Hunting
How Baby Boomers Help Recapture a Biblical View of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Church attendance in the United States and other Western nations is rapidly declining, and the losses are not solely because young people don't like church. Baby boomers are also leaving, frequently because the church leadership assumes a believer's faith and how it plays out is constant over a lifetime....
Jesus, History, and Mt. Darwin
An Academic Excursion
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Written in the genre of Henry David Thoreau's travel-thinking essays, Jesus, History, and Mount Darwin: An Academic Excursion is the story of a three-day climb into the Evolution Range of the High Sierra mountains of California. Mount Darwin stands among other mountains near fourteen thousand feet...
Introducing Story-Strategic Methods
Twelve Steps toward Effective Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
The purpose of Introducing Story-Strategic Methods is to awaken us in the cross-cultural context. Our natural tendency is to be asleep to our own cultural values and core worldview assumptions. This tendency applies as well to our expectations in the cross-cultural context. For example, in what ways...