Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Minding the Web
Making Theological Connections
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
For over forty years Stanley Hauerwas has been writing theology that matters. In this new collection of essays, lectures, and sermons, Hauerwas continues his life's work of exploring the theological web, discovering and recovering the connections necessary for the church to bear faithful witness to...
Beatitudes, Not Platitudes
Jesus’ Invitation to the Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Beatitudes, Not Platitudes shows that the Beatitudes are not overused, well-worn answers to the question, "What would Jesus do?" Rather, they are undervalued and hardly touched claims that transform our destinies. More than spiritual nuggets for personal devotion, practical advice, or propositions...
New Wine Tastings
Theological Essays of Cultural Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
This collection of essays provides samplings of a theological engagement of culture that Paul Louis Metzger has been developing over the years in his work as founder and director of The Institute for the Theology of Culture: New Wine, New Wineskins at Multnomah Biblical Seminary of Multnomah University....
by Paula Gooder
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Heaven is one of those great mysteries that somehow symbolize what we don't know about ourselves and the world around us. At the same time it lifts our vision from the mundane realities of our everyday lives and reminds us that beyond the daily grind of our existence there is another, unseen reality....
by Steven M. Cahn
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2018
The Road Traveled and Other Essays presents the recent work of philosopher and educator Steven M. Cahn. This book offers his latest reflections on the nature of well-being, the rationality of religious belief, and the aims of higher education. Also included are a selection of his challenging philosophical...
Participating Witness
An Anabaptist Theology of Baptism and the Sacramental Character of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
At a time when the fractious legacy of the Protestant Reformation is coming under new scrutiny, Anthony Siegrist explores the implications of ecumenism for believers' baptism. Writing from within the tradition of the Radical Reformation, he challenges dominant ecclesiological assumptions and argues...
Sawdust and Soul
A Conversation about Woodworking and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
An American ethicist and a South African theologian reflect on their work with wood and how it has helped them find creativity and meaning in experiences of both loss and transformation. Through their friendship, correspondence, and work together they have developed a rich narrative about the way...
John Calvin
Christian Humanist and Evangelical Reformer
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
2009 is the 500th anniversary of the birth of Calvin, the Reformed theologian whose legacy has played such an important role in the shaping of modern South Africa. The popular understanding of him as grim moralist, proponent of predestination and a tyrannical God is a caricature, but one that does...
The Hermeneutics of Tradition
Explorations and Examinations
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
The Hermeneutics of Tradition presents the latest scholarship on tradition as a concept and reality in the development of Christian cultures. One aim is to show that traditions are upheld, communicated, and developed within a recognizable set of interpretive guidelines (or rules) and that analysis...
Unexpected Jesus
The Gospel as Surprise
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
How can Christians live with a surprising God? How can we know and trust God without taming God or reducing God to an idol? Is knowing God the same thing as being open to God? Is God's freedom to act independently of our knowing him actually how we know him most genuinely and deeply? In Unexpected...
by John Howard Yoder
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Of very few people can it be legitimately said that their work fundamentally reconfigured the landscape of two theological disciplines. But if there is anyone in recent memory who would be worthy of such an accolade, it is John Howard Yoder. The two disciplines are, of course, theological ethics and...
Revolutionary Christianity
The 1966 South American Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The ambitious and accessible essays collected in this volume were presented by John Howard Yoder during an extensive visit to South America in 1966. Reflecting and also subverting the acknowledged faddish attempt to address the revolutionary nature of Christianity, these lectures provide an illuminating...
Toward an Anabaptist Political Theology
Law, Order, and Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
A. James Reimer's (1942-2010) theopolitical project, intended to be a fully theologically conceptualized political theology, offers a constructive and creative contribution to this burgeoning field of theological inquiry. Reimer's thesis for this theologically derived politics focuses on the necessity...
by Larry Helyer, Ed Cyzewski
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Readers of the Bible rarely, if ever, turn to the book of Revelation for comfort or assurance in hard times. In fact, many popular interpretations of Revelation today focus on predicting a terrifying future that leaves many unsettled and disconnected from John's original message to the seven churches,...