Wipf And Stock imprint: 424 books
Wonder and Whiskey
Insights on Faith from the Music of Dave Matthews Band
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Dave Matthews likes Jesus, but not dogmatic beliefs about him. He openly wonders about God's existence while singing of showing love to each other as life's highest ideal. His songs celebrate making the most of each day's pleasures because we aren't guaranteed tomorrow, but also caution against overindulgence....
Why Love Will Always Be a Poor Investment
Marriage and Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Marriage is intimate. Marriage is hard: sober thoughts for a time when movies and television tell us that love is supposed to be romantic and fun. In this eclectic blend of playful and earnest storytelling, social commentary, and fierce argument, Kurt Armstrong offers an up-close look at real-life...
Secret Scrolls
Revelations from the Lost Gospel Novels
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
Secret Scrolls is the very first examination of some forty novels in which someone discovers a new gospel. Sometimes it turns out to be a hoax; will it be debunked before it can work its mischief? If it proves genuine, will it be brought to light? Or will corrupt church officials manage to prevent...
by Diane Glancy
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Many towns have their murderers, but are they also members of a church, a Boy Scout leader, or president of the congregation? Could they be trusted to bring a covered dish faithfully to church suppers? This novel takes the BTK murders in Wichita, Kansas, as inspiration to question issues of evil....
by Diane Glancy
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
A minister's wife finds herself in hell. The story of Lazarus and the rich man in Luke 16:19-31 gives a chilling insight into the afterlife. It is a story that is not often addressed because it makes clear the separation of people upon death. Frank Winscott, a retired minister, works at comparing...
by Mark Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
This is the first major study to focus solely on the victor sayings and should prove invaluable to scholars and students of Revelation and apocalyptic literature. It demonstrates that the motif of victory is Revelation's macrodynamic theme. Chiasmus is proposed as the book's macrostructure, based...
Defending Hope
Semiotics and Intertextuality in 1 Peter
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Most of the current scholarly literature on biblical intertextuality--or the use of the Old Testament in the New Testament--exhibits a high degree of variance regarding methodological approach. The variety of methods employed naturally yields a variety of results. Semiotics, or the study of signs...
The Resurrection of History
History, Theology, and the Resurrection of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Did Jesus really rise from the dead? And does it really matter? In The Resurrection of History, David Bruce explores what historians, theologians, and New Testament scholars have said about the resurrection of Jesus from a historical point of view. Bruce argues that scholars don't have to dismiss...
The Gospel as Conversation
Texts, Sermons, and Questions for Reflection: A Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
How are we to read the Gospels and bring them into our lives? The idea of this book is that the Gospels are not merely rules for life, or stories illustrating moral lessons, or statements of theological doctrine, but invitations to thought and conversation. The Gospels are full of problems, uncertainties,...
Connecting to the Gospel
Texts, Sermons, Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
How can we connect the Gospels--the fundamental texts of Christian faith--to our own experience of inner and outer life? This is the question that animates Connecting to the Gospel. In it James Boyd White presents a series of Gospel passages, together with the sermons he gave on these passages as...
Something Seems Strange
Critical Essays on Christianity, Public Policy, and Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Life happens at the intersection of faith and culture. Whether we are Christians or not, we all have some narrative about the way the world ought to be that shapes how we view the world and live our lives. In this book, Anthony Bradley explores those intersections in ways that analyze and direct our...
The Cat and the Toaster
Living System Ministry in a Technological Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Living system ministry is an approach to Christian ministry in the Western world that recognizes the differences between cats, the world God created, and toasters, the world we create using our technology and our capacities, limited as they are. The church is the Body of Christ, a living system. Neighborhoods,...
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
Music and Worship
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob brings readers on a surprising journey from the dawn of divine-human communion to the present, showing how this mysterious, ongoing relationship holds the keys to true worship. Laying a new foundation for understanding worship, the book makes a compelling case...
The Incarnate Word
Selected Writings on Christology
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
The Incarnate Word contains a selection of the key writings on the doctrines of Christology produced by the theologians of Mercersburg Seminary during the middle of the nineteenth century. Despite the seminary's small stature and marginal position within American religious life, these texts represent...