Wipf And Stock imprint: 424 books
Emails to a Young Seeker
Exchanges in Mere Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
As popular advocates for new atheism clash with intellectually gifted Christian apologists, the debates rage on. At the end of the day, after the lecture halls clear and the thumb-worn books are put back on the shelves, the participants in these battles of ideas remain firmly entrenched in their positions....
Philosophy, History, and Theology
Selected Reviews 1975–2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Alan Sell here presents a selection of his wide-ranging, informative, and entertaining reviews. Among philosophical themes discussed are Locke and the Enlightenment, Richard Price, John Stuart Mill, philosophical idealism, and analytical philosophy of education and of religion. Historical studies...
Seeking Wisdom
Inclusive Blessings and Prayers for Public Occasions
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
Seeking Wisdom: Inclusive Blessings and Prayers for Public Occasions provides clergy and laypersons with a unique resource to use in community settings, healthcare institutions, and faith communities. These blessings and prayers respect people from diverse religious traditions and use gender-inclusive...
No Program but Time, No Book but the Bible
Reflections on Mentoring and Discipleship in Honor of Scott M. Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This book is a collection of short reflections on mentoring and discipleship in honor of Scott M. Gibson. Gibson says: "The missing ingredient in the Church today is discipleship." This book casts a vision for all believers for what mentoring and discipleship can look like in the local church,...
Rational Piety and Social Reform in Glasgow
The Life, Philosophy, and Political Economy of James Mylne (1757–1839)
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
James Mylne (1757-1839) taught moral philosophy and political economy in Glasgow from 1797 to the mid-1830s. Rational Piety and Social Reform in Glasgow offers readers Mylne's biography, a summary of his lectures on moral philosophy and political economy, several interpretative essays, and a collation...
by John H. Leith
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The responsibility to bear witness to the gracious presence of God in Jesus Christ in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth has been the perennial task of the Christian community from the beginning. But the style and form of evangelism has varied according to time and...
By the Waters of Babylon
Meditations on the Psalms for the Solace and Renewal of the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
The Psalms have long been the preferred prayer book of souls in quest of God's guidance and comfort. It has been a hymnbook for the soul and a trove for canticles and verses of the heart. The Psalms have served both Judaism and Christianity's religious communities as a favored source of rich and magnificent...
Transcendence and Fulfillment
A Critique of Paul’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom and Their Enduring Relevance
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Farley's Transcendence and Fulfillment captures one's immediate attention, especially with his designation of Paul's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom." Readers will find his selection intriguing and illuminating. While being faithful to Paul's self-understanding and theological views, Farley offers...
The West and China in Africa
Civilization without Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
The West and China in Africa: Civilization without Justice is an outcome of Dr. Alemayehu Mekonnen's personal intellectual struggle, life experience, and an attempt to understand Christ and his message within the cultural context of Africa. The intellectual struggle has to do with the paradoxical...
Pastoral Care for Survivors of a Traumatic Death
A Challenge for Contemporary Pastors
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Modern life has led to an increase in traumatic deaths, such as accidents, murders, suicide, and other types of unanticipated, violent death. Family members and friends grieving a traumatic death face enormous shock, numbness, and despair, as well as the need to find hope and God's mercy and grace...
by Dennis Ngien
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
The materials presented here are reflections on a variety of topics: a belief in God's suffering and the pastoral implications of this; Luther's theology of preaching; practical approaches to evangelistic preaching; pastoral advice on death and dying; apologetic preaching in a post-Christian culture...
Interpretation of Love
God’s Love and Ours
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
The ministry is more than preaching, but preaching is its priority. This conviction is one Dr. Ngien has lived and worked with. As a sequel to A Faith Worth Believing, Commending and Living, and Giving Wings to the Soul, Interpretation of Love: God's Love and Ours is a third collection of sermons...
Ethics and the Wars of Insurgency
Somalia to Syria
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Ethics of Wars of Insurgency is my fifth study on the ethics of war and peace. It spans a twenty-year period of perplexing war and peace history focusing on the theological and ethical aspects of American foreign policy analysis from Somalia to Rwanda to Bosnia, concluding with present activities...
Ministry on the Edge
Reflections of an Interfaith Pioneer, Civil Rights Advocate, and the First Bioethicist
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Ministry on the Edge tells the story of Dr. Kenneth Vaux's long-standing career as theologian and minister--the first bio-ethicist, a civil rights advocate, and interfaith pioneer. Through a collection of essays, articles, and sermons, Vaux traces his prophetic assessment of important ethical issues...