Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Understanding Children's Spirituality
Theology, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
How important is childhood in the spiritual formation of a person? How do children experience God in the context of their lives as they grow? What does God do in the lives of children to draw them to himself and help them grow into a vital relationship with him? How can adults who care about children...
Second Bloom
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
In Second Bloom, Silver looks unflinchingly and honestly at the suffering of cancer, while at the same time celebrating the possibility of joy, the persistence of beauty and love, the simultaneous winnowing and comfort of faith. These poems are contemplative and often personal, but reach out to the...
Warfare and Waves
Calvinists and Charismatics in the Church of England
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Why is the Church of England perceived by many as homophobic, misogynist, or just plain weird? Because two movements within it, the Calvinists and the Charismatics, have recently achieved a degree of influence disproportionate to their numerical strength. And how has this come about? Both movements...
The Myth Awakens
Canon, Conservatism, and Fan Reception of Star Wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
The trailers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens made a strong impression on fans. Many were excited by what they saw as a return to the spirit of George Lucas's 1977 creation. Others--including several white supremacy groups--were upset and offended by key differences, most notably the shift away from...
In Face of Reality
The Constructive Theology of Gordon D. Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
This study of the work of noted liberal theologian Gordon Kaufman tracks his career from his first published book, Relativism, Knowledge, and Faith (1960) through his 2006 book, Jesus and Creativity, in light of recent conversations about divine action and modern scientific knowledge. James interprets...
by Charles William Johns
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Malchus, historically the first Roman to convert to Christianity, and the last to receive physical healing from Christ before his crucifixion, is born again in the 21st century. What will follow from this "re-birth," in a time where there is no absolute right or wrong, no morality or immorality?...
by Charles William Johns
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Benjamin Flew is dead-- a suicide. And Sam Wood wants to understand. Two years ago, Sam (and seven others) received an enigmatic "goodbye world" email from Flew, one of Sam's former guitar students. Sam does not know any of the others who received the email, but his curiosity about the circumstances...
by Kevin Giles
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Since the late 1970s complementarian theologians have been arguing that the divine three persons in the Trinity are ordered hierarchically, and that this is the ground for the hierarchical ordering of the sexes. Suddenly and unexpectedly in June 2016 a number of complementarian theologians of confessional...
Patterns of Ministry among the First Christians
Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This new edition of Patterns of Ministry Among the First Christians tells the story of how the first Christian leaders emerged and, with the passing of time, developed. The book includes sections on Jesus and Paul and their understanding of Christian leadership, on bishops, deacons, elders, apostles,...
Encountering Earth
Thinking Theologically With a More-Than-Human World
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
One day, Matthew Eaton was walking through an impromptu animal shelter display at his local pet store when suddenly an eight-month-old kitten dug his claws into Eaton's flesh. Eaton recognized that the "eyes of this cat and the curve of his claw" compelled a response analogous to those found in the...
Position and Responsibility
Jürgen Habermas, Reinhold Niebuhr, and the Co-Reconstruction of the Positional Imperative
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
What is the moral criterion for those who hold power positions and authority in governments, corporations, and institutions? Ahn answers this question by presenting the concept of the positional imperative. The positional imperative is an executive moral norm for those who hold power positions in...
State of Affairs
The Science-Theology Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
The last sixty years have witnessed a virtual explosion of interest in how modern science and traditional Christianity intersect. This new rapprochement with science has irrevocably altered how we think of God. It constitutes a foundation from which we cannot retreat, but from which we also cannot...
Rethinking the End of the World
Understanding Apocalyptic Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Since the day Jesus ascended into heaven, the church has eagerly awaited his second coming. And during the intervening years too many Christians have focused their study of the Bible entirely on discovering the end-time signs of his coming. Does Jesus expect us to focus on dates and signs, or does...
What Is This Babbler Trying to Say?
Essays on Biblical Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This book is a collection of revised-and-updated essays about the Hebrew Bible written by a North American scholar over a period of several decades. Subdivided into three parts--Torah, Prophecy/Apocalyptic, and Wisdom--these seventeen essays attempt to model for younger scholars and students what...