Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Bowing Toward Babylon
The Nationalistic Subversion of Christian Worship in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
What is being done in worship when national holidays are celebrated, the American flag is displayed and honored, and songs are sung that extol the nation? Are these benign gestures? Or could they actually be idolatrous? In this insightful and persuasively argued study Craig M. Watts contends the inclusion...
Reforming the Monastery
Protestant Theologies of the Religious Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Richard Froude wrote in 1833 to John Henry Newman that the present state of things in England makes an opening for reviving the monastic system. Seemingly original words at the time. Yet, monasticism is one of the most ancient and enduring institutions of the Christian church, reaching its zenith...
The Translatability of the Religious Dimension in Shakespeare from Page to Stage, from West to East
With Reference to The Merchant of Venice in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
This interdisciplinary study traverses the disciplines of translation studies, hermeneutics, theater studies, and sociology. Under the "power turn" or "political turn" in translation studies, the omission and untranslatability of religious material are often seen as the product...
Jesus and the Family
Crisis and Conversion in the American Household
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
There are few more loaded words in American life than family. Jesus grew up in one and honored his parents in fulfillment of the commandments. But his teachings on family life stand among the most jarring things he ever said. Jesus invites serious followers to hate mother and father. He predicts discipleship...
Seventy Images of Grace in the Epistles . . .
That Make All the Difference in Daily Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
How can faith speak directly to people's real lives? How can conversation around Scripture make "all the difference" in the arenas of one's daily world? People who have heard the Bible many times--or for the first time--want to know in the terms and images of their life situation. "When...
Hell in a Nutshell
The Mystery of His Will
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
"Is a doctrine of everlasting punishment in hell consistent with God's perfect love and perfect justice? And what implications does this traditional doctrine carry for the nature of divine grace and mercy? In Hell in a Nutshell Charles Watson Sr. argues that we should not allow a received doctrine,...
The Idea of a Christian College
A Reexamination for Today’s University
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
In 1975, Arthur F. Holmes published The Idea of a Christian College. At the time he could not have imagined his book would gather such a large following. This work's thoughtful yet accessible style made it a long-standing choice for reading lists on Christian college and university campuses across...
Veiled Intent
Dissenting Women’s Aesthetic Approach to Biblical Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
How were eighteenth-century dissenting women writers able to ensure their unique biblical interpretation was preserved for posterity? And how did their careful yet shrewd tactics spur early nineteenth-century women writers into vigorous theological debate? Why did the biblical engagement of such women...
Crossing Boundaries, Redefining Faith
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Emerging Church Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The Emerging Church Movement, an eclectic conversation about how Christianity needs to evolve for our postmodern world, has been breaking traditional bounds and stirring up controversy for more than two decades. This volume is the first academic work to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to understanding...
Finding Our Balance
Repositioning Mainstream Protestantism
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Mainstream American Protestantism is suffering from an identity crisis. We are not fundamentalists, but it is easy to define ourselves in reaction to them. Paralyzed by the shock of a cultural turn toward skepticism, we are tempted to make allies of the skeptics, partly to distance ourselves from...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Since the Second Vatican Council the place of Mary in theology and generally in the life of the Church has been at times muted. This is perhaps understandable given the debates concerning Mary's "place" in the documents of Vatican II. In an ecumenical age, it was argued, the church needed...
by Philip D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
What is faith? In what ways might faith be a virtue, a component of a life well lived? How might faith be corrupted and become a vice? In Why Faith Is a Virtue, Philip D. Smith builds on the work of Alasdair MacIntyre and Robert Adams to argue that faith contributes to human excellence. To make the...
The Crisis of Global Capitalism
Pope Benedict XVI's Social Encyclical and the Future of Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
This collection of essays outlines a new political economy. Twenty years after the demise of Soviet communism, the global recession into which free-market capitalism has plunged the world economy provides a unique opportunity to chart an alternative path. Both the left-wing adulation of centralized...
Hope in the Age of Climate Change
Creation Care This Side of the Resurrection
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
It is difficult to be hopeful in the midst of daily news about the effects of climate change on people and our planet. While the Christian basis for hope is the resurrection of Jesus, unfortunately far too many American Protestant Christians do not connect this belief with the daily witness of their...