Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Deathless
The Complete, Uncensored, Heartbreaking, and Amazing Autobiography of Serach bat Asher, the Oldest Woman in the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
She's more than 3,000 years old. Her grandfather was the patriarch Jacob. She's mentioned by name three times in the Hebrew Bible, but there are no stories told about her. She knew Moses and David, Spinoza and Einstein--and now, at long last, Serach bat Asher has written her autobiography. "I...
Torah Told Different
Stories for a Pan/Poly/Post-Denominational World
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
What Dorothy discovered in Oz and Alice discovered in Wonderland you'll discover here: a parallel reality where a third temple rose and fell in antiquity, women were ordained in the fifth century CE, and alternate sages and texts ripple in and out of the ones we know from history.
Eden's Other Residents
The Bible and Animals
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
The Bible teems with nonhuman life, from its opening pages with God's creation of animals on the same day and out of the same earth as humans to its closing apocalyptic scenes of horses riding out of the sky. Animals are Adam's companions, Noah's shipmates, and Elijah's saviors. They are at the center...
Embrace
A Church Plant that Broke All the Rules
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Rosario Picardo was a recently divorced and slightly jaded ex-Marine when he heeded God's call to plant a church for broken people. This book chronicles the struggles and triumphs of Embrace Church, from its beginnings in his basement as a rare urban church plant to a multi-campus congregation that...
Ontology and Ethics
Bonhoeffer and Contemporary Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Recent scholarship in a number of disciplines has explored the relationship between ontology and ethics. The essays in this collection indicate what the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) has to contribute to this discussion. By engaging the breadth of his academic and pastoral writings,...
Liturgical Liaisons
The Textual Body, Irony, and Betrayal in John Donne and Emily Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
When Jesus offers his body as a promise to his disciples, he initiates a liturgical framework that is driven by irony and betrayal. Through these deconstructive elements, however, the promise invites the disciples into an intimate space where they anticipate the fulfillment of what is to come. This...
Still Growing
The Creative Self in Older Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
The later-adult years are commonly viewed as a period in which one struggles to maintain a vestige of the physical, mental, and emotional vitality of one's earlier years. In Still Growing, however, Donald Capps contends that older adulthood is actually a period of growth and development, and that...
The Gift of Sublimation
A Psychoanalytic Study of Multiple Masculinities
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
There is not, and never was, a monolithic masculinity; there are, and always have been, multiple masculinities. Today diversity with regard to gender and sexuality is beginning to be recognized and celebrated even while many religious denominations still resist these cultural changes. This book offers...
Striking Out
The Religious Journey of Teenage Boys
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Whatever religion may have meant to the boy when he was younger, in the teenage years it takes the form of a personal journey or quest. This journey is related to other aspects of his life and is integral to how he experiences himself and others. The title of this volume--Striking Out--has the connotation...
The Resourceful Self
And a Little Child Shall Lead Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Erik Erikson, best known for his life-cycle theory and concept of the identity crisis, proposed that we are comprised of a number of selves. In several earlier books, including At Home in the World, Donald Capps has suggested that the emotional separation of young children--especially boys--from their...
Humor Us
An Appeal for the Gospel of Relaxation
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
This book addresses the fact that Americans tend to live under a considerable amount of stress, tension, and anxiety, and suggests that humor can be helpful in alleviating their distress. It posits that humor is a useful placebo in this regard; cites studies that show that humor moderates life stress;...
At Home in the World
A Study in Psychoanalysis, Religion, and Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
The emotional separation of boys from their mothers in early childhood enables them to connect with their fathers and their fathers' world. But this separation also produces a melancholic reaction of sadness and sense of loss. Certain religious sensibilities develop out of this melancholic reaction,...
The Religious Life
The Insights of William James
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
William James called his classic work, The Varieties of Religious Experience, "a study in human nature." This volume recognizes that a fundamental feature of human nature for James is that we have a conscious and a subconscious mind and that the subconscious mind is deeply implicated in...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Religious themes, concepts, imagery, and terminology have featured prominently in much recent science fiction. In the book you hold in your hands, scholars working in a range of disciplines (such as theology, literature, history, music, and anthropology) offer their perspectives on a variety of points...