Wipf And Stock imprint: 424 books
Fairest Lord Jesus
Meditations on the Gospels for the Poor in Spirit and the Contrite Heart
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The Gospels portray Jesus as one who often sought solitude, whether for himself or in quietude before his Father. To do so he had to withdraw from both his disciples and others. Such moments enabled him to renew his inner strength, to find God's consolation for himself, as well as to imbue him with...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Close our eyes and most of us can recite the Lord's Prayer by heart. It is as familiar as childhood memories. In some church traditions, we say the prayer together nearly every week, as a community standing before God. We call on those so familiar words and the comfort and direction they offer. The...
The Day after Domesday
The Making of the Bishops’ Bible
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Though more than four hundred years have elapsed since the Bishops' Bible was first published in 1568, its story has never been adequately told. No book-length evaluation has been published, and no adequate bibliography is available for guidance in studying this least known of the Tudor-period Bibles....
An African Pentecostal Hermeneutics
A Distinctive Contribution to Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
The face of African Christianity is becoming Pentecostal. African Pentecostalism is a diverse movement, but its collective interest in baptism in the Spirit and the result of Pentecost in daily living binds it together. Pentecostals read the Bible with the expectation that the Spirit who inspired...
Interfaith Activism
Abraham Joshua Heschel and Religious Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Abraham Joshua Heschel was the towering religious figure of American Jewry in the twentieth century. In Interfaith Activism, Harold Kasimow, who is known for his work on Heschel and on interfaith dialogue between Jews and members of other faiths, presents a selection of his essays on Heschel's thought....
African Catholicism and Hermeneutics of Culture
Essays in the Light of African Synod II
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
The study of Christianity in the non-Western world reveals a demographic shift in the center of Christianity from the Northern Hemisphere to the South. But the contradictory aspect of the massive African conversion to Christian faith is the grinding poverty level in Africa. This condition raises important...
Fully Human in Christ
The Incarnation as the End of Christian Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Thomas F. Torrance's theology included a thoroughgoing, albeit implicit, ethic of reconciliation. It focused on the personalizing and humanizing mediation of Christ in all realms of life--including not only a supposed private dimension of human life but also the social, historical, and political structures...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Nurturing the Prophetic Imagination searches through biblical scholarship, theology, economics, sociology, politics, ecology, and history to discern the strands of God's justice and reconciliation at work in the contemporary world. Nurturing the Prophetic Imagination challenges Christians to engage...
Partnering with God
Being a Missional Salvationist
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
God has an epic plan for the flourishing of all people and places. Want to join in? Partnering with God will help you find your place in that quest as we join in building God's kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. Mission is no spectator sport, and God invites our participation in the millennia old...
Encountering Images of Spiritual Transformation
The Thoroughfare Motif within the Plot of Luke-Acts
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Luke-Acts is an impressive two-volume narrative seeking to convince and engage readers regarding the spiritual impact of Jesus of Nazareth on the Jewish people and other nations. To this end, Luke employs an impressive arsenal of literary and narrative techniques. This book focuses on a motif and...
On This Rock
A Call to Center the Christian Response to Child Abuse on the Life and Words of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Jesus was the descendant of sexually exploited women, narrowly survived a child homicide, and grew up to be the world's most prominent defender of children. Jesus reserved his harshest words for those who abused or neglected children and went so far as to say our treatment of children says everything...
Designing Religious Research Studies
From Passion to Procedures
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Have you ever been frustrated with or perhaps even frightened about writing a religious research proposal? This book demythologizes the religious research design process by beginning with the writer's passion for ministry and then guiding the writer through a series of questions and exercises that...
Hugh Schonfield
A Case Study of Complex Jewish Identities
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
With this book, Owen Power offers the first full-length intellectual history of the thinker Hugh Schonfield (1901-1988). Power contextualises Schonfield and his work in the spheres of Jewish ideology and Messianic Jewish politics as a means to explain the complicated nature of Messianic Jewish identity....
by John Shortt
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
The Bible can and should be an environment in which we live and move and have our being, an environment in which we are shaped by God in different and interrelated ways. As with aspects of our physical environment, we may have never noticed many elements of this spiritual environment before or may...