Wipf And Stock imprint: 424 books
by William Cleary
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The Second Vatican Council (1962-65) called for the renewal of all religious institutes in the Catholic Church. The Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans) responded initially under the leadership of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Different interpretations of Vatican II caused divisions culminating...
The Order of God
Renewing the Doctrine of God for Twenty-First-Century Christians
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
In this most up-to-date study, Aaron Yom provides a comprehensive analysis of the doctrine of God, particularly from a pneumatological perspective. He focuses on retrieving the order of God that has been consistently misunderstood and mistreated by modern scholars. The author carefully examines scholarly...
The Scattering
Imagining a Church that Connects Faith and Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Imagine being able to connect everything you do in life with God's dream of shalom. Imagine all God's people seeing their family responsibilities, work, and community involvement as ministry. Imagine congregations that equip and empower people for ministry--not just in the church, but in all they...
Mirrored Reflections
Reframing Biblical Characters
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
Have you ever felt alone, facing the challenges life presents? Have you ever felt like you were parachuted onto an unpredictable path of leadership, with no road map? Then join us! Mirrored Reflections arose from the alienating experiences of a group of evangelical Christian women leaders known as...
The Nature and Future of Christianity
A Study of Alternative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
This book briefly characterizes the many different ways Christianity is currently understood and practiced. These include approaches that center primarily on beliefs and doctrine, those that focus on the support of personal wellbeing, versions of Christianity that nurture special kinds of community...
Being Human
An Historical Inquiry Into Who We Are
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
This book offers an introductory review to a wide range of thinking, formulated over the last half-millennium in the Western world, about the meaning of human existence. It will touch on a variety of issues of contemporary significance, such as the origin and uniqueness of the human species, freedom...
Out of Galilee
Christian Thought as a Great Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Out of Galilee: The History of Christian Thought as a Great Conversation is an ambitious exploration of Christian thought over two millennia. It discloses the remarkable unity in diversity of the thought of women, monks, mystics, men, philosophers, and theologians who are seeking to unfold the meaning...
Paul Among Jews
A Study of the Meaning and Significance of Paul’s Inaugural Sermon in the Synagogue of Antioch in Pisidia (Acts 13:16–41) for His Missionary Work among the Jews
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
This book challenges a popular and influential thesis in Lukan scholarship presented by the Tubingen School: Paul is a rival of Peter and Paul is an anti-Jewish apostle. Consequently, he is solely an apostle to Gentiles in Acts. Through a narrative-critical method, Wenxi Zhang studies Paul's inaugural...
Understanding Watchman Nee
Spirituality, Knowledge, and Formation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
This book situates Nee's view within the rich heritage of the Protestant, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox spiritual traditions, and thus renders Nee's thought more intelligible to Christians of both evangelical and more liberal persuasions. In this book Dongsheng John Wu examines Watchman Nee's thought...
The Three Pillars
How Family Politics Shaped the Earliest Church and the Gospel of Mark
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
The Three Pillars: How Family Politics Shaped the Earliest Church and the Gospel of Mark, examines how family relationships played a key role in the earliest Christian church. By disentangling the two disparate genealogies of Jesus, the author reconstructs the families of Joseph and Mary. Presented...
Postmodernism and Youth Ministry
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
There are a number of ministers today that are unaware of the characteristics of postmodernism and of how it affects our young people. This book is written for all who work with youth and young adults in ministry; be they youth minister, youth pastor, director of religious education, Sunday school...
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Critical Theory and the Messianic Light
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
Dialectic of Enlightenment is a thought-provoking introduction to the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno first identified the dialectic of enlightenment when fascism was on the rampage in Europe. They warned that enlightened reason and societal freedom threaten...
Anglican Evangelicalism in Sydney 1897 to 1953
Nathaniel Jones, D. J. Davies and T. C. Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
John McIntosh attempts to describe more accurately and completely the spectrum of Evangelicalism (Anglican) that three successive principals of Moore Theological College appropriated and taught in the period. Each was an outstanding graduate of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, respectively. The study...
Losing Our Religion?
Changing Patterns of Believing and Belonging in Secular Western Societies
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Church-going in most Western societies has declined significantly in the wake of the social and cultural changes that began in the 1960s. Does this mean that people in these societies are losing any religious dimension in their lives, or is it being expressed in other forms and places? This study...