Wipf And Stock imprint: 424 books
Community, State, and Church
Three Essays by Karl Barth With a New Introduction by David Haddorff
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
Karl Barth was the master theologian of our age. Whenever men in the past generation have reflected deeply on the ultimate problems of life and faith, they have done so in a way that bears the mark of the intellectual revolution let loose by this Swiss thinker. But his life was not simply one of quiet...
Understanding Our Story
The Life’s Work and Legacy of Adrian van Kaam in the Field of Formative Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Understanding Our Story presents a concise introduction to the original, transformative thinking of Adrian van Kaam, CSSp, PhD (1920-2007). While many books are available on "spiritual formation" and "Christian disciplines," no other author of our time has offered such a holistic...
Stewards of Grace
A Reflective, Mission Biography of Eugene and Phyllis Grams in South Africa, 1951–1962
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Stewards of Grace tells several stories in one. It is a story of two faithful stewards of God's grace called to serve the poor, despised, and marginalized in apartheid South Africa. It is a story that captures how cross-cultural missions from the west at the end of the colonial era led to a thriving...
Faith: Security and Risk
The Dynamics of Spiritual Growth
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2003
Is faith a search for security? Is faith the reason for taking risks? The answer to these questions will ultimately determine the quality of our faith - whether it will be a faith that flourishes and grows or a faith that is stunted and limited. Author Richard Kropf analyzes these faith choices with...
Church, Capitalism, and Democracy in Post-Ecological Societies
A Chinese Christian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Most ecotheologies build their arguments on the Bible's creation-story and resurrection-narrative in the hope to save the ecology through spiritual meditation, reforming capitalism, and/or deliberative democracy. However, based on a Chinese Christian social scientist's perspective, this book argues...
Burning Center, Porous Borders
The Church in a Globalized World
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Burning Center, Porous Borders articulates what the church is and is called to be about in the world, a world now globalized to the point that the local is lived globally and the global is lived locally. The church must respond creatively and prophetically to the challenges-economic disparity, war...
The Theology of Light and Sight
An Interfaith Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
And God said: Let there be light. And there was light. These words mark the first step in the creation of all life. The very genesis of light is tied to the nature and purpose of God--God as the author of light, as the pouring out of light, as light itself. Believers in the three Abrahamic faiths...
Embraced and Engaged
Grace and Ethics in American Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
What do Joseph, Joab, Jeremiah, and the Beatitudes have to do with a Christian young person in American foreign policy? Can a Christian be a diplomat, a spy, a defense industry scientist? Can a Christian impact foreign affairs as a member of Congress? Amid counsels for Christians to withdraw from...
The Nature of the Will in the Writings of Calvin and Arminius
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Looking for deeper insights into an age-old debate on the question of the issue of free will in the theology of Calvin and Arminius? You've come to the right place. When the general question, "does man have a free will?" is directed to John Calvin and James Arminius, the received and oft-repeated...
Exploring and Engaging Spirituality for Today’s Children
A Holistic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Exploring and Engaging Spirituality for Today's Children: A Holistic Approach answers questions about the most effective ways to help children, pre-teens, and teens develop spiritually. This collection of research gleaned from presentations during the Fourth Triennial Children's Spirituality Conference...
by Christina Hicks
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Exploring the Psychosocial and Psycho-spiritual Dynamics of Singleness Among African American Christian Women in Midlife examines the complexities and realities of singleness in individual, familial, and communal contexts. These realities that are emotional, psychological, spiritual, sexual, and social...
Sourcebook of the Structures and Styles in John 1-10
The Johannine Parallelisms and Chiasms
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
No other book in the New Testament compares to John in its complexity of style and structure. So many factors confuse Johannine scholars, including the complexity of styles, repetition, duplication, and seemingly distracted structures that are difficult to discern. Sourcebook of the Structures and...
No Shame in Wesley’s Gospel
A Twenty-First Century Pastoral Theology
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
As an African American who was a senior pastor in both white and black churches between 1966 and 1974, Edward Wimberly encountered shame as the feeling of being unloved and being unlovable primarily when his parishioners and counselees experienced a loss of a loved one. Grief was the dominant psychological...
Global Voices on Biblical Equality
Women and Men Ministering Together in the Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Global Voices on Biblical Equality is a fresh look at the contextualizing of gender equality throughout the world. Biblical equality is a burgeoning, global reform movement led by scholars and leaders not only in North America but also on every continental landmass in the world. What inroads is biblical...