Wipf And Stock imprint: 424 books
Banished Messiah
Violence and Nonviolence in Matthew's Story of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
By arguing that Matthew's Gospel can be read as a homecoming story according to the ancient formula of the Banished and Returning Prince, Robert Beck offers a fresh and provocative reinterpretation of the Gospel. He exploits this understanding of the narrative to disclose new elements within the plot,...
Praying in God’s Theater
Meditations on the Book of Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Much like the book of Revelation, Joel L. Watts' Praying in God's Theater aims to pull readers into a deeper spirituality to confront the daily struggles of Christian life. Drawing from the rich well of Christian mystics and theologians from across the ecumenical experience, Watts uses the Apocalypse...
Leading Missional Change
Move Your Congregation from Resistant to Re-Energized
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
It seems that nearly everyone is talking about missional change for congregations. As a result, many church leaders are attempting to drive that kind of change for the ministries they lead. Some succeed. But many others hit a wall of considerable frustration as they find that congregations resist...
Through the Valley
Biblical-Theological Reflections on Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
A diagnosis of a stage IV cancer is quite a jolt for any family. This is the news that came to Jeff Wisdom, a husband and father in his mid-forties. When the diagnosis of an advanced cancer comes to a family, it can challenge faith and hope. Through the Valley is a biblical-theological reflection...
Redemption Redeemed
A Puritan Defense of Unlimited Atonement
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2004
John Goodwin (1593-1665), the eminent Puritan Arminian divine, was a man ahead of his time who lived in a turbulent era in which many principals, both theological and governmental, were subjects of controversy. This new edition of Redemption Redeemed (originally published in 1651), provides a major...
by Karen Baker
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
The secrets of a complex belief system that have sustained the Mandaeans in their centuries-old native lands in Iraq and Iran have been collapsing before their eyes. This little-known Gnostic sect has been hidden from global awareness until now. With a passion for the obscure, Karen Baker has delved...
A John Haught Reader
Essential Writings on Science and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Classical Christian theologies came to expression at a time when the universe seemed relatively fixed and unchanging. The otherworldly spiritual instincts of many religions reflected a static, vertical, and hierarchical understanding of the natural world. Today, however, especially because of developments...
The Righteousness of One
An Evaluation of Early Patristic Soteriology in Light of the New Perspective on Paul
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Since the publication of E.P. Sanders' Paul and Palestinian Judaism in 1977, Paul's soteriology has received extensive evaluation in light of second temple Judaism. These works have focused on exegesis of the Pauline text and evaluating Sanders' proposal of covenantal nomism within the second temple...
The Great Divide
A Lutheran Evaluation of Reformed Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Since the sixteenth century, the Protestant tradition has been divided. The Reformed and Lutheran reformations, though both committed to the doctrine of the sinners justification by faith alone, split over Zwingli and Luther's disagreement over the nature of the Lord's Supper. Since that time, the...
Christification
A Lutheran Approach to Theosis
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
The doctrine of theosis has enjoyed a recent resurgence among varied theological traditions across the realms of historical, dogmatic, and exegetical theology. In Christification: A Lutheran Approach to Theosis, Jordan Cooper evaluates this teaching from a Lutheran perspective. He examines the teachings...
Lex Aeterna
A Defense of the Orthodox Lutheran Doctrine of God’s Law and Critique of Gerhard Forde
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Martin Luther's theological revolution depended in a significant part upon the distinction between law and gospel. Within the last hundred years, several authors have reevaluated the reformer's understanding of this paradigm in light of its development within the Lutheran orthodox tradition. Some...
Ministry Makeover
Recovering a Theology for Bi-vocational Service in the Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Ministry Makeover examines the decline within the church, especially the United Methodist Church (UMC), and some causes for this decline. It calls for a reforming of United Methodist structure and polity by drawing more attention to the value of the bi-vocational model of ministry and a re-visitation...
The Crisis of the Holy
Challenges and Transformations in World Religions
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018
All the world's religions are experiencing rapid change due to a confluence of social and economic global forces. Factors such as the pervasive intrusion of globalizing political and economic developments, polarized and morally equivalent presentations seen in the media, and the sense of surety demanded...
Science and Theology
An Assessment of Alister McGrath's Critical Realist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Alister McGrath's work on the relationship between Science and Theology makes the most notable contribution to the subject written by an evangelical in recent history. McGrath holds earned doctorates in both science and theology, and his three volume set, A Scientific Theology, is the culmination...