Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Wager
Beauty, Suffering, and Being in the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
How do humans explore beauty, virtue, love, justice, and goodness? This book argues that philosophical attention to our lives, shaped in part by our choices, is our instrument for investigating these parts of reality. Constructing a life is a philosophical act. Philosophical acts that are shaped by...
A Biblical Understanding of Pain
Its Reasons and Realities
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
In A Biblical Understanding of Pain: Its Reasons and Realities, John Timmerman examines six different sources of pain, each with its own chapter of description and biblical response. These include physical pain, the pain of mental illness, spiritual pain, emotional pain, the pain of the Prodigal,...
The Road That I Must Walk
A Disciple’s Journey
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
How much of myself (and my stuff) must I give up to follow Jesus? How does belonging to a faith community shape being a Christian? How do I walk in faith with friends whose faith is unclear or uncertain? What gives Christians hope in the face of power politics? Can I be pro-life and decry war, too?...
Better Food for a Better World
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Ideals and reality collide when six college friends band together to start an ice cream store, promising Better Food for a Better World, but finding a worse world than they had expected. It seems like a great idea: six friends from college pool their money and energy to start an ice cream store. Natural...
Disarming the Church
Why Christians Must Forsake Violence to Follow Jesus and Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
If Christians follow the Prince of Peace, why do they often behave so violently? What can be done to transform the church so that it looks more like Jesus? Eric Seibert explores these questions in this important and timely study. He builds a biblical and practical case for living nonviolently in...
Mothers on the Margin?
The Significance of the Women in Matthew’s Genealogy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The Gospel of Matthew opens with a patrilineal genealogy of Jesus that intriguingly includes five women: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, she of Uriah, and Mary. In a gospel that has a strongly Jewish and male-orientated outlook, why are women incorporated? In particular, why include these four Old Testament women...
Look Back in Hope
An Ecumenical Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
A child of China missionary parents, Keith Clements looks back on a life rich in diverse experiences in many parts of the world as pastor, theologian, writer, and servant of the ecumenical movement. In so doing he finds hope "for the creation of true community in the world, of people among themselves,...
Presence
Giving and Receiving God
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
As God's eternal life flows through us, we learn to let go of our pretensions of control and rest into the new life offered in Jesus Christ. This book is an invitation for you to become nonresistant to this movement of God's love for you and the world. Through a variety of sermons and meditations,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The work of John Howard Yoder has become increasingly influential in recent years. Moreover, it is gaining influence in some surprising places. No longer restricted to the world of theological ethicists and Mennonites, Yoder has been discovered as a refreshing voice by scholars working in many other...
Skepticism, Relativism, and Religious Knowledge
A Kierkegaardian Perspective Informed by Wittgenstein's Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Skepticism, Relativism, and Religious Knowledge examines the challenges of skepticism and relativism to religious knowledge after the demise of classical foundationalism. Whereas skepticism doubts our capacity to know truth, relativism doubts whether we can find a sufficiently objective perspective...
by Thomas J. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
It's C. S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters) meets Christopher Moore (Lamb) in this quirky fable about human aspirations and the nature of temptation. Timothy McFarland is a failed theology student turned gift book writer. His 101 Good Things about Christmas has sold millions. But Timothy finds that his...
Catherine Booth
Laying the Theological Foundations of a Radical Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Catherine Booth's achievements--as a revivalist, social reformer, champion of women's rights, and, with her husband William Booth, co-founder of The Salvation Army--were widely recognized in her lifetime. However, Catherine Booth's life and work has since been largely neglected. This neglect has extended...
A Body Broken, A Body Betrayed
Race, Memory, and Eucharist in White-Dominant Churches
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Race and privilege are issues that cry out for new kinds of attention and healing in American society. More specifically, we are being called to surface the dynamics of whiteness especially in contexts where whites have had the most power in America. The church is one of those contexts--particularly...
Naked Faith
The Mystical Theology of Phoebe Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Now and then through the history of the church a great light appears, a prophet who calls the church back to its missional vocation. These reformers are lovers of God, mystics whose lives are utterly given to the divine vision. Yet as Jesus noted, a prophet is often without honor among her own people....