Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Missional. Monastic. Mainline.
A Guide to Starting Missional Micro-Communities in Historically Mainline Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Here is the long-awaited volume that provides both the theoretical foundations and practical guidance for developing new monastic and missional communities in contexts that are theologically progressive, racially and economically diverse, and multicultural. This book contains the wisdom and perspectives...
Healing the Divide
Recovering Christianity’s Mystic Roots
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Healing the Divide is a bold call to understand Jesus according to the earliest lineage of Christian Mystics--a call to transform our dualistic minds and heal a divided Church. This book is a must-read if you find yourself • frustrated by the fundamentalist and new age polarization of twenty-first-century...
Romans in Context
A Theological Appreciation of Paul's Magnum Opus
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Using crucial chapters from Paul's magnum opus as points of theological departure, Delano Palmer provides in-depth discussion on important themes like the role of first-century women in pastoral work and the nature and duration of spiritual endowments. Romans in Context is divided into three parts....
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The Centrality of Scripture in Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Preaching has fallen on hard times with many questioning its relevance and even its validity as a New Testament practice. This symposium of specially commissioned essays draws together an international team of thirteen scholars and pastors to address the importance of textual preaching in the history...
Early Christian Care for the Poor
An Alternative Subsistence Strategy under Roman Imperial Rule
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Beginning with Jesus's ministry in the villages of Galilee and continuing over the course of the first three centuries as the movement expanded geographically and numerically throughout the Roman world, the Christians organized their house churches, at least in part, to provide subsistence insurance...
by Edwin D. Freed
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Abraham Lincoln did not take his family Bible to the White House. And the reason he did not use the Bible in his first inaugural address was not because it failed to arrive in his baggage. Freed concentrates on what Abraham Lincoln himself says instead of what others say about him, which yields insights...
Four Wise Men
The Lives and Teachings of Confucius, the Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Confucius, the Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad are among the most thoughtful and influential people in history. By their words and examples, they have inspired countless individuals to live better and more meaningful lives and have shaped the institutions and worldviews we live in today. Four Wise Men...
Leaving and Coming Home
New Wineskins for Catholic Sexual Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
SINCE 2002, THE SYMPOSIUM NEW WINE, NEW WINESKINS HAS OFFERED AN OPPORTUNITY for young Catholic moral theologians to engage in shared work and conversation. Here, the fruits of these labors are gathered into one collection, which represents the wide scope of the future of Catholic sexual ethics. This...
Paul's Message and Ministry in Covenant Perspective
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
The essays presented here represent over twenty-five years of thinking about the theology and life of the Apostle Paul who, as a "slave of Jesus Christ" (Rom 1:1), was a "servant of the new covenant" with a "ministry of the Spirit" (2 Cor 3:6, 8). Taking the questions...
The HTML of Cruciform Love
Toward a Theology of the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
The topic of the Internet is vastly underrepresented in the current literature on the intersection of technology and theology. Studies on Internet theology are certainly viewed as a topic of "special interest," relevant--it might be thought--only to eccentric academics and tech geeks. Yet,...
Biblical Theology
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
This book offers two things in particular: first, these are papers that have been commented on and re-worked in the context of a set of lively sessions from (International) SBL conferences from 2012 to 2014 (Amsterdam, St. Andrews, Vienna). Second, they offer an insight into the origins of the discipline...
Considering Compassion
Global Ethics, Human Dignity, and the Compassionate God
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
In light of the numerous challenges posed by globalization, living together as humanity on one planet needs to be reinvented in the twenty-first century. To create a new, peaceful, just, and sustainable world order is vital to the survival of us all. In this regard, humankind will have to expand the...
Both Sides of the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis, Theological Imagination, and Everyday Discipleship
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
The beloved Chronicles of Narnia are only the "top layer" of the rich treasure trove of C.S. Lewis's writing. This brilliant Oxford don made a tremendous impact on contemporary Christian thought and has deeply influenced generations of followers of Jesus in the half-century since his death. The authors...
Performing the Gospel
Exploring the Borderland of Worship, Entertainment, and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
What is the difference between good worship and good entertainment? Too often, people disparage some aspect of worship by calling it "just entertainment" or "just a performance." Others say that they do not need to go to church because they have profound spiritual or even religious...