Wipf And Stock imprint: 424 books
Names for Jesus
Reflections for Advent and Christmas
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
There are multiple names given to Jesus in the Bible. Fifty of them are presented in this book, Names for Jesus. In the ancient world, a name had a meaning; in this book's entries one can discover the meaning of a name for Jesus, which often indicates one of his functions as understood by a biblical...
by Mark G. Boyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Prayer, the raising of the heart to God, is the heart of the Christian life. For the author of Luke's Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles, prayer is the habit of being in the presence of God. One of the primary ways Jesus is characterized in Luke's Gospel is that of a pray-er. Likewise in the Acts...
Fruit of the Vine
A Biblical Spirituality of Wine
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Fruit of the Vine: A Biblical Spirituality of Wine is designed to help the reader grow in spirituality through reflecting on biblical vineyard stores, wine making, and wine as a metaphor for life. A spirituality of wine--categorized as a spirit--connects the spirit in wine to the universal spirit...
by Mark G. Boyer
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Mary, the mother of Jesus, is known in the Catholic Church as Our Lady of Grace, Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Our Lady of Sorrows, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of the Rosary, Our Mother of Perpetual Help, and more. Her various titles describe her various functions...
Christ Our Passover Has Been Sacrificed
A Guide through Paschal Mystery Spirituality: Mystical Theology in The Roman Missal
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Christ Our Passover Has Been Sacrificed examines the paschal mystery as it is presented throughout the liturgical year in The Roman Missal. After offering an in-depth definition of the paschal mystery the author guides the reader through Lent, Holy Week, Easter, Pentecost, and more, mining the riches...
From Contemplation to Action
The Spiritual Process of Divine Discernment Using Elijah and Elisha as Models
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Contemplation is a spiritual process involving long, thoughtful, steady, serious, and attentive consideration or observation in order to achieve closer unity with God and to discover and understand God's will for the contemplative. Contemplation gives rise to activity, and activity, in turn, gives...
The Self-Donation of God
A Contemporary Lutheran approach to Christ and His Benefits
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
In The Self-Donation of God, Jack Kilcrease argues that the speech-act of promise is always an act of self-donation. A person who unilaterally promises to another is bound to take a particular series of actions to fulfill that promise. Being that creation is grounded in God's promising speech, the...
Aquinas
God and Action, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
This exploration of Thomas Aquinas's philosophical theology, decidedly "unorthodox" at the time of its original publication, had the good fortune to be employed extensively--notably at Yale and Cambridge--by my eminent colleagues George Lindbeck and Nicholas Lash. It essayed a "non-foundational"...
Family Crucible
The Influence of Family Dynamics in the Life and Ministry of John Wesley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This book explores the life and ministry of John Wesley from the perspective of Murray Bowen's Extended Family Systems Theory and to a lesser extent from Alfred Adler's concept of family constellation. Throughout the book, the author uses concepts drawn from these theories to explore significant historical...
The Sunrise Liturgy
A Poem Sequence
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Committing theology to poetry is not new, but it's not wildly common. The Sunrise Liturgy aims to do just that. It is a sequence, like liturgy, with a start and a procession and a finish. The sun does the processing, and the play on sun and Son is never far from sight. Sunrise gives the cantus firmus...
Atheism for Christians
Are There Lessons for the Religious World from the Secular Tradition?
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
What can Mary Wollstonecraft teach Christians about sexual ethics? Can John Stuart Mill help the church understand toleration? Are there lessons for the Christian world from writers like Marx, Nehru, Shelley, Popper, and Hume? Atheism for Christians looks at the work of some of the most influential...
Freedom in Covenant
Reflections on the Distinctive Values and Practices of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
In an age of decreasing denominational loyalty, questions of identity have become important. Both church members and inquirers wonder what to make of a denomination's core values, mission, and common practices. Because the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) was born as a movement of reform on...
Expect Great Things, Attempt Great Things
William Carey and Adoniram Judson, Missionary Pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
William Carey, often dubbed The Father of Modern Missions, and Adoniram Judson, America's first intercontinental missionary, were pioneers whose missions overlapped in chronology, geography, and purpose. However, rarely are they both featured in the same volume or compared and contrasted. Here we...
Living Biblically
Ten Guides for Fulfillment and Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Living Biblically de-situates biblical wisdom from its formally religious-theological underpinnings and offers it as a guide for fulfilled, happy living. Although over 95 percent of Americans have some sense of a meaning-providing transcendent power, 75 percent of clinical psychologists and psychiatrists...