Wipf And Stock imprint: 424 books
Depression and the Divine
Was Jesus Clinically Depressed?
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
David Wilson's initial research into the phenomenon of prophecy in the Hebrew Bible suggested that many of the passages featuring prophets, and hitherto considered to be bizarre myths (or much-edited collections of traditions) were, in fact, sequences of dreams. Moreover, it was possible to compare...
Journey Towards Home
The Christian Life According to C. S. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Clives Staples Lewis (1898-1963) called his theological writings as that "of a layman and an amateur" who merely attempted to restate "ancient and orthodox doctrines." However, S. Steve Park argues that Lewis's theological reflections are well-informed, thoughtful and weighty....
Christian Education Curriculum for the Digital Generation
A Case Study of Second-Generation Korean Australian Youth
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
This book is about exploring and presenting a model of digital-based curriculum for Christian education suitable for the digital ways of learning, communicating, and thinking. Park discusses the limitations of analog-based curricula, most of current curricula, and necessities for digital-oriented...
Creation, Character, and Wisdom
Rethinking the Roots of Environmental Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
While the traditional Christian engagement with environmental ethics too often begins and ends with Genesis, this project joins numerous recent efforts by biblical scholars to identify new foundations on which Christians can make ethical choices about creation. Wisdom literature, a largely untapped...
Reflections on My Life
in the Kingdom and the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Thomas H. Olbricht grew up in Churches of Christ, has taught in several of their universities, and has given religious lectures on six continents and in most states in the United States. He has met most leaders in Churches of Christ globally. He has been active in several religious and rhetoric societies...
The Samson Story
Love, Seduction, Betrayal, Violence, Riddles, Myth
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Love, seduction, betrayal, violence, riddles, and myth all find their place in the biblical story of Samson. Samson is the last of the judges, with 20 percent of the book devoted to him--more than any other judge. From the beginning, Samson is unlike any other judge, which the author suggests when...
Listening Well
The Art of Empathic Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Are you a good listener? How well do you really know the people around you? A capacity for empathic understanding is hard-wired in our brains, but its full expression involves particular listening skills that are seldom learned through ordinary experience. Through clear explanation, specific examples,...
Aging Successfully
How to Enjoy, Not Just Endure, the Second Half of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Aging Successfully offers suggestions for greater satisfaction and happiness for people over age fifty. It raises spiritual and emotional issues such as how to deal with depression and gives specific action steps. This book is packed full of practical help; it is a road map for aging, especially during...
Insanity
God and the Theory of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Have you seen such men--peculiar, raving, foam-mouthed, and straitjacketed--throwing themselves mercilessly at white padded walls . . . ? Such men are said to be insane. But there is more to insanity than the images depicted in film and planted in our minds by popular media. Insanity is a condition...
Leaving Dirt Place
Love as an Apologetic for Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Accosted by hatred and living out a dismal existence in Dirt Place, we humans have tried and failed to find the source of love. Many philosophies of love have proved powerless in satisfying our need for this pure and true thing. One after another, the world's religions fail to illuminate its reality...
The Roots that Clutch
Letters on the Origins of Things
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Would Eve object to the presentation of her original sin in Genesis 3? Could Alexander Graham Bell possibly have foreseen the enslaving power of his great invention, the phone, over human beings today? In The Roots that Clutch, Thomas Esposito poses such questions directly by means of letters addressed...
by Dennis Ngien
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
A sequel to A Faith Worth Believing, Living and Commendation, Giving Wings to the Soul is the compilation of Dr. Ngien's sermons or speeches, devotional and theological reflections. The materials continue to provide Bible-based, thought-provoking theological, spiritual, and pastoral insights to issues...
Faith-Based Education That Constructs
A Creative Dialogue between Contructivism and Faith-Based Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
Constructivism is everywhere. It is a hot issue at this time in the field of philosophy, education, technology, and religion. However, can constructivism be an alternative approach in faith-based education? While some conclude that Jesus knew learning was an active knowledge-creating process, and...
Multiculturalism
A Shalom Motif for the Christian Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Multiculturalism: A Shalom Motif for the Christian Community is an attempt to engage the Christian community on the ongoing discussion of cultural diversity and its implications for the church and the entire Christian community of the twenty-first century. Written for Christian schools and churches,...